The Secrets and Mysteries of Pikmin
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024
- Pikmin has had many secrets, easter eggs and mysteries throughout the franchises history. This video will be discussing all of the strange things Nintendo snuck into the Pikmin games, from the well known Smoky Progg to lesser known oddities.
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I think it’s so funny how so many people think the Pikmin singing constantly in Pikmin 2 is the most annoying thing in the world
especially since people love when they sing in pik4.
It’s so cute
🎶 na, na, na-na-na, naaaa... 🎶
🎵 huh-huh-huh! 🎵
hnn hnn hnn 🔥🗣💯
Feel bad for the kid that got jump scared by some guy yelling “WEEEOH!” At them when opening pikmin 1
That was me. I was that kid back when I was playing the new play control version once. It didn't help I was alone in the living room in the middle of the night too. It was so unnerving and I just sat there for a minute wondering if what I heard was real 😭
That was also me. Scared me.
Not to talk about the bulborb jumpscare on this video 💀
When I showed Pikmin to my mother a while back That sound happened on startup and I thought it was a glitch, so I reset the game to get the usual Pikmin soundbyte
Was that supposed to be Olimar when he lies down or gets up?
The removal of Ai no Uta from Switch Pikmin 2 was the most unforgivable PikSin ever committed.
I know that music licenses can be a pain, but given that Nintendo is literally one of the richest companies in Japan they have no reasonable excuse not to renew the license to a single song by an obscure musical duo that they themselves commissioned.
What about them removing the Duracell battery?
THEY DID WHAT!!
Say sike rn 😭😭
I would like to clarify I am not being theatric here. Ai no Uta, while relatively obscure nowadays, is the fucking _keystone_ of the series' tone and identity. It is the single most important piece of characterization ever given to the pikmin themselves and one of the _only_ ones. Its very existence redefines not only the game, but the entire _series._
If you don't believe me, I implore you to listen to it and read a translation of the lyrics.
Removing it from Pikmin 2 felt like the series lost its soul, and I desperately hope Nintendo realizes their error.
0:40 I remember getting this sound back in the day, and for YEARS I thought I’d imagined it because I never saw anything documenting it until now!
Well now you know it was real
There's a rare pikmin 2 intro screen where a single purple pikmin falls and then another one knocks it off, then a 3rd one comes down and so on.
yep! love that one. with how many times i've played this game, i've probably seen everything in it. xD
“This is a warning.”
👁️ 👁️
That scared the sh*t out of me 💀💀💀💀💀
@@yobi512 I know, it caught me off guard too! Made me laugh though xd
I'll rate it 7 plastic water bottles out of 4 light bulbs
Small correction. Olimar DOES mention that the dolpin probably could launch without all 30 parts when collecting certain parts or during certain end of day texts. He never says witch ones though (outside of him remarking one of the ones you just picked up is optional) so its still not super usefull but its something
True I noticed this playing too
"Hey, hey Olimar."
"What the- is that beady long legs talking??"
"Hey I'm not beady im an orange, hahahaha."
"The color?"
@@AnAveragePurplePikmin "Whaddaya call a wollyhop that can't jump? A wollywalk!!!"
@@aaronta6573 "Hohohohoho! That's a good one orange *sprays spice spray on pikmin*"
@@AnAveragePurplePikmin "Hey wait what are ya do- OH, OH GOD NOOO!!!!"
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I feel like pikmin 4 was given a little bit of a disservice here as there are quite a lot of secrets in that game not many know about
1. Like in Pikmin 2 and 3 pikmin will sing a song at random, this starts with just being the Pikmin theme from Pikmin 2, garden of hope from Pikmin 3, awakening wood and the Pikmin 4 marketing song (which was an unknown song until the trailer released) but, as you beat the engulfed castle and leafy olimar, their themes become unlocked and can be sung at random too
2.Dweevils can pick up any carryable item in the game, this isn’t really a helpful or harmful feature but it is pretty funny to see one carrying something like a scrummy bone, oatchi seems to have a unique interaction when he bites the bone causing it to break immediately. They can also carry firestarters which can go on to burn Pikmin in the rare case of the giants hearth
3. The “olfactory sculpture” (scented candle) treasure actually has a fire element hitbox on the candle light itself, it’s hard to see since the treasure is quite tall but it can be easier to hit in the cave itself because of the wacky terrain of 4’s metal caves.
