After a long break, I decided to go back and try to finish this before it was lost forever. I had completed the first two areas, and had a remaining debt of just 105 doodahs. It shouldn't take too long, thought I.
Straight away I found another bit of treasure outside in the Perplexing Pool. It was on a high ledge, which could only be accessed by yellow pikmin due to their added throwing height. I had to throw them up to a platform, walk around myself, and throw them up to the top. The treasure was worth 100 pipplies. So close.
So I went down into the shower room, a cave system which required me to have water, fire, electric and poison pikmin. I didn't take enough poison pikmin for the first few levels, as half the enemies were spewing purple gas and I had to fight through with my little band of twenty. The levels were quite inventive though, with a good use of previous enemies and some new ones - floating jellyfish in particular - thrown in.
Of course, after the first level I had made over 10,000 jinglies, but I wasn't going to stop there. One of the frog enemies killed about 25 of my pikmin in a single jump; an electric jellyfish killed more. Half way down I found a level which let me regenerate some more pikmin, and it randomly gave me some more red ones.
Which was annoying, as I managed to clear out the entire cave apart from one treasure - a set of false teeth underwater, which required twenty pikmin to move. I had only 14 blue pikmin left.
The boss was hard as well. A larger version of the wibbly slug on the surface, which meant I knew I had to attack the flower on the back. It killed a large number of pikmin, and I'm still unsure of the best strategy to beat it, but I got there with brute force. I went back to the surface, and ...
The end-of-game scores are presented as a leaderboard, hinting that other people should play this copy or I should go back and do it all over again. Maybe not.
There's more game to play though. Louie's been left on the surface; Mr Boss Man says he'll go back to get him. There are a fair few treasures in the Perplexing Pool to collect, and a whole new area has opened in the top-right of the map. I may well be back.
Straight away I found another bit of treasure outside in the Perplexing Pool. It was on a high ledge, which could only be accessed by yellow pikmin due to their added throwing height. I had to throw them up to a platform, walk around myself, and throw them up to the top. The treasure was worth 100 pipplies. So close.
So I went down into the shower room, a cave system which required me to have water, fire, electric and poison pikmin. I didn't take enough poison pikmin for the first few levels, as half the enemies were spewing purple gas and I had to fight through with my little band of twenty. The levels were quite inventive though, with a good use of previous enemies and some new ones - floating jellyfish in particular - thrown in.
Of course, after the first level I had made over 10,000 jinglies, but I wasn't going to stop there. One of the frog enemies killed about 25 of my pikmin in a single jump; an electric jellyfish killed more. Half way down I found a level which let me regenerate some more pikmin, and it randomly gave me some more red ones.
Which was annoying, as I managed to clear out the entire cave apart from one treasure - a set of false teeth underwater, which required twenty pikmin to move. I had only 14 blue pikmin left.
The boss was hard as well. A larger version of the wibbly slug on the surface, which meant I knew I had to attack the flower on the back. It killed a large number of pikmin, and I'm still unsure of the best strategy to beat it, but I got there with brute force. I went back to the surface, and ...
The end-of-game scores are presented as a leaderboard, hinting that other people should play this copy or I should go back and do it all over again. Maybe not.
There's more game to play though. Louie's been left on the surface; Mr Boss Man says he'll go back to get him. There are a fair few treasures in the Perplexing Pool to collect, and a whole new area has opened in the top-right of the map. I may well be back.
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