Pikmin: Spark/Challenge Mode
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This article or section presents information pertaining to Pikmin: Spark, a fanon game created by Glubbfubb. |
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Challenge Mode is a side mode in Pikmin: Spark unlocked by collecting fifteen unique pieces of refuse and accessed from outside the file select menu. Similar to Pikmin 2's Challenge Mode, all stages are set under a single menu, but as in Pikmin 3's Mission Mode, the stages themselves take the form of a single large map rather than a multi-floored cave. The game mode's menu features two tables, with the upper table having challenges that are unlocked in sequential order and the bottom table having challenges unlocked by fulfilling certain tasks in the story mode. Each challenge has three variants assigned to them, and completing each variant earns a medal, and in the case of the challenges on the upper table, completing one variant unlocks the next challenge. Each challenge variant can give a stone, bronze, silver, gold, or diamond medal, and having diamond medals on all three variants replaces the icon of the challenge with a rainbow-colored diamond. Earning all available diamond medals unlocks the debug mode, and displays a gold star on the title screen.
Mission types
- Creature Crusade: collect points by battling enemies, and gain a twenty-five percent point bonus for not letting a single Pikmin die. Some Pikmin can be bred using their Onion while others need to be converted to another species using candypop buds.)
- Sparklium Search: collect refuse using a limited amount of Pikmin scattered around the map. The amount of Sparklium collected determines the final score.
- Bloom or Bust: breed as many Pikmin as possible before the time runs out. The Pikmin count when the time expires will be the final score. Unlike other challenges, time is measured as a standard in-game day.
- Pod Protector: defend a moving Research Pod from enemy attacks. The medal quality depends on the health of the pod when it reaches its destination.
- Sweet Sneak: collect as many candies as possible. Each candy is colored the same color as one of the Onions and will be collected only when brought to the Onion of the respective color.
- Escaping Escapades: as fast as possible, collect ship parts using a limited amount of Pikmin, and repair the ship before time expires.
Challenge list
Upper table challenges
| Challenge name | Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Step | Creature Crusade | Sparklium Search | Bloom or Bust |
| Blue Hole | Bloom or Bust | Sweet Sneak | Escaping Escapades |
| Albino Passage | Sparklium Search | Creature Crusade | Pod Protector |
Lower table challenges
| Challenge name | Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 | Unlock requirement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buried Temple | Creature Crusade | Bloom or Bust | Escaping Escapades | Save Abel in the Cavern of Cobwebs |