Pikmin 4 Theories are UNHINGED 

in one of olimar’s data logs in pikmin 3 he states he’s excited to get back home and buy back his dolphin with some excess treasure he’s collected. i think that’s exactly what he did and just ended up crashing it again.

The SPEROs, the Koppaite pods, are only in Side Stories because the devs didn't bother to make new animations for the blue pod or the Hocotate ship. The SPEROs are not canon, they are just stand-ins for the actual ships that we use in Side Stories, the Hocotate ship for all of Assignment and the blue pod for all of Comeback. Also olimar talks about wanting to buy back the Dolphin in Pikmin 3.

my theory is that it could be a fake olimar created by the wraith, alongside a fake dolphin

I would love to see an alternate timeline prequel, but I really don't think that's the case here. They've _always_ been inconsistent between games. In Pikmin 2 the entire planet shifted continents completely in the short time it took Olimar to fly home and back, with only a loose explanation... In Pikmin 3, the planet looks completely different like Pangea Ultima, with once again no explanation (and suddenly there's a lot more signs of human life in the form of in-tact pots and gardens everywhere) and now in Pikmin 4 there's a LOT more human evidence than ever before, with an entire HOUSE despite the implications of the previous games saying humans were gone and extinct. It would not surprise me if continuity wasn't their focus, and they were just making stuff up as they go as usual (the series was originally directed by Miyamoto, after all... the same guy who doesn't even bother at all for the continuity of the Mario series).

I never understand how this series isnt more popular the pikmim series is extremely high quality and fun.

I follow the “after pikmin 3” path, where olimar just gets so rich from pnf 404 where he bought back the dolphin, crashed AND THEN he failed and died :) just to remove the stupid time worp shift

Btw you missed a detail, Olimar says that he was going to buy his S.S. Dolphin back by getting some extra treasure, which I assume he does so after getting the Hocotate Ship back in the Epilogue Side Story in Pikmin 3 Deluxe, And all the treasure they collected before the Formidable Oak is stored in the Company ship

Olimar was able to but back his ship in the side stories of pikmin 3 deluxe, so thats why there's the SS dolphin

We've got some new information showing that Olimar appears to be player 2 in the game's multiplayer side content, so I think it's safe to say he's alive.

I believe the bad ending theory is not true because: Olimar is wearing his Pikmin 3 Space Suit which was stated in Pikmin 3 to be completely different ones than the outfits from 1 and 2 especially with Olimar's comment at how the space suit doesn't fit him which would explain why the Pikmin 3 suits look like it's a bit more tight compared to Pikmin 1 and 2 where the suits are sleek and smooth not to mention it is said that Olimar and Louie got their Pikmin 3 outfits from a Space Store(I forgot the name...it was something like Depot or whatever), and not to mention right now Louie is now confirmed to be in Pikmin 4 recently, and oddly despite looking like a pikmin, it looks like Olimar is obscuring specifically his face with something that did not appear on him during the bad ending of pikmin 1, not to mention, He is still able to use his whistle which we know he loses in Pikmin 1's Bad Ending, and doesn't attack enemies like Pikmin do, not to mention he challenges us to Dandori Battles....something I assume is a popular game on hocotate, and it's almost like he's training our pikmin skills with quickly getting resources and such...maybe hinting what we need to do in the final boss, or preparing us for when we have to fight this game's Wraith, then we have the Castaways, if the Pikmin 1 Bad Ending did happen that means they wouldn't even be there because 1: Olimar wouldn't be able to spread stories about his visit for Scientists to learn more about PNF-404's many animals and organisms, 2: Having the bad ending happen means Olimar never gets all of his ship parts, including the radio, which would bring some confusion on how Olimar sent an S.O.S signal if he didn't get all of his ship parts in time, 3: Olimar explicitly says that time on PNF-404 is shorter than time is on Hocotate, so basically it might mean a whole month on PNF-404 could be just a week or so on Hocotate which also could explain why the President wasn't freaking out on where Olimar has been when he returned during the start of Pikmin 2. Therefore something else is going on with Olimar this time. *Thank you for coming to my TED Talk* Side note: The tralier specifically says Olimar sent a SOS signal, not something like "An SOS signal was sent" but it mentions Olimar like he specifically sent it himself, and take note Olimar crashes in the first area of the game and note when Jimble zooms in on the dolphin, It looks like little to none ship parts were lost as it looks pretty fine, just about well enough to go into low orbit, heck maybe even head back to Hocotate like in the normal and good ending of the first game, Maybe Olimar might become our 2nd Captain by the time we finish the area, and heck since Louie is confirmed to be in the game, I would even bet he becomes the 3rd Captain, with the 4th one sorta being the good boi Oatchi. Which could help in multitasking in a variety of ways like having one captain with not a lot of pikmin bring oatchi along to cross rivers and carry treasure that's just a few pikmin short, or having Oatchi go with a Captain to find any castaways on the surface, while the others collect treasure, it would also help with the night modes to swap between protecting the Glow Pikmin nest from enemies, and gathering those star bits to produce more Glow Pikmin a bit easier.

