[Pikmin ] Day 4 - 5 bombs strat (slower) Ice cube 2026-09-19 | [Pikmin ] Day 4 - 5 bombs strat (slower)
Pikmin 4 - Rescue Olimar & Staff Credits Ice cube 2023-07-20 | Here we are already with the end of the "Rescue Olimar" mission of Pikmin 4, which triggers the Credits. I guess this will act as the end of the any% speedrun of this game, let's see. There is much more to play after that I hope!
Pikmin 4 - First night mode and discovery of Glow Pikmin (Sun-Speckled Terrace 1. Ancient Arches) Ice cube 2023-07-20 | Pikmin 4 is out eventually! Just sharing my first attempt at night mode – not a speedrun by any means. This mode looks very good, hopefully the difficulty significantly increases in other areas.
Pikmin 4 Demo - Sun-Speckled Terrace bridge skip Ice cube 2023-07-16 | Just showcasing a new trick that allows to bypass full completion of 2 bridges in Sun-Speckled Terrace. Because you can use some of your Pikmin to do other tasks than building the bridges, this would save a bit of time. After some practice, I can somehow get the trick consistently, but clearly not 100% of the time
Pikmin 4 Demo - 100% Speedrun - 44:25 (All Treasures, Castaways, Onions) [WR] Ice cube 2023-07-16 | Managed to finish the demo in less than 45min! Although this could easily be improved to reach 43:xx, it will probably be my last video on the demo, so stay tuned for more videos on the full game.
Pikmin 4 Demo - 100% Speedrun - 45:02 (All Treasures, Castaways, Onions) [former WR] Ice cube 2023-07-12 | Managed to shave almost 10 minutes over my first attempt. Route and execution are still quite experimental but it's getting better. We might see 1-3 more minutes saved before the release of the full game, let's see.You might be wondering why I am not collecting all treasures in caves on day 3 and ending the day early. The reason is that when Dingo (the 4th castaway) is saved, on the next day you get the ability to let him complete Dandori challenges for you. Even though it takes a bit of time revisiting one cave and going through an extra day, this still ends up saving a few minutes. The reason why I skip some treasures if to avoid the demo ending after day 3 (I have to stay below 1500 sparklium collected) - in the full game, this will most likely not be needed.
Pikmin 4 Demo - Dandori Day Care 330 (3:10 left) Ice cube 2023-07-08 | Not my route, but a score I'm happy with for now. The blowhog can be a bit annoying to handle. I wonder if there will be more dandori challenges and battle in story mode in the full game.
Pikmin 4 Demo - 100% Speedrun - 54:54 (All Treasures, Castaways, Onions) Ice cube 2023-07-02 | Pikmin 4 demo is finally out there! This is my attempt at collecting everything in the demo, which means clearing the first area of the game by collecting every treasure, castaway and onion. Once you reach 1500 sparklium the demo doesn't end immediately, the game lets you play until sundown. There is actually enough time to collect everything by day 3. The route I used is very preliminary, but I feel like this game will have some interesting routing potential, so I'm excited to see how it turns out with the full game. I'm sure tons of improvements can be found to reduce this time, but I'm fine with this as a start. Stay tuned for more
Pikmin 4 Demo - any% Speedrun - 21:50 (WR) Ice cube 2023-07-01 | Pikmin 4 demo is finally out there! This is my attempt at beating the demo as fast as possible, in one segment. This run is very preliminary, improvement can be found everywhere, but you've got to start with something. This is world record at time of upload, it won't last long though. It seems this game as some decent speedrunning potential, let's see with the full game. Stay tuned for more
Pikmin 2 HD (Switch) - 8 days completion / no deaths Ice cube 2023-06-28 | The different days and caves were played separately and stitched together in this video, this was not a continuous run. Being fast wasn't the goal - was just trying to complete clear the game in 8 days without deaths.This game uses the same control scheme than Pikmin 1 HD, so it shares the sames issues (such as reduced whistle range, not being to aim while not being in throwing/whistling stage, etc). This game is very similar to the Wii/WiiU versions gameplay wise, except a few tweaks. One of those is that the "bridge glitch" is fixed, which means that bridges take a lot more time to unfold. In previous versions of Pikmin 2, after entering a cave, each stage of bridge building would be instant, except the first one. This meant that after the first stage is cleared, you could build bridges with a single Pikmin. Apart from that, this game also removes all the brands from the original versions, which have been replaced by generic textures. The treasures weights and value are identical to the NTSC-U version of the original game.
