Pikmin 4 Story and Ending EXPLAINED! [The Fall of Earth!]

Pikmin 4 takes us on a crazy new adventure to the planet PNF-404 where everything is not what it seems!

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[dbass]

There was something really ominous in the House level I don’t see too many people talking about; there are suitcases by the door. It implies the previous occupants were going somewhere, possibly in a hurry, and they forgot or were unable to take their bags.
My best bet is that sometime in the present/near future humanity needed to flee earth. Quickly.

They may have thought they were coming back, but never did.
They went to Gyia (which clearly looks like “Gaia”, the Greek mythological figure for Earth) with their dogs and evolved into the tiny people and Oatchis over 97 generations, about 1000 years.

[thekirbycrafter]

Two things:
Moss is a girl

The 3 Koppaites are actually NOT replacements for the Koppai explorers in 3. It is shown in the game that they are all related. Don speaks about a partner he has he nicknamed Ducky. Nelle is related to a famous botanist, and Alph and Yorke share the same surname. Its referenced that the events that caused Pikmin 3 have not happened yet, but are hinted at happening soon, as they say that Koppai is having a booming population crisis, and that they will eventually run out of food.

[rodomify]

I think I remember Bernard saying that the actual reasons lumiknolls want to attract enemies to them is because it absorbs the energy of the enemies when they die, and use that energy to produce glow sap, which also explains why they disappear whenever you kill them at night.

[tomgourami]

I believe what can be deduced by the shepherd logs and the piklopedia entries is that humans left PNF404 for some reason and after generations the humans might be all the little characters we know now, forgetting about earth through generations and eventually finding themselves back on PNF404. Explaining the DNA connection between the pups

(Edited a typo)

[Hexsmasher]

We can all agree that Louie is one complex character

[jaren]

It's never actually explained what the life support system is, just that is one and its powered in some way. That's actually why theres no day limit in pikmin 2, because the ship isn't damaged and can therefore power the life support system indefinitely. Also, it's explained that Koppai hasn't had the food crisis yet, so 4 takes place at least before 3. Personally, i think 4 is what happens after the bad ending of pikmin 1. Which is sorta implied by the shipwrecked tale ending. Plus, the devs have said 4's placement in the timeline was left up to the players imagination. So it's whatever you wnat it to be.

[zaidzmn]

The sirehound having similar DNA hints to the possibility that oatchi and all the species we see (like koppaites, hocotations, etc.) Were once humans from earth who left and evolved into what we see now. Sheperd also notes how her ancestors and rescue dogs were from a "blue world". Olimar also notes the depictions of human astronauts are a bit too familiar looking.

[devincardwell]

To be fair, Louie taking the survivors and trying to turn them into leaflings is explained by Olimar. Olimar says he always told Louie when they were working on their home planet to watch and learn (or something along those lines l can’t remember exactly what he said). Olimar says that he’s glad Louie is finally taking his advice but disappointed by the fact that it’s not the way he wanted.
Example: Louie saw leafling Olimar turning other survivors into leaflings now Louie is doing it.

[thesuperdk]

I think the reason everyone crash lands on PNF 404 is because Earth's gravity is way more intense than anything all of these tiny ships have experienced.

[RevolutionaryOven]

I just want to give my two cents: None of the pikmin games are removed from the timeline (okay, maybe only pikmin 1). Olimar's log says "I had a nightmare that we weren't able to pay back a debt quickly." Key word is "quickly" because in pikmin 2 you DO pay it back eventually. Being in fear that you can't pay back something quickly implies "quickly /enough/" meaning failure. Also, Louie mentions in one of his logs "I ate the special shipment given to me by my boss, now I have to come up with an excuse" meaning pikmin 4 is actually a prequel to pikmin 2. With this in mind, that also implies that pikmin 3 has yet to happen as well, so it's also not removed from the timeline.

Edit: Also I meant to say that when olimar says "A debt" he doesn't say "the debt". "A" meaning "some generic unknown debt" and "The" meaning "this one" or "that one" implying it already happened. So his nightmare could be forseeing the future somehow, with him not knowing about a generic debt his company would soon go into. (Which might make sense because time dilation is literally canon in this game which... sheesh that's a whole can of worms.)

[Tori_Nushi]

As someone who played pikmin 3 and knows some lore of 1 & 2 i have no idea where they are taking this story

[xaviernieves]

I'm mixed. I'm disapointed because I waited 10 years to see how the cliffhanger from 3 would be explained, only for this game to be a soft reboot. However, i'm glad that we even got a Pikmin 4 at all and that this game is so good. It seems like the just decided to reboot the series because they didn't know how, or just didn't feel like continuing the story from 3.

