Pikmin 5 (Starfox7G version)

Pikmin 5 (Starfox7G version)
Rating	E for Everyone
Genre	Real-time strategy
Platforms	Switch
Media	N/A
Publisher	Pikmin Fanon
Release dates	N/A
Prequel	Pikmin 4
Sequel	Pikmin 6
Creator	starfox7G
Collaborators	Caleb

Pikmin 5 is a fan-made game by starfox7G. It is a direct sequel to Pikmin 4 and follows the continuity that Pikmin 4 is a retelling of Pikmin 1 and 2. Pikmin 5 will be a retelling of Pikmin 3 in a similar manner. The Rescue Corps gets an emergency call from PNF-404 once again, this time coming from an S. S. Drake piloted by three Koppaites. You will venture back, either as a Rookie on the job or a returning Cadet, to rescue the stranded Koppaites and bring home any other castaways. The gameplay of Pikmin 5 is similar to that of Pikmin 4, though not exact. Ranging from all new night missions, new pets to explore with, new Pikmin types, and new (and returning) locations.

Characters

Captain	Ability	Attack Strength	Movement Speed	Found
Cadet	Upgradable	1x	1x	Start As
Alph	Larger Whistle Radius	1x	1.5x	Merriment Heights
Brittany	Helmet fills up with Glowsap to distract Enemies	1x	1x	Sahara of Solitude
Charlie	Carry Weight 10	1.5x	1x	Sahara of Solitude
Olimar	Jetpack	1x	1x	???
President	Impact Damage	1.25x	.75x	???
Louie	Louie Mode	.5x	1x	???

Pets

Space Dogs

Space Dogs are a Cadet’s best friend! They can do all the things your Pikmin can: attack, carry, and can even do some captain tasks as well! Plucking, commanding, and can sniff out treasures. Their special ability is the rush, charge up and send your space dog charging forward, either by themselves or while you’re riding, and do damage to the enemy you slam into as well as throwing your Pikmin onto them.

Oatchi

An average sized space dog, yellow with some orange spots. Droopy ears with rounded cheeks and a light yip. He’s an overall great pick! Oatchi is a Rescue Pup, a type of space dog apart of the Rescue Corps. You’re go-to companion that’ll assist you with transportation, performing specialized tasks, and by serving as a secondary leader if you’re separated from him. His breed of space dogs has long served the Shepherd family, now your furry side-kick on missions.

Moss

A large space dog, dark green with blue spots. Perked up ears with droopy cheeks and a deep bark. She’s slow, but a heavy hitter! Moss is a space dog found by Captain Olimar when he previously crash-landed on PNF-404. She helps with transportation, special tasks, and an essential second leader for your Pikmin. She’s bigger and slower, but packs a punch compared to the other pup.

Space Cats

Space Cats are your new house guest! Similar to Space Dogs, they can swipe, drag, aswell as plucking and commanding. Their special ability is the pounce, charge up and the Space Cat will hop into the air and land wherever you have the cursor on. If riding the Space Cat, you’ll jump up high with it and all your Pikmin will land with your cat. The pounce does not stun, and it’s impact damage is not as good as the Space Dog’s. You can use this ability to get higher places than your Space Dogs, as well as it can climb. The Space Cat can attack faster and move faster than it’s dog counterparts, however isn’t as strong at Digging and Carrying. And good luck getting them to go into water!

Nekatchi

A smaller sized space cat, orange with some white stripes. Pointy, attentive ears with a snappy tail and a quick “Mrow!” She’s quick and nimble, you can get anywhere with her! Nekatchi is a space cat found by Brittany after her crash on PNF-404. She is an agile and worthy companion and can easily take the place of another leader. She can transport, perform special tasks, and help you travel roads high and low.

Juniper

An average sized space cat, blue-green with lime spots. Relaxed ears with a slow moving tail and a deep, “Mrrrow.” He’s more a hefty feline, but he can tear up an enemy quick! Juniper is a space cat found by Louie in his adventures on PNF-404. He is a heavier and slower cat, but still makes a great addition to the team with their aged training. He can still help with transporting, special tasks, and climb mountains.