Pikmin 1 HD (Switch) - 6 days completion / no deaths in 57:58 Ice cube 2023-06-22 | The different days were played separately and stitched together in this video, this was not a continuous run. Being fast wasn't the goal - was just trying to complete clear the game in 6 days without deaths, but it's still nice this clocked in less than 1 hour.Similar route than what is used in Wii version speedruns, with some safe strats here and there. The improved throwing speed and whistling reactivity in this version feel really nice! Some more minor fixes are also good, they fixed collision issues with bridges and enemies which could result in Pikmin dying by clipping through the floor in previous versions (also known as "mysterious deaths" as those were not generating ghosts). Too bad the whistling range has been reduced and that parts cutscene skips are gone. For speedrunning purposes, this makes this version slower than the Wii/WiiU version, but faster than the gamecube version (unless some new stuff is found later on).Also, the motion controls feel quite weird, as you have to be pressing A/B to use them... Which means you cannot AIM with motion controls before already being throwing or whistling?!? What were they thinking!
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX Hack - Extra Side of Stories from Tong (part 4) Ice cube 2023-02-10 | Welcome!I am playing for the first time a mod of Pikmin 3DX. This mod was created by Tong, link below:youtu.be/EN_gJ0k7CnMIf you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
Pikmin - Zirconium Rotor alternative gate bombing strat (Wii only) Ice cube 2023-01-15 | You can throw Pikmin behind the gate and teleport them instead of throwing Pikmin in front of the gate. This prevents having them fall in the water no matter what. It also allows for a better back up in case you are left with 2 bombs only.
Pikmin - All Parts RTA Speedrun 52:49 Ice cube 2023-01-14 | More improvement on my Pikmin PB. Distant Spring was quite interesting, the snitchbugs didn't get too much in the way so I didn't kill them, which is quite unusual. The end of that day went quite badly with the puffy blowing all the pikmin and the missed area cutscene skip, but because my DS gold was bad, I still saved a lot of time.Will try for a 51:xx now.
Pikmin - All Parts RTA Speedrun 53:59 Ice cube 2022-12-13 | Small improvement over my last run, but a satisfying final time. The final boss fight was quite good, but I still have quite a lot of room for improvement on days 2-3-5
Pikmin - All Parts RTA Speedrun 54:11 Ice cube 2022-12-09 | 2 years later I've decided to put my hands again on the original Pikmin game. I managed to improve my time by almost one minute, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. The Distant Spring was quite good, but all other days have obvious time losses and mistakes.This was done on the WiiU virtual console version, which is the fastest version of this game.
Pikmin 3DX – Olimars Nightmare Speedrun in 7:37 (custom stage by Quote Balrog) Ice cube 2022-11-07 | This custom stage is based on an early version of the Garden of Hope. It was customized by Quote Balrog, and is a great challenge both for casual playing and speedrunning in my opinion. The goal is similar to "collect ship parts" side stories, with 3 objects to collect. This is my attempt speedrunning this stage, the fight with the slurkers was not great but overall it was a decent attempt. Got lucky with the spicy spray drops, which happen to be yellow in this hack.Thank you Quote for making this stage, video link is here: youtu.be/oYr2bEVmXj8
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX Hack - Extra Side of Stories from Tong (part 4) Ice cube 2022-11-04 | Welcome!I am playing for the first time a mod of Pikmin 3DX. This mod was created by Tong, link below:youtu.be/EN_gJ0k7CnMIf you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX Hack - Extra Side of Stories from Tong (part 3) Ice cube 2022-11-03 | Welcome!I am playing for the first time a mod of Pikmin 3DX. This mod was created by Tong, link below:youtu.be/EN_gJ0k7CnMIf you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
Pikmin 3DX – The Forest Navel speedrun (custom stage) Ice cube 2022-11-02 | This custom stage is a remake of the Forest Navel from Pikmin made by Tong, and included in his custom pack "the extra side of stories, link here:youtu.be/EN_gJ0k7CnMI like this stage, with the dark atmosphere and enemies (white frogs are back!), it really feels like the Forest Navel, so I had to give it a try at playing it fast. Just like collect treasures, the goal here is to retrieve all treasures and enemies in due time. Hope you enjoy!
