Pikmin 1 on Switch is... Better Than I Thought! 

NOTE: Some people are wondering why the bundle in my video is $70; that’s in AUD. It’s like $50 USD. ALSO: I forgot a couple things worth mentioning: - These ports fixed the crushing/bridge glitches that caused frequent random deaths of Pikmin - You can hold A to keep plucking instead of spamming like the originals Thanks to @sirsqueeko, @marioluigibros.8176 & @PSIkid for reminding me. I've also gotten pretty comfortable with the swarming (holding L while using the right stick), it just takes a fair bit of time to get the hang of it.

Also also, I don't think you mentioned how you no longer have to spam A to pluck pikmin, to be more consistent with Pikmin 3 all you have to do is hold A. The change confused me the first time lmao. Loved the video!

The whistle in the original releases of Pikmin is really tricky. It only becomes active after fully expanding, or when you end it early. Updating it to be more sensible like Pikmin 2 is great to see.

I’ll probably wait for a physical release before buying it

Another small detail I noticed is the gender of the Dolphin in the German translation. In the original game, Olimar referred to the Dolphin as "der Dolphin", so with the grammatical masculine article. I would guess that this was chosen because "Delfin", the German word for a dolphin, is also masculine. However, in later games and the switch version, Olimar's ship was called "die Dolphin", with the grammatical feminine article, which is more common for ship and space shuttle names. I just started replaying the first game about a week ago, so I quickly noticed it. It's really a very small detail.

12:00 It's a real shame that Nintendo games lack more options for controls. It really isn't difficult to have the camera and swarming switched, or to have the camera controls reversed. I'm guessing that the physical release wouldn't have these options as standard even if they're added soon to the digital version,.

SMALL PERCENT CLUB! I have a switch, wii, gamecube, and n64 set up. 😂 And I have the og Pikmin games for Gamecube. But I am still buying the physical edition for the Switch.

Congrats on 10K Jimble 🎉

6:05 When they look up into the onion while they put something in, if you really don't want to wait, you can dismiss all of your pikmin and they become dismissed to so you can whistle them and they will immediately join back into your group. (you can also probably do this in original pikmin 1, but who knows)

also they fixed the crushing glitch where pikmin die from corpses

Much better review than other people. You're clearly familiar with the original games whereas other reviewers just treated this like any other game.

I’ve never played pikmin before, but seeing the trailers for pikmin 4 it’s got me really interested about the games. I think I’ll play the demo for that and if it takes my fancy, I’ll definitely be buying 1&2, and then 3&4 if I fall in love with the series. (Which, I hope I will!)

I believe the reason that the motion controls turn off when you're not pressing A or B is so you can reset your positioning. Pikmin 3 Deluxe uses the R button to reset and Skyward Sword HD uses Y. The Wii and WiiU didn't need those because they use the IR sensor bar as a fixed point of reference. Also the gyro remains active for a few frames after releasing A so you can still keep throwing without the cursor resetting to where your stick is placing it.

5:50 This clip of you fighting the Wolly... hop got deep into me. I could never imagine fighting that swiftly with that thing, even with blues instead of reds. It seems like a standard clip, but it really hits home to people that played the original versions of Pikmin 1. It is even better at 6:39, the fact that they answered immediately and none were crushed seems wild to me.

as someone who never played the old versions, making camera controls standard on the right stick as absolutely the right choice since I used them constantly, although I have no idea why nintendo doesnt let you remap the controls

I appreciate that you went into detail about the things like the whistle, and the delay of pikmin responding. That’s something that was so hard to get used to when I played this game for the first time, after being used to how polished 3 is

You just earned a new subscriber. Incredible video, thank you!

Really appreciate the comprehensive look at this port from someone so familiar with the game. I'd like to pick these ports up, but $50 seems steep for a couple of pretty barebones and somewhat quirky ports. I'm one of the few who still has all my old consoles (and CRT TV) hooked up, so I'll probably just stick to the GC versions for now. Great video though.

I bought them both too.... the text looks better and more user friendly than originals so I'm digging it. Remakes or not.... it looks crisper and better looking graphics to me in my opinion.