The planet is called “Giya” in the localization Also Olimar has a log in Pik1 that mentions he doesn’t have time to wait for a rescue team, as his life support only lasts a month.

I find it funny how in pikmin three deluxe, Brittany’s description for the dwarf bulborb somewhat spoils one of ochi’s (don’t expect me to spell that right), abilities. What she says is that she thinks about taming and riding dwarf bulborbs around.

About the S.S. Dolphin. In Pikmin 3 Deluxe Olimar went to search for more treasure for his boss in exchange for getting the S.S. Dolphin back in his possession. So the fact that the ship is back doesn't really confirm that this isn't happening after Pikmin 3.

The new Nintendo direct basically confirms this, which is pretty crazy.

In Pikmin 3 Olimar says he had a bad dream about being Olimin, so maybe he forgot what happens in Pikmin 4 and thought it was really a dream?

I think the mysterious person that resembles Olimar might just be a red-herring. It reminds me of cartoons where someone looks like another person, but it's not them at all. I'm almost expecting this character to shed their red leaves/fur to show they're someone else. The question then is "why does it have the same suit?" I think it could be a dobbleganger, or maybe even that it stole Olimar's suit but Olimar is alive somewhere else. I know this could all be completely wrong too

I think that is is a cool idea but in Pikmin 3 there was the s.s dolphin crash site during one of the boss fights, so it could be possible that the SS dolphin was rebuilt and could be used again

I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t retcon the good ending of pikmin 1. I’m confident they’re just gonna say he crashed another time after pikmin 3. It wouldn’t make much sense for them to make it convoluted when the story in any pikmin game isn’t anything crazy. It’s more likely a situation similar to pikmin 1 took place, but this time he didn’t escape the planet rather than making it an alternate universe.

Really hope its not a prequel, I want the story to be moving forward considering how long it takes them to make Pikmin games, I think the wraith has caught up to Olimar, I think maybe the fact that Olimar is being shown in black and white is so it does not show that he does not look like Olimar or something about him is off

Kagiya is probably named after Princess Kaguya and ancient Japanese tale about mysterious baby found by bamboo cutter and raised into a princess. When she becomes of age she desires to return to the bamboo Grove she was found in and upon arrival is revealed to be part of a race of moon people and departs back to the moon. It's one of the earliest alien stories ever recorded and would make a lot of sense for a series about aliens visiting Earth to reference.

I think a possibility can be that pikmin 4 happens around the end of pikmin 1 and part of pikmin 2 they go to the planet to save olimar, because of the SOS signals, but olimar already escaped, or is almost escaping, when you reach the planet, after the rescue corp crash, olimar is back at the planet again.

I remember when I was young and watching all the fan videos theorizing about what pikmin 3 would be like, none of them were right but it’s always fun to wonder. Some did creating pikmin and other creatures in spore or some other type of 3D animation or paint programs that were available at the time. I also remember the gmod videos that made pikmin as usable weapons in game. The top of my nostalgia was the pikmin DS adventure animations that thankfully are still RU-vid today.

