Wistful Wild

Wistful Wild
Treasures	5
Caves	3
Requirements	Repay the debt
Music	{{{music}}}

The Wistful Wild is an area that can be accessed in Pikmin 2; it is made available once the Hocotate Freight company's debt has been fully repaid. The design of this area appears to be a combination of The Impact Site and The Final Trial from Pikmin. It contains three caves and five treasures above the surface which total a value of × 3205 in treasure, or × 13295 including treasures found in caverns ( × 13285 in the European version of the game). It is also a representation of Autumn. Contents of the region include two large lakes, one of which can be drained and the other a bridge built over; a clearing with three random-typed Burgeoning Spiderworts; and decorating it are rusted metal structures, tree stumps and Foxtails, and a half-visible yield sign where the Onions land.

Every 30 days from day 31, one can see some weird insects in this location, appearing as swarms of very small orange bugs. They release poison occasionally if attacked, and have an extremely small amount of health; each one drops a blob of nectar or spray when killed. They are found in two locations: outside Dream Den, and by Hole of Heroes.

Wistful Wild Music

Treasures

Caves

Enemies

A Gatling Groink in the Wistful Wild.

Dwarf Red Bulborb x5
Swooping Snitchbug x1
Decorated Cannon Beetle x1
Hermit Crawmad x1
Fiery Blowhog x2
Watery Blowhog x1
Shearwig x3
Armored Cannon Beetle Larva x1
Mitite
Creeping Chrysanthemum x3
Withering Blowhog x3
Orange Bulborb x2
Gatling Groink x1
Cloaking Burrow-nit x1
Yellow Wollywog x1
Ujadani (appear in the pattern mentioned above)

Gallery

The landing zone.
The entrance to the Cavern of Chaos.
The shortest of the two paths that connect the two sections of the Wistful Wild.
The area with Burgeoning Spiderworts.
The large bamboo cane, the second path that connects the two sections.
The zone after the bamboo cane.
The large tree stump on the second section.
The pond on the second section.

Other images

Overview map.
A map of the Wistful Wild showing treasure locations.
The Ujadani.
The patterns for The Impact Site and The Final Trial compared with a map of Wistful Wild.
The texture used for the radar pattern.

Trivia

To do: Get a source for the "Land of Promise" statement.
Care to do so?

It is possible for a captain to get up onto the wall borders of the map via several enemies, including the Decorated Cannon Beetle and Watery Blowhog. This video shows how much of the area can be explored there.
The YIELD sign that makes up the starting arena is actually a Stop sign in the Japanese version.^[1]
Every 30 days, starting on day 31, some mysterious bugs known as ujadani appear here.
The "start" and "end" of the area are the same as the locations of the final and first ship parts in Pikmin, respectively.
The Wistful Wild is the only area in Pikmin 2 to not have an above-ground boss fight of any kind.
The Wistful Wild was originally going to be called the Land of Promise, a name that is retained in other language versions (see below).