The submerged castle music so perfectly encapsulates a tone of "You're not supposed to be here" that I couldn't imagine the arcaic halls without it EDIT: Since they weren't here, where would The Waterwraith chase, Boss theme, Vunureble WaterWraith & Titan Dweevil theme rank?
Fun fact: the submerged castle is the only dungeon track to not have an Olimar and Louie variant, meaning Both captains are having the exact same feelings of dread coming down there
Personally the boss music and titan dweevil is above Mystic Marsh, vulnerable waterwraith would be very low (it sounds bad but it's meant to sound goofy/bad) and the chase theme is pretty good, i'd probably put it the same rank as Mystic.
Scruffy has a great video about how Pikmin 2's cave music is mostly made out of procedurally assorted segments of melodies. I highly recommend eveyone check it out. Puts it into perspective why the music is so chaotic.
Absolutely crazy to me how Mystic Marsh plays exactly once through all of pikmin 2's campaign and challenge mode. Absolute banger, and my absolute favourite song in the whole series. Nobody ever talks about it, so its always great to see it get the love it deserves. It sounds unlike anything else in pikmin, it's so calming yet it sounds imposing and ominous, conveys that feeling of being somewhere you're not supposed to perfectly, while still sounding really soothing, it's just a beautiful track.
Crazier still is how it was originally supposed to appear in Submerged Castle and Dream Den, but Waterwraith Chase and Rest Area are hard-coded to play instead.
I've always found the toy theme unsettling. Like it's goofy and upbeat but there's subtle darker undertones, like there's something more sinister it's trying to hide. Fits the theme of the floor where it's a playroom, but you know something is wrong with how the planet is blatantly abandoned and dilapidated
The Cave music in this game is probably some of the most Bizarre music i’ve ever heard in a video game, or even any sort of media at all. It has this… “Vibe” that can’t be matched anywhere else.
I absolutely love the piano that plays when an enemy is near in emergence cave 1 & 2, soil 1, and maybe some others idk. When you didn't even mention that piano when talking about the emergence caves, my face stared into the screen like a Bulborb
The rest Area music is my favorite. It gives off this very specific vibe that is why Pikmin 2 is my favorite in the series. Its aesthetic gives off themes of nature, nostalgia, and like small stuff. Can’t put into words lol
I absolutely love the weird and atmospheric pikmin 2 cave music. It has a very organic feel to it, like you could compose half these tracks with bits and bobs you find in your backyard. A long blade of grass for a whistle, a stick of bamboo for a flute, a tin can or scrap metal for percussion, a glass milk jug you can tap or blow in, some pebbles in a plastic bag for a tamborine... not to mention a bunch of other strange and uncommon sounds you could make using who-knows-what. Plus the interactive and evolving nature of the music really makes it feel like when you're a kid and you're just jamming with your friends making music from whatever you find in your grandpa's old yard.
A rubber band to make that 'boing boing' sound (that jawharp solo in the snagret hole is absolute fire), a literal dripping daucet for the music in shower room! I could go on...
I'm glad they brought back caves in Pikmin 4, but without these weird modernist Erik Satie-esque melodies backing up the action they don't feel remotely the same. Incidentally, Frontier Cavern is welcome on my aux cord any day. I even have it on the iPod I use at the gym, along with DK Island Swing and the 8-bit Nintendo Land theme.
I enjoy Soil 3. The instruments they chose arent built for listenability, but I really like how weird they are. Especially the 'Enemy Near' variation, its really freaky and I like it. I would never claim its top tier- or anyone should love it, but I think its cool. Also an overworld theme ranking video would be wicked cool.
Genuinely a great overview. I recommend scruffy's video on how the game creates the structure of each song. It plays random melody segments over top the constant background harmony to create an inhuman sounding composition.
My favorite part of flooded stump is that each layer of the track is in a different time signature, creating a pretty funky beat when combined. The base track is in 5/4, the “Enemy Near” theme is in 3/4, and the Battle/Working themes are both in 4/4
Honestly I always loved metal sublevels and the tracks made me think of exploring the lost civilization we were exploring these strange sublevels of whatever humans left behind
I never thought I'd find a video talking about this. Thank you for giving Metal 1 the credit it deserves, it's one of my favorites in the game because of how uplifting but ominous it is.