[Mr._Leaf]

Louie in his id card is refered to as the "embodiment of the word troublemaker"

[tenafe]

If you speak to the 3 koppai pilots they actually all reference the original pikmin 3 pilots. Speaking to them we learn that Don Bergman had a partner who he called ducky when he was ranger aka Charlie, Yorke has 13 brothers and one of them is an engineer like him aka Alph, and Nelle has a sister who is a botanist with a big appatite aka Brittany

[egg]

i suspect that the ancient sirehound itself isnt the common ancestor of oatchi and leaf, but rather the species of the ancient sirehound is

[Barquevious_Jackson]

This one is kind of strange, so bare with me on this but I got kind of convoluted theory on what's going on.

It's safe to assume this planet is Earth, so for the sake of brevity I'm going to call it that.

We see no humans on the planet, but we do see many perfectly preserved objects which each count as a "Treasure" full of an energy called Sparklium. But we can also deduce that much of the wild life from Pikmin to Bulborbs is clearly unlike any living earthly creature so the planet has been able to change and mutate and evolve over a long period of time.

Time is able to be bent as seen in Caves with a 1:6 time dilation factor, so is it a stretch to assume that the Sparklium in Treasure somehow preserves objects and keeps them inert through time or resistant somehow to mutation or change?

So, when we look through the treasure we see a curious description on the "Buddy Display" (which is a framed photograph of two dogs) from Captain Olimar.

“What mysterious and fluffy creatures. I can't find evidence of them in any of the existing creature databases, but there's something familiar about them. It's almost as if I've met them before... I guess I'll chalk it up to an ancient memory that's been imprinted on my genome.”

A reference to Jungian blood memory which made me shout when I first saw it. It changes everything.

When we take it with the idea of the Sirehound being either the father to all dog-like creatures (including Oatchi, Moss, and Olimar's Dog Bulbie) or one of the remaining living specimens of the ancestor species (or at least very closely related to that species), it becomes clear not only are the dogs originally from earth but that it's very likely that the little people too are from Earth and are likely related to humans.

They can eat the food from Earth, they look like humans, they wear clothes use technology and have money like humans.

Sure they're an Inch Tall and Oxygen is poisonous but maybe humans shrunk over millions of generations to have better use of space, and Oxygen too is poisonous to humans in high doses with our atmosphere being mostly diluted with Nitrogen to protect us from Oxygen's harmful effects.

When we take that into consideration a timeline becomes clear.

1.) Humans leave the Earth for an unknown reason bringing dogs with them, possibly because energies are mutating the wildlife letting it breath fire or conduct eletrcity or fly or be made of rocks or ice or glow and what not.

2.) Humans become smaller and life on the Earth changes because of this energy that give us the types of Pikmin and enemies we see today.

3.) Meanwhile Treasures full of Sparklium are unaffected by time's passing even when they're eaten or merged with animals, possibly benefiting such creatures like the Sirehound, a dog who is made immortal by his sparklium infused collar but is subject to change despite it's efforts by the mysterious energies which gives it many powers.

4.) A single tiny person retruns to the planet, Sage Leaf, he's brought dogs and lands first on the planet and discovers Pikmin. He dies gets leafed, and the dogs go out into the wild eventually birthing moss.

Due to leaflings having excellent health and time dilation from caves it's impossible to tell how many generations go by, Moss might be first generation of 100th from the dogs Sage Leaf brought with him, either way, Moss was born on the planet and is living alone.

5.) Olimar, comes to the planet, has his crash story play out, dies, gets leafed, but before then sends out an SOS singal attracting everyone to the planet.

6.) The Game happens.

I might be reaching, but to be honest, I like my theory a lot and this will be my head canon for the series moving forward.

[Joepiez]

Actually, the blue Koppaiate seems to be the only younger brother of Alph, and they mention Koppai is heading for a food crisis so I'm still firmly believing Pikmin 4 takes place before 3.

[Soulvior]

To me it’s an alternative timeline in which Human’s are still around as the House in Hero’s Hideaway is still in pristine condition. We just never meet one as the game takes place in a small location (aka someone’s house and backyard lol) on the planet rather than us exploring all of PNF-404. Even the castaway’s could be explained as they honed in on Olimar’s distress beacon, so we don’t have a need to explore the rest of the globe.

[Zinkolo]

It's impossible for the apocalypse to have been recent as If you read the entry for Olimar looking at the dog photo he implies that his race and likely everyone else in the game are descendants of humans.

I think there's something weirdly mystical going on as even with an apocalypse there's just no way that everything would be in perfect condition like that.

There are many references in the game pointing to something ethereal or alive pulling people in and keeping things alive somehow.

The Pikmin leafify people in hopes of finding a leader

[shadeshiest]

I can’t believe how long this game is to 100%, took me 61 day in-game journey 63hrs real time first play thru and I probably could have shaved 5 hours off if I really REALLY hustled to get as much done as I could each day… I JUST yesterday beat the game 100% and I’ve been playing it almost everyday since the day it released!