Pikmin (universe)
The Pikmin universe refer to Smash Bros. collection of stages, characters and properties that hails from the Pikmin franchise. It's appearance as a mayor universe was quite a surprise for many fans. The basic plot in the series is to collect various plants from the series, so called Pikmins and return to the homeplanet within a limit of days.
Franchise description
As a demo to show off the capasites of the Nintendo GameCube, Shigeru Miyamoto showed of a Mario game called Super Mario 128. The demo started of with a walking 2-D Mario that eventually got into a big, flat planet. A Mario was starting to throw away box and later more boxes with many more Marios that eventually helped and the first elements to Pikmin, Metroid Prime and Super Mario Galaxy was born.
The first Pimkin was all setted about that Captain Olimar was shipwrecked on a Earth-like planet during his vacation with his spaceships parts all scattered around the planet. To help to recover it, he found out that there was several creatures called Pikmin that could help him out, but different colors came with different abilities. Red Pikmins that are invurnable to flames, Yellows that can jump extra high and pick up bombs and Blue Pikmins that could stand against water. Together, they explored five areas before Captain Olimar sat off.
In Pikmin 2, the game started with that Olimar's vacation was ended. However, his boss company Hocotate Freight was ruined and even had to sell Olimar's ship. Shocked as he got, he dropped a bottle cap. It ran into the only working ship and it turned out it was worth 100 Pokos (the currency of the planet), with was more than a years salary. Shocked of this, the boss sended him and Louie back to the planet to take home more things worth more than 10.000 Pokos. Still, Pikmins were fatured but new ones aswell. Purples that was heavy and lifted havy objects and whites that both witstands and has poison.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee
Althrough it wasn't a major universe in Brawl, a Pikmin-related trophy featured Captain Olimar and the Pikmins, and another just about the Pikmins.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Not much content has been revealed yet.
Character
- Pikmin and Olimar: The vey main star of the show Captain Olimar has bee havily updated graphicaly. As the name implies, he's attacks is to pluc up various Pikmins as attacks and throw. However, they will eventually die soon. Withouth the Pikmins, he can't even do a Smash Attack. Not much has been reveald about him yet, however, a screenshot whows that he will hell in Pikmins.
