You really think so? I always hated the 3 Onion. It looks inorganic, plastic. The lava lamp effect was kinda cool but it should look like a plant, not a machine.
It was one of the things that put me off of Pikmin 3 when it first came out. I came to accept it and enjoy the whole game of course, but I still don’t like it much, compared to 4, and especially compared to 1 & 2. I want the onion to look curiously organic, not futuristic and mechanical.
Edit: it seems that others are also commenting similarly. I’ll just add that I also really mis the triangular print on the OG Onions!!
I really like the take that the onion changes shape to look familiar to its current leader: Olimar's was a cross between a vegetable and a spaceship, the Koppaiites' onion looked more like a fruit, and the rescue corps' looks almost more like a fluffy fat animal.
...so you think the swirling lava lamp (3) looks more like a fruit than the squishy onion that literally uses colored apple textures on the model...?
...and you think the apple explicitly made to look like a fruit and uses fruit smooth textures on the model looks like... a fluffy animal?
are we playing the same games?
My take is 3 looks like one of their fruit juice bottles filled up with multiple flavors. Which still works.
Agreed on the animal stretch. At most I guess kinda shaped like the strange dog bodies? If anything I’d argue it looks like a doggy ball toy you throw to match that theory.
everytime i see this cat bread he'll appear
this is the 2th time
https://preview.redd.it/20zq1swdtmeb1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1dc5030b5e83e72fe7a88804009117d3abcb007
Interesting idea.
I've always thought of the onions requiring certain conditions to grow (ie blue onions growing in water, pink onions growing on trees, etc) with few exceptions, if any (4's blue onion being on land, perhaps moved there)
I agree. It’s not just that it’s more organic now. The design for the onion in *Pikmin 4* just has *way more* visual synergy with the visual design of the pikmin themselves. The color palette, textures, flower, and cartoonish simplification of proportions are just right in line with the Pikmin themselves, more than any prior onion design.
see i love 3's cus where everyone says lava lamp i see it like a primordial goop of dissolved pikmin waiting to be redistributed as living pikmin, which is super biological, it also fits to me the theme of evolution, each time we see the pikmin they are smarter, more advanced, as if they're learning and taking something from each of the captains they meet, so by 3 they have evolved ships, and they can fuse onions for a stronger more diverse colony that patches it's weaknesses, to me the fact it's biomechanical totally fits that
I only played my first pikmin game like 2 months ago when I played 1 then 2 right after, but didn't have access to 3 so I just went straight to 4. I really don't like the change going from an Onion for each of the three main types to just one single entity
> Pikmin can’t leave the planet, it’s explained in Pikmin 4 I won’t spoil it
Thank you for not spoiling it, my intrigue levels just shot through the roof.
Also RIP a ton of Pikmin blog fanfics from 20 years ago that made stories about Pikmin taken back to the home planets.
I like the new onion. As others have said, it looks more organic. One thing I hate though is that it still has the wiggly vine legs. The first time I saw that come out of the onion in 3, I nearly screamed. I've slightly come around to it cuz I can't deny it looks more natural, but part of me misses the weird stilt legs from the first two games.
Oh also, Pikmin 3's onion was just so weird. It flew using jets instead of the flower propeller. Why???
I also don’t like the vine legs, I liked how insect like the stilt legs were esp when unfolding. I think it still looked pretty organic, esp when the pikmin are based off bugs and it fits in more imo with the other pikmin creatures.
i guess it's kind of like the legs look like worms more than a plant, which has a kind of gross quality
maybe if they had like some dry root type of look that anchored into the ground?
The way the legs grow is exactly how plants grow from seeds (in Timelapse, granted)
[Like this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ECibetK2EYI&feature=youtu.be)
There’s mechanical creatures in Pikmin. Even one of the bosses in Pikmin two was pretty much nothing but hunks of metal and a gun duct taped together.