And then the literal next day we got Olimin

I hope kopai people are in the new game at some point

Being able to create your own character makes sense for an AU story. It allows them to ignore it in a possible Pikmin 5.

OLIMARMIN IS REAL

crazy how they pretty much confirmed it being a prequel

I’m just so upset there’s no campaign co-op after how good it was in Pikmin 3 Deluxe. Felt like the most fun way to play it. I just assumed they’d carry that over due to how well it worked and how much more strategic it felt communicating with ur co-op partner and doing things simultaneously.

Most people believe it’s that bad ending of pikmin 1 and with the pikmin oilmar, I believe it.

7:40 hearing the discussion ive actually found ive been playing pikmin 2 *incorrectly.* Trying to 100% it, by going gungho into every cave until its all finished. But no, caves have no time pressure, I can put them off till I *want* to go into them, and I build up my pikmin army until then. I hope going in with that mindset makes pikmin 2 a more enjoyable experience for me.

The theory just got very much confirmed with the new trailer giving a look at a Pikminized Olimar.

I think it still takes place in the same timeline but something similar to the bad ending of Pikmin 1 happens after Pikmin 3 to olimar somehow.

Oimar did go back to PNF-404 in pikmin to find more treasures to buy back his first ship, so I’m pretty sure it is a sequel

In pikmin 3 olimar is looking for treasure to buy back the S.S Dolphin

Nintendo doesnt seem to care about narrative consistency between titles. But i still love the theory😄

why can't it just be that olimar came back for louie afte being left behind in pikmin 3 and ended up getting pikminified. why does it have to be a prequel?

One thing to point out is that if that IS the s.s. dolphin, it's CLEAN and not a pile of scrap and appears with a complete hull. You can't get the bad ending with a complete or clean hull. Olimar must have returned with a rescued dolphin and had crashed

I like to think it's his SOS from the first game and it just took them forever to get there.

The Pikmin Short Films establish Olimar has visited PNF-404 multiple times after Pikmin 2 to collect treasure. The short films is one such visit. Pikmin 3 is another separate one. As is Hey Pikmin. So that means hes gone to PNF-404 a grand total of 6 times at minimum. If you count him leaving then returning in Pikmin 2 as separate trips.

Sadly, even if all 8 types of pikmin are in story mode (looking very likely), they've said there will be a limit of 3 types in the field at one time. Idk how this will work if bulbmin come back, maybe they'll be allowed alongside the 3 types taken into the cave. I also wonder if they will limit the hazards in caves to 3, or if there will be more for an extra challenge. Im so hyped for this game

Olimin confirmed

Pikmin 1 Good Ending -> Pikmin 2 -> Pikmin 3 Pikmin 1 Bad Ending -> Pikmin 4

I wouldn't take the depiction of the Earth's geography in these games seriously. Miyamoto is kinda known for not caring about story that much, so it's likely the dev teams missed the detail of how it was depicted in previous games. If I'm not mistaken the way the planet looks in Pikmin 3 is also different to how it looked in Pikmin 2

Makes you wonder why louie wasnt fired at all or didn't get all the debt in pikmin 2 when HE was the one who caused the debt to begin with, making olimar's ship being taken away and having to go back to the planet he just eacaped from when he wants ro see his family after all that.

Hey so

Theory of Relativity...on Hocotate and his space travel- 1 day could be a thousand years on PNF-404. Each time he returns to the oikmin it could be a very long time? Hence the tectonic shifts.

i think its more likely he died between 3 and 4, LIKE the pikmin 1 bad end

important: in the pikmin 4 character creator/story trailer the ship in the intro is the s.s. dolphine mk 1

Palutena guidance in smash tells us how to correctly pronounce both word for Olimar and his race.

AN OLIMIN AS BEEN SHOWN EVERYBODY PANIC!!

