Talk:Menu

Split

This article is pretty big. Some of the sections here have a lot of info, and could probably work well being their own articles. In fact, I feel some of these sections could be expanded further, but just haven't yet out of fear of bloating the article. We can wait for the next game's release to decide if stuff like the save file selection, area selection, etc. should be independent articles or not. — {Espyo^T} 15:25, 23 January 2017 (EST)

Yeah, this is pretty extensive. Upon release of Pikmin 4, this page is gonna be huge. Perhaps making an article for major menus and minor ones would be a better way of distributing this info. V64 (talk) 15:11, 26 February 2019 (EST)

We still need to document P3's and HP's menus. We may need to start splitting even before P4 when we're done! — {Espyo^T} 16:24, 26 February 2019 (EST)

I absolutely agree that this article should be split. But how would it be done? Would it be split by game (which would be easier and produce less articles, but would make comparison harder) or by type of menu (giving many articles with cross-game information)? - Botanist (talk) 18:23, September 25, 2020 (EDT)

I don't think it would make sense to split by game, not only because like you said, it would make comparisons harder, but it would also repeat a lot of information. Having to explain how the Onion menu works three different times doesn't sound like a good idea. Splitting by type is probably the way to go, but it shouldn't be one article per menu. Off the top of my head, I think we could split between common external menus (title screen, options), common in-game menus (radar, Onion), and those game-specific menus (Piklopedia, voyage logs). — {Espyo^T} 10:04, September 27, 2020 (EDT)

Alright, here's a proposed division of the article: Menu for general menu information (such as the graphical styles of the different games) and for documenting menus not found elsewhere, Main menu for title screens and other menus accessed from there (like the options menu), Pause menu for the options displayed when pausing (this may grow substantially when Pikmin 3 Deluxe comes out), Area selection menu for the area selection screen, Story mode menu for the file selection or day selection screen, and Results screen for all the various ways the games tell you how well you did on a day or playthrough. Other menus can be incorporated into other articles. The Onion menu section can be put in the Onion article, the Treasure Hoard and similar logs can be described in their own articles and linked from the Area selection menu page, and menus for side modes can be described in the pages for those side modes. - Botanist (talk) 17:27, September 28, 2020 (EDT)