Difficulty

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Difficulty is a feature in Pikmin 3 Deluxe that alters aspects of the game in order to adjust how easy or hard it is. These aspects include the length of a day and the strength of enemies.

Upon creating a save file on the file selection screen, the player will be prompted to choose a difficulty. There are 3 options: Normal, Hard, and Ultra-Spicy, in increasing order of difficulty. The latter can only be unlocked once the player has completed the story mode in Hard difficulty, or completed the demo.

Effects

Subject	Normal	Hard	Ultra-Spicy
Day duration	18 minutes	13 minutes	13 minutes
Enemy health	Enemies usually have lower health than on the Wii U original	Most enemies have twice as much as health than on normal difficulty
Nectar eggs	Common	More than in the original game, but less than on normal difficulty	Same as the original game
Pikmin limit	100	100	60
Pikmin drowning time	11 seconds	6 seconds	3 seconds

See also

• Menu/Options
• Badge