Pikmin 2... Again?/Customization
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Customization is a permanent feature in Pikmin 2... Again?, introduced in The Amazing New Update!!. It allows the player to customize the main menu, HUD, and even their own leaders and Pikmin through skins, which are bought with blue sparklium. Skins are purely cosmetic and generally do not affect gameplay unless one's appearance is similar to another's. However, Error_Pikmin and Error_Captain are made to challenge players, making them unable to know which Pikmin and leader they are using due to them looking identical no matter what they are used on.
Originally, Customization was planned to be a prank mode, turning the Pikmin into Walking Pikmin when content was being planned. It was then expanded, making Walking Pikmin the first reskin to be added.
Overview
The customization screen is found in the main menu by swiping left, sending the player to the customization shop. The customization shop is split into two categories, edits and reskins, with even more categories under them. For edits, they are visual edits, sound effects, and effect edits, and for reskins, they are Pikmin and leaders. Both are bought with blue sparklium, permanently unlocking them.
The customization gallery is found at the top center of the customization shop. Swiping it down leads to the selection menu, showing five options: visual edits, sound edits, effect edits, Pikmin, and leaders. Visual edits allow changing the color of the main menu's background, among other things, and sound edits enable swapping music for others, and effect edits are like sound edits but for sound effects. As for Pikmin and leaders, every discovered one will be shown and every one yet to be discovered will be hidden, to avoid spoilers. Clicking on a Pikmin or leader will show a list of every owned reskin for them, where they can be selected. Clicking on the "i" icon of the Pikmin or leader's skin shows a description of it.
Gallery
The Customization Gallery lists every reskin and edit, giving each a description as well as listing their color. It is shown when swiping up on the customization shop, being found on the top-down.
Edits
Visual edits
Visual edits allow the player to change the color of the main menu, HUD, map, and other features, and also be able to give effects to them, such as turning the Beeping Beeper into an alarm siren, and more.
There are also pre-made palettes for changing the color of the main menu background and HUD, as shown below:
Name | Colors | Cost | Description |
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Classic palette | Purple and pink | 0 | “This is the default palette. It is great-looking!” |
Blackout palette | Black | 5 | “Someone give me a candle, please.” |
Classic palette 2.0 | Purple, pink, and blue | 10 | “What changed? We have blue now, all the cool colors!” |
Blazing-hot palette | Red, orange, and yellow | 10 | “With such pallet you'll... Well, never feel cold, I guess.” |
Radiocative palette | Green, lime, and aquamarine | 20 | “...Why did I get a third arm?” |
Old palette | White, gray, and black | 20 | “This palette is in the old times, all black and white!” |
Sea palette | Blue, cyan, and sky-blue | 20 | “This submerged palette will make you feel that you are in the sea. Or that your menu was flooded, too.” |
Lasagna palette | Red, tan, and orange | 30 | “Mmm... Delicious!” |
Tree palette | Green, brown, and almond | 30 | “This palette will make you feel that a tree is in front of you! Let's just hope it doesn't fall...” |
Heaven palette | Blue, white, and cyan | 30 | “This palette will make you feel that are in the skies!” |
Search-rave palette | Red, yellow, blue, green | 40 | “Imagine 23...” |
Toxic palette | Blackcurrant, purple, and lavender | 40 | “This palette will make it feel that you are... Umm... Dying?” |
Rainbow-rave palette | Red, yellow, blue, purple, cyan, and green | 100 | “The whole rainbow, amazing!” |
Death palette | Red, yellow, blue, blackcurrant, purple, white, tan, gray, pink, cyan, lime, green, brown, lavender, black, orange, almond, golden, sky-blue, aquamarine, maroon, greenish-black, and vermillion |
250 | “The horror.” |
Custom palette | Any | 1,000 | “This palette allows you to use any color you want! Have fun and choose the ones you like!” |
Sound edits
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Sound edits allow the player to swap music tracks. Soundtracks include those from Pikmin 1, Pikmin 2, Pikmin 3, and Pikmin 4, and even Hey! Pikmin and Pikmin Bloom. Players can also find and use other soundtracks.