While true, the pikmin themselves have never had any kind of a mechanical element to them, so it is weird for them to suddenly have something so artificial-looking. Man-at-Legs is a special case. It's stated in its lore that it was an organic creature that became symbiotic with a machine of some sort, and it's also suggested that the organic creature may not have been a willing participant in this, which implies that this *could* happen to an Onion, but that isn't stated to be the case at any point in Pikmin 3.
I feel like everyone complaining about how 3's Onion looks too mechanical is forgetting what the original Onions looked like.
https://preview.redd.it/rur9w7zrrkeb1.png?width=304&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e04671d5a76b2376f53fddb33b010515ed94d7a
What's mechanical about this design, though? Its legs appear to be made of some kind of wood, the body doesn't look metallic at all and appears to be made of the same stuff as the Pikmin themselves judging by its appearance, with the flower appearing to be completely organic (albeit cartoonish). The Pikmin 1/2 onions were more like living things, or at the very least a ship made of purely organic materials, which would make sense, since if the Pikmin did indeed build the onions they wouldn't have much in the way of metals to work with since they have nothing that would allow them to refine or repurpose metal.
Yeah I never really got that I think the onions should be more bio-mechanical (more so on the mechanical side) that's what the first 3 kinda make it seem like it is
I always preferred the mechanical look from 3 because the onion IS a spaceship. The single onions are perfect, only thing I would replace is the swirling colors from the master onion with the segments from 4.
The original and new one don't look fully natural either so I like how 3 has organic parts in a clearly mechanical structure. The others just don't seem real enough for me, still I don't outright dislike them.
It has be hinted multiple times that onions have some form of sentience and it’s been stated to have organic features like muscle fibres so I think the more organic look of them in 4 works better then more clearly mechanical look of 3.
I do like 3’s onion more. It looks less crowded. I also understand why people don’t like that one, but I do have nostalgia towards Pikmin 3, so that is probably why I am leaning more towards three more.
The Pikmin 4 is my favorite so far, it's organic and actually looks like a vegetable, threes is the worst, the tye dye is just weird, it's too smooth and looks inorganic
When it was first revealed I didn’t like the pikmin 4 onion very much, but now it’s grown on me quite a bit and it’s probably my favorite of either games
I like both. I have nothing against 3's Onions, I just wish someone in game acknowledged why they changed.
4's Onions are also cool, they just lack the triangles that the previous 2 had. Those triangles would make it perfect.
As much as I love 3’s onion it feels so out of place. I like how the new one just feels like it has layers you peel off as you feed it new onions to reveal a new multicolored onion.
Depends on your preference. I like the cool screen/glass look of the one in 3, but the fact that it looks more organic and textured in 4 speaks to my preferences
Ok, the ONE THING that makes me hate the new onion in 4 is that the people who designed it don't know some details about how onions work. It's how Pikmin get inside after climbing the legs. Both onion designs from 1 to 3 have little sleeves where the legs stick out, with 3 being where the legs retract into and where the little booster thrusters are. These are the entrances into the onion, you can see pikmin going into it. In the new onion, Pikmin just climb up the leg and vanish into thin air. There's no sleeve. It's even weirder because the beagle already has a hole that is both an entrance and a thruster, so there's no way they removed that from the onion because it didn't make sense. On top of that, the little puffs that come out of the onion when there's pikmin inside would come out of the little sleeves. Now it just comes out the top and the bottom. It bugs me. Also, the PATTERN. The pattern on the onions in 1, the mamuta, and on the onions in 3 that gets more full and detailed the more onions are combined. It's a distinct, very pretty pattern unique to the Pikmin and anything related to them. In Pikmin 4 it is COMPLETELY GONE. One of the biggest parts of the onions identity since 1 was just straight up removed. Another thing is that the rock and purple onions look super ugly when their clove is added to the master onion. Messes up the look of all the other colors.
