How MANY Pikmin Does it Take to Beat Pikmin 2?

After much delay, the long-awaited Pikmin 2 video is here. This is easily the most amount of work that I've ever put into a video, so if you like what you see, consider subscribing.

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[Wyrmknave]

It's a real exercize in catharsis watching someone move so confidently through a game that was an Anxiety Generator for me as a child

[buildermonkey]

I absolutely love the names given to these objects by the game. Like a tomato being a LOVE NUGGET. It even makes sense story wise, as olimar and louie came from a different planet.

[Supersayainpikmin]

Fun Fact: At 15:35, you can see the Yellow Onion sprouting up from the ground, kinda like Pikmin 1 when you discover them for the first time. This animation isn't actually used anywhere in the game, since all the onions are already sprouted when you discover them.

[Gimmicking]

Technically, you can pay off the debt by farming bulborbs in the first cave

[legionbeast]

Bulbmin will not follow you to the surface and are not counted as killed. At best they would count as temporary team members and would have no effect on the number of pimin sprouted.

[duskerop]

My theory on why the Yellow Glitch works is that the cutscene only triggers with leaf pikmen. When they first joined his party, they were flowered. Then they lost their flower from the enemy, triggering the cutscene

[WingedFish]

You didn't have one to use at the time, but if you had an Ultra Bitter spray you could've used it on the Gatling Groink roaming in the Wistful Wild, as enemies killed while petrified turn into nectar (or more sprays if you're lucky). So there wouldn't have been a corpse to worry about reanimating and therefore not having to carry it back to an Onion

[dominicervig]

About the firey bulblax, it is possible to kill it with purple pikmin. It is extremely tedious, but with precise throwing and immediately calling burning purple pikmin, they can still cause damage and stun with their ground pound.

[DoctorLombriz]

louie's a captain?! all this time i've been calling him cadet louie! oh, i've been making a fool of myself!

[Slithering-Pyro]

Super underrated video! Appealing editing and really interesting techniques to get the job done, congratulations on completing the challenge :)

[ite]

Fun fact: You could have used an ultra bitter on the final boss, the titan dweevil, to make it explode into many many spray bubbles when killed

[selkieblood]

What an excellent video! I love hearing the treasure names spoken out loud.

[glitterfish]

I just watched this video and I just wanted to compliment you on the insanely good editing this video has! The amount of every pikmin and treasure for the area you're in ALWAYS being on screen is very helpful, while keeping them outside of the box so it doesn't obstruct the view of the gameplay is very smart! Even the little detail of the icon of a treasure having a little shine when mentioned really goes a long way!! Not only is the editing very good, but the flow of the video makes sure to cut down the boring parts so that the viewer keeps engaged in you making progress.
Plus the little funny comments you make on some things are very entertaining :)

[purplehaze]

I was kinda phased out of this video, in the process of petting my dog, when I heard "stained red with the blood of the innocent" in a fucking Pikmin guide. That uh.. caught me off guard suffice it to say.

[pyrasaur.ablaze]

great challenge run! I've never seen that Five-man Napsack trick before

[Miguelito]

I’ve been waiting for this for months. Yes it’s finally out!! 😄👍

[ZachThePillow]

I will quote you on that 😂 loved the video! Back when i was speedrunning pikmin 2, i did low pikmin for paying off the debt, and i was thinking about going 100% with low pikmin, but i never thought of deactivating the onions to get 101 instead of 103. Maybe I'll get back into speedrunning Pikmin, but that's not for awhile, I've had my fill of speedrunning for now.

I payed off the debt using only emergance cave, 454 times. It took 25 hours and I did it in one sitting on December 21st-22nd 2020. I recored the whole thing and it's on my youtube channel and twitch channel. Loved the video! Keep it up!

[andressiv]

Awesome video dude! Pikmin 2 is one of my favorite game for the gamecube and see you dominating it so flawlessly blew my mind! Keep it up :D

[shaidreamcast]

You can get to Bulblax Kingdom with the Napsack the same way you did with Gluttons Kitchen. Also, if you reset the cave and get lucky, you can get all the items in Snarget Hole 6 without needing Blue

[Pastel_Pat]

Me, nodding my head anytime he says anything: makes perfect sense
*I don’t know anything about Pikmim*