

Upon approaching it, it springs to life, and out comes a seed. Upon realizing this, he decides to locate the missing parts of the Dolphin, hoping he can rebuild his ship and return to his home planet of Hocotate.Īfter exploring a bit, Olimar finds a dormant Onion.

He notes that the oxygen on the planet, a harmful chemical element that inhabits it, is deadly to his body, and that his life-support systems can only function for 30 days. The next morning, Olimar regains consciousness on The Impact Site and turns around to find the hull of the Dolphin badly damaged, and lacking all of its parts. During the fall, the Dolphin ignites, and its parts are released from the hull and scattered across the planet. Suddenly, a meteor hurdles toward his direction and hits the Dolphin, resulting in the ship plummeting toward an Earth-like planet. Dolphin, into outer space as an interstellar vacation. Warning: the following article or section contains major spoilers.Īn exhausted pilot Captain Olimar, who is seeking rest from his everyday labor as a worker for Hocotate Freight, flies his spacecraft, the S.S. Its sequel, Pikmin 2, was released three years later.

The game was also ported to the Wii with added motion controls, under the title New Play Control! Pikmin. The game introduces the main game mechanics of growing Pikmin, controlling the Pikmin as a group, taking down obstacles, carrying objects, and battling enemies. The game is the first in the series chronologically, and sees Captain Olimar crash-landing on an unknown planet and collecting his missing ship parts in order to escape. Pikmin is the first installment in the Pikmin series, released in 2001 as one of the first games available for the GameCube.