Great video, I'm glad to hear music ranking video that actually plays enough of the music so people unfamiliar with all the tracks can appreciate them. Some feedback though, would have been nice to mention the composers Wakai and Totaka
Great to see a video about the cave tracks! Especially because I can finally hear someone talk about Graphite Gulch, a track that always gets me all philosophical and reflective.
I loved getting to play 1 & 2 for the first time on switch i never realized there were missing instruments & and that's quite dissapointong. I hope there's a path. & you should've put on the Louie versions too. They get pretty funky
No matter what anyone says, the Submerged Castle theme will always be my favorite. It fits the feeling of fear so well, and besides that, I kinda just like it, it just sounds nice. I like the instruments a lot
Soil 3 is wonderful. It’s also absolutely freakish and avant-garde as hell, but that combat beat-drop is untouched. Pikmin classic. The following slew of entries are so much worse with no bite to save them.
Definitely My Favorite music is the Toy Houses and Flooded Stump Also thank you for telling me they had names because I would have never payed attention to it if it was shown right at my screen Seriously I can go to a playlist and never remember any cave name (probably still won’t)
The best music is Bulblax Kingdom and Shower Room always hum them when playing Submerged Castle is also great at setting the mood knowing something’s coming even if you don’t know what and you need to hurry I don’t know if this is an actual feature but when playing Pikmin 4 for the first time the music seemed to increase as time went on being inaudible at first but as you explore and realise the area is the same as The Submerged Castle the music becomes more noticeable, I had a fan blaring while played for the first time so couldn’t tell initially but I noticed and it clicked this was Submerged Castle just before the WaterWraith showed up
Nice video fun listen especially. Your right those Brawl messages for the demo being up made me jump. Bonus points coming out of an old av tv speaker all loud and muffled.
i remember back in like, 2005-6 before youtube was huge i would literally go leave my GameCube turned on while in the sublevel that played mystic marsh, based placement for sure
I love the grass music for some reason! I also have a video suggestion; perhaps ranking the Pikmin 2 challenge mode missions by how hard they are to purple-flower complete? As a kid I remember thinking some of those were impossible to beat without losing Pikmin 😅
This is the first time I'm able to listen to the cave music and gotta say theyre really damn neat! Usually when I play either its with low volume or just the general noises of the ambiance and pikmins themselves distract me way too much from it since they then to be a bit more loud.
Based opinion putting mystic marsh first, all versions actually slap. Absolutely appalled by how nintendo treated it in the switch version (and in general too)
I've got to be honest I absolutely love all of these songs most of them are up there with "long elevator" being some of the best songs in gaming even more than just the cave themes are amazing in Pikmin 2 the Piklopedia and Perplexing pool are amazing to pretty much every song in this game is at least amazing I know Pikmin 2 is pretty controversial but it is by far the best Pikmin game in terms of soundtrack Pikmin 1 is amazing as well and Pikmin 3 is pretty good but Pikmin 2 is just better when it comes to soundtrack.This is another reason as to why I think Pikmin 4 is bad it didn't even try with it's soundtrack and some of the only good songs in that game are re used from Pikmin 2. I do absolutely love the Waterwraiths cave theme it's very ominous and creepy it ddoesn't try to hard to be unsettling to the point where it's horrible to listen to it's amazing and probably my favourite horror song yet it isn't even in a horror game. The giant breadbug song is chaotic and goofy perfect for the bizzar boss that it is!
Soil 2 is my favorite for all of its variations. I think metal 3 is substantially better in Louie's version. Specifically the working and treasure themes which has a sort of metalworks vibe to it that really fits the industrial metal levels you are in. Theres just something satisfying about the rythmic sounds that makes it feel like the pikmin themselves are the workers with an almost assembly line organization, the beats like a constant march towards progress. I don't know what it is that makes Louie sound better than Olimars version (and i typically dont like the Louie versions.) Perhaps its the added (or rather removal of) notes and sounds that gives it a more rythmic and wacky feeling too it, More alive and somewhat chaotic and random in how the notes are played, yet theres an unusual sense of order in all that chaos. When playing mods i would often have cave holes covered so i can leave 1 pikmin working so i could hear the music play as i completed the level. i know nothing of music but I probably dont even make any sense.