4. It’s well known that the groovy long legs plays different songs depending on what it’s doing, but it also has a special track for the instance of being frozen. This isn’t really seen in the game since ice Pikmin kinda suck against the boss, but you can see it in the piklopedia. The boss also has a variation for the pause screen.
5. When collecting castaways, they play a very fast jingle that sounds like it might be the same each time, but if you listen closely depending on the castaway a different theme will play, for example the leafling castaways play the leafling leitmotif, the koppaite castaways play the koppai anthem and olimar and Louie both play the classic leitmotif associated with hocotate and the rescue corps.
6. The castaways actually have even more hidden dialog than mentioned in the video. They also react to more specific things like whether oatchi has his leaf tail or how accurate the player is to looking like them (with a second set of dialog for when the player has the wrong colours but the other features are accurate) castaways in general make a lot of sneaky Easter eggs and references to other games and the pikmin world if you dig around enough but there’s too many to list.
6. In olimars shipwreck tale, if you wait until the very last day the main area’s day theme will play at an increased tempo, then slow down during the evening theme. Most players will beat or restart the side story by then so a lot of people might not have picked up on it.
7. Although not used very much intentionally in the game, there are pretty humerous element based interactions with the new ice and fire mechanics. For example, a frosty bulborb can freeze nearby creatures and a fiery bulblax can reset the timer on a fire starter.
8. If you choose to play as one of the other playable speaking characters in the version of dandori battle selected from the title screen, such as non- leafified olimar or shepherd, they actually have entirely unique sets of dialog not seen in the main story, replacing what Collin typically gives you.
9. If you fail to complete olimars shipwreck tale, you will receive the “I am so very tired” captains log, this is actually a reference to an entirely unused captains log from Pikmin 1 with the same text. You also unlock it automatically when 100 percenting the game, but many players may not have seen this.
10. As an enemy in the hero’s hideaway, moss has a unique interaction with pikpik carrots where she will simply stand in front of it and bark for a few seconds until it despawns, this doesn’t buy you enough time to really do much but it is pretty funny.
As it’s a pretty big game there’s probably more I missed, this is just stuff I found from experimenting myself on playthroughs, if anyone else found anything it’d be awesome to hear those too
Thank you for this comment.
Winged Pikmin are incidentally resistant to gloom puddles. They'll just fly over them on most occasions, except when they get knocked out.
To note that because the gloom beam fired by the Ancient Sirehound has considerable height, they'll still be instakilled by it like all other Pikmin.
@@marioman1242 no problem citizen!
@@LudiusQuassas winged pikmin are immune to a lot of stuff incidentally, most enemies can't reach them and some won't even target them if flying high enough. funny examples are the creeping chrysanthemum struggling to eat winged pikmin and pretty much every small enemy ignoring them. if you hate snootwhackers as much as most people, just use winged pikmin in the stage for carrying to skip them entirely.
Useless Things: Scrummy Bones can be Frozen
Smokey Progg can be Frozen by Frosty Bulborbs
All Pikmin can sing Submerged Castle even though that shouldn’t be possible when only Blue Pikmin are allowed which I find weird
Gildemander is a Boss that can Eat 100 Pikmin in 1 Attack
Purple Pikmin Pose when they land still like in Pikmin 2
The secret I learnt from this is that Dwarf Bulborbs don't appear if you're good at the game
11:44 I love how this scene kind of shows that the Koppaites are just as much at fault for Louie’s blunder because they just left him infront of their ships controls while he was unconscious with the last thing that happened to him was that he was attacked, even though they knew that he was going to wake up soon and just decided to go to bed and not have some sort of watch over him.
To be fair, Koppaites are famously stupid/bad at planning. Frugivore race unable to eat most other food? Let’s never learn agriculture! Surely nothing bad will happen when we are unable to import enough food to support our rapidly growing population!
Plus they stereotype Hocotatians as “vegetable crazy” and incorrectly declare them all vegetarians. I love the P3 captains, but Koppaites…don’t seem very smart despite their technological prowess
i like that olimar's pilot seat is required for his ship to function properly.
If olimar tries to take off without it he breaks his back and that’s what causes him to crash
@@hallowlitten1018 damn
@hallowlitten1018 you can read this as either back pain or bane breaks batman, and either works
I guess you could say ai no uta in the Wii/Switch port is LOST MEDIA?? 😱😱
The middling ending for Pikmin 1 _is_ hinted at in game, in a roundabout way. Olimar sometimes mentions during his post-day Journal Log things that he "thinks he may not need to collect every ship part to lift off." However, despite this text being highlighted to tell you it's important, Olimar immediately shakes it off as crazy talk.
