Pikmin Bloom Could Make Good Use of the Series' Enemies

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The successful launch of Pokemon GO in summer 2016 primed Niantic for five years of steady updates. To this day the mobile app is continuing its journey across the Pokemon world, adding the nearly 1,000 monsters from all eight generations of mainline games alongside regional variants, shinies, and limited-time cosmetics. Between Community Days and Pokemon GO's seasons with themed events, the game is never hurting for content. Niantic's other Nintendo-based game Pikmin Bloom is a different story.

Pikmin Bloom released in October 2021 and hasn't changed much since. Community Day events in the Pikmin game have become more involved, even offering real-world prizes for those who reach their step goals, and there have been backend additions like privacy zones. Yet its core gameplay has stayed the same over the last six months. If the popular mobile developer hopes to introduce bigger content updates soon, it can expand with the Pikmin series' stable of enemies.

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At their core, Pikmin games are about interplanetary explorers coming to an Earth devoid of humans but full of the titular, sentient plant-like beings. The three core Pikmin titles are real-time strategy games where each day is spent proliferating various colors of Pikmin in order to move through environmental hazards and collect treasures or fruit. However, it's never that easy; the world is full of comparatively massive bugs or other chimera-like creatures that stand in the player's way and sometimes ingest the treasures being sought.

Bulborb are the most common enemy on PNF-404, being odd bipedal creatures with stalk eyes and bulbous backsides. The most recognizable of these are red with