The Tragedy of Blue Pikmin - Nintendo’s Crimes.

Blue Pikmin should be medics. Aside from saving drowning pikmin they could be able to spray water and extinguish pikmin on fire, shock electrocuted pikmin back to life and wash away poisoned ones

Blue Pikmin are like everyone: they’re depressed, useless and always in a state of pain hidden behind those soulless eyes

Two words: Submerged Castle. You'd think having a "Blues only" cave would be their time to shine, but then you realize that for almost the whole expedition, you're at the mercy of a hostile invincible enemy. Which you can only finally kill on the last floor, but only after you've traded away some of your Blues for far more useful Purples before the fight! For a Blue Pikmin fan, this must feel like being forced to make a deal with the devil!

I believe there’s 2 reasons for the blue mistreatment. 1: Unfortunately, redundancy. I hate to say it because Blues are my favorite Pikmin from a visual perspective, still are, but as the games have gotten easier and Oatchi, Ice, bulb, and Winged Pikmin allow alternative roots around or over water, blue Pikmin have just steadily become less necessary or useful. I do still wish they would lifeguard other Pikmin though or get some sort of new mechanic. 2: Marketing. As for why blue Pikmin are so frequently in distress in the marketing, well they are the only Pikmin with a mouth, a fish like one at that in a perpetual blank frown. This makes it much easier to portray distress in their face unlike for the other Pikmin who have nothing but 👁️👁️, 🔴🔴, or 🔵🔵 to work with

If you’ve played pikmin 4 you’d know that blue pikmin aren’t useless in fact they are very useful

Its absolutely god damned hilarious how much Blue Pikmin are getting more videos about them being given the shirt stick

I feel like MAYBE the blue pikmin constantly get thrown/falling and hanging from leaves is kind of to symbolize water in a way? The blues alway hang from the bottom of leaves sort of like water drips off of them, and the falling blues could be rain? idk just an idea.

Blue pikmin did get a GAME DESIGN buff. Which is the fact that you get them in the first area + there is a completely submerged area that only allows non-blues during the second half of the day (Serene Shores). I found that blue pikmin are more useful than red/yellow because there is so much water.

3:52 that is a blue pikmin being happy leave him alone

Pikmin is built on the dead bodys of blue Pikmin

0:39 I saw that Jimbo

The problem with pikmin 4 is that even if they came up with a compelling use case for blues other than just "level design said it's time to use blues", you can only have three types out. So even if blues got a cool feature like red's attack buff or yellow's throw height or etc, you'd still only want to bring them if you NEED them.

Nintendo just hates blue in general, most character or enemies are rarely blue in all of their games.

They slaughtered me

I don’t know why Nintendo hates Blue Pikmin. They’re just as handy as the rest.

"It all begins, as everything should, in 2001." Why is my brain like this

Blue pikmin used to be cool because they used to be the last one you'd get after having seen a thousand places they'd come in handy

I’ve beaten Pikmin 4 and blues were really useful in this game. (Mild spoilers to follow) Winged Pikmin are rare (I think there’s literally 2 pink candy pop buds in the entire pre-credits? Unless you go play that cavern over and over) and blues allow quick traversing with the water shortcuts which is so important when you have limited Pikmin allowed out on the field, and there’s a good portion of the map covered in water (one in particular has significant underwater portions. It’s a really common hazard in caves as well). The ice Pikmin are limited by candy pop buds for most of the pre-credits and it’s sometimes feasible to use them as a shortcut? But normally it’s not worth having 20 Pikmin just stuck in the water doing nothing to create a shortcut when you could just use blues instead. I think there was like 1 cave I used this feature in and that’s it aside from getting the blue onion lol And they have mouth so unfortunately are great for showing terror 😅

Pikmin 3 / Deluxe was my introduction to Pikmin. I do want to play the first 2 eventually. However, Pikmin 4 is the priority.

I didn't think they were too uselss in 4...until I saw otachi can now get things underwater, taking away their one unique trait.