Internet users shared on Twitter their dissatisfaction with a visual of the game Pikmin 4. In question, images that would be less apocalyptic compared to previous opuses.
Three years later Pikmin 3 Deluxethe Pikmin video game series returns in 2023 with Pikmin 4. If the plot remains the same – an adventure in which the player explores a planet and leads the Pikmins, half-vegetable half-animal creatures – some Internet users have raised an important point for them: this Pikmin 4 seems much less apocalyptic than the previous ones.
On Twitter, a user by the name of george shared an official visual of the game, wondering about the universe of Pikmin 4. If he thought that Pikmin took place after a nuclear war “, other netizens wondered why a game like Splatoon could have a post-apocalyptic environment but not Pikmin. According Sproutpostinganother Twitter user, “ what made game worlds 1, 2 and 3 interesting was that the game takes place on earth, and yet it looks like an alien planet because of the unusual wildlife and land formations “.
Theories never confirmed
But, in fact, none of the Pikmin games have ever directly confirmed that the plot takes place on an Earth devastated by a nuclear war. From pikmine 3, the planet is called PNF-404. It is in the magazine Nintendo Power Issue, former official North American information magazine on Nintendo, that it is indicated that the planet PNF-404 is the Earth.
Information that confirms the theories of the fans, arrived at this conclusion thanks to several clues. The many abandoned objects that can be collected in the game, from flower pots to soda capsules and jewelry, are, according to several players, traces left by the human species.
However, it seems to have completely disappeared in the game. A disappearance that can be explained by certain elements from the first Pikmin. In it, the player, who embodies Captain Olimar, can come across a Geiger counter, which makes it possible to determine the intensity of a radioactive source. The continuous crackling of this meter goes in that direction, letting the player know that they are in a highly radioactive sector wherever they go.
This environment added to the presence of objects representing the human civilization thus made emit the hypothesis of a nuclear war which would have razed all human population. A theory reinforced by the mere presence of the Pikmin, which are very special hybrids. Even the adversaries that the player has to face during his adventure are strange: many of them are hybrids of existing animals, especially insects.
The geography of the planet is also a strong argument for fans. In pikmine 1 And pikmine 2PNF-404’s view of space looks exactly like that of Earth.
In pikmine 3, the layout of the continents is different. But it still looks like Earth’s, at least 250 million years from now. The geography of pikmine 3 recalls indeed the next Pangea, a supercontinent which could appear in 250 million years. A similarity that suggests that the Pikmin games take place in the distant future. Especially since there are fewer human objects in Pikmin 3 compared to previous games, which may be similar to the fact that human civilization leaves fewer and fewer traces with each game.
Pikmin 4, a game to confirm or cancel theories?
For other Internet users, the more “peaceful” environment of Pikmin 4 can be interpreted in a different way. Always on Twitter, ShiroIsAnArtist raised an interesting point. Each Pikmin game seems to be less and less apocalyptic. As if we were going back in time.
An observation shared by other Internet users, such as Golden ifor who ” Pikmin is most interesting when viewed from the perspective that every time Olimar returns to the planet, it seems to get younger instead of older. “. Different analyzes on both sides, which may be confirmed or denied in Pikmin 4which releases on July 21, 2023 for the Nintendo Switch.
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