Todays Goals¶

• Learn about Pikmin
• Return to the SS Drake

Captain Charlie¶

Welcome to the inaugural, and typical, training mission! This mission is designed to introduce the Captain and Alph, and to get us used to throwing Pikmin around.

Unlike the rest of the game this Day does not adhere to the typical time limit of Pikmin and is completely linear. With that in mind, let’s get the training out of the way.

You’ll start the level as Charlie. Simply plod forward, making sure to be startled by the Pikmin sitting around the place, and eventually you’ll come to a tin of Tuna with a group of ’min sat on top.

Here you’ll learn about whistling, throwing and dismissing.

Once Charlie grocks this information head back and round up all the little chaps you passes. Your target is the mushrooms ahead. Ignore the crystal in the path to the left, that’s none of your concern right now.

Simply follow the path, whistling Pikmin that are sat around, and keep heading forward. Before long you’ll enter a cave, and Charlie will find himself in a bit of a situation…

Alph¶

That was a quaint intro, wasn’t it? Now we start the game proper with Alph. Follow the red Pikmin ahead of you and round up his buddies. Your job is to throw all three onto the ‘Onion’ caught in the tree.

Next, let’s build a bridge. See those tiles nearby? Send your Pikmin to them. They will carry the pieces and build a bridge. Wonderful.

With the bridge built head on over and grab your pad. You now have access to the map, and you can take snapshots using the gamepad as a camera. It’s actually a lot of fun, and you can upload images straight to Miiverse.

Anyway, we can play photo-journalist another time. For now, take your Pikmin over the bridge and collect the red pellets from the flowers to the right. If you hit them square on with a Pikmin throw then the flower will pop from its stalk instantly.

There are two 1 pellets to the right, and two 1 pellets and a 5 pellet to the left. When you head left watch out for the bugs. If you have your Pikmin with you and simply dismiss them within the bugs they will dispense them themselves.

Head back to the Onion and pluck your new ’min. With more than 20 of the chaps in your command you can head forward and push the cardboard box.

With this hurdle pushed aside, literally, head through the next cave. When you reach the sand wall set your Pikmin on it and they will proceed to tear it down.

Once through the cave you’ll have found the Drake and finished your training. Now the real fun begins…