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX Hack - Extra Side of Stories from Tong Ice cube 2022-10-31 | Welcome!I am playing for the first time a mod of Pikmin 3DX. This mod was created by Tong, link below:youtu.be/EN_gJ0k7CnMIf you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX Hack - Extra Side of Stories from Tong Ice cube 2022-10-30 | Welcome!I am playing for the first time a mod of Pikmin 3DX. This mod was created by Tong, link below:youtu.be/EN_gJ0k7CnMIf you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
Pikmin 3DX – 20 Pikmin on field challenge – All fruits Speedrun Ice cube 2022-10-15 | In this challenge, I try to get all fruits in 10 days, never having more than 20 Pikmin on the field (which is the minimum of carriers required for the cantaloupe in Garden of Hope). The only exception being the 30 wild yellow Pikmin in day 1 tutorial. Why this challenge shows less multitasking because of the lack on Pikmin, it shows a couple of trucks that are not shown in regular RTA speedruns.This challenge was streamed live on YouTube, this video is a montage of the successful attempts for each of the 10 days of the run.
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits with 20 Pikmin on field Challenge Ice cube 2022-10-13 | Welcome!It has been a long time since I haven't done a speedrun challenge on this channel. Let's try something new: retrieve all fruits in 10 days, with no more than 20 Pikmin on the field at all times (with 1 caveat for the 30 wild yellows on day 1). Let's see how this goes!If you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits with 20 Pikmin on field Challenge Ice cube 2022-10-11 | Welcome!It has been a long time since I haven't done a speedrun challenge on this channel. Let's try something new: retrieve all fruits in 10 days, with no more than 20 Pikmin on the field at all times (with 1 caveat for the 30 wild yellows on day 1). Let's see how this goes!If you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
Pikmin 3DX – Major exploit: Pikmin cloning (easy setup) Ice cube 2022-07-19 | This glitch was found by Luke Black (original video here: youtu.be/njNrMtFamjM), but I just discovered it today.This glitch allows you to clone and get up to 100 pikmin of any type from the master onion, as long as you have at least 101 pikmin. Essentially, this glitch works because the game doesn't check the number of pikmin already withdrawn when the onion menu is opened a second time, so you can withdraw those pikmin multiple times. This glitch could be useful for speedruns, although it takes a bit of time to set it up.Other ways exist to clone pikmin (sunset cloning or cloning using a glitch master onion) but this one is by far the simplest. Thanks Luke for sharing!
Pikmin 3DX All Fruits Speedrun 1:08:56 Ice cube 2022-07-19 | Small improvement over my previous best time. Louie clip on day 5 lost a lot of time, other days were decent. Will try to go for more, stay tuned!
Pikmin 3DX – Battle Enemies! Tropical Forest 2P 11330 Icecube & JHawk4 [WR] Ice cube 2022-06-26 | ...
Pikmin 3DX – Collect Treasure! Tropical Forest 2P 10810 Icecube & JHawk4 [WR] Ice cube 2022-06-26 | ...
Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits Speedrun in 9 days (first ever) Ice cube 2022-06-17 | This video is the first completion of Pikmin 3 in 9 days, collecting all fruits – it is also the first in-game days reduction since the game originally came out on Wii U in July 2013. This was made possible using a specific trick in Twilight River that allows to fully clear the area in one day. The other days follow a similar route than what is used in all fruits speedruns with some tweaks to grow Pikmin, produce sprays, and trigger cutscenes to setup for Twilight River. Each day was played separately and stitched together in this video. It is unlikely that this Twilight River strat is used in RTA speedruns because it's very slow, so unless a much more consistent setup is found RTA speedruns will stay at 10 days. More information on the Twilight River trick can be found below.__________________________________________________Because you unlock all Pikmin types but blues by day 5, it is possible to collect 13/15 fruits in Twilight River on day 5 by regular means, with just 2 underwater fruits requiring blues missing (Crunchy Deluge and Citrus Lump). However, a player called Drought Ender found a glitch that allows to collect underwater fruits with winged Pikmin, which makes it possible to collect 15/15 fruits in Twilight River on your first visit.The glitch consists in whistling a winged Pikmin 1 frame before it dies to a hazard (water bubble or fire). If you manage to do that, that Pikmin will be in an "invincible" state. In that state, the Pikmin can be dismissed and charged, but not whistled or thrown. The Pikmin can carry fruits/bodies normally, cannot drown and cannot be killed. This allows to carry underwater fruits with winged Pikmin, making blues almost useless! This glitch was found last month, and is a variation of the crushing glitch found in 2016 by another player called Marty. The crushing glitch also allowed to create "invincible" Pikmin, but only worked for grounded carriers as winged Pikmin cannot get crushed. Underwater fruits unfortunately cannot be carried by red/yellow/rock "invincible" Pikmin as they don't know the path to the ship, this is why we had to wait for Drought Ender's trick to make this happen. After