I wanna say there's at least one other instance of this (maybe during one of his in-game monologues) but I find it so funny that this is mentioned as an important mechanic and then barely followed up upon (the only time that 99% of players will encounter the neutral ending is when they get all ship parts except for the Secret Safe)
The thing about the mediocre ending is that if you think about it, it also screwed up the life of Olimar.
In Pikmin 2 we follow the story after the perfect ending where the S.S. Dolphin was entirely repaired and due to this Olimar casually grabbed a crown cap as a souvenir for his son. Once he arrived, well, you know how it goes.
But then, without the perfect ending; Olimar never picked up the crown cap, the Hocotate ship never picked it up and thus the President never realized that there were treasures on that planet to pay off the debt. In short; Hocotate Freight went bankrupt, the Hocotate ship was probably sold or scrapped, the President was probably caught and killed by the loan sharks, Olimar lost his ship and together with Louie, their job.
On the plus side, this Olimar actually get's to see his wife and kids.
@@Tudsamfa And become broke and starve.
@@yungmuney5903 meh olimar survived on PNF-404 he can find another job
@@yungmuney5903 I imagine Hocotate has a welfare program, but I don't believe we have evidence either way.
@@B.L.U.S Due to the amount of notes about the creatures and flora of PNF-404, he could get recognition as a biologist
The beady long legs dropping out of the sky scared the shit out of me when i was grinding pikmin 2 100% recently lol
I'm guessing the secret splash screen voice is a placeholder that someone left in on accident or as a joke.
7:22 “You’ll usually be finished with the game at day 15 or at the final area” Me, who was definitely NOT finished by day 15 and didn’t even know these enemies were unusual in any way😭
yea I was super confused by that statement because it took me 29 days to beat it on my first playthrough. I didn't know if it was either an xkcd 2501 moment or if i was just really bad at the game.
10/10 thumbnail for this one
8:06 OOOMGGG that scared the SH*T out of me 💀 it’s midnight, all the lights are off, everything is dark OOOMMGGG it made me so upset lmao
Saw the thumbnail in a Walmart and visibly had to strain not to recoil in horror, 11/10 content
Mr. Pikmin please make a video on the Pikmin comics. They are quite unhinged
why does pikmin one have just pikmin sounds for openings then they got “oiio”
2:30 nice saving bill the yellow pikmin, that was so close i was really nervous about his life
12:29 I think the reason for this is actually for the convenience of the player in Ultra Spicy mode, where you never have more than 60 pikmin. Probably to make it so you can still collect fruit and stuff efficiently despite having less pikmin
Great video, lots of things I didn't know about! Also, I like to think that more enemys appearing the longer you stay in a area is both a punishment and immersion, the enemys recognize there has been a large concentration of pikmin in one area so they move there to feed.
The strange Pikmin 1 start up noise has had so little documentation on the internet, for a while I thought I imagined it. It scared me really bad as a kid as I got it twice in the GameCube version and always tensed up when I started the game. It happened to me a third time in the Wii version and for years I tried to research it, but it's only semi-recently been documented on fan wikis/fans online based on my research.
1:00 seems a distorted voice sample of the japanese villager in Age of Empires 2,the select one.
I at first thought the Louie video was going to be a maltigi jump scare
Slight correction
The optional parts are vaguely hinted in Pikmin in at 1 description of the parts once you’ve bought them back to the ship, I know the UV Lamp says something about it serving little purpose and maybe there are other parts like this, I think another mandatory says something to the effect maybe not all parts are required also towards the final days some of olimars diary entries hint towards it it straight up tells you that there are or which ones they are but it is indirectly told to yoy
To be fair a lot of parts sound not important but actually are lol.
“This is a warning.”