Pikmin Types

Pikmin Type	Image	Feature	Attack Strength	Movement Speed	Dig Speed	Immunities	Abilities
Red Pikmin		Nose	1.5x	1x	1x	Fire	Can carry flammable objects
Blue Pikmin		Mouth	1x	1x	1x	Water	Swimming, can throw drowning Pikmin onto land
Yellow Pikmin		Ears	1x	1x	1.75x	Electricity	Can be thrown high, can be used to conduct electricity
Purple Pikmin		Whiskers	2x	.5x	1x	None	10x Carry Weight, Stuns enemies on impact
White Pikmin		Red Eyes	.75x	1.5x	1.5x	Poison	Can poison enemies on consumption, can see hidden buried treasures
Rock Pikmin		Rock	1x	1x	0.5x	Crushing/Impailing	Can break crystals
Winged Pikmin		Wings	.75x	1.25x	0.5x	Ground-based Hazards	Can carry things over Hazards, hold open Bamboo Gates, pull up Flukeweeds
Ice Pikmin		Ice	1x	1x	1x	Ice	Can freeze enemies from being consumed or attacking them. Can also freeze water with enough Ice Pikmin in the body of water
Glow Pikmin		Ghostly Tail, Blue Eyes	1x	1x	1.25x	All	Night Gameplay
Vine Pikmin		Long Stem	1x	1x	1.25x	Picked Up	Can pull enemies out of the sky or root them in place with adequate numbers. Can swing on Vine Branches, make Vine Bridges
Mole Pikmin		Snout, Claws, Round	1x	.5x Above/1.5x Below	2x	Crushing	Can't be thrown, instead, the throw button will have you send them to where ever they need to go by digging underground. Can burrow into soft dirt/under obstacles, can target enemies under the dirt
Glow Shroom Pikmin		Glow Shroom Tip	1.25x	.75x	1.5x	Poison	Can be thrown double the distance of a normal Pikmin, but not very high. Travels half the length, then expands their Mushroom Cap and sails the rest of the way. Only obtained through being spored by a Glow Puffstool
Shroom Pikmin		Mushroom Tip	X	X	X	X	Created by Puffstools

Areas

Areas in Pikmin 5 are around similar sizes to those in Pikmin 4, if not a little larger. Much like Pikmin 4, you can unlock multiple landing spots throughout the maps, however some maps you will have to come back to before 100%ing it as later achieved Pikmin Types will allow access to further corners. Caves function similarly as well, time passing 1/6th as fast. There will also be at least one Cavern per area, except for Merriment Heights

Merriment Heights

Merriment Heights is your Impact Site. A large lively jungle, landing onto one tree specifically with several paths leading to a nearby tree.

Sahara of Solitude

A desert oasis, and the home of your first Base Camp. This large sandy expanse is splattered with small bushes, cacti, and shaded by humongous palm trees that hang over it. A large river slices the map in 2 distinct sections.

Extinction Habitat

A large abandoned home, left in disarray and now overgrown with plants. There's also a beautiful garden that raps the back of the house, left unattended to grow wildly and take over the house, that will be your first landing site.

The Forest of Dread

Returning once more, the Forest of Hope is not how you remember. It's water replaced with magma and its beautiful greenery now burnt and replaced with ash and rocks. Nearby, magma flows out of a volcano-like structure.

Virulent Heights

Located in the same jungle area as Merriment Heights, it actually happens to be a neighboring tree. Much less friendly and kind looking than the Merriment Heights, the leaves are decayed and thorns wrap the large tree. Branches poke out sharply from this old gnarled tree. Similar to the Merriment Heights, you can climb up and down the tree using branches, vines, and other worldly obstacles.

The Frozen Skyscrapers

Here you'll find the slopes of a large snowy mountain. A rocky and frozen terrain that tests your survival in the harshest of elements.

Searing Complex

Your final location, the source of the following lava in the Forest of Dread. In the concrete jungle of an abandoned city, you will enter your final test against PNF-404's toughest enemies and environments.