Drought Ender found the trick, Sbudiver was the first player to get 5 "invincible" wings in a day and carry the Citrus Lump without blues. After that, Luarce was the first player to get 10 "invincible" wings and carry both the Crunchy Deluge and Citrus Lump to the ship without blues. Luarce's, Drought Ender's and Marty's videos links can be found below.This glitch also makes it possible to collect all fruits but 1 without unlocking blue Pikmin. The only fruit requiring blue Pikmin is the Wayward Moon, as unlocking blues is mandatory to load the Quaggled Mireclops (and therefore to make the story progress and beat the game).It might or might not be clear from the video, but getting winged Pikmin in the "invincible" state is extremely precise and difficult. Getting 10 in one day to lift the Crunchy Deluge is challenging; and doing so while collecting all other fruits + growing wings is even more difficult. It took me around 50 attempts to successfully pull this out, with multiple very frustrating attempts with only 9 wings on the fruit (or getting it lifted, but not making it to the ship in time). The route I followed was trying to maximize the number of wings grown, to increase my odds at the glitch, while collecting fruits efficiently.Luarce's video: "Collecting Citrus Lump and Crunchy Deluge with no blues"youtu.be/S9dWf2vWXBcDrought Ender's video: "9 DAY IS POSSIBLE" youtu.be/HTQMfKtU5aEMarty's video: "Major Glitch : Red Pikmin in water and uncontrollable Pikmin"youtu.be/Nebg_r6G3Yk
Pikmin 3DX – Major exploit: Twilight River cleared in 1 day Ice cube 2022-06-15 | In this video I collect all the fruits in Twilight River on the first visit, making an all fruits, 9-day run possible. This is the first (recorded) successful attempt of a Twilight River clean up in one day. Because you unlock all Pikmin types but blues by day 5, it is possible to collect 13/15 fruits in Twilight River on day 5 by regular means, with just 2 underwater fruits requiring blues missing (Crunchy Deluge and Citrus Lump). However, a player called Drought Ender found a glitch that allows to collect underwater fruits with winged Pikmin, which makes it possible to collect 15/15 fruits in Twilight River on your first visit.The glitch consists in whistling a winged Pikmin 1 frame before it dies to a hazard (water bubble or fire). If you manage to do that, that Pikmin will be in an "invincible" state. In that state, the Pikmin can be dismissed and charged, but not whistled or thrown. The Pikmin can carry fruits/bodies normally, cannot drown and cannot be killed. This allows to carry underwater fruits with winged Pikmin, making blues almost useless! This glitch was found last month, and is a variation of the crushing glitch found in 2016 by another player called Marty. The crushing glitch also allowed to create "invincible" Pikmin, but only worked for grounded carriers as winged Pikmin cannot get crushed. Underwater fruits unfortunately cannot be carried by red/yellow/rock "invincible" Pikmin as they don't know the path to the ship, this is why we had to wait for Drought Ender's trick to make this happen. After Drought Ender found the trick, Sbudiver was the first player to get 5 "invincible" wings in a day and carry the Citrus Lump without blues. After that, Luarce was the first player to get 10 "invincible" wings and carry both the Crunchy Deluge and Citrus Lump to the ship without blues. Luarce's, Drought Ender's and Marty's videos links can be found below.This glitch also makes it possible to collect all fruits but 1 without unlocking blue Pikmin. The only fruit requiring blue Pikmin is the Wayward Moon, as unlocking blues is mandatory to load the Quaggled Mireclops (and therefore to make the story progress and beat the game).It might or might not be clear from the video, but getting winged Pikmin in the "invincible" state is extremely precise and difficult. Getting 10 in one day to lift the Crunchy Deluge is challenging; and doing so while collecting all other fruits + growing wings is even more difficult. It took me around 50 attempts to successfully pull this out, with multiple very frustrating attempts with only 9 wings on the fruit (or getting it lifted, but not making it to the ship in time). The route I followed was trying to maximize the number of wings grown, to increase my odds at the glitch, while collecting fruits efficiently.A video of the 9-day all fruits run will follow up shortly – which will be the first in-game days reductions since the game came out in 2013!Luarce's video: "Collecting Citrus Lump and Crunchy Deluge with no blues"youtu.be/S9dWf2vWXBcDrought Ender's video: "9 DAY IS POSSIBLE" youtu.be/HTQMfKtU5aEMarty's video: "Major Glitch : Red Pikmin in water and uncontrollable Pikmin"youtu.be/Nebg_r6G3Yk
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits Speedrun Ice cube 2021-12-23 | Welcome!In this stream I will be speedrunning Pikmin 3DX, trying to retrieve every fruit and beat the game. My current best time is 1:09:08, I'll be trying for 1:08.If you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
[LIVE] Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits Speedrun Ice cube 2021-12-21 | Welcome!In this stream I will be speedrunning Pikmin 3DX, trying to retrieve every fruit and beat the game. My current best time is 1:09:08, I'll be trying for 1:08.If you like this stream or my videos, please consider subscribing and give this video/stream a thumbs up.
Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits RTA Speedrun 1:09:08 Ice cube 2021-12-18 | 45s improvement over my previous uploaded run. Fewer mistakes, yet some obvious time saves left
Pikmin 3DX - All Fruits RTA Speedrun 1:09:53 Ice cube 2021-12-05 | First all fruits run of 2021, better late than never! I was able to get a quite substantial PB, now future improvements will be smaller for sure.
Pikmin 3DX - Day 8 Big Fruit Carnival 22840 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-11-16 | Highest score from the whole mission mode and side stories. There is room for improvement, this is 4s away from the best known time.I've already done Day 9 and Day 10, but I want to improve my time on the last day, so see you all tomorrow for this last one!
Pikmin 3DX - Day 6 Channel Gone Dry 20050 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-11-15 | I'm back completing this challenge after a small hiccup of 2 weeks – I had to deal with some other stuff.This stage gets yet another capped leaderboard unfortunately, with this time being 2s from the current best known time. I've already done some months ago stage 2-7 and got my goal time of 0:59 so the next stage you will see is stage 2-8. Only a couple stages left!
Pikmin 3DX - Day 5 Team Monster Hunt 6310 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-11-01 | 9s from best known time (capped leaderboards).On this stage you have to be lucky with the position of the bulbear. Here it was decent because I didn't have to go out of my way (on the right part) to kill it. Although it was not perfect because it was a bit close to the other enemies, which lost some time.
Pikmin 3DX - Day 3 Land, Sea, and Sky 6210 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-10-31 | I like this route because it shows 2 "tricks" that are not used in story mode speedrun. The end of the day was quite sloppy but this is still decent (9s from best known time). Also that's yet another stage with capped leaderboards – something quite common on side stories.
Pikmin 3DX - Day 2 Creature Hunting 5660 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-10-30 | Ideally, you want the crab to grab the bomb at the end (or at the very least get damaged by the explosion), but it didn't go according to plan here.
Pikmin 3DX - Day 1 Pikmin Reunion 11770 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-10-29 | One of the most unique stage of the side stories.
Pikmin 3DX - Day 4: Tundra 17930 (Side Stories) (WR) Ice cube 2021-10-28 | Tied best known time on the last stage of Olimar's Assignment. Only Olimar's Comeback left!
Pikmin 3DX - Day 3: River 15450 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-10-27 | Eventually I could beat the current record on this stage by one second, it took quite a lot of attempts. This is the fastest video recorded of this stage, although because the in-game leaderboard is capped it's not possible to know if someone has a faster not recorded run.Edit: between the day I played this level and today, this record has been beaten by 1s!
Pikmin 3DX - Day 1: Flower Garden 12560 (Side Stories) Ice cube 2021-10-26 | Now that I'm done with the 36 levels of mission mode, there are only the 14 side stories stages left... Let's start with the first one: Flower Garden.Generally, the side stories levels are a bit easier and shorter than mission mode, with fewer enemies or fruits to collect. The stages being remixes of the main game maps, the enemies and fruits are also typically more spread out.Also, you will see that this level maxes out the "world record", but this is not the fastest video of this level (there is a video which is 3s faster)
Pikmin 3DX - Defeat Bosses! Plasm Wraith 0:58 Ice cube 2021-10-25 | This time is nowhere near good, but this boss is rng heavy and I don't really feel like grinding it for a better time. I just wanted to get a time below 1 minute, so there we go. For information the best known time for this boss is 40s.
Pikmin 3DX - Defeat Bosses! Quaggled Mireclops 0:34 Ice cube 2021-10-24 | Probably one of the easiest boss to get a time close to WR, although saving the 2 additional seconds that I'm missing looks very difficult.
Pikmin 3DX - Defeat Bosses! Scornet Maestro 0:36 Ice cube 2021-10-23 | A lot can go wrong on this fight, but this attempt was decent.
Pikmin 3DX - Defeat Bosses! Sandbelching Meerslug 0:55 Ice cube 2021-10-22 | 2s from WR. This boss requires a good rng pattern so it's a bit tedious. No cap on the leaderboards this time.
Pikmin 3DX - Defeat Bosses! Vehemoth Phosbat 0:25 Ice cube 2021-10-21 | 2s from best known time again. Here you can see a weird thing on the charts: there is a cap at 30s, times below won't go on the leaderboards. This was probably done to prevent cheated and unrealistic times, but the devs set the limit too high.
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