Pikmin 2: New Year

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Pikmin 2: New Year
The game's title screen.
Rating	E 10+
Genre	Real-time strategy
Platforms	Computer, Nintendo Gamecube
Media	Digital download
Publisher	AmigaOwl
Release dates	July 25th, 2021
Prequel	Pikmin 1
Creator	AmigaOwl
Collaborators	Sharker Da Shark Jimble A Friendly Amprat Professionalnubtub TurtleTrademark EpochFlame UnclePunch PikHacker

Pikmin 2: New Year is a Pikmin 2 ROM hack that was created by AmigaOwl, with the help of a development team, and was released on July 25^th, 2021 to commemorate the twenty-year anniversary of Pikmin 1's release. It is available to play on computers, and can also be played on the Nintendo GameCube. The game has much of the same content as Pikmin 2, but features new music, areas, caves, cave themes, Challenge Mode stages, new or reskinned enemies, and one reskinned plant. Additionally, every treasure from Pikmin 2 appears in Pikmin 2: New Year, although the Time Capsule and the Talisman of Life differ in appearance.

Below is the official trailer for Pikmin 2: New Year:

In addition to a gameplay trailer, Pikmin 2: New Year has a soundtrack available to listen to on YouTube. It can be found here in the form of a playlist.

Plot

Pikmin 2: New Year's overall plot is identical to that of Pikmin 2's. Captain Olimar, in his prized ship, the S.S. Dolphin, returns to Hocotate to find that the company he works for, Hocotate Freight, has been placed under a mountainous debt of  × 10,100. The President sends Olimar and Louie back to PNF-404, in the Hocotate ship, to scavenge for treasures and any other valuables they come across. The two venture through various locations with their Pikmin, collecting what they can, and when the debt has been repaid, Louie wanders off and finds himself at the bottom of a treacherous cave's depths, on top of a Titan Dweevil, and the President takes Louie's place.

Endings

Likewise, the game also has both endings that Pikmin 2 has, both of which are possible to get in the same playthrough.

Content

Areas and caves

The area selection screen after having unlocked all areas.

Four areas each representing a different season may be visited, and each one has a number of custom caves.

• Jungle of Repose: a spring-themed Valley of Repose that has seven treasures.
  • Bamboo Garden: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and three treasures.
  • Satellite Koppai: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and sixteen treasures.
  • Cave With No Name: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and fifteen treasures.
• Awakening Arctic: a polar version of Awakening Wood that too has seven treasures.
  • Snowy Descent: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and six treasures.
  • Commodore House: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and seven treasures.
  • Royal Highlands: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and ten treasures.
  • Snagret Skies: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and fifteen treasures.
• Perplexing Storm: an autumnal Perplexing Pool. It also contains seven treasures.
  • Spider Attic: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and eleven treasures.
  • Alph's Arcade: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and fourteen treasures.
  • Sewer Room: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and fourteen treasures.
  • Timeless Castle: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and thirteen treasures.
• Wistful Lake a summery Wistful Wild, which contains five treasures.
  • Elemental River: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and seventeen treasures.
  • Colosseum Garden: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and thirteen treasures.
  • Season Den: has an unknown quantity of sublevels and twenty-one treasures.

The new cave themes consist of the following:

• Clouds
• Commodore
• Desert
• Digital
• Flower grotto
• Sewer
• Space
• Volcano

2-Player Battle Mode stages

Same as in the original game.

Challenge Mode stages

1. Carrot Garden
2. Mamuta Town
3. Attic Maze
4. Elemental Crossroads
5. Antenna Beetle's Bakery
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Pikmin

Every Pikmin species returns in Pikmin 2: New Year. No new Pikmin species are encountered, although pikpik carrots are used in some Challenge Mode stages.

Piklopedia

The following is a complete list of every enemy and plant appearing in Pikmin 2: New Year, listed in the order defined by the Piklopedia.

1. File:P2NY Lapis Bulborb icon.png Lapis Bulborb
2.  Hairy Bulborb
3.  Forest Bulborb
4. File:P2NY Dwarf Lapis Bulborb icon.png Dwarf Lapis Bulborb
5.  Snow Bulborb
6.  Dwarf Forest Bulborb
7.  Spotty Bulbear
8.  Dwarf Bulbear
9.  Bulborb Larva
10.  Fiery Bulblax
11.  Gilded Water Dumple
12.  Bulbmin
13.  Fiery Blowhog
14.  Watery Blowhog
15. File:P2NY Garish Cannon Beetle Larva icon.png Garish Cannon Beetle Larva
16. File:P2NY Orange Decorated Cannon Beetle Larva icon.png Orange Decorated Cannon Beetle Larva
17.  Indigo Blowhog
18.  Flora Blowhog
19.  Two-Tone Trigger Groink
20.  Iridescent Flint Beetle
21.  Iridescent Glint Beetle
22.  Doodlebug
23.  Female Sheargrub
24.  Male Sheargrub
25.  Shearwig
26.  Cloaking Burrow-nit
27.  Ravenous Whiskerpillar
28.  Royal Anode Beetle
29.  Mitite
30.  Velvet Crawmad
31.  Hallow Snitchbug
32.  Insomniac Snitchbug
33.  Violet Dirigibug
34.  Antenna Beetle
35.  Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat
36.  Greater Spotted Jellyfloat
37. File:P2NY Napalm Dweevil icon.png Napalm Dweevil
38. File:P2NY Alkaline Dweevil icon.png Alkaline Dweevil
39.  Hydro Dweevil
40.  Toxic Dweevil
41.  Volatile Dweevil
42.  Toady Bloyster
43. File:P2NY Lily Wollywog icon.png Lily Wollywog
44. File:P2NY Bioluminescent Wollywog icon.png Bioluminescent Wollywog
45. File:P2NY Wogpole icon.png Wogpole
46.  Lapis Lazuli Candypop Bud
47.  Crimson Candypop Bud
48.  Golden Candypop Bud
49.  Violet Candypop Bud
50.  Ivory Candypop Bud
51.  Queen Candypop Bud
52.  Easter Chrysanthemum
53.  Skitter Leaf
54.  Unmarked Spectralid
55.  Honeywisp
56.  Mamuta
57.  Hazel Breadbug
58.  Pellet Posy
59.  Common Glowcap
60.  Clover
61.  Figwort
62.  Dandelion
63.  Seeding Dandelion
64.  Horsetail
65.  Foxtail
66.  Glowstem
67.  Margaret
68.  Fiddlehead
69.  Shoot
70.  Empress Bulblax
71.  Brass Snagret
72.  Prismal Long Legs
73.  Rubynite Emperor Bulblax
74.  Giant Breadbug
75.  Pileated Snagret
76.  Man-at-Legs Alpha
77.  Ranging Bloyster
78.  Waterwraith
79.  Subterrestrial Crawbster
80.  Crimson Long Legs
81.  Titan Dweevil

Obstacles

No new obstacles are introduced.

Gallery

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  The save select screen, showing a fully-completed game.

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  A screenshot of sublevel two of the Cave With No Name.

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  The Talisman of Life, which features on its cover a picture of a tortoise instead of a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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  The Time Capsule, which features a picture of a pug instead of a shetland sheepdog or house cat.