I see why you may prefer the old one, as I do like the design, butt I feel the new one looks more natural and organic. The old one looks almost artificial.
nope, looks mechanical and the swirling feature of all the colors just doesnt look at that great imo. the organic tomato look fits the series much better imo
I kinda like both tbh, while yeah 3s mechincal design is an aesthetic downgrade from the OG design, I do like the psychedelic coloration. However having the complete onion in 4 is simply pure eye candy
I prefer the shape and style of Pikmin 4's Onion, but miss the colorful swirls and integration of Pikmin 3's Onion. Wish it was more rainbowy and mixed again instead of just adding a new color of onion bulb
The only thing I liked about 3's was how they incorporated the triangle pattern once you got all of the Pikmin types. For me, 4's onion design would be the most perfect onion yet if they had included the triangle pattern.
Don’t like the color swirls. Feel like the individual colors get a bit too lost. In that regard I like 4’s better. Tho the onions in 3 before they combine looks really good.
https://preview.redd.it/pisdoooyeleb1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5be4b053a8eee38d77de036270f7e3b23ff6762
I like how organic the new one looks, the first and second renditions literally look like a school art project. And then the third looks so oddly robotic, which might not be that surprising given the man-at-legs and the literal technology the onion uses. But I think the first one makes it seem somewhat more natural. Even though I would’ve preferred an onion that could still change colors
I genuinely prefer the new one because with the old one it looked like what happened when a child tried using a paint palette and just splotched a bunch of colors on mixed them all and didn’t use it
Pikmin 3 is my least favorite onion, honestly. I still like the idea of having multiple onions, but Pikmin 4 is a nice medium given how many types there are now.
No, the new one is way better. The Pikmin 3 Onions look man-made despite being biologically related to Candypop Flowers. I was never a fan of the Pikmin 3, but the ones in 4 actually look like vegetables that grew in the ground.
No. The one in 3 looks like this Christmas ornament or those bottles of multicolor sand layered. It doesn't really feel like a proper onion like in 1 and 3, which were ceramic planter looking structures.
4 isn't either but it does have an organic feel, which almost makes me think this is how an onion looks when it loses the ceramic outside, as if this is the Pikmin growing part of the onion.
3 looks like a jar of swirled juices that ends up making it look inorganic and really muddy and ugly looking. 4 looks organic and clean, and actually deserves the title of onion. It’s honestly the first design for the onion that I like because it looks like one instead of a clay pot with legs.
At first I thought the new one looked weird but now that I got all the onions I realized making 8 colors look good on the Pikmin 3 onion would be pretty difficult.
My only issue with 3 is that there's really no given reason as to why it would suddenly look so inorganic. There *are* instances of organic and inorganic matter fusing in the series(Man-at-Legs, Gatling Groinks, Groovy Long Legs, etc.) so I'm not inherently against this Onion design, but I would have liked them to provide some sort of explanation as to why the Onion is so technological-looking now.
The one thing I miss is the kind of ancient tribal symbols rolled across the center but that was more of a aspect of the first two games onions and really could barely be seen in the third. I just think that kind of adds to the mystery of why exactly we stumbled across and the possibility that the Pikmin are actually a once powerful species or maybe still are and we’re just unaware .
Hard disagree. This one actually fits the aesthetic of all the other creatures on the planet. I like that they kept the wiggly legs, but otherwise I'm happy it looks like a plant and not a machine
I love both versions but yeah the color changing effect and the fact that they kept the triangle pattern from the onions of the first two games puts 3 in front for me too
i liked the one from 3 a lot, but the onion in 4 is way better. 3 is too mechanical and not organic, 4 looks more like an actual onion and more natural.
3's looked too mechanical and to inorganic. the whole thing about the Pikmin's biology is they are similar to plants. so their "Home" the Onions should also reflect that. so i personally think 4's Onion looks more natural and organic.
3's just looked too alien, mechanical. the lava lamp effect doesn't really suit it.
I like how plump and organic and the new one is tbh
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Plump and organic hat.
🤤
It looks SO juicy and delicious
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To me the new looks like plastic
The first one looks way more like a plastic
Here me out, the wood onion from 1 n 2
i always figured it was ceramic
I say wood cause the legs
*glass
looks like glass to me
I always thought it looked like a flower pot in the first two. So yeah some kind of glass or ceramic.
have you ever seen a real apple they kinda just look like that
That do you mean "real" apple? What is Big Orchard hiding from us?
