Wistful Wild

Wistful Wild
Treasures	5
Caves	3
Requirements	Repay the debt
Music	Wistful Wild

The Wistful Wild is an area that can be accessed in Pikmin 2; it is made available once the Hocotate Freight company's debt has been fully repaid. The design of this area appears to be a combination of The Impact Site and The Final Trial from Pikmin. It contains three caves and five treasures above the surface which total a value of  × 3205 in treasure, or  × 13295 including treasures found in caverns ( × 13285 in the European version of the game). It is also a representation of Autumn. Contents of the region include two large lakes, one of which can be drained and the other a bridge built over; a clearing with three random-typed Burgeoning Spiderworts; and decorating it are rusted metal structures, tree stumps and Foxtails, and a half-visible yield sign where the Onions land.

Every 30 days from day 31, one can see some weird insects in this location, appearing as swarms of very small orange bugs. They release poison occasionally if attacked, and have an extremely small amount of health; each one drops a blob of nectar or spray when killed. They are found in two locations: outside Dream Den, and by Hole of Heroes.

Treasures

• Doomsday Apparatus
• Seed of Greed
• Anti-hiccup Fungus
• Armored Nut
• Conifer Spire

Caves

• Cavern of Chaos
• Hole of Heroes
• Dream Den

Enemies

A Gatling Groink in the Wistful Wild.

• Dwarf Red Bulborb x5
• Swooping Snitchbug x1
• Decorated Cannon Beetle x1
• Hermit Crawmad x1
• Fiery Blowhog x2
• Watery Blowhog x1
• Shearwig x3
• Armored Cannon Beetle Larva x1
• Mitite
• Creeping Chrysanthemum x3
• Withering Blowhog x3
• Orange Bulborb x2
• Gatling Groink x1
• Cloaking Burrow-nit x1
• Yellow Wollywog x1
• Ujadani (appear in the pattern mentioned above)

Gallery

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  The landing zone.

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  The entrance to the Cavern of Chaos.

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  The shortest of the two paths that connect the two sections of the Wistful Wild.

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  The area with Burgeoning Spiderworts.

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  The large bamboo cane, the second path that connects the two sections.

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  The zone after the bamboo cane.

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  The large tree stump on the second section.

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  The pond on the second section.

Other images

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  Overview map.

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  A map of the Wistful Wild showing treasure locations.

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  The Ujadani.

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  The patterns for The Impact Site and The Final Trial compared with a map of Wistful Wild.

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  The texture used for the radar pattern.

Trivia

To do: Get a source for the "Land of Promise" statement. Care to do so?

• It is possible for a leader to get up onto the wall borders of the map via several enemies, including the Decorated Cannon Beetle and Watery Blowhog. This video shows how much of the area can be explored there.
• The YIELD sign that makes up the starting arena is actually a Stop sign in the Japanese version.
• Every 30 days, starting on day 31, some mysterious bugs known as ujadani appear here.
• The "start" and "end" of the area are the same as the locations of the final and first ship parts in Pikmin, respectively.
• The Wistful Wild is the only area in Pikmin 2 to not have an above-ground boss fight of any kind.
• The Wistful Wild was originally going to be called the Land of Promise, a name that is retained in other language versions (see below).

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Terre des Promesses	Land of Promise
German	Land der Verheißung	Land of Promise
Spanish	Tierra de Promisión	Land of Promise

See also

• The Impact Site
• The Final Trial
• Dream Den

References

This article was a featured article from June 18th to August 18th, 2009.