Editing Louie's notes

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[[File:Piklopedia.jpg|thumb|The Piklopedia, with the Louie's notes button ({{button|gcn|Y|wii|-}}) visible at the bottom-left.]]

Like [[Captain Olimar]], [[Louie]] takes '''notes''' too, but his notes are about how to cook enemies. To read them, the player must enter the [[Piklopedia]] and press {{button|gcn|Y|wii|-}} while on the desired entry. While [[Olimar's Notes|Captain Olimar's notes]] would be useful to a scientist or biologist, Louie's would be useful to a chef. Interestingly, Louie references ingredients found on Earth (cultivated in oxygen). These ingredients could not possibly be known by Louie, as Hocotate has a severely different climate. This is most likely because Hocotatian plants often have a similar appearance to those found on Earth so Louie uses the names he is familiar with for a completely different plant. Some of his notes say that the creature is inedible, like the [[clover]]. In these cases, he states a humorous side effect of eating one.

Louie's notes are not available if there is no [[saved game]] data for ''Pikmin 2''. When the player defeats the [[Titan Dweevil]] and brings the [[King of Bugs]] back to the [[Hocotate ship]] in any saved game slot, a global flag is set on ''Pikmin 2'''s save data that enables Louie's notes. This means that from that point on, on any saved game slot, Louie's notes will be available to the player, even if the slot used to unlock this feature is deleted. It can also be noted that when an enemy is added to the Piklopedia, it comes with Louie's notes (although they can still be temporarily inaccessible as per the rule written previously), regardless of whether Louie is with the player's crew or not, in that saved game slot.

== Example ==

'''[[Cloaking Burrow-nit]]'''

{{notes|Cloaking Burrow-nit|louie}}

== Corpse oddities ==
The following notes conflict with the way enemies die in-game in some way, most often because the beast in question leaves no corpse.

* The [[Fiery Bulblax]] extinguishes itself upon defeat, but Louie's notes use the beast's flames as a cooking aid.
* [[Puffy Blowhog]]
* [[Withering Blowhog]]
* The [[Careening Dirigibug]]'s air sacs pop upon defeat, but Louie suggests them as a garnish to the dish.
* [[Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat]]
* [[Greater Spotted Jellyfloat]]
* [[Beady Long Legs]]
* [[Man-at-Legs]]
* [[Raging Long Legs]]
* The [[Waterwraith]] is notable for not only not leaving any corpse, but its physical form being anchored to another dimension.
* [[Titan Dweevil]]

== Inedible creatures ==
The following creatures are said to be inedible in any capacity by Louie.

* The [[Doodlebug]] has no cooking tips and is suggested to be inedible, but is not outright stated as such.
* [[Caustic Dweevil]]
* [[Munge Dweevil]]
* [[Volatile Dweevil]]
* [[Crimson Candypop Bud]]
* [[Golden Candypop Bud]]
* The [[Ivory Candypop Bud]] is not suggested to be inedible, but spoils upon seconds of picking.
* [[Queen Candypop Bud]]
* [[Mamuta]]
* [[Glowstem]]
* [[Clover]]
* [[Foxtail]]
* [[Shoot]]
* [[Beady Long Legs]]
* [[Waterwraith]]
* The [[Raging Long Legs]], like the Doodlebug, is not outright claimed as inedible, but Louie's suggestions imply that it probably shouldn't be eaten anyway.

== ''Musings of a Sidekick'' ==
[[File:NI Pikmin2DuoNews.jpg|thumb|Concept art of Louie, from ''Musings of a Sidekick''.]]

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On {{date|18|June|2009}}, [[Nintendo]] of Europe released an article titled "''Louie's Notes: Musings of a Sidekick''" at its website. It is essentially a humorous commentary written from the point of view of Louie, comparing himself and Olimar to other famous Nintendo duos ([[mariowiki:Mario|Mario]] and [[mariowiki:Luigi|Luigi]], [[dkwiki:Donkey Kong|Donkey Kong]] and [[dkwiki:Diddy Kong|Diddy Kong]], [[zeldawiki:Link|Link]] and [[zeldawiki:Navi|Navi]], [[bulbapedia:Ash's Pikachu|Pikachu]] and [[bulbapedia:Ash Ketchum|Pokémon Trainer]]), as an attempt to promote the ''[[New Play Control!]]'' edition of ''[[Pikmin 2]]''. The website can be found [https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2009/Louie-s-Notes-Musings-of-a-Sidekick-251422.html here].

== See also ==
*[[:Category:Louie's notes|List of notes]]
*[[Olimar's notes]]
*[[Sales pitch]]
*[[Olimar's journal]]

==Names in other languages==
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|Fra=Notes de Louie
|FraM=Louie's Notes
}}

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