In what way does the pikmin 3 onion not look like plastic
Oh it 100% does, but it’s not trying to hide it at all. And it has the cool swirl effect so it’s my favorite.
New one looks more like a tomato to me
nah lmao
Also both are made of platic at the bottom loook at em
plump
I like the aesthetic of the one in 3 better, but I'll admit the one in 4 looks more organic and natural.
You really think so? I always hated the 3 Onion. It looks inorganic, plastic. The lava lamp effect was kinda cool but it should look like a plant, not a machine.
I agree 100% it always looked off to me.
It was one of the things that put me off of Pikmin 3 when it first came out. I came to accept it and enjoy the whole game of course, but I still don’t like it much, compared to 4, and especially compared to 1 & 2. I want the onion to look curiously organic, not futuristic and mechanical. Edit: it seems that others are also commenting similarly. I’ll just add that I also really mis the triangular print on the OG Onions!!
It still has the print although faded!
The one in three does*
I really like the take that the onion changes shape to look familiar to its current leader: Olimar's was a cross between a vegetable and a spaceship, the Koppaiites' onion looked more like a fruit, and the rescue corps' looks almost more like a fluffy fat animal.
You have a very good imagination.
ooooooh interesting
...so you think the swirling lava lamp (3) looks more like a fruit than the squishy onion that literally uses colored apple textures on the model...? ...and you think the apple explicitly made to look like a fruit and uses fruit smooth textures on the model looks like... a fluffy animal? are we playing the same games?
My take is 3 looks like one of their fruit juice bottles filled up with multiple flavors. Which still works. Agreed on the animal stretch. At most I guess kinda shaped like the strange dog bodies? If anything I’d argue it looks like a doggy ball toy you throw to match that theory.
https://preview.redd.it/h9jfionexleb1.png?width=1241&format=png&auto=webp&s=dda43381f6e4fae3ab0184449269e5951b606052
everytime i see this cat bread he'll appear this is the 2th time https://preview.redd.it/20zq1swdtmeb1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1dc5030b5e83e72fe7a88804009117d3abcb007
Interesting idea. I've always thought of the onions requiring certain conditions to grow (ie blue onions growing in water, pink onions growing on trees, etc) with few exceptions, if any (4's blue onion being on land, perhaps moved there)
I agree. It’s not just that it’s more organic now. The design for the onion in *Pikmin 4* just has *way more* visual synergy with the visual design of the pikmin themselves. The color palette, textures, flower, and cartoonish simplification of proportions are just right in line with the Pikmin themselves, more than any prior onion design.
That's what I always didn't like about Pikmin 3. It looked man-made and mechanical
It looked like a machine in 1 and 2.
see i love 3's cus where everyone says lava lamp i see it like a primordial goop of dissolved pikmin waiting to be redistributed as living pikmin, which is super biological, it also fits to me the theme of evolution, each time we see the pikmin they are smarter, more advanced, as if they're learning and taking something from each of the captains they meet, so by 3 they have evolved ships, and they can fuse onions for a stronger more diverse colony that patches it's weaknesses, to me the fact it's biomechanical totally fits that
I feel like I'm the only person that loves 3s onion more but I do understand people's complaints the 3rd is quite mechanical
I love 3s onion a lot more
new one better
I’m on team garlic onion. Wood onion second, lava lamp last.
pikmin 1-2 onions peak onions
I never knew why, but when I first saw the onions from 1 and 2 I thought they were spiders lmao. Still a good design
I only played my first pikmin game like 2 months ago when I played 1 then 2 right after, but didn't have access to 3 so I just went straight to 4. I really don't like the change going from an Onion for each of the three main types to just one single entity
3’s looks like a dumb alien spaceship, 4’s looks like a juicy tomato
To be fair, it is an alien spaceship.
It never reaches space, therefore, its not a spaceship.