Thanks for the review. This really helped me decide what to do!

I would love it if you did livestreams! It would be awesome to see your live reaction to new pikmin content :)

appreciate this thorough review

I have both my Wii and Switch set up, plus my Wii U as well. ;) By the way Jimble, you forgot to mention that the crushing glitch from the GameCube and Wii versions was patched out in this port, so it's automatically the best way to play the game!

I wish they had a chosen to put the swarm ability as the default thing for the right stick and then made you press L to rotate the camera with the right stick. Like you said they prioritised the wrong thing lol.

It’s cool to hear your thoughts on the changes and the little things you noticed in the originals. I actually came across Pikmin through emulation and I thought some of those quirks were glitches w/ my Dolphin settings

Can’t wait to play this even though I played through the first 2 a ton of times already lol

I think the bomb rocks worked BETTER in this version, somehow. I had way less trouble fighting the final boss then I normally do. Maybe I’ve just gotten better at it? Not sure, but I figured it was worth noting I had an opposite experience from you.

I lost most of my gamecube games so this port was a godsend 🙏🏻😌 love this franchise

That's neat you noticed the whistle changes. I played a TON of Pikmin when it was released, but didn't play it until several years ago before the Switch release. The game felt more responsive somehow, but I really couldn't put my finger on how.

Good video! Glad to hear that the Switch version of Pikmin 1 is good! It is nice to see all the main Pikmin games on the Switch! I hope some of the more well-known Pikmin 1 & 2 hacks/mods can eventually be ported to the Switch versions! Would love to especially see Pikmin 1 Randomizer on the Switch version!

Thanks a lot for this precise review! I was really look for this kind of vid I’m sad its just a port and not a remake tho

I've been trying to get into the pikmin series, and I feel like this is a perfect way to start

I didn't notice the AI upscaling in the area thumbnails, but I gotta say I kinda like them, makes it look like some sort of ancient "photorealistic" painting

I honestly wasn't expecting the Pikmin 1+2 but it makes me pretty happy. Loved the first game so much and am very excited for 4.

Oh I still got the Wii set up man. Leave that Wii U plugged in for Wii/Wii U games!! But great video, lots of little details in your run down. Pretty crazy I would also be annoyed by a bit of those changes against the original as well. It is so awesome to see tons of new players trying out Pikmin for the first time. I still own the originals and I want to play through these versions, waiting for the physical release! Been enjoying all your Pikmin videos!

Nintendo hates options. Why can't they let you choose if you want swarming or camera controls to be the default?

The term for inverted vertical controls is "Flight Stick" controls, because they mimic how a pilot pulling back on a flight stick causes an aircraft's nose to point upwards, and pushing forward does the opposite. (The reason why is because the control surfaces on an aircraft that controls pitch [up and down direction], the elevators, are on the tail fins of the aircraft, behind the centerpoint of its lateral axis, around which the plane rotates its nose up and down. Pulling back lifts the elevators up, force of air over the elevators pushes the back of the plane down, and because the lateral axis acts like a fulcrum, when the tail goes down, the nose goes up, and visa versa when the nose is pushed forward.) It's also how a cameraman would push down on a control lever attached to the rear of a camera that is set up on a pivot mount, which causes the back of the camera to go down and inversely the viewpoint of the camera to go up. Since I grew up on flight simulators, it is ingrained into my brain at a primal level that you pull down on a mouse/stick to look up and push up to look down. Rather annoying that 20+ years on from the GameCube era, Nintendo is still not providing many basic optional control settings for their games, especially when they switch how the controls work from an original title in a port for it today.

I think this version is just the best version in every aspect. Would have been nice to have more controll options like inverted but I think all the changes they made are improvements. Even the motion controls only activating when you press the button is pretty smart as I would always have to resync in Pikmin 3 Deluxe so thats a nice change that doesn't require adding a reset button.

