Difficulty

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Difficulty is a feature in Pikmin 3 Deluxe that alters aspects of the game in order to adjust how easy or hard it is. These aspects include the length of a day and the strength of enemies.

Upon creating a save file on the file selection screen, the player will be prompted to choose a difficulty. There are 3 options: Normal, Hard, and Ultra-Spicy, in increasing order of difficulty. The latter can only be unlocked once the player has completed the story mode in Hard difficulty, or completed the demo.

At any point in the saved game selection screen, the player can press to change a file's difficulty, but doing so makes it impossible for the player to earn any badge related to completing Story Mode in a given difficulty, in that file. If the player uses this option to change to the exact same difficulty the file is already at, nothing will happen.

Effects

Subject	Normal	Hard	Ultra-Spicy
Day duration	18 minutes	13 minutes	13 minutes
Enemy health	Enemies usually have lower health than on the Wii U original	Most enemies have twice as much as health than on Normal difficulty
Nectar eggs	Common	More than in the original game, but less than on normal difficulty	Same as the original game
Pikmin limit	100	100	60
Pikmin drowning time	≈11 seconds	≈6 seconds	≈3 seconds
Sprayed Pikmin drowning time	≈5 seconds	≈2 seconds	≈1 second
Leader health	≈1.5 times the usual	Same as on the Wii U	Same as on the Wii U

Badges

There are three badges related to completing Story Mode in a given difficulty:

• Pikmin Challenger: Obtained by beating Story Mode on Normal, Hard, or Ultra-Spicy difficulties.
• Pikmin Professional: Obtained by beating Story Mode on Hard or Ultra-Spicy difficulties.
• Pikmin Master: Obtained by beating Story Mode on Ultra-Spicy difficulty.

In other game modes

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See also

• Menu/Options
• Challenge run