4:00 Theory; we're following the good ending path, then presumably that means all treasures in Pikmin 2, so there would definitely be the income to rebuy the ship, however in the bad ending chain (Is there a Bad Ending to 2? Dunno.) Where Olimar doesn't make it back, he was unconscious, and in the trailer I (and I could be wrong) didn't see the leaf on Olimar's head, so I don't see a timeframe where this could've happened

I don’t think that 4 is a prequel of 2, I think it’s an alternate Pikmin 1, because of the fact the onions merge in the demo, which doesn’t happen in 2. Another thing is that in Olimar’s notes it seems that he’s just now discovering the Pikmin. Also if it were a prequel, why are we only now seeing the dog like creature Olimar rides during the demo? These are just my thoughts though, and I can’t wait for the full game to come out so we can finally get some answers!

I like “ho ka tay shun” because it shares the ending of Martian

I think the weird red oilmar is actually olimar and he underwent some sort of pikmin photosynthesis transformation thing in order to be able to breathe the air on the planet

Olimar most likely bought the dolphin back

I wish they'd bring back the plasmwraith in some form, after all, if they kept the same "crash landing" thing through 5 games, they surely could bring back the final boss of the previous game, right? Not only is the first phase in an environment similar to a cave, but it also has the power of all the elements, so they could add ice, glow and poison and it'd fit right in. I'm not wishing for just a copy paste return. Think of something like morpho knight, it returned in the main line game right after, but the fight was adapted into a different environment, and the setup was overall better executed.

its so funny that this was 100% right

I doubt this is the case but I think it would be pretty cool if it’s true. I just don’t think Nintendo cares enough about continuity (though I hope to be proven wrong about them not caring)

I do have a piece of evidence that throws this theory into Jeopardy. I’m pretty sure. that we are shown in one of the posts on Nintendo site in Japan, a photo of captain Olimar, with him having gray hair.

I have the theory olimar bought the original dolphin back, but he crashed as he probably went in vacation again or perhaps another job back in earth but the ship broke down and the cycle repeated and olimar failed this time to rescue himself and…since we saw the leafy individual…we all know that olimar is…not going to see his family

Thanks for the shoutouts man! Great video. Maybe we'll have some of these questions answered tomorrow!

My personal theory is that Olimar hits another object on his way back to orbit but the emergency life support only has 15 days instead of 30 because it didn't have time to refresh on what ever olimar breathed and when olimar failed, the bad ending of pikmin one would be the canon ending of pikmin one but recuse Corp saves Olimar as a leafling and than you either recuse the docter who makes a curethat requires you have to collect something you can only get at night than you cure Olimar than he some how gets back to his home planet which than kicks off pikmin two than three. Now thats the complete series of events in pikmin four.

I read that you will only be able to bring out 3 types of pikmin at a time but I dont know if they are talking about caves or the overworld or both.

Tbh it beings an alternative timeline makes the most sense given the recent trailer if its to be believed thats actually olimar and hes actually a pokmin and its not some troll like hes wearing a costume or its someone else or its all a dream or something.

What i dont understand is how are we gonna manage candypop buds in pikmin 4 since you can carry only up to 3 pikmin types now

In the game olimar calls the planet pnf 404 which is from pikmin 3 so it had to have happened during or after pikmin 3

I'm pretty sure your only allowed to bring along three different pikemen varieties at one time

Ok post direct the theory is half right, it is an AU where Olimar didnt make it off the planet but he isnt dead he is now a pikmin hybrid. Its so weird...what continuity will we be following in future games now??

Pikmin: Into the Pikmin-Verse

Great vid hun

I thought this was too crazy a theory but I think you might be right after seeing the new trailer in the Direct

Actually, you aren't allowed to have more than 3 pikmin types out at once. You can see in all the promotional videos they only have 3 at once, and the onion is only comprised of 3 colors too.