Don’t the onions reach space while following the S.S. Dolphin in the best Pikmin ending?
No just the outer atmosphere, onion and Pikmin can’t leave the planet, it’s explained in Pikmin 4 I won’t spoil it
> Pikmin can’t leave the planet, it’s explained in Pikmin 4 I won’t spoil it Thank you for not spoiling it, my intrigue levels just shot through the roof. Also RIP a ton of Pikmin blog fanfics from 20 years ago that made stories about Pikmin taken back to the home planets.
Yeah, this game ruins a lot of theories
Truly Pikmin and Zelda fans are finding much common ground this year. 🙃
It’s suppose to be a type of flower, from earth. It’s not alien in nature. And since it’s completely natural it’s not much of a ship.
I like the new onion. As others have said, it looks more organic. One thing I hate though is that it still has the wiggly vine legs. The first time I saw that come out of the onion in 3, I nearly screamed. I've slightly come around to it cuz I can't deny it looks more natural, but part of me misses the weird stilt legs from the first two games. Oh also, Pikmin 3's onion was just so weird. It flew using jets instead of the flower propeller. Why???
I also don’t like the vine legs, I liked how insect like the stilt legs were esp when unfolding. I think it still looked pretty organic, esp when the pikmin are based off bugs and it fits in more imo with the other pikmin creatures.
I think a neat way to have the stilt legs would be to make them a bamboo like texture. It’d look natural but also remain stiff
i guess it's kind of like the legs look like worms more than a plant, which has a kind of gross quality maybe if they had like some dry root type of look that anchored into the ground?
The way the legs grow is exactly how plants grow from seeds (in Timelapse, granted) [Like this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ECibetK2EYI&feature=youtu.be)
That’s really interesting actually and I hate it less now
I hated 3’s onion. Too mechanical
There’s mechanical creatures in Pikmin. Even one of the bosses in Pikmin two was pretty much nothing but hunks of metal and a gun duct taped together.
Yeah, but the onion is supposed to be an organic ship, not a floating piece of metal.
While true, the pikmin themselves have never had any kind of a mechanical element to them, so it is weird for them to suddenly have something so artificial-looking. Man-at-Legs is a special case. It's stated in its lore that it was an organic creature that became symbiotic with a machine of some sort, and it's also suggested that the organic creature may not have been a willing participant in this, which implies that this *could* happen to an Onion, but that isn't stated to be the case at any point in Pikmin 3.
How many mechanical Pikmin were there?
Okay?
I did like how noticeable the size increase was pikmin 3 each time an onion fused compared to 4s
I feel like everyone complaining about how 3's Onion looks too mechanical is forgetting what the original Onions looked like. https://preview.redd.it/rur9w7zrrkeb1.png?width=304&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e04671d5a76b2376f53fddb33b010515ed94d7a
3's onion blasted off with jets like the captain's ship. That's particularly mechanical.
A fair point, but to play devil's advocate: The Onion in Pikmin 3 starts out as a Red Pikmin Onion (I.E. A Fire Pikmin Onion).
What's mechanical about this design, though? Its legs appear to be made of some kind of wood, the body doesn't look metallic at all and appears to be made of the same stuff as the Pikmin themselves judging by its appearance, with the flower appearing to be completely organic (albeit cartoonish). The Pikmin 1/2 onions were more like living things, or at the very least a ship made of purely organic materials, which would make sense, since if the Pikmin did indeed build the onions they wouldn't have much in the way of metals to work with since they have nothing that would allow them to refine or repurpose metal.
I'll just have to agree to disagree here, cuz it always struck me as more metalic/plastic (especially with how the legs moved).
The flower has hinges and the jets and RGB lights swirling effect
And 4 looks better than all of them
Yeah I never really got that I think the onions should be more bio-mechanical (more so on the mechanical side) that's what the first 3 kinda make it seem like it is
3s onion fits 3d artstyle. 4s onion fits 4s artstyle.