My only complaint is why they’re both so GOD DAMN EXPENSIVE. Other than that I had an amazing time replaying my favorite childhood games again

As a BIG pikmin fan thanks to Dazz, ZachScott, Atacking Tuscan (idk if I spelt them right) but I never played the og 2, didn't have a wii or GameCube, however now I can play all 4 games on my switch! (I do have a wii u anf yeah I did pay for 3 deluxe, my disc scratched on wii u and I just wanna show the pikmin franchise the best that I can

2:17 I have my GameCube and Switch set up. I also still have my copies of Pikmin 1 and 2 from childhood.

Subscribed! Please do an update video if they update the controls/options and / or add original GameCube controls with the adapter!

Since I started with Pikmin 2 and havent gotten to 1 yet I'm not sure if this crosses over but there's extremely minor text changes which range from neat to extremely confusing. It seems like the pattern is that its either done to have a more modern sanitized nintendo comment, grammar issues, or to bring in some parity between the US, EU, and JPN versions. For instance, the gemstar wife and husband have been renamed to Red and Green gemstar and the Ship's sale pitch has been modified to specify that "any pairing of the male and female gemstones" will make them long for each other rather than specifically male and female. Olimar also no longer mentions his mom and dad in the priceless and worthless statue descriptions, and wollywogs are now wollyhops. A handful of other treasure and enemy names were also changed. Unfortunately the weed leaf was also changed to a maple leaf in all languages, which was very expected but mildly sad to say goodbye. Obviously it really does not matter much at all but if you've played these games a lot and recently it might give you a monent or two of confusion where whats said doesn't align with what you remember. and also, the lie down feature went from almost never used to damn near overpowered simply because its instantaneous, which makes it much faster to lie down while walking to get up immediately rather than dismissing, especially when fighting enemies like the sheargrubs or water dumples.

I almost beat it already, never got perfect ending as a kid! Excited to finally do that

I do think the controls are better on the wii. For the wii you had complete control over the reticle, but now when you want to move left but keep the pointer to the right, it instead follows olimar which is very annoying. You can't move and leave the pointer where it is. It instead follows olimar

Thanks for the breakdown of all the little changes. I really wanted these two to stay true to the gamecube versions. Bummer about how they changed swarming :/

Great writeup! Thanks! I think you still have to swarm pikmin to get max throw speed. Mashing A without swarming is way faster than in the GC release but you can increase your throw speed even further by swarming.

It's funny you mention about the right stick camera because, having not played the original/Wii versions for well over a decade, using L+RIght stick for the swarm felt natural to me. I guess it's what you're used to. But more control options would always be an improvement

that change to swarming would actually fuck me up so much, definitely hope there is an update but for now im waiting for physical release

Sad to hear about the lack of options, would've been really nice to be able to customise it as close to gamecube controls as possible, but it isn't much of a surprise given how often Nintendo games lack options, particularly control options

The original Pikmin is the only one I had played until recently, and it was a lot of fun going back and playing through it again before I play 2 and 3. Not having to spam A to pull up Pikmin is nice, but there are definitely some parts that are worse than I remember. Like, the AI seems extra stupid for some reason. Sometimes while sending Pikmin back to their Onion, they will walk to the stem and then their state will get stuck and they will sit there doing nothing instead of going inside. As well, the hit boxes seems to be kind of broken. Throwing a Pikmin at some of the enemies and hitting them directly is a OHKO, but sometimes the hitbox doesn't trigger and they go right through, land on the ground with no idea what to do, and walk back to Olimar... Really wish these were remakes, but the game is an undeniable classic!

Ran into a bug on 1 yesterday where my Pikmin were invisible and were dying as I tried to pull them out of the onion, then when reloading the save I hit a few wrong buttons and accidentally deleted the save file. Not my proudest or smartest moment.

Something I noted in Pikmin 1 HD is that they changed the sound effect for the onions when they spit out the Pikmin sprouts unless they did that for the Wii version I’m not sure I only have the Game Cube version. It sounds lower pitched for some reason?

I fit condition 1..I never played 1 and 2 but when i tried the demo for the 3rd one i immediate wanted them over on the Switch..I can't believe i skipped this series on GameCube..I was tempted sooo many times to buy them on the Gamecube but i decided to wait and hopefully Nintendo would release them on the Switch.Glad i held off from getting now i have all of them on the Switch..Looking forward to your 2nd video

2:14 that’s me! That’s me he’s talking about! THATS ME!!!

