uhhh
theres quite a few new things so im just gonna. mention the stuff thats New new. and also the
so!! there are ice pikmin
and glow pikmin
ice pikmin have... very bad attack power. but! when they attack enemies, they fill up a meter that, once filled, freezes the enemey for a bit.
they can also freeze lakes! usually, the bigger the lake, the more ice pikmin will be needed to freeze said lake.
i have not seen blue pikmin yet
glow pikmin only come out at night!
i dont know anything past that
theres. so much new stuff.
oatchi!
oatchi is your silly dog companion and is. a silly dog companion
he can charge attack, be ridden on, can jump once ridden on, and can get Knocked Out. need to test him getting knocked out
he can also do almost anything a pikmin can, to varying degrees of purplepikmin-ness
he can also be used as a second captain, and do all of the captain-y things you'd expect from louie... but as a dog
yes he can kinda throw himself...
castaways
so uh. you know all pikmin games have necessary collectables right
pikmin 4 kinda has 2??? like
you need to collect treasures to gain sparklum so you can Continue
but. you also need to find castaways to complete the main objective of the game! i think
more testing will need to be done in the final version before thats just a Fact
also, when you save a castaway, you increase oatchi's pup drive!
more on that later >3
stones.
so theres these little collectibles called "raw materials", right
they can have up to one pikmin take them back to base at a time, they pop out of anything destructable when said thing is damaged or destroyed (including enemies), they can be taken back to base like grapes in pikmin 3. theyre really silly
these things are basically in-game currency
you can use them to make walls and bridges, sure, BUT. once you get mr Science Man, he can use stones to make things like:
a drone!
a bone!
a horn!
a carrot!
and so much more i promise!!!
pup drive/oatchi skills
so. pup drive.
pup drive is gained from saving castaways. each castaway you save nets you 1 (one) unit (???) of pup drive.
pup drive can be used by sheppard to teach oatchi new things!!! like:
being better at charging quickly!
being better at carrying heavier things!
being better at being a captain!
being better at attacking!
being better at something else!!!
most upgrades cost 3 pup drive points
flarlic
so uh. you can get upgrades to how many pikmin you can have in the field
but you dont start off with the typical 100 pikmin limit... you start of with only twenty
but!!!!! but but but but but you can get FLARLIC
theyre like onions. but garlic.
and they let you take out 10 more pikmin
why this is here???? no idea but.
itssss a thing