First Part Found

Day 4: First Part Found
Side Story	Olimar's Comeback
Objective	Carry the part!
Area	Distant Tundra
Starting Pikmin
25 20 16
Requirements
1:00 - time out 1:30 - 1:01 left 2:00 - 1:31 left 12:00 - 2:01 left
Time limit	12:00
Music	Olimar's Comeback (days 4-6)

First Part Found is the fourth day of Olimar's Comeback. It takes place in the Distant Tundra, with the objective of carrying a ship part to the SPERO.

Plot

After finding the Hocotate Ship, Olimar travels to the Distant Tundra to look for the missing ship parts. Much like the first game, the first ship part they find is the most important: the Main Engine. Although, it seems they have somehow defeated none of the enemies or destroyed any of the obstacles between the SPERO and the part's location, so the goal for the remainder of the day is to clear a path back.

At the end of the day, Olimar proposes he and Louie split up for the next region, but worries about Louie exploring on his own.

Description

The day is themed around making a path to take the Main Engine from its starting point to the SPERO by destroying gates, building bridges, and defeating enemies that are in the way. Once the Main Engine is retrieved, the day ends.

The player plays in the main segment of the Distant Tundra with the double bridges. They start in the bottom of the three high ledges below the President-like snow statue with the Main Engine, the Yellow Onion, and no Pikmin. The main exit is blocked by two Kingcaps, one containing nectar, and three Spotcaps, all containing nectar. The opposite side has a geyser that will take the player to 5 Yellow Pikmin sprouts, strangely planted in a straight line, and 16 Blue Pikmin sprouts, also in a line, leading toward the slide on the top. Right outside that section are two Wollywogs, 5 Yellow Pikmin sprouts, an electric gate leading to the bridges, stubborn rocks covering the Pikmin swapping point used in story mode, and Kingcaps with Spotcaps in the water blocking the entrance to the stream.

Objects

Ship parts

•  Main Engine

Enemies

•  Yellow Wollywog × 4
•  Puckering Blinnow × 2
•  Waddlepus × 2
•  Bearded Amprat × 3
•  Fiery Blowhog × 3
•  Joustmite × 2
•  Watery Blowhog × 1
•  Male Sheargrub × 3
•  Hermit Crawmad × 2

Obstacles

•  Kingcap × 7 (2 contain nectar)
•  Spotcap × 9 (5 contain nectar)
•  Dirt wall × 3
•  Electric gate × 2
•  Bridge (Red) × 30, in one pile
•  Bridge (Blue) × 45, in piles of 25 and 20
•  Geyser × 2

Others

•  Egg × 2 (one contains nectar, the other ultra-spicy spray)

Guide

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

First, go up the ledge using the geyser, and have one leader pluck the Yellow Pikmin and the other leader pluck the Blue Pikmin. The leader with the Yellow Pikmin should take out the Kingcaps and Spotcaps, while the leader with the Blue Pikmin should slide down and take care of the Yellow Wollyhops, the Kingcaps in the water, and the Fiery Blowhogs on the other side of the river. The leader with the Yellow Pikmin should destroy the electric gate, defeat the Bearded Amprats, pluck the Red Pikmin sprouts, and build the orange bridge. The leader with the Blue Pikmin should then take down the dirt wall, pluck the Red Pikmin sprouts, and build the blue bridge. Switch to the leader with the Yellow Pikmin and start carrying the Main Engine while the bridge is being finished. As the leader with the Blue Pikmin, defeat the enemies in the way of where the Pikmin are carrying the ship part. Finally, have the leaders meet up to destroy the dirt wall, defeat the enemies near the electric gate, and destroy the electric gate before the SPERO. If you feel like you don't have enough Pikmin at any time, use the time while bridge pieces are being carried to bring enemy corpses to the Onions.

Quotes

Briefing

“Don’t bother lifting that ship part until you’ve cleared a route back, including bridges! I don’t want to see any bite marks on Hocotate Freight property!”

Outline

“Mission Log, Day 4: We’ve found the most important part of the ship, the main engine! It’s a bit dirty from exposure to the elements, but it should still function. Now to consider how to transport it back to base without any indigenous creatures damaging it.”

Loading screen tip

“Defeat those creatures in the way, and safely make it through with the parts.”

During gameplay

In some situations during gameplay, Olimar or Louie will leave a comment.

Trigger	Olimar	Louie
Near the Yellow Onion	“We need to bring these parts back to the pod, or we can’t go home!”	“Precious parts…”
Passing by the snow statue resembling the President	“The nose is missing from that president-looking statue.”	“Something’s watching me. I just know it.”
At the midway point between the two bridges	“Let’s search the shore on the other side.”	“Get to the opposite shore…”
At the end of the blue bridge near the Red Onion	“The part we found looks so old. I believe it used to be a luxury item.”	“Aw… I am starving.”
Approaching electric gate blocking path to SPERO	“The retrieval point is past that electric gate!”	“The retrieval point is close.”
Going near the SPERO	“Oh, my poor family back home! Please be patient...”	“Almost mealtime.”

Assignment Report

“We got one of the parts, but the going won’t be easy from here. Louie and I are thinking of splitting up to find a way through the next region. I worry about him going off on his own. Maybe there’s a way to keep an eye on him from a distance. We’ll work it out, I suppose. Or else.”

Gallery

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  The Main Engine at the starting area.

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  The trail of Pikmin at the start of the area.

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  The Yellow Wollywogs at the bottom of the slide.

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  Carrying the part up a hill near the orange bridge.

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  The Fiery Blowhogs next to a pile of blue bridge fragments.

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  Building the blue bridge.

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  Carrying the part across the bridge as it approaches completion.

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  Carrying the part around a corner surrounded by enemies.

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  The obstacles just before the SPERO at the end of the level.

Trivia

• Since the Yellow Onion is separated from the Master Onion, and this level is the first level of Olimar's Comeback to use Yellow Pikmin, it's likely they rediscovered Yellow Pikmin on this day (much like the Koppai team did in story mode).
  • Although, in Side Stories, it seems most Onions are separated, like in Pikmin and Pikmin 2, or outright missing. Because of the debatable canon of this mode, it's likely this separation is due to gameplay purposes rather than showing a devolution of the Onions.
• There is a seemingly unused piece of gameplay dialog that is specified in the files for this stage but cannot be triggered. Olimar's line is “Pikmin are lost. We must make a path to carry the parts!” and Louie's line is “The Pikmin are lost... So we need a path.”.

Names in other languages

The following article or section needs help from someone who can translate Chinese text.

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ようやく発見！ １つ目のパーツ? Yōyaku Hakken! Hitotsu Me no Pātsu	Discovery at last! The first part
Chinese (traditional)	終於找到了！第1個零件
Chinese (simplified)	终于找到了！第1个零件
French	La première pièce	The first piece
German	Erstes Teil gefunden	First part found
Italian	Il primo componente	The first part
Korean	드디어 발견! 1번째 부품 Deudieo Balgyeon! 1-Beonjjae Bupum	Discovery at last! The first part
Spanish	La primera pieza	The first piece

See also

• Another Part Found
• The Impact Site