Gameplay

Louie Mode

Louie mode is Pikmin 5's New Game+ and Ultra Spicy Mode. After completing the game, Louie is left behind! Again! You will play through the whole game again, but instead of having your fellow castaways at your side, you've only got Louie. No upgrades, no abilities. Your Pet that aids you on this adventure is a Junior Titan Dweevil, a younger and undeveloped version of the Titan Dweevil. He has the abilities of both Space Cats and Space Dogs, you can pounce and charge! However, it's stats are not as well rounded as your furry companions, and is also non-upgradable. You will be flying with your new spider-friend in the Hocotate Freight Ship, rather than the S. S. Drake or the Space Corps Rescue Ship. Pellet Posies will be your only friend, and you'll find them sparingly. After a Pellet is grabbed from a Pellet Posey, it will not respawn for the rest of the gameplay. Enemies will also not drop corpses to bring back to onions, rather a cook-able meal leaves behind that you can bring back to the ship. These will open up a new tab, rather than your Piklopedia, it'll be Louie's adventure in cooking all of the inhabitants of PNF-404, except for the Pikmin. Hopefully. You will only have to collect these foody remains once, after that it is unnecessary to bring back any of the enemy remains. Can you survive in a much more aggressive PNF-404 as Louie?

Plot

Prologue/Tutorial

As New Game Starts, the player is greeted with view a large silver ship blasting through space, as it flies by the camera the words “S.S. DRAKE” are read along the side. Suddenly, alarms begin going off and you watch smoke begin puffing from the ship. The top half and the bottom of the half ship spark, puff, then finally explode apart, shooting down towards the planet’s atmosphere below. You awaken as Brittany, a Koppaite on a mission to collect seeds from this planet to save her planet from a food shortage. She’s alone on the planet, not landing in the same spot as her crewmates Alph and Charlie. she looks around and you play as her exploring the small area. You find yourself in a sandy desert where up ahead you find a cat, fighting its way out of a quicksand pit as 5 Red Pikmin trying to help it out. As you whistle onto them, the Red Pikmin jump to attention and you get your introductory scene for Reds. The scene then cuts to the cat reacting to your whistle, quickly find a way to wiggle and jump out of the sand pit. It hops and slowly steps around, sniffing Brittany, before purring and cuddling up on her. Brittany is relived to find a furry friend and promptly gives it a name, Nekatchi. You get a short tutorial piece as you travel through this linear desert path to teach you about both Red Pikmin abilities, as well as Nekatchi’s abilities. At the end, you find the top part of the ship, Brittany says it’ll be good enough to use as shelter over the nights, she wonders how she’ll find her crewmates. The Red Pikmin, Brittany, and Nekatchi crawl into the ship as the scene ends. The next thing you get is the scene of the planet once more, the clouds slowly shift, then an alarm shows up over the visual. A message from Shepherd, “EMERGENCY RESCUE!” The screen fades to black, prompting a custom character creator, or your previous captain from Pikmin 4 with the options to change how you look. After this, the camera returns to where you left, before panning back and showing the view was from the window of your very own Rescue Corp ship. It’s you and Oatchi as a hologram of Shepherd appears. She informs you of the mission, three Koppaites crashed on PNF-404, and they need your help! As Shepherd is telling you their plight, the hologram cuts out. Your ship begins sending our alarms, you’re not crashing, but it seems something is pulling your ship in. Your rockets can’t fight as your ship begins drifting towards the planet. The next scene is your small ship dropping towards a very tall and large trees, as soon as it hits the first branch, the window pops up, and you see Oatchi gripping onto the ship, however another branch hits and Oatchi flies out into the distance. The camera quickly gets covered in leaves as the ship bangs around the branches a few more times.

