It starts out with Olimar telling his story, and you get to play as him up until you recover the ship part that lets him send out a distress signal (so you don’t get to play as him for long, but it was still pretty cool).
Curiously, Olimar seems to have acted like the Pikmin were new to him. I’m guessing the alternate timeline theories are likely correct, unless there’s somehow something else going on, or this is a reboot of sorts. He meets the dog who was with the Pikmin Olimar-lookalike in one of the trailers, so it seems he may have had a bad or bittersweet fate. It took the Rescue Corps a month to respond, the same amount of time as the day limit in the first game…
The color you choose for your character’s spacesuit is also the color the Rescue Corps uses, so that’s pretty cool. I went with green since it’s my favorite color, so now my whole team is green. Oatchi’s collar seems to match the color you chose, too; I believe it was red in the trailers, but it was green for me.
At first, I wanted to try making a Hatsune Miku character, but the options don’t really let you recreate her well, so I went with my own green dude/girl/idk I just went with options I liked and called them CJ after myself.
The Pikmin who don’t have an onion are still able to reside within the main onion belonging to the other Pikmin. If they pick up pellets or other food, though, they’ll only reproduce the Pikmin the onion belongs to, so in my case, Red Pikmin, since I’ve only obtained Red and Ice Pikmin so far. I wonder if you can get onions for Ice etc. later in the game? I don’t yet know how you’re supposed to get more of them, unless you’re just supposed to find them and try your best to keep them alive. I know in the trailers, the main onion only had Reds, Blues, and Yellows at max.
There’s also a limit to the number of Pikmin you can have out on the field; the number is much smaller than in previous games, but can be raised if you collect this thing called “flarlic.” It’s a garlic thing, but it looks like a pale, greenish or yellowish Pikmin onion. I thought it was gonna be the Yellow Onion until it got explained xD I was a little worried about the limit before playing, since I read about it online and there was gameplay featuring it, but so far it seems fine, well-balanced and just as fun as previous games.
The demo ends once you obtain 1500 sparklium and end the day, I’ll probably finish it tomorrow. Seems like a pretty decent length for a demo. Still, once it ends, I will be excitedly waiting for more in the full game next month! :D