Combat theme of fire hits hard. Yeah as a kid I never realized the floors were randomized even on replay…. And didnt understand why the music was so chaotic pick 2 and one are legendary with thier music mixing and 2 having more just was a good time. And again why a pikmin rouglight dungeon crawler would be amazing…. Endless Subterranean Hocatotation scramble
I dont get why people don’t like pikmin 2. The challenge of the brutal caves combined with the usually calming music creates an amazing experience. And don’t get me started on the feeling you get when the rest floor music starts playing… the entire game is just so memorable
i think for me, i dont like pikmin 2 because i find it frustrating. like i always come out of playing it feeling slightly salty lol, whereas i feel much more chill playing like 1 and 4. the music is awesome in 2 though
I have every variant of all these songs on my driving playlist and I can always tell when I'm listening to Pikmin 2 cave music when they pop up. Still unsure if that's a good thing
Pikmin 2 cave music is the strongest evidence that caves are in another dimension entirely
Surely not the one with the trans dimensional being
Well that, and why the hell is there a cave with greenery and full sunlight underground??
@@Most_Jeffinitely in that particular sublevel you have fallen out the bottom of a birdhouse
In the previous sublevel
Loui reportedly caught playing gassy grove on the aux, asked to leave PNF-404
*forcefully exiled from
I don’t think anyone needs a reason to do that to Loui.
A great alternative name for the Giant Breadbug theme is "that one dinky-ass Pikmin song"
"You better not be turning people into bread when I get there."
My dinky-ass:
“You’d better not be thinking about Pikmin 2 OST: Giant Breadbug (Louie)!”
My dinky ass:
Perfect description of the song.
tbh there's a lot of dinkyass pikmin songs you might need to be more specific
@@ghostformanek5664 This may be the dinkiest though
The submerged castle music so perfectly encapsulates a tone of "You're not supposed to be here" that I couldn't imagine the arcaic halls without it
EDIT: Since they weren't here, where would The Waterwraith chase, Boss theme, Vunureble WaterWraith & Titan Dweevil theme rank?
Fun fact: the submerged castle is the only dungeon track to not have an Olimar and Louie variant, meaning Both captains are having the exact same feelings of dread coming down there
They'd all probably be below Mystic Marsh, except for the Vulnerable Waterwraith which would be pretty low on the list
I feel like the vulnerable water wraith is pretty high I find it kinda funny
I love the vulnerable water wraith theme, it basically spells out "that's not supposed to happen"
Personally the boss music and titan dweevil is above Mystic Marsh, vulnerable waterwraith would be very low (it sounds bad but it's meant to sound goofy/bad) and the chase theme is pretty good, i'd probably put it the same rank as Mystic.
The hardest part of being a pikmin fan is explaining to your friends why "soil 1" or "snagret hole" is your favourite song
Scruffy has a great video about how Pikmin 2's cave music is mostly made out of procedurally assorted segments of melodies. I highly recommend eveyone check it out. Puts it into perspective why the music is so chaotic.
Ive never noticed the switch taking away an instrument and now i wish you never told me
Absolutely crazy to me how Mystic Marsh plays exactly once through all of pikmin 2's campaign and challenge mode. Absolute banger, and my absolute favourite song in the whole series. Nobody ever talks about it, so its always great to see it get the love it deserves.
It sounds unlike anything else in pikmin, it's so calming yet it sounds imposing and ominous, conveys that feeling of being somewhere you're not supposed to perfectly, while still sounding really soothing, it's just a beautiful track.
Crazier still is how it was originally supposed to appear in Submerged Castle and Dream Den, but Waterwraith Chase and Rest Area are hard-coded to play instead.
I've always found the toy theme unsettling. Like it's goofy and upbeat but there's subtle darker undertones, like there's something more sinister it's trying to hide. Fits the theme of the floor where it's a playroom, but you know something is wrong with how the planet is blatantly abandoned and dilapidated
ALRIGHT NINTENDO YOU CAN TAKE MY WEED AND MY JOKES BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE MY INSTRUMENT FROM SOME RANDOM SONG IN A RANDOM FUCKING CAVE
Graphite Gulch is #1 in my heart
Glad to see I’m not the only one! This one hits different. ❤️
Bowblax being on the members shoutout caught me way off guard lmao
Same
The Cave music in this game is probably some of the most Bizarre music i’ve ever heard in a video game, or even any sort of media at all. It has this… “Vibe” that can’t be matched anywhere else.