I genuinely froze and started sweating. I think I heard my heartbeat too
Was the mediocre ending really not well known? As a kid that's what I usually got because I had MAJOR dandori issues
Love your videos man keep it up. I only subbed because you actual do pickmin videos lol
Everyone else doesn’t do videos anymore 🙁
Thumbnail = Based
Video = Entertaining
Blues = should get buffed in the next game
Whaa I remember I absolutely shit my pants after I heard that fourth start up sound when I was younger, worst jumpscare in my life
I convinced myself it was me just maybe misremembering that I was playing Luigis Mansion instead of Pikmin, and I am just remembering that sound instead
Good to know that my shitted pants have been finally explained
I remember the first time hearing a weird into sound effect playing on my friend's GameCube and all of a sudden a heard "WEUU!!" scared the sh*t out of me, it didnt help that the TV was at 85% for some reason
I've heard people wonder why exactly the world of pikmin 2 has so many secret enemies that only appear far into the days, long after most players would have already finished. I'll tell you why- for players like kid me.
You see, kid me was terrified of letting pikmin die. Kid me would go around punching every enemy to death. Kid me would finish entire caves and then just never fight the boss because I was afraid of them. Kid me would run caves again, and again, and again, often picking up little to no treasure along the way. Kid me went through the ENTIRE final cave 5 or 6 times before finally fighting the boss, instead of just looking at what he could do and getting spooked away. Kid me spent MANY entire days collecting berries for sprays. Some people might find that boring or even baffling, but kid me was having an absolute blast the entire time. And I did eventually 100% the game.
I saw every single end of day letter until they ran out. I saw those little spray-giving mites multiple times. I saw the secret beady long legs in the perplexing pool multiple times. I fought the little bulbears as they appeared, and eventually the big one too. I got horrible mites surprise dropped on my pikmin. Most players will never see most of these events, but for kid me they made the game feel truly alive. No matter how long I played, there was no telling what I'd find on my next visit to an area.
1:34 "turd ending"
Da perplexin’ poo
the jelly floats sing?? i thought that was just the screams of the damned
"You would've beaten the game by [the time dwarf bulbears spawn]..."
Well that's one way to know my worth.
The real mystery is : why do i collect so many eggs ? Like what use do i have for collecting them ? I dont have a mouth !
I remember encountering the beady longlegs spawn in perplexing pool as a child. I had told my brother about it years later who then tried it on his save file. It didn't work, neither of us knew he only spawns after day 30 so he just assumed I was just lying. He then saw the spot I had said the beady long legs spawned at in a recent playthrough, this time he WAS past day 30. He told me "I remember when you said if you walk on this circle a beady longlegs would spaw-" before having a beady longlegs drop on him and his pikmin and absolutely shitting himself out of shock. One of the most comedic timings for anything i've ever seen.
I think the "mediocre" ending of Pikmin 1 is most likely to happen if you reach the Final Trial, but are having issues with the Emperor Bulblax before Day 30 and can still technically "end" the game that way.
I genuinely love all of your thumbnails
this truly has been a The Secrets and Mysteries of Pikmin.
great video dude!
i remember finding the smokey prog when playing pikmin as a very small child, it terrified me!!
i would love a video explaining the references to the treasure in the pikmin series
The Louie movie in 3 is absolutely accessible in Deluxe.
I forget HOW I did it, but it's there.
I think it plays after beating Olimar's prequel side stories.
@@prestonandtom9337 I believe so!!!
Olimar has a journal entry where he specifically says not all parts are required but he doesn’t mention which ones are and aren’t required
Never thought i'd ever see a fusion of Annoying Orange and Beady Long Legs
I have NEVER heard any of the alternate Pikmin noises as far as I’m aware, but I have heard the WEOLP noise, or “weird burp/bulburp” as I call it
That thumbnail is perfect. It even beats Nerrel's Thumbnail for "Was Majora's Mask 3D a bad remake?"
My first save of Pikmin 2 I started when I was probably 6 or 7 years old (possibly younger) and didn't finish until I was 10 or 11 years old. I had gone far over 30 days and so I experienced all of the late game enemy spawns etc. and was surprised and confused on subsequent replays when I didn't see them anymore, especially the Spotty Bulbear in Perplexing Pool because that was such an iconic terror for me playing it when I was young.
Similarly with those spray dropping bugs, I believe when I finally concentrated on my save and finished the game, I happened to enter Dream Den on what must have been day 211, because I remember my save was over 200 in-game days, and those little bug things were outside the front of Dream Den right before I entered (giving me all the sprays I needed to complete it as a 10-year-old)
1:57 I’m pretty sure one of Olimars log entries ponders that some of the parts are optional, though it doesn’t mention which ones.
yes that is correct, and even highlights this in the log too.
