Flower Garden

Flower Garden is the first mission in Olimar's Assignment, representing the first day of Olimar and Louie's third trip to PNF-404. It takes place in the Garden of Hope.

Olimar's Expedition Log: Garden Survey
This cutscene is identical to the Secret File Olimar's Expedition Log - In the Garden -, but with different subtitles.

Synopsis
Some unknown time after the events of, Hocotate Freight falls into debt once again. The President again sends Olimar and Louie back to PNF-404. This level takes place on their first day, establishing their situation.

In relation to the Story Mode, this takes place before the Koppaites have crashed onto PNF-404, indicated by Brittany's absence from the bucket she was trapped in. In addition, Olimar makes no mention of the cosmic-drive key.

Description
The day is set in the Garden of Hope, but only part of the area can be explored; like many Side Story missions, brick walls and cinder blocks restrict access to parts of the area. All of the other area segments, the section behind the crystal wall next to the base, and the second half of the area unlocked in the later part of Story Mode are not accessible. This limits the explorable area to the loop-shaped region Alph explores on day 2.

The player is initially restricted to the area around the base, but a dirt wall can be destroyed to access the rest of the loop, and a brown bridge can be built to access the same area from the opposite direction. (Note that the brown bridge is built in the opposite direction to how it is built in Story Mode.) This further area contains most of the treasures: 2 Face Wrinklers, a Golden Sunseed, 2 Sunseed Berries, and a Citrus Lump.

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