Pikmin 2... Again?

What if it was another story...? This article or section pertains to Pikmin 2... Again?, a fanon game created by Blower Pot.

Pikmin 2... Again?
Rating	10+
Genre	Real-time strategy
Prequel	Pikmin 2 (historically) Pikmin 4 (release)
Sequel	Pikmin 4 (possibly)
Creator	Darryl Omg

Pikmin 2... Again?, also written as Pikmin 2 Again, is a game made by Darryl Omg as a sequel to Pikmin 2, and having more puzzle elements and being overall more difficult.

Plot

Prologue

Hocotate Freight goes into debt yet again, amassing a crushing sum of  × 50,000. Olimar and Louie are sent to PNF-404 yet again to find more treasures and repay their company debt.

Welcome Forest

While preparing to land in the Welcome Forest, the Hocotate Ship ends up hitting a tree, causing both Olimar and Louie to fall out, plummeting to the ground below. Olimar then finds the Red Pikmin attacking a Flatbert, and after helping destroy it, the Red Pikmin join Olimar's side.

Olimar soon finds the entrance to the Underground Greengarden and encounters the new Green Pikmin on one of its sublevels. After leaving it and finding a new location in Welcome Forest, Olimar finds the inactive Red Onion and a sleeping Louie. The Onion activates when approached, which is enough to startle Louie awake. Afterward, Louie becomes a playable character.

Then, a location blocked by a moveable object is found but guarded by a Shockirp. Once pulled out of the way by the Green Pikmin, the Hocotate Ship is finally found.

Game modes

Versus Mode

It is similar to 2-Player Battle from Pikmin 2 but with some differences:

• The goal is to collect treasures and corpses for points.
• The player with the most points when there are none left to get wins.
• After collecting a few treasures, a hole to the next sublevel will open. If one player leaves the other too far behind, that player will incur a penalty, losing most of their treasures and being brought to the sublevel the other is on.
• The final sublevel of a cave will have a boss and the player that retrieves its corpse wins.
• The President is the third player character.

Additionally, Cupid's Grenades will grant random powers to a player that collects them:

• Slurpsquito: spawns a Slurpsquito next to an opponent.
• Hiss Fizz: an upside-down plastic soda bottle filled with wither falls at the opponent's current location. Upon hitting the ground, the lid bursts off, spewing wither as the bottle ascends into the unknown.
• Slapping Scrabbit: spawns a Slapping Scrabbit next to an opponent.
• Ultra-energetic spray
• Ultra-spicy spray
• Ultra-neutral spray
• Ultra-bitter spray

There exists a variant of Versus Mode playable only in some Story Mode caves, wherein battles against the Cosmicaptain occur. The Cosmicaptain is later accompanied by what appears to be Louie's counterpart. The caves have only one sublevel, and function more as a competitive challenge than a dungeon, akin to Dandori Battles.

Timed Mode

In this game mode, similar to Challenge Mode, the goal is the get treasures and nuggets on a time. Or even other goals, like defeating all enemies, get 100 Pikmin, and much more.

Another History

Another History is a side story unlocked by completing the entire normal game. It is similar to Pikmin 1 but also having the caves in addition, with limited days and the goal of collecting ship parts, but as Pom rather than Olimar.

Content

Pikmin

• Red Pikmin: immune to fire, great fighters.
• Yellow Pikmin: flies high when thrown, great at digging, immune to electricity.
• Blue Pikmin: immune to water, rescues drowning Pikmin.
• Purple Pikmin: ten times stronger and heavier than other Pikmin types, creates a shockwave upon landing from a throw, immune to panic, wind, escapes faster from bubbles.
• White Pikmin: fast, immune to poison, sees buried treasures, slightly good at digging.
• Bulbmin: ignored by enemies, has health, can't latch onto enemies, slow attack, high damage, doesn't die if left behind after sunset, rejected by candypop buds.
• Rock Pikmin: can't latch onto enemies, high damage, immune to crushing, stabbing and hitting, breaks crystals.
• Winged Pikmin: flies, lower damage, bad at digging, partially immune to crushing and pits, fast attack.
• Ice Pikmin: slows enemies when attacking, freezes bodies of water around it, immune to ice, slippery, freezes bubbles on contact to pop them quickly them.
• Glow Pikmin: flies, appears only at night and in caves, doesn't regress in maturity if knocked back (only at night), immune to fire, water, poison, electricity, and ice, wither, and sand, form glowmobs and teleport (only at night), can't go out of caves, rejected by candypop buds.
• Green Pikmin: longer stem, slow attack, bonus damage to vegetation, good at digging, and can fight dangerous vegetation, critical strike chance, can pull objects.
• Brown Pikmin: glides when thrown, can dodge attacks, bonus damage to obstacles, clings onto walls.
• Slime Pikmin: slimy, can pass through thin passages, slightly good at digging, lower damage, immune to slime.
• Dark Pikmin: bad at digging, power increases with maturity, ultra-spicy spray effects focus on damage instead of speed, fly less far when thrown, immune to wither, sneaky.
• Claw Pikmin: incredible at digging, can avoid being eaten once until recovering, dig routes and through harder materials, lower attacking speed, double hit, immune to sand.
• Mushroom Pikmin: Pikmin affected by the Puffstool's or Sporestool's spores, attack the leaders, is more of an enemy, and once a Pikmin is affected for the first time it triggers a cutscene like those when a Pikmin is affected by a hazard.
• Original Pikmin: secret type, resistant to magic, has a carrying capacity of three, keeps away from enemies when idle.
• Walking Golden Pikpik Carrot: strange, secret type gained by completing the game 100%, has no resistances, all average statistics.

Characters

• Captain Olimar: the main protagonist of the previous games, Olimar is back on his journey to PNF-404.
• Louie: accompanies Olimar on his trip back to PNF-404. He remains the same.
• President: serves as a playable character only in Versus Mode.
• Unknown commenter: an mysterious individual that writes notes for the Piklopedia.

Ships

• Hocotate Ship

Areas

• Welcome Forest
• Treetop Valley
• Rocky Tops
• Midnight Ruins
• Scalding Inferno
• Sandy Dunes
• Submerged Sea
• Doomed Wilds

Encyclopedias

The Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard both return. The Piklopedia lists enemies, vegetation, Pikmin, and much more, while the Treasure Hoard only lists treasures.

Treasure Hoard

Main article: Pikmin 2... Again?/Upgrades

Upgrade perks are obtained from treasures.

Explorer's files

See: Pikmin 2... Again?/Explorer's files

Explorer's files are much like data files in that they provide useful tidbits of information.

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