Effect edits
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Effect edits allow the player to choose different sound effects.
Reskins
Reskins are a main customization feature allowing the player to customize the appearance of their Pikmin and captains. Each skin also has an optional, unique voice.
Pikmin
These reskins are for Pikmin, changing their appearance. If one's color and appearance are too similar to another Pikmin's, a warning will appear, mentioning specifically the conflicting skins and asking if the player is sure.
Image | Name | Cost | Description | Compatibility | Color | Inspiration |
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Boloroborp | 666- | “Boroloborp... Bolororop... Boloroborp. Hard to write, but the best name ever!” | Bulbmin | Red | The Red Boloroborp, a joke enemy created by A Friendly Amprat. | |
Piglin | 666- | “The Piglin and Oloromor on their daily crash land on PNF-404. Turning your Pikmin into very poorly-made ones, level with Pikmin 1 artwork, and with the eyes on the sides instead of the front.” | Every Pikmin | Varies | Piglin, joke Pikmin created by A Friendly Amprat. | |
Error_Pikmin | 10- | “Pikmin not found. Try again.” | Every Pikmin | Black and purple | The "ERROR" model used in Garry's Mod as a placeholder. | |
P2A Pikmin | 0 | “Those are your default Pikmin.” | Every Pikmin | Varies | Appearance of Pikmin in Pikmin 2... Again?. | |
P1+2 Pikmin | 100 | “Those are the first Pikmin, turns them into their Pikmin 1 and 2 appearances!” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The Pikmins' Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 incarnations. | |
P3 Pikmin | 150 | “Those newer-looking Pikmin, they are from Pikmin 3!” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The Pikmins' Pikmin 3 incarnation. | |
P4 Pikmin | 250 | “Those high-quality Pikmin are so shiny that they look like rubber. Pikmin from Pikmin 4!” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The Pikmins' Pikmin 4 incarnation. | |
HP Pikmin | 300 | “Those awful-looking Pikmin are like in Pikmin 3, but in Hey! Pikmin...” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The Pikmins' Hey! Pikmin incarnation. | |
PB Pikmin | 350 | “Those also rubbery Pikmin are from Pikmin Bloom. Bloom your Pikmin with this skin!” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The Pikmins' Pikmin Bloom incarnation. | |
Walking Pikmin | 500 | “Those are 2D Pikmin, they walk!” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The Pikmin in Pikmin Bloom's app icon. | |
Ghost Pikmin | 600 | “AAAAAAAAAH!! AAHHHHHH!! AHHHHHHH!!” | Glow Pikmin | Orange | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Bean Pikmin | 600 | “Those beany Pikmin are... Very slim.” | Green Pikmin | Green | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Fuzzy Pikmin | 600 | “Those furballs are really Pikmin, and they... Lack arms? They carry with what? With their mind?” | Yellow Pikmin, Ice Pikmin | Black | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Grape Pikmin | 600 | “This is a Pikmin. But I can't be the only one who thought those were legged grapes, right?” | Cursed Pikmin | Hot-pink | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Yeti Pikmin | 600 | “This furry, large Pikmin looks more like an ancient spirit of the mountains or a yeti than a Pikmin.” | Purple Pikmin, Giant Pikmin | Light-blue | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Goo Pikmin | 600 | “I almost thought this was the 3rd furry Pikmin, like was winter coming to Pikmin 3 or what? In that case, it is a melted Pikmin, and yet again, NO ARMS, it doesn't even have legs.” | Slime Pikmin | Bright-blue | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Carapace Pikmin | 600 | “The one of the many armless Pikmin, why so many? Why does its head look like crash symbol or a helmet, and why does its body look like ginger?” | Rock Pikmin, Green Pikmin | Light-orange | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Bulbearmin | 600 | “This is a bulbear, but infected by a Pikmin. Red Bulborbs weren't enough?” | Bulbmin | Black | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Nightglow Pikmin | 650 | “This is a purple version of Ghost Pikmin. Truly ghostly!” | Glow Pikmin | Purple | The unused Pikmin from Pikmin 3, recolored. | |
