Ask the Developer Vol. 10, Pikmin 4—Part 1 by Turbostrider27 2 Comments tmantookie 3 years ago The videos won’t work. Hopefully that gets fixed soon! NinetyL 3 years ago Huh, the [prototype pikmin](https://assets.nintendo.com/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/dpr_1.0/c_scale,w_800/ncom/en_US/articles/2023/ask-the-developer-volume-10/Inserted/InsertedImage_01_EN) look an awful lot like [the punies from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/6/6c/Punis.jpg/1200px-Punis.jpg) … which everyone already interpreted as an obvious Pikmin homage, but I didn’t expect their appearance to have been based on an early scrapped design for the actual pikmin Write A CommentYou must be logged in to post a comment.
NinetyL 3 years ago Huh, the [prototype pikmin](https://assets.nintendo.com/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/dpr_1.0/c_scale,w_800/ncom/en_US/articles/2023/ask-the-developer-volume-10/Inserted/InsertedImage_01_EN) look an awful lot like [the punies from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/6/6c/Punis.jpg/1200px-Punis.jpg) … which everyone already interpreted as an obvious Pikmin homage, but I didn’t expect their appearance to have been based on an early scrapped design for the actual pikmin
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The videos won’t work. Hopefully that gets fixed soon!
Huh, the [prototype pikmin](https://assets.nintendo.com/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/dpr_1.0/c_scale,w_800/ncom/en_US/articles/2023/ask-the-developer-volume-10/Inserted/InsertedImage_01_EN) look an awful lot like [the punies from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/6/6c/Punis.jpg/1200px-Punis.jpg) … which everyone already interpreted as an obvious Pikmin homage, but I didn’t expect their appearance to have been based on an early scrapped design for the actual pikmin