YUP olimar has a log saying he had a bad dream about pikmin 2 as if it didn't happen, definitely reboot

You should make a video on a game called The Indigo Parallel

Do we *have hard confirmation* that the good ending is actually canon? I know this is an out there explanation, but _IF_ Pikmin 4 ends with the rescue team curing Olimar, him presumably not remembering what he did as a Pikmin, and flying off in the Dolphin, could that actually work within the timeline? It would explain his dreams in Pikmin 3 of Pikmin 1's bad ending and I'm not sure Olimar has ever explicitly said _he_ repaired the Dolphin or the specifics in general of how he survived, beyond Pikmin being helpful. Though, I think the more likely explanation is that the logs in Pikmin 3 (and the Plasm Wraith) are essentially spelling out that Olimar is living on borrowed time and that the bad ending is his "fate" that he narrowly avoided. Returning to PNF-404 and dying is, dark as it sounds, kind of implied to be his ultimate fate

People keep saying “oh Olimar died and became a pikmin” but I don’t know with the design it seems very obvious(like to obvious). The only thing that’s different aside from being a pikmin hybrid is their hair(being full headed rather then just a tufted on top). It could be I’m an idiot and olimar’s hair just grew out being on the planet. Although I got a different take what if this takes place far after pikmin 3. Far enough to where olimar’s son has actually grown up to follow his father’s footsteps but being overconfident maybe took to long recovering the ship parts for their ship, dying. Although it said olimar is the one who needs rescuing so maybe not. I just have difficulty fully committing to the idea Olimar died and is now a pikmin. Then people wanna say that “oh maybe near the end he’ll be cured or purified.”. To me that’s like “what is even the point?”. Like that’s a pretty big change and just doing for essentially shock value would annoy me I think. So I’m kinda like if they do kill olimar so he’s a pikmin they better commit or it better be a different character.

And let’s us keep our bulbmin

I wish could increase the Pikmin count in other modes like 200 500 or 1000 pikmin

We know this can't be true, as in Pikmin 2 Olimar returns from his first venture, and it's clear that he just got back. Also, Olimar said he wanted the dolphin back and he waas gonna buy it

I think people are overthinking this. What are the chances Nintendo would say “hey, remember the ending of that game from 20 years ago that you had to literally not do anything in order to get? Yeah, that’s what started this new game. Your hero is dead.”

Wasnt Olimars comeback whole thing him getting money to buy back the Dolphin?

4:04 background music?

I mean I could see it being a mid quill after pikmin 2 before pikmen 3

That is the one from the bad ending

He didn't die, he's just reborn as a pikmar (if they don't use this name, i'm gonna be upset)

Doesn’t olimar get his ship back after the side stories?

It could be a different plant then pnf 404. It could be hey pikmins planet. It's a different planet according to the trailer.

I didn't think about it but I would say that in the other Pikmin after 1 the world aka Earth is more run down unlike Pikmin 4

Bro was a day early

the truth is he went back for like the 3rd or 4th time lol

yes!

Petition to call those pikmin castaways and pikmin olimar "humin"

Wait why does the s.s dolphin that was sold kinda look like the new ship we see in Pikmin 4 but bigger and better looking ? Idk I might be over thinking Though I doubt they’d kill off olimar.

Well considering that red leaf person look like a lot like Olimar in the new trailer...

4:17 this is what I think

Honestly I think Pikmin 4 shares a lot in common with Pikmin 3. You're just misunderstanding intentionally because of your bias for two. It's clearly taking elements from both 1,2 & 3. Just because it has caves doesn't mean it's like Pikmin 2... I mean why would that even make you think that?... Pikmin is pikmin And to me it seems more like Pikmin 3 with some returning elements of 2 sprinkled in.

My theory this takes place after Pikmin 3 so maybe Olimar had to go on another mission and crashes ship again and became evil we need to save him but hey that's just a theory a Pikmin Theory thanks for watching but seriously I hope it isn't a prequel

Its olimar bc he has the dog

I dont think bulbmin will return. I am pretty sure one of the pikmin 4 sites made mention of a three type of pikmin restriction or something along those lines.

And then the Direct Happened today!