Pikmin 4 is real.
Okay, that’s not everything we know. We’ve put together all the gripping information we have about the upcoming sequel to the beloved, yet still very relevant, Nintendo strategy game, a title we’ve heard for the first time in ages. long ago.
Do not have one full a lot of information so make sure to check back as more trailers and screenshots come from Pikmin news tube…
Pikmin 4 details, images, trailer and MORE CODE
Story so far
The road, the way back to 2015, Shigeru Miyamoto gave an interview in which he said that the sequel to Pikmin 3 is “really very close to completion” and that “the Pikmin teams are always working on the sequel.” Eurogamer followed up on this interview, asking Nintendo if this was true, to which they replied:
“We can confirm that Pikmin 4 is in development but that’s all we can confirm at the moment.”
2015 was the era of the Wii U and the Nintendo Switch wouldn’t be released until March 2017, but the Switch – codenamed NX at the time – was in development. However, Pikmin 4 is yet to be confirmed for any specific platform.
Now, it’s easy to assume that the Pikmin that Miyamoto and Nintendo are talking about is Pikmin Bloomreleased in 2021, or even Greet! Pikmin, was released on the 3DS in 2017. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. We have a timeline of Pikmin 4 related events for you right here…
- June 2017: No worries, Pikmin 4 is still “in progress”
- Miyamoto now says he “was asked not to share anything about this from PR” … “but I can tell you it’s progressing.” This also confirms that Hey! Pikmin is not the legendary Pikmin 4, as the 3DS spin-off was announced at this point. Alrighty then.
What is Pikmin?
Pikmin is a series of games in which you play some sort of stranded or exploratory astronaut who teams up with wild onion creatures known as “Pikmins” to navigate the wilderness. There are monsters to avoid or defeat, treasure, food and ship parts to collect, and most of all, Pikmin to protect.
Pikmins are stupid, fragile little things, but they do listen to orders, so it’s your duty to protect them in such a way to make sure they don’t drown, burn, fall off objects, get eaten or succumb to any threat. anyway – you’ll know when you’ve done a bad job if you hear that tragic sigh of a Pikmin turned ghost. And you will hear it. Much.
If you continue to take care of them and grow their numbers by bringing dead dogs and Pikmin food back to their homes, you can hope for the best ending – each game has multiple ways so that your story can be ended, based on how much game you manage to beat within the given time limit.
That’s it, really – develop Pikmin, tell Pikmin to fetch everything, generate more Pikmin, repeat.
Intro
The trailer above is from the September 2022 Nintendo Direct – what is rumored to be “Zelda blowout”, which also gave us a release date for the Breath of the Wild sequel, as well as the title – Tears of the Kingdom.
Pikmin 4 was a bit of an exception, announced in a strange segment presented by Miyamoto in which he updated us about the Super Mario Movie, the Super Mario theme park, the continued existence of the Super Mario movie. Pikmin Bloom, and give us the smallest smidge gets a glimpse of Pikmin 4 in a trailer that basically tells us nothing.
After 7 years very little, we will take it.
Pikmin 4 release date
In 2023.
We will risk conjecture at after year, since we know very little about it. Probably a few months after Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom came out in May.
Gameplay
Well… the trailer doesn’t give us much to go on. It looks like it takes place in a garden, with a giant garden bench, raised flower beds, and human paraphernalia like a broken pocket watch.
PNF-404 – the planet on which the Pikmin game is set – is said to be an Earth where humans have gone extinct. But the planet looks pretty well-kept, if Bulborb gets infected. Maybe the same planet, but in a place where the last vestiges of humanity still exist?
We only see Pikmin’s three original colors, yellow, red, and blue in the trailer, plus Bulborbs, the Goombas of the Pikmin series, so it’s hard to find new abilities and enemies.
There’s also a glimpse of our new player character possibilities:
Miyamoto describes the core idea behind Pikmin as “dandori” (“段 取” in Japanese), which means “strategic planning”. With this in mind, he said, the team has simplified the controls in Pikmin to allow players to plan their strategies more, rather than feeling like they’re always herding cats.
Miyamoto also mentioned the ability to play the game “from Pikmin’s perspective near the ground”, which seems to mean that you can place the camera closer to the ground than overhead.
Check back later – we’ll know more eventually. As long as it’s not seven years.
Screenshots
Yeah, more like a screenshoot. Singular. Here is it:
T-shirt
We have more information on Shigeru Miyamoto’s amazing Pikmin shirt than we did in the game! You can buy it at the New York Nintendo Store.
That’s all the information we can squeeze out of the slightly damp sponge is the reveal trailer… but hopefully, there’ll be more in the year or so until the game launches.
Stay tuned for all the Pikmin news you might want and let us know in the comments what new features, ideas, and stories you’d like to see in the finished game.
