Editing Mission Mode menu

The '''Mission Mode menu''' in {{p3}} provides access to the game's [[Mission Mode]]. The menu is accessed from a button on the [[main menu]].

This menu is shown upon selecting Mission Mode from the title screen, and shows 3 main buttons, corresponding to the 3 types of mission: [[Collect Treasure!]], [[Battle Enemies!]], and [[Defeat Bosses!]]. (If no boss has been defeated in [[Story Mode]], the Defeat Bosses! button will not appear.) These buttons are large circles, colored yellow, green, and blue respectively. Inside the circles are various items representing each mode, and these are picked randomly. The Collect Treasure! button shows 3 main items, along with 3 individual [[nugget]]s around these items. The item in the top of the button is either a [[Sunseed Berry]] or a [[Golden Sunseed]]. The item in the lower left is eiher an [[Insect Condo]] or a pile of [[Nugget]]s. The item in the lower right is either a [[Cupid's Grenade]] or a [[Golden Grenade]]. All items rotate rapidly. The Battle Enemies! button shows 3 animated [[Enemy|enemies]] in a triangle, with the enemies chosen from specific arrangements, which are:

There are 15 squares in the Collect Treasure! and Battle Enemies! menus, arranged in a rectangle 5 squares wide by 3 squares high. In the original ''Pikmin 3'', missions that are yet to be unlocked or bought still appear, but cannot be selected, and before [[update]]s adding [[DLC]] were released, only the 5 or 10 stages in Collect Treasure! and Battle Enemies! currently available were shown. In ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'', only 10 stages in Collect Treasure! and Battle Enemies! are shown initially, and only the first 5 are playable initially, unless the [[Pikmin 3 Deluxe#Demo|demo]] has been completed, which unlocked stages 6-10. After getting any medal on stages 1-5, stages 6-10 are unlocked, and after getting any medal on all 10 stages, stages 11-15 are unlocked. The top left corner of each square displays the highest [[Mission Mode#Details|medal]] the player has received in both solo and co-op for each stage. In the Defeat Bosses! menu, since there are only 6 stages, they are arranged in a single row, and the medal icons also appear. Initially, 5 boxes are shown, and as the player defeats each boss for the first time, the mission for the boss will become selectable. Upon defeating the [[Plasm Wraith|final boss]], the 6th box will be added. In ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'', an additional large rectangular box appears below the level boxes, containing the mission name and the time limit for the currently highlighted stage. The corner buttons from the previous menu are still present in this menu, along with the title, which says the name of the mission type, and a subtitle which says "Select a stage."

Pikmin 3 mission gift.jpg|The submenu for Battle Enemies! in ''Pikmin 3'' with most stages not unlocked or purchased.

Upon selecting a mission, this screen will appear. It is unique for each mission, but contains the same general layout for each one. On the left side will be the stage name, a video montage of scenes from the stage, and icons for the highest medal the player has received in solo and co-op. The right side contains a table with the stage's number, its time limit, the types of [[Pikmin family#Known types|Pikmin]] and [[Candypop family|Candypop Buds]] available, and the exact high score in solo and co-op. This high score reads "0" if the stage was never beaten, except in the European [[region|version]] of the Wii U release of ''Pikmin 3'', where it reads "Empty". The lower area of the screen contains a button to start the mission in the center, a button to return to the previous menu in the left (in the original ''Pikmin 3'' only), a button to view information about each Pikmin type in the left (in ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'' only), a button to switch between solo and co-op in the right, and a button to view [[global rankings]] for the stage above the player selection button (in the original ''Pikmin 3'' only).

 

If the player enters a mission that features a type of Pikmin they have not yet seen in [[story mode]], a brief dialog will show up explaining how that Pikmin type works. This dialog counts as an introduction, so it will not show up for this Pikmin type again.

P3D Menu Mission Mode Pikmin introduction.jpg|The dialog that shows up introducing types of Pikmin not yet seen in story mode.

*If the button to switch between 1-player and 2-player is selected while the game is in GamePad-only mode, a popup will appear saying "Using TV. Please switch on the TV.", with the options "Cancel" and "OK". Selecting "OK" will take the game out of GamePad-only mode and then show the controller selection menu. When the game is set to 2-player mode, switching to GamePad-only mode is not possible.