Yay! I'm part of a "pretty small percentage" of people!!! 2:13 I also have my Wii U setup for even _more_ Nintendo at my fingertips

I've only played Pikmin 1 & 2 on the Gamecube; still have my copies, luckily enough. I had no idea that the recent entries removed swarming?? That was literally the backbone of half of my strategies....

I would have loved to see a remaster so visually Pikmin 1, 2, 3 and 4 are similar. The full set available on switch

I was very excited when Nintendo announced this! Can't wait for Pikmin 4 and never played the first two Games, because I got into Pikmin on Wii U with a Demo of Pikmin 3. I watch the Wii-Versions of both on ReBuy but they were too expensive all the time concidering I have to play them on my Wii U which is kind of dying. So I went to the eShop and never looked back. Glad I have them now - and soon all (major) Pikmin games on one console. And finally I can play Pikmin 1 and 2. I have played a bit of Pikmin 1 and think it is just fine. I'm not disappointed in any way, I love it so far! Well, of course I'm kind of spoiled with some advancements Pikmin 3 obviously got but that's ok and I concidered beforehand anyways. I pretty much share your view point and subbed because I like how you approach and talk. See you later.

I got used to the new controls relatively quickly, besides the motion controls. I could not get used to it, especially because I just played through the game on my Wii U not even 3 days before the Direct.

Also if you hold down the c-stick on the new port you can lay down like the nap-sack from pikmin 2

I imagine the area thumbails were taken in engine so redoing them 1:1 would be pretty tricky, and i imagine they just didnt think to keep those files after the development ended

I love how they changed the font of pikmin 3 deluxe to fit in with the rest of the games on the home menu (ALSO WOW IM EARLY)

I think an easier way to get used to swarming with the l button is to swap the mapping for the l and r buttons, I did this and after a ingle play through of the game it’s like second nature for me

i noticed on the control screen y is unused, that or r could be the motion reset button like galaxy was

ok, i literally just replayed pikmin 1 on gamecube like a couple weeks before this announcement, and i swear you can whistle them almost immediately after they deliver something to the onion. in the switch version they just stand there forever, staring up until you can call them. it feels significantly different.

Thanks for making this, and I'm looking forward to that Pikmin 2 video. Also I agree, more control options, the better. I've got two questions about pikmin 1/2: - Have you seen any/many new bugs? Nintendo's Gamecube emulation for Super Mario Sunshine was kind of shoddy, so I'm concerned with these two games - What is the "crushing glitch"? I tried searching for it yesterday, but couldn't find it

I've never played the Wii versions of these games, so I was really looking forward to trying the motion controls this time around. I have no clue why they didn't go the Pikmin 3 route and have character movement and cursor movement completely separated. My Pikmin 3 muscle memory had me constantly expecting that I could throw or whistle Pikmin while running in the opposite direction and it was frustrating trying to unlearn that. By the halfway point of Pikmin 2, I swapped to a pro controller and turned off the motion :P

Dolphin emu sitting and watching you for it to be used

I really don't like the fact that they used AI upscaling for the level select... it just looks _bad._ I really hope they don't use AI for stuff like this very often, or at the very least I hope its _exclusive_ to ports of older games. AI stuff is usually less high quality than human-made textures and art, and I don't want them to make a habit of it just to save money...

Oddly enough I actually like nearly every change you mentioned in this video. I do agree that there should be options to change things for players like you though.

Actually on the wii version you couldnt throw them further unless you used the glitch where you move in the direction you are throwing so the pikmin has more forward velocity (for some reason). You could wistle further tough, wich was helpfull when you threw a pikmin out of your normal wistle range because of this glitch (i actually lost pikmin due to that on the gamecube version)

I don't know if i missed it or not but was the crush glitch fixed. That glitch was where i lost a majority of pikmin in 1. I don't like the sound of the new controls so if the crush glitch is still present I'll probably just save my money and stick with the wii version

Does it have Gamecube Controller Support? I have a toggle for it for Smash Brothers and All-Stars, and I would love to use it for Pikmin.

i wish i could see the reactions of any new players to the cave trolling that happens in 2 lol

Cantwait for the pikmin 2 review because i habe the game cube and pikmin 1 and want to know if i should just get 2 on yhe switch cause i have to get 3 and 4 on it anyway or if i should find a pikmin 2 gamecube disk instead

If you play using the mclassic on dock mode it makes the game look absolutely perfect! All jaggies are gone and the colors pop even more.