Bootleg Pikmin | 666 | “Never buy this thing, even for 66 or just 6.” | Blue Pikmin | Blue | The bootleg Blue Pikmin plushies. | |
P2 Pikpik Carrot | 700 | “This is a walking pikpik carrot, straight from Pikmin 2.” | Walking Golden Pikpik Carrot | Orange | The pikpik carrot's Pikmin 2 incarnation | |
P3 Pikpik Carrot | 700 | “The color changed, now it's peach. Oh, it's from Pikmin 3, whatever it was doing there.” | Walking Golden Pikpik Carrot | Peach | The pikpik carrot's Pikmin 3 incarnation | |
P2A Walking Pikpik Carrot | 700 | “This is how the Walking Golden Pikpik Carrots used to look like, and their old name. They looked like the original from Pikmin 2. Until the big bad Claw Pikmin came and blew its orange to light yellow.” | Walking Golden Pikpik Carrot | Orange | The old design of the Walking Golden Pikpik Carrot. | |
Normal Pikmin | 700 | “This is a tan Pikmin that is... Well, normal. Nothing much, I just thought it would be good to do a true ordinary Pikmin, I guess.” | Walking Golden Pikpik Carrot, Original Pikmin | Tan | An old, unused concept Pikmin made by Blower Pot. | |
Olimin | 700 | “I am so very tired...” | Red Pikmin | Red | The bad ending of Pikmin 1. | |
Loumin | 750 | “Something says that this thing is inside Louie's brain itself.” | Blue Pikmin | Blue | The bad ending of Pikmin 1. | |
The Presimin | 750 | “Just guess how his voice sounds like...” | Yellow Pikmin | Yellow | The bad ending of Pikmin 1. | |
Cosmin | 800 | “Alien Pikmin?” | Purple Pikmin | Purple | The bad ending of Pikmin 1. | |
Armless Winged Pikmin | 900 | “This is a Winged Pikmin, they used to have no arms before. I'm not even surprised anymore, after all those dismembered ones from before.” | Winged Pikmin, Brown Pikmin | Pink | The unused Winged Pikmin design concept from Pikmin 3. | |
Random Rock Pikmin | 900 | “This is a Rock Pikmin, from Pikmin 3, but all of them have unique shapes. That rocks!” | Rock Pikmin | Gray | The pre-release Rock Pikmin from Pikmin 3. | |
Wushroom Pikmin | 1,000 | “This Mushroom Pikmin got on a new fashion, the white mushroom fashion.” | Mushroom Pikmin | N/A | The Rebel Mushroom Pikmin glitch from Pikmin 1. | |
Mini Oatchi | 1,500 | “This is a miniature Oatchi, cute!” | Bulbmin | Orange | Oatchi, the deuteragonist from Pikmin 4. | |
Mini Moss | 1,500 | “Moss, too? Awesome! Her look just scares me...” | Bulbmin | Green | Moss, a character from Pikmin 4. | |
Retro Pikmin | 2,000 | “This Pikmin is very retro, when pixels used to be green.” | Pixel Pikmin | Green | The color of the pixels in retro games such as Space Invaders. | |
Portable Pikmin | 2,000 | “A very old Pikmin, even the dinosaurs played those old games about this Pikmin crossing the road, before the meteor, of course.” | Pixel Pikmin | Black | Mr. Game & Watch. | |
PDaD Dart Pikmin | 2,500 | “This is the original Dart Pikmin, but the tail is missing... (the Barkstealer ate it.)” | Dart Pikmin | Brown | Their Pikmin: Dusk and Dawn incarnation. | |
Angry White Pikmin | 3,000 | “This White Pikmin is really angry, because a screw fell on it.” | White Pikmin | White | The angry White Pikmin in Occupational Hazard. | |
White Scarf | 3,000 | “This is what happened to the angry White Pikmin later, that is called "villain arc".” | White Pikmin | White | White Scarf. | |
Old Giant Pikmin | 3,500 | “This is how Giant Pikmin used to look like, just like any normal Pikmin but oversized.” | Giant Pikmin | Maroon | The Giant Pikmin's first concepts. | |
Bronze Pikmin | 5,000 | “This is a Pikmin out of bronze! Good job!” | Every Pikmin | Bronze | ||
Silver Pikmin | 7,000 | “This is a Pikmin out of silver! Amazing!” | Every Pikmin | Silver | ||
Gold Pikmin | 9,000 | “This is a Pikmin out of gold! Almost there!” | Every Pikmin | Golden | ||
Rainbow Pikmin | 20,000 | “This Pikmin is rainbow... Can you manage to obtain this one?” | Every Pikmin | Rainbow | ||
Mini Pot | 70,000 | “Mini Blower Pots, perfect vehicles for Pikmin!” | Every Pikmin | Varies | The creator of Pikmin 2... Again?, Blower Pot. |
Leaders
Just like Pikmin, leaders can also be modified. They have fewer reskins than Pikmin but their reskins cost more blue sparklium.
