When playing through Pikmin 4, I generally didn’t want to stop. The joy of treasure hunting, discovering new areas, and taking breaks to hang out at the home base (or go on Castle Defense-esque night missions) was too enticing: and now its existence has spawned a real-life treasure hunter.
A self-described “clay artist with a love of Pikmin,” Twitter user ZatchMehr is trying to eventually locate and acquire every in-game Pikmin 4 treasure in real life. They’ve noted that they started their quest roughly three days after the game came out, and it’s taken them about a month to get this far.
If you’re curious, they’ve even been chronicling their journey with tweets of individual collections, in a near 1:1 recreation of the in-game collection screenshots:
As a reminder Pikmin 4 has 239 treasures (that are uniquely designed): so there’s still a ways to go.
Pikmin 4 treasures pic.twitter.com/XTAorm9vWH
— 3D-Böy (@ZatchMehr) August 22, 2023
How many treasures do you have?
In terms of the electronic stuff, I own that exact Wavebird, the small Game and Watch portable, the GameCube Wave Race disc, the SNES mouse, the red/blue Switch Joy-Con set, and that blue GBA SP. It was a blast going through Pikmin 4 and pointing at the screen like that Leo meme: the idea of collecting Earthly “treasures” during your adventure is genius.
The attention to detail is impressive, as some of these items are exact replicas, and many come as close as humanly possible without resorting to making a Pikmin-specific Etsy store. As for the food items, ZatchMehr explains that “fake fruit comes in clutch,” so don’t worry about it spoiling!
[Thanks Jeff]
