#the voyage logs are a pretty clear confirmation that this isn't the timeline in 1 2 and 3 because we get to see the characters personal thou

[weky-woof]

placing this from my twitter here because like! i see people say that pik4 is a retcon or that Olimar and Louie's stuff was reconned out, and because i hadn't finished the game i was just say there like "oh, probably there's some inconsistency in the story or a character, that's why people believe it" and as i kept playing i realized that... not really? the bad ending of pik1 happens canonically in pik4, Oli becomes a leafling after not making it.

some things Do change, like him not managing to take off and sending a distress signal and a lot of people coming to PNF-404 for various reasons, mostly out of self interest and also end up stranded, but you could attribute that to it just being part of this timeline. his progression in pik1 is purely dependent on the player and the way they play the game either way!

like this also doesn't mean that pik4 isn't canon, both the good timeline of the previous games AND this one are canon - pik4 is a "what if" scenario

#weky woofs #pikmin #pikmin 4 #pikmin timeline stuff #sorry for the wall of text i just really like talking about this game #and it really surprises me to see a solid chunk of the fandom #mostly on r/pikmin and casual discussion #think that pik4 rewrites the previous games #when that's extremely unlikely to be the intention #the voyage logs are a pretty clear confirmation that this isn't the timeline in 1 2 and 3 because we get to see the characters personal thou #ghts #olimars log sometimes copies the pik1 log verbatim (he just encounters more stuff) #and louie #(as i mentioned) #doesn't really know olimar that well #like they seem to talk and hang out but they don't seem like they've ever even been on a flight together #btw!! i intend to post a gdrive with all of olimar and louie's logs because i feel like they should be easily visible!