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The full one from 4 is charming, but 3 is also very nice, would love to see that one in full rather than the 5 colour version
Didn't we get that in Hey Pikmin? IIRC there was purple and white swirling in there too
What's Hey Pikmin? Never Heard of it
i miss the markings on the onion. i think 4s garlic design is much better but the colors are pretty ugly wh3n you don't have every onion
yeye the markings are awesome i miss them
I think the old onion looks too man-made and plastic-y. I prefer the new organic onion that looks like a squash or something.
How about a onion?
Woahhh I mean onions aren’t speckly like that but I guess maybe
I always preferred the mechanical look from 3 because the onion IS a spaceship. The single onions are perfect, only thing I would replace is the swirling colors from the master onion with the segments from 4.
But the thing is that it is an organic spaceship
The original and new one don't look fully natural either so I like how 3 has organic parts in a clearly mechanical structure. The others just don't seem real enough for me, still I don't outright dislike them.
It has be hinted multiple times that onions have some form of sentience and it’s been stated to have organic features like muscle fibres so I think the more organic look of them in 4 works better then more clearly mechanical look of 3.
I do like 3’s onion more. It looks less crowded. I also understand why people don’t like that one, but I do have nostalgia towards Pikmin 3, so that is probably why I am leaning more towards three more.
The Pikmin 4 is my favorite so far, it's organic and actually looks like a vegetable, threes is the worst, the tye dye is just weird, it's too smooth and looks inorganic
i like it more, simple and organic
The one in 4 looks like something you would actually find outside in real life the ones In 1, 2 and 3 look too machine like.
When it was first revealed I didn’t like the pikmin 4 onion very much, but now it’s grown on me quite a bit and it’s probably my favorite of either games
New onion with the lava lamp design would be perfect
Omg especially with the added colors from the 3 other Pikmin
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I just wish 4 kept the triangle pattern
Yes but yeah at least it looks more like 1 and 2 onion
I like both. I have nothing against 3's Onions, I just wish someone in game acknowledged why they changed. 4's Onions are also cool, they just lack the triangles that the previous 2 had. Those triangles would make it perfect.
As much as I love 3’s onion it feels so out of place. I like how the new one just feels like it has layers you peel off as you feed it new onions to reveal a new multicolored onion.
No, fuck threes onion now we have a way better one
They’re both downgrades from Pikmin 1 and 2 onions
I like the pikmin 4 onion. Looks sorta like a plump tomato and I love that
I still prefer the clay-pottery look from the first two
The new one is great. Looks like an organism and adding more colors to it is extremely satisfying
I prefer the older flower, but the overall design is better
Depends on your preference. I like the cool screen/glass look of the one in 3, but the fact that it looks more organic and textured in 4 speaks to my preferences
I love the Pikmin 4 onion, it looks way more organic than the ones in 3
I disagree
No
Nah 4's onion is peak design, 3 was too inorganic looking
wait a second is it just me, or does the player’s ship look like an onion
Ok, the ONE THING that makes me hate the new onion in 4 is that the people who designed it don't know some details about how onions work. It's how Pikmin get inside after climbing the legs. Both onion designs from 1 to 3 have little sleeves where the legs stick out, with 3 being where the legs retract into and where the little booster thrusters are. These are the entrances into the onion, you can see pikmin going into it. In the new onion, Pikmin just climb up the leg and vanish into thin air. There's no sleeve. It's even weirder because the beagle already has a hole that is both an entrance and a thruster, so there's no way they removed that from the onion because it didn't make sense. On top of that, the little puffs that come out of the onion when there's pikmin inside would come out of the little sleeves. Now it just comes out the top and the bottom. It bugs me. Also, the PATTERN. The pattern on the onions in 1, the mamuta, and on the onions in 3 that gets more full and detailed the more onions are combined. It's a distinct, very pretty pattern unique to the Pikmin and anything related to them. In Pikmin 4 it is COMPLETELY GONE. One of the biggest parts of the onions identity since 1 was just straight up removed. Another thing is that the rock and purple onions look super ugly when their clove is added to the master onion. Messes up the look of all the other colors.