Fartcore is my favorite genre of cave music
Honestly, I wouldn't freaking surprise me if that actually happens in the future.
slurpcore or fartcore who winning the twerkoff
I absolutely love the piano that plays when an enemy is near in emergence cave 1 & 2, soil 1, and maybe some others idk. When you didn't even mention that piano when talking about the emergence caves, my face stared into the screen like a Bulborb
The rest Area music is my favorite. It gives off this very specific vibe that is why Pikmin 2 is my favorite in the series. Its aesthetic gives off themes of nature, nostalgia, and like small stuff. Can’t put into words lol
Cant wait for every enemy theme in pikmin 4 ranked...
I absolutely love the weird and atmospheric pikmin 2 cave music. It has a very organic feel to it, like you could compose half these tracks with bits and bobs you find in your backyard. A long blade of grass for a whistle, a stick of bamboo for a flute, a tin can or scrap metal for percussion, a glass milk jug you can tap or blow in, some pebbles in a plastic bag for a tamborine... not to mention a bunch of other strange and uncommon sounds you could make using who-knows-what. Plus the interactive and evolving nature of the music really makes it feel like when you're a kid and you're just jamming with your friends making music from whatever you find in your grandpa's old yard.
A rubber band to make that 'boing boing' sound (that jawharp solo in the snagret hole is absolute fire), a literal dripping daucet for the music in shower room! I could go on...
thats so true actually!
I'm glad they brought back caves in Pikmin 4, but without these weird modernist Erik Satie-esque melodies backing up the action they don't feel remotely the same.
Incidentally, Frontier Cavern is welcome on my aux cord any day. I even have it on the iPod I use at the gym, along with DK Island Swing and the 8-bit Nintendo Land theme.
I guess every music has a *Cave story*
Yea, i couldn't think of a better pun.
emergence cave is the music that plays when the food in my house became lost media
This is the greatest RUclips video I have seen in my entire life.
I can’t believe you wouldn’t put a warning before the giant breadbug jumpscare, youve terrified all those poor reporters
I listened to Mystic Marsh while learning blender. Made me feel like a magician enacting master level conjuration spells
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I wish Pikmin 4 had Pikmin 2 cave music
I enjoy Soil 3. The instruments they chose arent built for listenability, but I really like how weird they are. Especially the 'Enemy Near' variation, its really freaky and I like it. I would never claim its top tier- or anyone should love it, but I think its cool.
Also an overworld theme ranking video would be wicked cool.
I wish these were the voices of my head
I love "In The Dolphin Over The PNF-404". Banger from Neutral Pik Hotel
you should talk about pikmin creepypastas if you ever exhaust all other options. im sure there’s some wacky shit out there.
Genuinely a great overview. I recommend scruffy's video on how the game creates the structure of each song. It plays random melody segments over top the constant background harmony to create an inhuman sounding composition.
Louie
Nothing will beat the forest of hope theme from Pikmin 1
peakmin 2
don't tell the surfshark guy that
Not exactly peak, it's a lot less good then the other 3 Pikmin games
My favorite part of flooded stump is that each layer of the track is in a different time signature, creating a pretty funky beat when combined. The base track is in 5/4, the “Enemy Near” theme is in 3/4, and the Battle/Working themes are both in 4/4
railroad room theme on top
Id love to see a ranking of the overworld themes
Honestly I always loved metal sublevels and the tracks made me think of exploring the lost civilization we were exploring these strange sublevels of whatever humans left behind
4:38 the big DONG sound from the cave music when the pikmins get crushed is peak humor
fart instruments 😭😭😭 that is a tuba
I never thought I'd find a video talking about this. Thank you for giving Metal 1 the credit it deserves, it's one of my favorites in the game because of how uplifting but ominous it is.
0:25 GET OUT!! ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
Great video, I'm glad to hear music ranking video that actually plays enough of the music so people unfamiliar with all the tracks can appreciate them. Some feedback though, would have been nice to mention the composers Wakai and Totaka
Great to see a video about the cave tracks!
