Grassdigger | Pikmin 2 Glitch: Collecting Multiple Treasures During a Cutscene @grassdigger8695 | Uploaded July 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Currently, Valley of Repose requires 3 days to complete. For a while, there was no theoretical way to reduce this, since the day always ends when you collect the first aboveground treasure, and the day ends when you collect Spherical Atlas.
However, Valley of Repose COULD theoretically be beaten in 2 days, thanks to a glitch I found that I call Rest Skip: youtube.com/watch?v=ChcaITxJxJs
The only obstacle to this type of 6-day completion is finding a way to enter Emergence Cave on day 1.
So a good question to ask is this: could it be theoretically possible to beat all of Valley of Repose in one day? To do this, we would have to find a way to skip the day from ending after collecting the first treasure, especially since the other aboveground treasures would be left behind.
You may say to enter a cave while collecting the first aboveground treasure at the same time. However, Espyo tested this, and this does not skip the day from ending. But some interesting glitches do occur: youtube.com/watch?v=n7R0wSesM_U&t=166s
There's only one other conceivable way to beat Valley of Repose in a day, and that's if all of the aboveground treasures could be collected at the exact same time before the day automatically ends. That's what I test in this video!
Unfortunately, the game only recognizes one treasure at a time, and the game won't recognize other treasures until the screen fully fades back in. Since the day ends before the screen fades in at all, the other treasures are ignored. Thus, Pikmin 2 suffers the same fate as Pikmin 1: both have a tutorial map that will always require 2 days to finish, regardless of many potential glitches.
Anyway, there are some interesting things to point out with collecting a bunch of treasures during a cutscene. First of all, the game has a list of treasures that it checks in a specific order! In Awakening Wood, this list goes
-Sunseed Berry
-Chance Totem
-Air Brake
-Decorative Goo
-Healing Cast
-Pilgrim Bulb
Also, Geographic Projection fits in this list somewhere, but I don't know where currently. So for example, if Air Brake, Chance Totem and Decorative Goo were collected at the same time (or during a cutscene), the game would play the cutscene of Chance Totem first, then Air Brake, then Decorative Goo.
Also, I show that the cutscene of Louie approaching the red Onion takes priority over treasure collection, which is strange but neat.
Since these treasure collection cutscenes play way after Pikmin finished carrying the treasure, most of the cutscenes don't feature any Pikmin, which causes the rather well-known "floating treasure glitch" to occur.
Lastly, I show that Pikmin can grab onto treasures that were already put into the ship's green light, and they can even lift it again. It's pretty weird that these treasures can still be interacted with in this floating/wobbling state.
EDIT: Now we are hoping that a 5-day reduction could follow from accessing Emergence Cave on day 1, since 6-day completion has been made possible by completing Awakening Wood in 1 day: youtube.com/watch?v=govlosZaj-0
However, as this video shows, 5-days is almost certainly the absolute minimum number of days that we can hope for, since we can't seem to get around how the day ends when we collect the first aboveground treasure in Valley of Repose.
Currently, Valley of Repose requires 3 days to complete. For a while, there was no theoretical way to reduce this, since the day always ends when you collect the first aboveground treasure, and the day ends when you collect Spherical Atlas.
However, Valley of Repose COULD theoretically be beaten in 2 days, thanks to a glitch I found that I call Rest Skip: youtube.com/watch?v=ChcaITxJxJs
The only obstacle to this type of 6-day completion is finding a way to enter Emergence Cave on day 1.
So a good question to ask is this: could it be theoretically possible to beat all of Valley of Repose in one day? To do this, we would have to find a way to skip the day from ending after collecting the first treasure, especially since the other aboveground treasures would be left behind.
You may say to enter a cave while collecting the first aboveground treasure at the same time. However, Espyo tested this, and this does not skip the day from ending. But some interesting glitches do occur: youtube.com/watch?v=n7R0wSesM_U&t=166s
There's only one other conceivable way to beat Valley of Repose in a day, and that's if all of the aboveground treasures could be collected at the exact same time before the day automatically ends. That's what I test in this video!
Unfortunately, the game only recognizes one treasure at a time, and the game won't recognize other treasures until the screen fully fades back in. Since the day ends before the screen fades in at all, the other treasures are ignored. Thus, Pikmin 2 suffers the same fate as Pikmin 1: both have a tutorial map that will always require 2 days to finish, regardless of many potential glitches.
Anyway, there are some interesting things to point out with collecting a bunch of treasures during a cutscene. First of all, the game has a list of treasures that it checks in a specific order! In Awakening Wood, this list goes
-Sunseed Berry
-Chance Totem
-Air Brake
-Decorative Goo
-Healing Cast
-Pilgrim Bulb
Also, Geographic Projection fits in this list somewhere, but I don't know where currently. So for example, if Air Brake, Chance Totem and Decorative Goo were collected at the same time (or during a cutscene), the game would play the cutscene of Chance Totem first, then Air Brake, then Decorative Goo.
Also, I show that the cutscene of Louie approaching the red Onion takes priority over treasure collection, which is strange but neat.
Since these treasure collection cutscenes play way after Pikmin finished carrying the treasure, most of the cutscenes don't feature any Pikmin, which causes the rather well-known "floating treasure glitch" to occur.
Lastly, I show that Pikmin can grab onto treasures that were already put into the ship's green light, and they can even lift it again. It's pretty weird that these treasures can still be interacted with in this floating/wobbling state.
EDIT: Now we are hoping that a 5-day reduction could follow from accessing Emergence Cave on day 1, since 6-day completion has been made possible by completing Awakening Wood in 1 day: youtube.com/watch?v=govlosZaj-0
However, as this video shows, 5-days is almost certainly the absolute minimum number of days that we can hope for, since we can't seem to get around how the day ends when we collect the first aboveground treasure in Valley of Repose.