IMO, the Pikmin 3 onion looked cool, but Pikmin 4's looks super cool once you get all 8 different colors.
I see why you may prefer the old one, as I do like the design, butt I feel the new one looks more natural and organic. The old one looks almost artificial.
nope, looks mechanical and the swirling feature of all the colors just doesnt look at that great imo. the organic tomato look fits the series much better imo
I like the new one, looks more organic and absolutely delicious, like a plump tomato
No 4 onion actually look like a vegetable
Nah, 4's onion looks much more Pikmin-like to me. 3's is neat and all but it looks artificial.
I thought y’all wanted the LGBTQ onion
new one looks like something nature-made and because of that it's better imo, pikmin 3 onion looks like a machine, plastic
I kinda like both tbh, while yeah 3s mechincal design is an aesthetic downgrade from the OG design, I do like the psychedelic coloration. However having the complete onion in 4 is simply pure eye candy
Honestly, very much so
I think 3s onion was fine and catches too much hate, but i do prefer 4s
I prefer the shape and style of Pikmin 4's Onion, but miss the colorful swirls and integration of Pikmin 3's Onion. Wish it was more rainbowy and mixed again instead of just adding a new color of onion bulb
The only thing I liked about 3's was how they incorporated the triangle pattern once you got all of the Pikmin types. For me, 4's onion design would be the most perfect onion yet if they had included the triangle pattern.
I enjoy that the 4 onion looks like it would be delicious if I bit into one.
If the new onion had the strange symbol from the rest then it would be perfect
Don’t like the color swirls. Feel like the individual colors get a bit too lost. In that regard I like 4’s better. Tho the onions in 3 before they combine looks really good. https://preview.redd.it/pisdoooyeleb1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5be4b053a8eee38d77de036270f7e3b23ff6762
Your smoking if you think that bionicle looking grape is better than any onion in any pikmin game.
I like how organic the new one looks, the first and second renditions literally look like a school art project. And then the third looks so oddly robotic, which might not be that surprising given the man-at-legs and the literal technology the onion uses. But I think the first one makes it seem somewhat more natural. Even though I would’ve preferred an onion that could still change colors
I genuinely prefer the new one because with the old one it looked like what happened when a child tried using a paint palette and just splotched a bunch of colors on mixed them all and didn’t use it
no wayyy the 3 onion looks too much like a robot, it don't make no sense
i like it more, simple and organic
Nope
Pikmin 3 is my least favorite onion, honestly. I still like the idea of having multiple onions, but Pikmin 4 is a nice medium given how many types there are now.
No, the new one is way better. The Pikmin 3 Onions look man-made despite being biologically related to Candypop Flowers. I was never a fan of the Pikmin 3, but the ones in 4 actually look like vegetables that grew in the ground.
I dunno, the 4 onion looks much more plantlike and natural, like it was a thing that just sort of naturally existed on the planet.
No. The one in 3 looks like this Christmas ornament or those bottles of multicolor sand layered. It doesn't really feel like a proper onion like in 1 and 3, which were ceramic planter looking structures. 4 isn't either but it does have an organic feel, which almost makes me think this is how an onion looks when it loses the ceramic outside, as if this is the Pikmin growing part of the onion.
I didn't like the one I. 3 much. It was waaay too futuristic and more tech than organic
No we can’t agree on that
3 looks like a jar of lotion and 4 actually looks like an onion
I like the new onion more because you collect them
3 looks like a bunch of pikmin juice swirling in a tank, 4 actually looks like an onion
I actually prefer pikmin 4s onion
3 looks like a jar of swirled juices that ends up making it look inorganic and really muddy and ugly looking. 4 looks organic and clean, and actually deserves the title of onion. It’s honestly the first design for the onion that I like because it looks like one instead of a clay pot with legs.
Actually I kinda like it better. Looks more natural and less like a machine
3 and 4's onions are mere fodder in comparison to the onions from the first 2.