I absolutely loved the motion controls, and I definitely preferred them to Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I hope this version of the hybrid gyro controls are an option in 4.

At 1:31 were you able to copy an earlier day and play from there? Was that an option in the original game?

You didn't mention how the glitch where Pikmin get squished under bridges and large enemies was fixed. I think that is the biggest selling point. Lmao

Was gonna wait till September but I couldn't do it lol, bought it digital and will also get it physical

I'm waiting on the physical copy. I didn't complete pikmin 3 deluxe but i still want to support the franchise. I played so much 1 and 2 as a kid. I hope the next gen of kids find the same enjoyment

Oh, wow. I was right about the creature roll credits, and I’m surprised Nintendo actually remade it. I think this port is the better way to play Pikmin 1, even although it lacks extra options for swarm and camera. I’m glad the older games are available for everyone and all on one system. However, I don’t think $64.99 (plus tax) for both game aren’t worth it personally, because I played both games on GameCube recently and I might have to wait for a sale or use my Gold Points towards both games on the Switch. I’m curious on how much is added or changed in Pikmin 2, other than the brand products. Anyways, really good review!! 👍

I totally have an option between the switch, GC, and Wii versions, both hardware and emulated (on Steamdeck) Which should I use?

I just booted my gamecube version, and I feel like the pikmin actually respond faster there after carrying something to the onion. So unless I'm crazy, it's the only thing that's actually slightly worse on the switch version regarding the responsiveness of the pikmin.

I think my favorite way to play pikmin is still dolphin with mouse and keyboard but I am very happy people can check out all the games on the switch

Can you switch which Pikmin you have active like in 2, or do you have to dismiss your Pikmin like in the Gamecube version?

Waiting for the physical, but I'll try them out then.

About the motion controls: just finished a playthrough of Pikmin 2 with the motion controls on and I gotta say, they really grew on me. I found the motion controls in Pikmin 3 Deluxe to be quite clunky since the cursor constantly gets desynced and you have to press a button to reset it. Pikmin 1+2 fixes this issue by making the controls more of a "hybrid" style between the Gamecube and Wii versions. You aren't supposed to solely rely on the motion controls like with Wii controls. Use the stick to get the cursor close to where you want it to be, and then use motion to make small adjustments while throwing. Then the cursor resets when your done so you don't have to press a button to reset it. I feel it actually works really well when you get used to it.

I'll only have time to play in about a year. Should I start with 4 and then play one to three, or will it feel weird?

I really, really hope they patch in constant-motion for the reticle. It’s really jarring for it to just stop.

I finished the first I’m playing the second one and wow it’s even better than 1 and even better than 3. I had never played 2 back in the day even though I’m a huge fan. It looks incredible. Well worth the price.

Where do you actually see the Goolix? I got all the parts like the day this came out and didn't encounter it at all.

Would remapping the buttons possibly work as a fix to the swarm issue?

wollyhop gaming moment

I'm reminded of how at the launch of 3D all stars Sunshine had troubles with being compatible with gamecube controllers because of one button lacking too, I find it weird how Nintendo has fumbled this aspect twice or more huh.

I really hope there's a swarm function in p4 I doubt it but I love the swarm function

Playasia has a physical copy for 32 bucks instead of 60. I'm so happy they're porting them over to the switch.

I just got this game yesterday. I've never played a Pikman game before, but I heard good things. I like it but the 30 day limit bothers me. I'm on day 3 and am already behind, I got 2 parts, but didn't get the yellow pikmins till day 3.

Does it fix the glitch where if a sheargrub or shearwing grabs a pikmin, you can't kill it until it eats the pikmin?