Grassdigger | Skipping the First Paper Bag: Completion @grassdigger8695 | Uploaded August 2018 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This is a continuation of my other 2 videos about Skipping the First Paper Bag...
-How to Skip the first paper bag: youtube.com/watch?v=xNHH5X8D_Fw
-Collecting everything but Courage Reactor: youtube.com/watch?v=QUK2uisu6oQ
Now, I show that we can indeed collect Courage Reactor, meaning that Pikmin 2 can be completed without crushing the first paper bag! There are not many games that can be beaten without solving the first puzzle, but Pikmin 2 is one of them.
First, I get to Courage Reactor by utilizing a new napsack carry spot that I found: youtube.com/watch?v=jeWWRJSOtv8
Then, I spend a good chunk of time charging Courage Reactor with 4 groups of 19 whites. Charging was discovered by muratsubo: twitter.com/muratsubo/status/977499568085508096
Now, I need to give Courage Reactor a few jolts to put it where I want it. I showed how to put Courage Reactor to the left of the paper bag in my last video. In fact, I used the exact same clips as I did in the last video, since I used savestates. Once it's here, I need to jolt the Courage Reactor to a corner between 2 invisible walls.
In my previous video, Courage Reactor clipped out of bounds shortly after it got in this spot. However, it doesn't always clip through the ground, sometimes it's simply carried to the other side of the paper bag. I'm not sure why the Pikmin decide to carry it here, but it only seems to happen when they are in that corner.
Now, I whistle a purple off of Courage Reactor, and use a momentum throw to put it back on. Note that the momentum throw has to hit the ground in such a way that the purple flies further than it normally would. Now, when the Courage Reactor is carried again, the same glitch happens again, but in the other direction. Once the Courage Reactor is on the other side again, it partly clips through the ground, goes on a brief detour, and reaches the ship shortly after!
This method is extremely difficult, much harder than Goo Clip in my opinion. I could not have done it without savestates, and I don't advise anyone to try this method on console. It's just way too luck dependent.
But that's it! After I collect Courage Reactor, I head to Frontier Cavern to collect Rush Boots, and now everything in Valley of Repose has been collected! Ironically, if I come back, I'm stuck in the landing site. This is because the napsack carry spot doesn't work with the Rush Boots, since I can't walk up the slope anymore for some reason.
Looking back, it's incredible how many glitches had to come together in order to make this possible. C-stick mechanics and the fact that the Reunion Cutscene places Olimar and Louie in the same coordinates were used to get past the first paper bag the 1st time. Then, the new napsack carry glitch had to be used to get around the paper bag in the future. The mysterious carry glitch was used to collect a few treasures. And lastly, charging, purple momentum throws, and more strange carry behavior allowed Courage Reactor to be collected. I love it when a challenge requires so many different glitches! Where else would you see these glitches come together to accomplish the same goal?
The music used at the start of the video is Digital Memories by Unicorn Heads, provided by YouTube.
This is a continuation of my other 2 videos about Skipping the First Paper Bag...
-How to Skip the first paper bag: youtube.com/watch?v=xNHH5X8D_Fw
-Collecting everything but Courage Reactor: youtube.com/watch?v=QUK2uisu6oQ
Now, I show that we can indeed collect Courage Reactor, meaning that Pikmin 2 can be completed without crushing the first paper bag! There are not many games that can be beaten without solving the first puzzle, but Pikmin 2 is one of them.
First, I get to Courage Reactor by utilizing a new napsack carry spot that I found: youtube.com/watch?v=jeWWRJSOtv8
Then, I spend a good chunk of time charging Courage Reactor with 4 groups of 19 whites. Charging was discovered by muratsubo: twitter.com/muratsubo/status/977499568085508096
Now, I need to give Courage Reactor a few jolts to put it where I want it. I showed how to put Courage Reactor to the left of the paper bag in my last video. In fact, I used the exact same clips as I did in the last video, since I used savestates. Once it's here, I need to jolt the Courage Reactor to a corner between 2 invisible walls.
In my previous video, Courage Reactor clipped out of bounds shortly after it got in this spot. However, it doesn't always clip through the ground, sometimes it's simply carried to the other side of the paper bag. I'm not sure why the Pikmin decide to carry it here, but it only seems to happen when they are in that corner.
Now, I whistle a purple off of Courage Reactor, and use a momentum throw to put it back on. Note that the momentum throw has to hit the ground in such a way that the purple flies further than it normally would. Now, when the Courage Reactor is carried again, the same glitch happens again, but in the other direction. Once the Courage Reactor is on the other side again, it partly clips through the ground, goes on a brief detour, and reaches the ship shortly after!
This method is extremely difficult, much harder than Goo Clip in my opinion. I could not have done it without savestates, and I don't advise anyone to try this method on console. It's just way too luck dependent.
But that's it! After I collect Courage Reactor, I head to Frontier Cavern to collect Rush Boots, and now everything in Valley of Repose has been collected! Ironically, if I come back, I'm stuck in the landing site. This is because the napsack carry spot doesn't work with the Rush Boots, since I can't walk up the slope anymore for some reason.
Looking back, it's incredible how many glitches had to come together in order to make this possible. C-stick mechanics and the fact that the Reunion Cutscene places Olimar and Louie in the same coordinates were used to get past the first paper bag the 1st time. Then, the new napsack carry glitch had to be used to get around the paper bag in the future. The mysterious carry glitch was used to collect a few treasures. And lastly, charging, purple momentum throws, and more strange carry behavior allowed Courage Reactor to be collected. I love it when a challenge requires so many different glitches! Where else would you see these glitches come together to accomplish the same goal?
The music used at the start of the video is Digital Memories by Unicorn Heads, provided by YouTube.
