Menu

Menus in video games allow the player to navigate outside the game world, and the have several of these menus. Some menus allow access to gameplay or other menus, while others allow the viewing of bonus content, while others change the settings of the game. Menus in the Pikmin games tend to have a consistent graphical style featuring prominent use of bubbles.

Hub menus
These menus allow access to other menus or types of gameplay.

Title screen
The title screen or main menu allows the player to begin the game, start an alternative game mode, or open the options. This menu is presented upon booting up the game, but after some other minor screens.

Story Mode menus
These menus relate to Story Mode.

Saved game selection
This menu allows the player to select which saved game to play on from the three available in, , , and.

Day selection
This menu allows the player to select which day to play from. It is incorporated into the saved game selection menu in Pikmin's rereleases.

Area selection
This menu allows the player to choose which area to explore next, out of all the ones they have unlocked.

Alternative game mode menus
These menus relate to other game modes.

Challenge Mode
The Challenge Mode menu allows a player to select a Challenge Mode level to play.

Mission Mode
The Mission Mode menu in allows a player to select a Mission Mode level to play.

Side Stories
The Side Stories menu allows a player to select a Side Stories day to play.

2-Player Battle
This menu allows the players to select battle settings in the 2-Player Battle mode, including the battle stage and the number of starting Pikmin, as well as view detailed rules on the mode.

Bingo Battle
This menu allows the players to select battle settings in the Bingo Battle mode, including the battle stage, the controllers, and the number of starting Pikmin.

In-game menus
These menus are accessed during gameplay, and usually pause the game when they are visible.

Pause
The pause menu appears in-game when the player presses a specific button, and allows them to do various actions.

Onion


The Onion menu appears during gameplay to let the player take Pikmin out of an Onion or put them back in.

Olimar's monitor
Olimar's monitor, a menu in, allows the usage of the radar.

KopPad
The KopPad, a menu in, allows the use of the radar, as well as several other functions such as viewing data files.

Tablet
The Tablet, similar to the KopPad, is a menu in which allows the usage of the radar. It also has a few more useful functions such as looking at any Missions.

Information menus
These menus allow the player to see additional content.

Bonuses
The bonuses menu in contains the game's pre-rendered cutscenes. In the Japanese version of Pikmin 2 for the GameCube, this menu also gives access to the e-Reader's games.

Olimar's voyage log


This menu allows the player to read Olimar's voyage log.

Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard
The Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard in are viewed through similar menus accessed from the area selection menu.

Hey! Pikmin logs


The logs menu in lets the player see information about Pikmin types, treasures, enemies, and more.

Day results
At the end of each day, after the ship takes off, a screen appears containing an analysis of the day with various statistics. A similar menu appears when the player exits a cave, or when an area is completed in ''Hey! Pikmin''.

Challenge results
When a Challenge Mode level is over, either by being successfully completed or by ending in a failure (but not by manually quitting from the pause menu), a menu appears to detail the results of the run.

Final results
This menu appears when the player completes the game, and gives statistics for the playthrough.

High scores
This screen contains records and statistics for runs of the main story mode, and also Mission Mode in Pikmin 3.

Options
The options menu allows the player to choose some of the game's options.

Minor menus
Other menus also exist in the Pikmin games, but these are either very minor or non-interactive.

Trivia

 * In Pikmin 2, whenever a question dialog box opens, like the one asking the player if they are sure they wish to go to the next sublevel, a dot appears on the top-left corner of the screen for a split second. Only the bottom-right corner of the dot is visible during normal gameplay.
 * The font used throughout many places in the series, most prominently the names of areas, is DF Mo Traditional Chinese.