9:53 according to @SilokHawk video on 2-player battle, in the Wii and Gamecube version Dim Labyrinth always used a randomly generated layout and Brawlyard had a chance to use one as well.
FINALLY I KNOW WHAT THE PIKMIN SOUND IS FROM, I thought it was just a sound that plays when, idk but now I know what it’s from, I haven’t even played pikmin 1 thb
Louie has a really deep voice.
thank you for high quality pikmin content weekly
2:30
Well, some kids weren't very good at pikmin and didn't get all the parts before day 30. Even if it ISNT that hard. And that's the point. You'd never go out of your to get it because it's basically the default ending unless you're either REALLY bad or good enough to beat the Emperor.
One little known fact you missed was that snitchbugs only spawn after day 4 in the distant spring. This means it is possible to do the distant spring without snitchbugs if you are fast enough. Kinda cool how the devs reward people able to complete the first 2 areas in one day.
I love how i randomly decide to look for a pikmin deep dive and heres one freshly posted.
New pikmin theory imonlyhereforpikmin isnt only here for pikmin hes also here for olimars buttocks
Who isnt
The medium ending is mentioned my Olimar in his end of day logs!
I actually got it twice before my first true ending playing as a kid, major dandori issue
The Pikmin 2 Bulbear + Beady in the perplexing pool was something that, as a child, I experienced. And now, I only recently got back into Pikmin, and upon reaching perplexing pool once again, all I could remember is the shock and fright of wth a beady longlegs is, with it suddenly landing right above me
bro why did you put the "Citruified Arachnorb" on the thumbnail
Pestering Citruified Aracnorb
0:41 It just predicted Nintendo’s next failure “Wii U”
The fucking rare startup sound 😭
I love these kinds of vids brilliant stuff. Your by far my fave Pikmin content creator and this is coming from someone who would put this series up their with their faves. The more I watch these videos the more I realize just how many problems there is with Pikmin 2 on Switch. Kind of blows my mind. All the best.
Would have liked to hear you cover the songs the pikmin themselves sing, as some of them I don’t know, like in 4
I wish Pikmin games had more optional bosses. It's really cool that you can go out of your way to fight the Goolix, Mamuta, and Smoky Progg in Pikmin 1. Because they're shown in the Enemy Reel regardless of if you ever met them, many people find out about these enemies this way, and it makes a great incentive to replay the game. While every future Pikmin installment technically has optional bosses, you're going to have to fight them if you want to collect All Treasures/Fruit. Like yeah, I don't *have* to fight the Armored Mawdad, Calcified Crushblat, or Ancient Sirehound to *beat* the game, but I do have to if I want to *complete* the game.
2:30 maybe it's bc I watched a let's play before playing myself, but getting all 30 parts is remarkably easy, you only need to get 1 part per day. I don't consider a playthru complete without the Secret Safe
8:09 I've actually seen both of these before back in the day. I remember being so confused when my pikmin numbers started dropping out of nowhere. Made it back to base only to see the bulbear decimating the pikmin that had brought stuff back. I also saw the beady long legs at some later point and was surprised when it dropped down.
Glad to finally know what the trigger for them spawning is, because I never saw them again afterwards and most people I told about it happening were skeptical.
Bro, they removed everything interesting from the Switch version 💀
Olimar actually does reference the mediocre ending in Pikmin 1 via his logs and I THINK the UV light. In the UV light he'll remark "this light is great for tanning... But will not assist the dolphin's flying capabilities. Maybe there are other parts like this." And occasionally when nothing eventful happens in a log (yet youve gotten a lot of essential parts) he'll say something like "maybe getting all the parts is a fool's effort. Maybe there is some parts i can truly live without. Hope!".
awesome video. I'd be cool to see a video on pikmin mods/difficulty hacks
I think the weird man voice is a unedited pikmin sound since the pikmin sounds are just really sped up voices (you can even un pikmin the pikmin sounds)
Unlike the first 3 Pikmin games which has a battle jingle based on the area, Pikmin 4 also differentiates based on enemy. Technically the mini bosses and bosses have their own jingles too, but those may as well be entire songs.
7:21 I wonder if dwarf bulbears in the Distant Spring after day 15 replace the larger bulbears to make it easier on players who are still gathering parts by that time?
