It was Pikmin all along

Yesterday Nintendo released a mysterious video called “Close to You” that acceptable net sleuths into action. The video depicted a cute babe seemingly moving objects astir a nursery. Some thought that it mightiness beryllium a subtle teaser for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie, perchance showing the root of Rosalina and her powers. Others noticed Pikmin philharmonic cues and the tiny small creatures hiding successful the background. Now we cognize for sure: it was Pikmin.

Unfortunately, the newly-uploaded video is presently lone disposable successful the Nintendo Today app. (I’ll update this station if and erstwhile it appears connected YouTube.) In the video — which inactive has the aforesaid rubric — things play retired the same, but this clip astir it shows that those adorable sentient plants are liable for each of the moving objects. They’re everywhere; flying disconnected rattles, carrying artifact blocks, and warring implicit a pacifier.

It’s a cute alternate presumption of the archetypal video, adjacent if it does rise immoderate large existential questions for the Pikmin universe. Namely: tin lone children spot the creatures? Nintendo has previously said that Pikmin “cannot beryllium seen with the bare eye,” but possibly the lore has changed. My location could beryllium infested and I wouldn’t adjacent cognize it.

Here’s the archetypal video for reference:

The bigger question, of course, is whether Nintendo is teasing thing with this video. A Pikmin movie? An Switch 2 update for Pikmin 4? A large enlargement for Pikmin Bloom? A caller enactment of Pikmin-themed pacifiers? Or it could conscionable beryllium a cute, standalone short. Maybe much volition beryllium revealed tomorrow.