Grassdigger | Pikmin 2: Collecting Conifer Spire without Yellows? @grassdigger8695 | Uploaded August 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Now that we can collect Decorative Goo without tearing down the electric gate, it's natural to wonder what other electric gates can be skipped. Furthermore, if we could skip destroying the electric gate in Wistful Wild, we could actually beat Pikmin 2 without unlocking yellows! Currently, there is 1 electric gate in Perplexing Pool that must be destroyed. However, if I repeatedly enter Submerged Castle without unlocking yellows, then 5 wild yellows enter their Onion per visit. Then, I can withdraw these yellows from the Onion and use them to destroy the electric gate, even though yellows are not unlocked. Here is a video of this: youtube.com/watch?v=V9rEXxVjLVw
However, the yellow Onion won't follow us until we unlock yellows, which means these yellows can only be used in Perplexing Pool. So the electric gate in Wistful Wild is really the 1 place where unlocking yellows is necessary at the moment.
First, I used the Fiery Blowhog to go oob. Then, I brought a squadron of Pikmin to Conifer Spire, and I tried to see if charging it could allow me to have it clip through the electric gate. Charging is a recent glitch discovered by muratsubo: twitter.com/muratsubo/status/977499568085508096
Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful. However, I haven't lost hope yet. Perhaps Conifer Spire simply needs more speed to clip through the electric gate. Or, maybe there's a way to have Conifer Spire go around the electric gate to the left or right. Regardless, I would definitely not rule out a yellowless playthrough being possible in the future.
Note that Noamoa16 also tried doing this shortly after charging was found: youtube.com/watch?v=_1viNr5Wp0o
I suppose that I just wanted to try this out myself... it never hurts to be thorough.
Now that we can collect Decorative Goo without tearing down the electric gate, it's natural to wonder what other electric gates can be skipped. Furthermore, if we could skip destroying the electric gate in Wistful Wild, we could actually beat Pikmin 2 without unlocking yellows! Currently, there is 1 electric gate in Perplexing Pool that must be destroyed. However, if I repeatedly enter Submerged Castle without unlocking yellows, then 5 wild yellows enter their Onion per visit. Then, I can withdraw these yellows from the Onion and use them to destroy the electric gate, even though yellows are not unlocked. Here is a video of this: youtube.com/watch?v=V9rEXxVjLVw
However, the yellow Onion won't follow us until we unlock yellows, which means these yellows can only be used in Perplexing Pool. So the electric gate in Wistful Wild is really the 1 place where unlocking yellows is necessary at the moment.
First, I used the Fiery Blowhog to go oob. Then, I brought a squadron of Pikmin to Conifer Spire, and I tried to see if charging it could allow me to have it clip through the electric gate. Charging is a recent glitch discovered by muratsubo: twitter.com/muratsubo/status/977499568085508096
Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful. However, I haven't lost hope yet. Perhaps Conifer Spire simply needs more speed to clip through the electric gate. Or, maybe there's a way to have Conifer Spire go around the electric gate to the left or right. Regardless, I would definitely not rule out a yellowless playthrough being possible in the future.
Note that Noamoa16 also tried doing this shortly after charging was found: youtube.com/watch?v=_1viNr5Wp0o
I suppose that I just wanted to try this out myself... it never hurts to be thorough.