Especially because I can finally hear someone talk about Graphite Gulch, a track that always gets me all philosophical and reflective.
once again a peak video thumbnail
Pikmin 2 polygons ranking next?
P.D: I think the giant breadbug's theme was upgraded in Pikmin 4, yes, i said it, fight me.
I loved getting to play 1 & 2 for the first time on switch
i never realized there were missing instruments & and that's quite dissapointong. I hope there's a path.
& you should've put on the Louie versions too. They get pretty funky
Hairy Bulborb reminds me of my father. (Good video btw)
Even the 3rd worst one on this list is a banger
Happy to hear someone else complain about the Arboreal Frippery. Cheers!
Now you need to rank the Louie song variants.
This video was so good! I find the cave music to be one of the more underrated aspects of pikmin 2 so I appreciate the deeper look.
No matter what anyone says, the Submerged Castle theme will always be my favorite. It fits the feeling of fear so well, and besides that, I kinda just like it, it just sounds nice. I like the instruments a lot
jellyfloat pool will always be my favorite. i think my favorite pikmin song overall is perplexing pool, but man do i love jellyfloat pool.
Soil 3 is wonderful. It’s also absolutely freakish and avant-garde as hell, but that combat beat-drop is untouched. Pikmin classic. The following slew of entries are so much worse with no bite to save them.
I love all of these songs so much.
Cave music is randomly generated btw, like the cave layout itself :)
Scruffy has a great video explaining it!
Pikmin 2 cave music is another reason to love the caves.
Mystic Marsh is literally my phones ringtone so completely correct and based placement
Graphite Gulch will forever be my favourite alongside Jellyfloat Pool
I don’t get it, is it about pikmin?
No, its about Mario
Definitely My Favorite music is the Toy Houses and Flooded Stump
Also thank you for telling me they had names because I would have never payed attention to it if it was shown right at my screen
Seriously I can go to a playlist and never remember any cave name (probably still won’t)
oh wow, i actually needed this. i always have a hard time picking a music for the colossal caverns mod
Bro made a video about my favorite game, and used the cover of my favorite album as part of the thumbnail.
Instant click.
The best music is Bulblax Kingdom and Shower Room always hum them when playing
Submerged Castle is also great at setting the mood knowing something’s coming even if you don’t know what and you need to hurry
I don’t know if this is an actual feature but when playing Pikmin 4 for the first time the music seemed to increase as time went on being inaudible at first but as you explore and realise the area is the same as The Submerged Castle the music becomes more noticeable, I had a fan blaring while played for the first time so couldn’t tell initially but I noticed and it clicked this was Submerged Castle just before the WaterWraith showed up
Next up every pikmin 4 enemy music track ranked 😎
Other than that great video I didn't even know the names to these songs or honestly remember them 😅
I guess the missing instruments in the switch version are now lost media 😱
Nice video fun listen especially. Your right those Brawl messages for the demo being up made me jump. Bonus points coming out of an old av tv speaker all loud and muffled.
i remember back in like, 2005-6 before youtube was huge i would literally go leave my GameCube turned on while in the sublevel that played mystic marsh, based placement for sure
A lot of it is randomised so how it sounds according to one unofficial soundtrack isn't entirely indicative of the original programming.
Im a huge fan of the Soil 2 theme from the awakening woods cave as its just so goofy
Can't believe you've done Graphite Gulch like this.
I love the grass music for some reason! I also have a video suggestion; perhaps ranking the Pikmin 2 challenge mode missions by how hard they are to purple-flower complete? As a kid I remember thinking some of those were impossible to beat without losing Pikmin 😅
Planning to cover that at some point. I remember the Purple Flower grind was exhaustingly hard the first time playing it
This is the first time I'm able to listen to the cave music and gotta say theyre really damn neat! Usually when I play either its with low volume or just the general noises of the ambiance and pikmins themselves distract me way too much from it since they then to be a bit more loud.
Let’s fucking go
Based opinion putting mystic marsh first, all versions actually slap. Absolutely appalled by how nintendo treated it in the switch version (and in general too)
For the kind of game that Pikmin appears to be on the box, flooded stump is a really cool theme that takes you by surprise.