Day 1, Merriment Heights

The next scene is the ship, tied up in vines, before pulling across giving you a little lay of land, finding a spot further away to stop as your character hits one more branch, before landing in the area. The area seems to be the nook of the top of the tree, where the top most branches expand out. Able to see your ship in the distance. Here, you are introduced to some nearby Vine Pikmin, who are swinging and hanging about. The ship is too high up, but when throwing the 5 Vine Pikmin at the ship, they land below it, their stems stretching up and grabbing the ship to pull it down. You continue exploring the rest of the area, finding 10 more Vine Pikmin along the way. You find a branch behind where you landed that can be pulled down by 15 Vine Pikmin, the branch topples down allowing a path into a hole on a nearby tree. In here you find the Green Vine Onion, tied up in vines, it’s legs attempting to wiggle free from it’s interior. It takes 10 Vine Pikmin to pull down the ship. There’s enough pellet poseys around to get 25 total Vine Pikmin, however without any Flarlic, your max on the field is 20. After you head over to a Leaf Wall and open it with 10 Vine Pikmin, you get a notification for a call from Shepherd. She’s grateful to hear you’re okay, she was afraid they were going to have to send ANOTHER Rescue Corp. She notifies that she’s got some readings from the ship, there’s another ship nearby, possibly the Koppaites? You push forward and find a chamber, the camera pulls you to show the bottom half of the S. S. Drake and an unconscious captain. Shepherd informs you that it matches the description of one of the missing Koppaites, Alph! But then, the tree shakes, and rumbles. From above, the top of the hollow is dark, and then a large mushroom creatures slams into the arena. Your introduced to the Spore Soaker and take battle. Afterwards, you awaken Alph by turning off his suit’s sleep protocol, waking him up. He’s confused, then worried, then stressed, then relieved to see that the Rescue Corps is here to save the day. He tells the player that his ship must’ve broken apart in the crash landing, however Alph has a great idea. He’s a handyman himself and bets he can combine the bottom half of the S. S. Drake with your ship. The scene changes, and Alph has handily attached the ships together as the sun is setting. Shepherd pipes up and congratulates the teamwork, and is impressed with the upgrade to the ship. She informs the player of the end of the day and regrets to say they’ll have to head up to the lower atmosphere for the night, leaving Oatchi behind. She assures that he’s a tough pup and he’ll be fine. You leave the surface, creatures crawling out of the woodworks, literally, as you fly away with the Green Onion. When you get back to space, with your newly powered ship, Alph spots a new landing zone over by the Sahara Of Solitude.

Day 2, Sahara of Solitude Base Camp

You land in a small area with makeshift walls set up and the top of the S. S. Drake! You land with excitement, and as you hop out of the ship you get contacted by Shepherd. She informs you that she’s getting readings of Brittany nearby. In cutscene, you approach the ship and Red Pikmin jump out. Then next is Brittany. She greets Alph, and is thankful to see a Rescue Corps Officer. She explains she and Nekatchi set up camp here to protect from monsters as they had to stay on the surface overnight. When Alph asks who’s Nekatchi, Brittany explains that she should be around here somewhere. The camera pans over showing a lazy kitty, cleaning itself on a leaf. It hops up and off and greets Alph and the Player by purring against the Captains. Alph says that they can reattach the S. S. Drake with it’s original parts. And so the scene goes dark and Alph gets to work. Scene changed to late in the day once more, the S. S. Drake is in working condition again. Brittany says that they haven’t noticed any enemies bothering to come back, so the base camp should be safe at night. Alph recommends you and Brittany to stay the night, and he’ll make sure the ship’s working to maximum capacity by going up into the lower atmosphere with the Onion, as well as getting scans on the region. You agree, and you, Brittany, and Nekatchi spend the night.

Night 2, Sahara of Solitude Base Camp

As the night begins, a Luminknoll pushes out of the ground in the center and a few Glow Pikmin pop out. Your tutorial night mode begins, there’s a small hole that the Player and Nekatchi and sneak out of the walls where the enemies will becoming from. You protect the Luminkoll, and as the sky begins indicating sunrise soon, the Luminknoll cracks, shakes, and then crumbles, revealing a ghastly lime onion. It floats about for a moment, and you watch your Glow Pikmin fly into the Onion as it flies over to the hole you used and lays dormant, blocking the path outside the camp during the day. Alph returns, shocked to hear Brittany say quite a bit happened, and she’s going to be quickly experimenting with Glow Sap.