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Menus in video games allow the player to navigate outside the game world, and the Pikmin games have several of these menus. Some menus allow access to gameplay or other menus, while others allow the viewing of bonus content, while others change the settings of the game. Menus in the Pikmin games tend to have a consistent graphical style featuring heavy use of bubbles.
These menus allow access to other menus or sections of gameplay.
Title screen
- See: Menu/Title screen
The title screen menu allows the player to begin the game, start an alternative game mode, or open the options. This menu is presented upon booting up the game, but after some other minor screens.
Title screen in Pikmin.
Title screen in Pikmin 2.
Title screen in Pikmin 3.
Saved game selection
This menu allows the player to select which saved game to play on from the three available in Pikmin and Pikmin 2.
Saved game selection in Pikmin.
Saved game selection in Pikmin 2.
Day selection
- See: Menu/Day selection
There is only one saved game per Wii U account in Pikmin 3, but the player is given the choice to retry from a previous day; this is the screen that allows them to do so.
Area selection
- See: Menu/Area selection
This menu allows the player to choose which area to start the next day on, out of all the ones they have unlocked.
Area selection screen in Pikmin.
Area selection screen in Pikmin 2.
Area selection screen in Pikmin 3.
Challenge Mode
- See: Menu/Challenge Mode
The Challenge Mode menu allows a player to select a Challenge Mode level to play.
Challenge Mode screen in Pikmin.
Challenge Mode screen in Pikmin 2.
Mission Mode
- See: Menu/Mission Mode
The Mission Mode menu allows a player to select a Mission Mode level to play.
The main Mission Mode menu.
The submenu for Collect Treasure!
The submenu for Battle Enemies!
2-Player Battle
- See: Menu/2-Player Battle
This menu allows the players to select battle settings in the 2-Player Battle mode.
Bingo Battle
- See: Menu/Bingo Battle
This menu allows the players to select battle settings in the Bingo Battle mode.
Pause
- See: Menu/Pause
The pause menu appears in-game when the player presses a specific button, and allows them to do various actions.
The following menus don't lead to other menus, and instead allow the player to change or view certain information.
Options
- See: Menu/Options
The options menu allows the player to choose some of the game's options.
Options in Pikmin.
Options in Pikmin 2.
High scores
- See: Menu/High scores
This screen contains records and statistics for runs of the main story mode, and also Mission Mode in Pikmin 3.
Bonuses
- See: Menu/Bonuses
The bonuses menu only appears in Pikmin 2 and New Play Control! Pikmin 2, and it contains the game's pre-rendered cutscenes. In addition, in the Japanese version of Pikmin 2 for the GameCube, this menu gives access to the e-Reader's games.
Olimar's voyage log
This menu allows the player to read Olimar's voyage log.
Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard
The Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard in Pikmin 2 are viewed through menus accessed from the area selection menu.
Piklopedia screen in Pikmin 2.
Treasure Hoard menu in Pikmin 2.
Onion
- See: Menu/Onion
The Onion menu appears during gameplay to let the player take Pikmin out of an Onion or put them back in.
Olimar's monitor
The Olimar's monitor menu in Pikmin allows the usage of the radar.
Olimar's monitor in Pikmin, on the radar page.
The controls page.
The controls page in New Play Control! Pikmin.
Day results
- See: Menu/Day results
At the end of each day, after the ship takes off, a screen appears containing an analysis of the day with various statistics. A similar menu appears when the player exits a cave.
First page of the sunset screen in Pikmin 2.
Second page, detailing population changes.
Sub-page of the second page, detailing Pikmin deaths.
Final page, showing the day's mail.
Challenge results
When a Challenge Mode level is over, either by being successfully completed or by ending in a failure (but not by manually quitting from the pause menu), a menu appears to detail the results of the run.
Final results
- See: Menu/Final results
This menu appears when the player completes the game, and gives statistics for the playthrough.
Final Analysis screen in Pikmin.
Ship parts page of the Final Analysis screen in Pikmin.
- See: Menu/Miscellaneous
Other menus also exist in the Pikmin games, but these are either very minor or non-interactive.
Trivia
- In Pikmin 2, whenever a question dialog box opens, like the one asking the player if they are sure they wish to go to the next sublevel, a dot appears on the top-left corner of the screen for a split second. Only the bottom-right corner of the dot is visible during normal gameplay.
See also
External links
- The Cutting Room Floor articles about Pikmin games – these contain information about miscellaneous elements hidden off-camera, in several menus.