Hey! Pikmin

Hey! Pikmin is a spin-off title in the Pikmin series. Captain Olimar has once again crashed his ship on a strange planet full of alien creatures, fruit, household items, amiibo, and of course, Pikmin. Olimar is tasked to use Pikmin in order to collect resources in order to leave the planet he's stranded on. And amiibo figurines.

Instead of the free-roaming 3D strategy and exploration of the first three console games, this entry takes the concept into the 2D plane, restricting the player’s movement to that of traditional 2D side-scrolling platformers. Otherwise, the game keeps the series' unique character design, world aesthetic, pacing, and elemental mechanics of each Pikmin type.

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Regional DifferencesA lot of text means a lot of differences between regions

Unused Models#

Enemies#

Doodlebug#

The Doodlebug (known as Onarashi in Japan) as it appears in Pikmin 2. It has several animations for it still left in the files, such as walking and running.

Skeeterskate#

The Skeeterskate from Pikmin 3. Like the Doodlebug, it has some animations related to it, such as it skating and it spitting water, most likely as an attack.

Scornet#

The Scornet, also from Pikmin 3. Unlike in that game, however, its appearance is slightly changed, most notably having blue eyes. Like the two models above, it also has associated animations. It was most likely replaced by the Sparrowhead which appears in the final game due to their similar appearance and nature, judging by its unused animations.

Early Adult Centipare#

An early version of the Adult Centipare, in completely different colors.

Early Elongated Crushblat#

An early version of the Elongated Crushblat, which looks completely different compared to the final game.

enemy01#

More than likely some sort of test enemy. It also has variants of it in different colors.

Enemy02#

This enemy appears to be just a test enemy. It has two separate "models": eyes, which have no animations, and wings, which have 1 animation, for flapping. Both are flat textures. Its two models look like polished versions of Enemy03, which is strange, since its name suggests it was made before it. There is also a texture associated with this enemy, it looks to have the “dot eye” design similar to the Enemy01 variant, only this time with yellow skin and pink dots.

Unused textures#

Hocotate ship#

To do: This texture is similar to the Pikmin 3 one in the Garden of Hope, sans grime, but it may actually be a copy of the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U trophy texture. Investigate and document.

In the model file for the S.S. Dolphin II's pod (oniyon_start_goal.bch) there is an unused texture (t_obj_rocket01a) of the Hocotate ship.