Leaving its timeline up for debate.
On its surface,Pikminis a cute strategy game about growing little plant people and gathering treasure.
Spoiler warning:the following article discusses endgame details forPikmin 4.
Before Pikmin 4, I’d never spent much time trying to make Pikmin’s setting make sense.
It’s based on Earth, obviously, though a version with different animals and no humans in sight.
Are humans extinct, or have we all simply popped out for tea?
It doesn’t really matter to the simple stories Pikmin games tell.
(Also, because Pikmin 4 probably has more story in it than the previous games combined.)
There could be a very simple explanation for all this.
Olimar states that such a thing would never happen.
The events of Pikmin 3 are also foreshadowed.
As for the story’s timeline, I’ll leave that to players' imaginations.
Fans are now drawing their own for Pikmin 4.
Fans want to know what’s next, and why the series' timeline appears to have shifted.
Or maybe there is nothing to it.
After all, Pikmin is just a cute game about plant people and treasure - right?