Love your content, your delivery is just so perfect. I also love your voice/accent, really nice
Rating for Pikmin 4 Overworld Music where every enemy encounter gives a unique instruments and sounds to the theme maybe with combinations even?
I've got to be honest I absolutely love all of these songs most of them are up there with "long elevator" being some of the best songs in gaming even more than just the cave themes are amazing in Pikmin 2 the Piklopedia and Perplexing pool are amazing to pretty much every song in this game is at least amazing I know Pikmin 2 is pretty controversial but it is by far the best Pikmin game in terms of soundtrack Pikmin 1 is amazing as well and Pikmin 3 is pretty good but Pikmin 2 is just better when it comes to soundtrack.This is another reason as to why I think Pikmin 4 is bad it didn't even try with it's soundtrack and some of the only good songs in that game are re used from Pikmin 2. I do absolutely love the Waterwraiths cave theme it's very ominous and creepy it ddoesn't try to hard to be unsettling to the point where it's horrible to listen to it's amazing and probably my favourite horror song yet it isn't even in a horror game. The giant breadbug song is chaotic and goofy perfect for the bizzar boss that it is!
Okay but if I am handed the aux cord and only playing one song from Pikmin 2, it's the PvP battle music. Fire 🔥🔥🔥
I'm quite partial to those fart instruments, but I think this ranking is quite fair. Good video.
The fact that these didnt come back in pikmin 4 is what keeps that game from being a 10/10 for me
Do a pikmin character Ranking next
To be fair, a lot of them are basically ambience but I think I know what’s gonna be on top and what’s gonna be bottom
Putting that one at 24 is insane, shit is much better than like half the songs
I love this channel. I hope you keep posting for as long as you can ❤️❤️❤️ :3
Soil 2 is my favorite for all of its variations.
I think metal 3 is substantially better in Louie's version. Specifically the working and treasure themes which has a sort of metalworks vibe to it that really fits the industrial metal levels you are in. Theres just something satisfying about the rythmic sounds that makes it feel like the pikmin themselves are the workers with an almost assembly line organization, the beats like a constant march towards progress.
I don't know what it is that makes Louie sound better than Olimars version (and i typically dont like the Louie versions.) Perhaps its the added (or rather removal of) notes and sounds that gives it a more rythmic and wacky feeling too it, More alive and somewhat chaotic and random in how the notes are played, yet theres an unusual sense of order in all that chaos. When playing mods i would often have cave holes covered so i can leave 1 pikmin working so i could hear the music play as i completed the level.
i know nothing of music but I probably dont even make any sense.
❤
Soil 2 is my favorite by a lot, it has just enough instruments to feel like a real song rather than ambience.
Babe wake up the best piktuber just posted
Soil 2 is fire 🔥
The treasure variant of metal 1 does go hard
If you put The Giant Breadbug's theme anywhere before S tier
Im comin👁👄👁
Edit: THAT MOTHER-
and coming he did
Soil 2 is my fave
This grotto needs a hero...
Combat theme of fire hits hard. Yeah as a kid I never realized the floors were randomized even on replay….
And didnt understand why the music was so chaotic pick 2 and one are legendary with thier music mixing and 2 having more just was a good time.
And again why a pikmin rouglight dungeon crawler would be amazing…. Endless Subterranean Hocatotation scramble
The min who pik
I dont get why people don’t like pikmin 2. The challenge of the brutal caves combined with the usually calming music creates an amazing experience. And don’t get me started on the feeling you get when the rest floor music starts playing… the entire game is just so memorable
i think for me, i dont like pikmin 2 because i find it frustrating. like i always come out of playing it feeling slightly salty lol, whereas i feel much more chill playing like 1 and 4. the music is awesome in 2 though
I have every variant of all these songs on my driving playlist and I can always tell when I'm listening to Pikmin 2 cave music when they pop up. Still unsure if that's a good thing
being a bulblax kingdom and metal 2 connoisseur i can say i hate how low they are. (mostly for metal 2)
metal 2 is so good!! love the echoing bell toll, favorite cave theme
i meannnn if you’re taking video suggestions i’ve always wanted to see a video on pikmin theories if that’s worth a video
The moment I saw this ranking video in my recommended, I immediately knew Mystic Marsh would have to be No.1
As an avid listener of splatoon music, they're all ten out of tens!