They don't but the game does despawn a few Bulbears permanently if you kill them
9:22 could’ve been a lost media joke 😬
Just to go further on the Pikmin 1 bosses thing, the game files actually consider Candypop Buds, Flint beetles and geysers to be bosses, so Mamuta may as well get to be one too.
"A pretty rare song that you are likely not to hear." Weird, nearly every time I've played Pikmin 3 (Which is a lot), it has rained in the Formidable Oak on the next day.
I remember getting absolutely terrified of the bulbear coming after me in pikmin 2 because I used to be bad and waste too many days. Then when the beady long legs came after I wasted even more days I literally was too scared to even go back to the perplexing pool as a kid.
Yeah I somehow never knew about that secret Pikmin 1 startup and I can just *feel* how much it would've made my stomach drop as a kid. I probably would've been too unnerved to play the game then.
I've always found the 5 optional space parts odd. Aside from the Secret Safe, most of these parts aren't difficult to collect nor are they out of your way. The Massage Machine and UV lamp are honestly the two easiest parts to get in the Distant Spring, and taking care of the Breadbug in the Forest Naval saves a lot of future headaches. From a gameplay perspective, it would have made more sense to make the optional parts especially difficult. This way, the player would be rewarded for going the extra mile and get the best ending.
The only reason I can see for these parts being optional is that they're clearly unimportant based on their names and suggested purposes. It wouldn't make any sense for Olimar to fail because he didn't collect the massage machine.
holy swag two uploads in the same week
"most people are done with the game by day 15 or at least at the final area" my guy some of us are Not Good At These Games haha
The GOAT of Pikmin content
It would be interesting if Totaka song gets re-used in some way shape or form in Pikmin 5.. since the song honestly reminds me of the water wraith and/or plasma wraith and there still is a lot about those said creatures we do not know about yet. Or maybe ever.
5:15 they are humming a part of the song that plays when the ship is departing after rescuing Olimar.
Nice. A correction though:
4:58 Whether it rains in the Formidable Oak is controlled by whether the cave has been entered or not.
the mediocre ending being 'out of the way' is... well... when i was younger, i wasnt very good at games, and i was also REALLY bad at knowing you could just... start over? i had 2 pikmin 1 files that had the 25 required parts, with no way of getting the rest. one was just me stuck at distant spring without enough skills to collect everything on day 30, and the other was stuck at the final trial on day 30 with... one of each pikmin and nothing else. other than that, i had at least a few files where i just straight up failed to collect enough parts by day 30. so i saw the bad ending and mediocre ending multiple times, before YEARS later i finally went back and beat it. so i dont personally think the middle ending is out of the way.
So glad I found your channel
In Pikmin 4 at random, the Pikmin will sing several past songs from the series including the Awakening Wood from P2, Garden of Hope from P3 and even the Waterwrath chase music from P2 meaning the Pikmin to have trauma just like the players lmao.
There are actually hints that you dont need all parts i think. If i remember correctly, Olimar mentions in some of his logs, that there should be some parts that he wont need to repair the dolphin
Finnaly I can sub after watching you after however long ago hoaxes and rumors was posted
Few months late im aware but you forgot to mention the pikmin singing in pikmin 4, specifically because after beating the submerged cavern, the pikmin will sing the waterwraith chase theme
when the bank took the dolphin in pikmin 2 did they account for the secret safe inside or did his savings become lost media
1:56 - "the only clue", not including Olimar's diary entry where he says stuff like "Surely there are some parts that are not absolutely necessary".
I would contest the idea that most people would be finished Pikmin 1 by day 15, when I was a kid I never beat the game before day 17 and my first playthough took me to day 25 and I didn't reach the distant spring till after day 15. I'd wager the same is true for a lot of kids that played it.
Meow meow the optimal finish date for PIKMIN should bee 12 days mrow meow here's why:
Meow meow The Forest of Hope has the largest concentration of fireworks in the game (from defeating the snagrets) and the 4th day (4th of July) is when the final parts of that area are collected mrow with enough time for Olimar to sit back and relax, causing his PIKMIN to carry him to the onion and setting off all the fireworks mrow meow. So it follows from this formula that Olimar (the player) would/should bee able to collect each and every shit part by the 11th, blasting off on the 12th of July meow meow the EXACT date of release for PIKMIN 3, July 12th, 2013 meow meow this is the "Olimar crash-landed in July theory" by @The_PIKMIN_PROPHET_712 mrow meow
The game actually does tell you that some parts are optional. It happens fairly early in the game.