Image | Name | Cost | Description | Compatibility | Color | Inspiration |
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Error_Captain | 100- | “Captain not found. Placeholder used.” | Every leader | Black and purple | The "ERROR" model used in Garry's Mod as a placeholder. | |
P2A Captain | 0 | “Those are your default captains, from here.” | Every leader | Varies | The leaders' Pikmin 2... Again? appearance. | |
P1+2 Captain | 400 | “They are the captains from Pikmin 1 and 2. They are classic!” | Every leader | Varies | The leaders' Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 incarnations. | |
P3 Captain | 450 | “They are captains from Pikmin 3. They are cooler.” | Every leader | Varies | The leaders' Pikmin 3 incarnation. | |
P4 Captain | 500 | “They are captains from Pikmin 4, and least don't look rubbery.” | Every leader | Varies | The leaders' Pikmin 4 incarnation. | |
Ashley | 500 | “Ashley from WarioWare, I guess she went to the wrong place.” | Olimar | Red | The character of the same name from the WarioWare series. | |
HP Captain | 650 | “I lost all my HP! I ran out of description ideas. But anyway, they are from Hey! Pikmin.” | Every leader | Varies | The leaders' Hey! Pikmin incarnation. | |
Drawing Captain | 800 | “They are based on the Pikmin 4's intro, which has a drawing art style, apparently on paper.” | Every leader | Black | The artstyle of the intro of Pikmin 4. | |
Hat Kid | 900 | “Hat Kid, the one |
Louie | Purple | The character of the same name from A Hat in the Time. | |
Siren Head | 1,500 | “Siren Head?! Okay, now even more random stuff is here.” | The President | Almond | The creation of Trevor Henderson of the same name. | |
White Bomber | 2,500 | “...” | Cosmicaptain | White | The character of the same name from the Bomberman series | |
Orimario | 3,000 | “Orimario number one!” | Olimar | Red | Mario, the main protagonist from the Super Mario series. He is also one of the protagonists of The Amazing New Update!!. | |
Looigi | 4,500 | “All we need now in a "Looigi's Mansion" about this guy using a vacuum to attack ghosts. And his color was changed to green, luigi-tastic!” | Louie | Green | Luigi, one of the protagonists from the Super Mario series. He is also one of the protagonists from The Amazing New Update!!. | |
Le Wario | 5,400 | “Uh oh, the greedy Le Wario is coming!” | The President | Yellow | Wario, one of the antagonists from the Super Mario series. | |
Cosmiluigi | 6,900 | “It's Cosmiluigi! Now its Le Wario and Cosmiluigi.” | Cosmicaptain | Purple | Waluigi, a character that appeared in many Mario sports games. | |
Bronze Captain | 8,000 | “Those captains are made of bronze, glad it isn't copper...” | Every leader | Bronze | ||
Silver Captain | 10,500 | “Those captains are made of silver! Shiny!” | Every leader | Silver | ||
Gold Captain | 19,000 | “Those captains are made of gold. Let's hope a place isn't too hot...” | Every leader | Golden | ||
Rainbow Captain | 35,000 | “This captain is made of a rainbow mineral, will you be able to unlock this captain?” | Every leader | Rainbow | ||
Blower Pot | 100,000 | “Have fun. That's a larger vehicle.” | Every leader | Varies | The creator of Pikmin 2... Again?, Blower Pot. |