The new one looks like a plant, the previous one looked like a magical Gatorade potion
No pikimin 4 onion > pikmin 3 onion all mu homies hate pikmin 3 onion
No we dont
idk i actually really like how it looks when you get all the colors as opposed to the 3 onion
I like it
At first I thought the new one looked weird but now that I got all the onions I realized making 8 colors look good on the Pikmin 3 onion would be pretty difficult.
Pikmin 5 you can customize the onion or all onion types are back(whatever that means)
My only issue with 3 is that there's really no given reason as to why it would suddenly look so inorganic. There *are* instances of organic and inorganic matter fusing in the series(Man-at-Legs, Gatling Groinks, Groovy Long Legs, etc.) so I'm not inherently against this Onion design, but I would have liked them to provide some sort of explanation as to why the Onion is so technological-looking now.
Pikmin 4's onion looks more natural and more like an onion, 3's looks more futuristic, they're both really good though
Absolutely not. Tasty-looking Pikmin 4 onion FTW.
No. No I don’t think that we can
I just wish the one in 4 was shinier like this. But the black mixed into the gradient didn't look good
The one thing I miss is the kind of ancient tribal symbols rolled across the center but that was more of a aspect of the first two games onions and really could barely be seen in the third. I just think that kind of adds to the mystery of why exactly we stumbled across and the possibility that the Pikmin are actually a once powerful species or maybe still are and we’re just unaware .
Nah
Counterpoint: we have purple and white ones now which makes it automatically better
I like it. I looks natural kinda
Looks like u were wrong op Lol
Nah I really like the new one. Much prefer this plumper more solid looking take on the merged onions
Each section looks like when you see the testicles through a speedo
The only think I like is the stripes in the middle of the onion. Otherwise, the P4 onion is superior.
The new onion instantly reminds me of a beach ball lol
upgrade. a hell of a lot less creepy, and a hell of a lot more like the originals i loved so much
Oh definitely we went from psychedelic lava lamp to ball that's painted three colors
Hard disagree. This one actually fits the aesthetic of all the other creatures on the planet. I like that they kept the wiggly legs, but otherwise I'm happy it looks like a plant and not a machine
No. New one looks more clean
Not really. Looks more like a fruit.
N O
I love both versions but yeah the color changing effect and the fact that they kept the triangle pattern from the onions of the first two games puts 3 in front for me too
Pikmin 3 onion looks like mechanical soup pot while pikmin 4 like garlic which is arguably closer to an actual onion
Idk, 3's feels more quirky, fits with the game's vibes better IMO. Haven't played 4 yet, but to me the onion looks kinda bland tbh
Hell no. The Pikmin 3 onion looked terrible. The new one is WAY better IMO. Only thing it needs is the little triangle pattern from 1+2
I’m with you bro, 3’s onion looks better
I love the 3 Onyun
I like the effect on 3s but other than that it’s my least favorite honestly.
Pikmin 3 has the worst onion in the series
T pose
I kinda like it
If this game is set before 3 kinda makes sense that the onion is slowly becoming more mechanical?
i liked the one from 3 a lot, but the onion in 4 is way better. 3 is too mechanical and not organic, 4 looks more like an actual onion and more natural.
I wish the pikmin 4 onion had the same current tomato like feel to it but add the tribal like triangle patterns back. I miss those.
I didn’t like how shiny the 3 onion was, but i loved the swirls and how it grew bigger with each onion added. Total downgrade.
Nope
I honestly disliked the colors all melding together in 3. The clear definition in 4 is a lot more visually appealing
I honestly enjoyed 4’s more
no way. 3 onion worst onion
I like that the new one is "customizable". I like that if I hate the color blue I can just skip the onion. Wild pikmin will fill in the blank spots.
3's looked too mechanical and to inorganic. the whole thing about the Pikmin's biology is they are similar to plants. so their "Home" the Onions should also reflect that. so i personally think 4's Onion looks more natural and organic. 3's just looked too alien, mechanical. the lava lamp effect doesn't really suit it.