Music in Pikmin 4

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The music of Pikmin 4 accompanies every part of the game, from menu screens to areas to Dandori Battles.

Leitmotifs

These are small gestures that reappear throughout the game suggesting ideas or setting moods.

The "Hocotatian motif", denoting Captain Olimar, Caves, or other miscellaneous instances.	The "Pikmin motif", denoting Pikmin themselves.
The "success motif", denoting a success or setting a victorious mood.

Menus

Title screen

Title screen
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The title screen theme of Pikmin 4 is almost entirely solo piano, with only a few notes on a distant bell-like sound. It starts with a high-pitched fanfare before entering the main section of the piece in a 6/8 time signature. While the chords are mostly consonant, occasional out-of-key notes add an uneasy feel to the piece. After a minute and a half, the main Pikmin motif can be heard. The piece ends on a long note, and loops back to the beginning only after the note has completely faded out (though the fanfare is skipped on repeats).

Cutscenes

Red Pikmin discovered

Red Pikmin discovered
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Heard when the first Red Pikmin is plucked. Like Pikmin 2 and Pikmin 3, this theme is an arrangement of the main Pikmin motif played twice, accompanied by several quirky instruments indicating the nature of the Pikmin as a whole. However, unlike past games, each Pikmin type has a different track playing when it is discovered, though they all share the exact same structure, with the only difference being the instruments used.

Ice Pikmin discovered

Ice Pikmin discovered
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Heard when the first Ice Pikmin is discovered. Arrangement of the main Pikmin motif in the same structure that the discovery theme for the Red Pikmin, with instruments indicating the icy nature of the Ice Pikmin.

Yellow Pikmin discovered

Yellow Pikmin discovered
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Heard when the first Yellow Pikmin is discovered. Folowing the other Pikmin discovery tracks, this version of the theme is arranged with instruments fitting with the electric nature of the Yellow Pikmin.

Blue Pikmin discovered

Blue Pikmin discovered
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Heard when the first Blue Pikmin is discovered. As with the other Pikmin types, this arrangement of the track features a selection of instruments that coincide with the aquatic nature of the Blue Pikmin.

Purple Pikmin discovered

Purple Pikmin discovered
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Heard when the first Purple Pikmin is discovered. As with the other Pikmin types, this arrangement of the track features a selection of instruments that go along with the heavy nature of the Purple Pikmin.

White Pikmin discovered

White Pikmin discovered
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Heard when the first White Pikmin is discovered. As with the other Pikmin types, this arrangement of the track features a selection of instruments that harmonize with the poisonous nature of the White Pikmin.

New Pikmin type

New Pikmin type
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After any of the previous jingles play when a certain Pikmin type is discovered, all of them are followed by a common looping track to ambient the Rescue Corps members' discussion on the discovered creature, which echoes in several segments the main Pikmin motif.

Enter cave

Enter cave
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Heard when a cave is entered. A new rendition of the equivalent theme in Pikmin 2, it is a new arrangement of the Hocotate motif, also setting an adventurous mood for exploration.

Areas

Rescue Command Post

Rescue Command Post
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The theme of the Rescue Command Post is one with short snippets of melody which sets the mood to prepare for an expedition and talk with the rescued castaways.

Sun-Speckled Terrace

Sun-Speckled Terrace
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The base layer of the Sun-Speckled Terrace's theme is very sparse, with various piano notes, some of which are repeated for a while or have a delay effect. There are several additional layers that can be added on top in various conditions.

Bosses

Olimar's boss battle

Olimar's boss battle
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So far, this theme has only been heard when battling the Porquillion at the top of the Hero's Hideaway with Olimar at the start of the game. Just like the mid-boss theme from Pikmin 3, this track is a new arrangement on the boss battle theme from Pikmin 2. It features one of the "attack" cues when Porquillion shakes of Pikmin, and features the "boss defeated" cue when its health is depleted. It is unknown if this track is featured anywhere else in the game.

Area boss battle

Area boss battle
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So far, this theme has only been heard when battling the Porquillion at the top of Sun-Speckled Terrace. This theme features a fast collection of drum-like sounds, seemingly from classic Japanese percussion instruments, with a bell-like melody playing in the background at some point. It comes with a "boss defeated" cue when the health of the creature reaches zero. It is unknown if this track is featured anywhere else in the game.

Cave boss battle

Cave boss battle
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So far, this theme has only been heard when battling the Tusked Blowhog at the last sublevel of Hectic Hollows. It is played by several bongos and deep-sounding drum instruments. It also plays a "boss defeated" cue when the enemy is defeated. It is unknown if this track is featured anywhere else in the game.

Olimar's Shipwreck Tale

Hero's Hideaway (Olimar)

Hero's Hideaway (Olimar)
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This area theme reuses many sounds from the its main story mode counterpart; it even uses a melody similar to the one heard during the game's initial tutorial with Captain Olimar.

Minor jingles

Obstacle removed

Heard when an obstacle, such as a gate or bridge, is overcome. It is similar to the same jingle in previous games, filling a similar purpose.

Trivia

• The Pikmin in the group may randomly sing either a long theme without a distinguishing melody, or a short theme with a distinguishable melody. Among the short themes with melody, the Pikmin can sing themes from areas from past games. So far, the Pikmin have been spotted singing the Awakening Wood, Perplexing Pool, and Waterwraith battle themes from Pikmin 2 and the Garden of Hope theme from Pikmin 3, plus a theme with a melody that doesn't seem to align with any previous area theme. In overworld areas, Pikmin can seemingly sing a short tune while there are uncollected treasures in the area, though it is unknown if they can sing long tunes. Inside of caves, Pikmin seemingly can only sing long tunes if there is still uncollected treasure in the current sublevel, and then only sing short tunes after all of the treasure has been collected from the sublevel. It is yet unknown how many Pikmin are required to be in the group for them to sing something.

See also

• Music in Pikmin
• Music in Pikmin 2
• Music in Pikmin 3