An extremely lucky Pikmin has been saved from walking halfway across the world after its owner picked it up during a flight in Pikmin Bloom.
Twitter user @serinide (opens in new tab) has shared the story of how they saved their brave Pikmin from walking an unnecessary 6,000+ miles in mobile game Pikmin Bloom. The story starts with Serinide sending their little red Pikmin on a mission to pick up a gift from LA. After retrieving the gift, the Pikmin begins making their way back to Serinide, who by this point way on their way to Korea - meaning the brave little guy would need to walk for 81+ days over the Pacific Ocean to reunite with its owner in Asia.
Serinide was in Korea for three months and the little Pikmin still hadn't made its way to them, so they decided to give the little guy's feet a rest by picking it up during their flight back to California. It was clearly a stressful operation, if the Pikmin wasn't retrieved whilst Serinide was airborne, it would have had to have made its own way back to California from Hawaii - basically retracing all of the days' worth of steps it had made so far.
BY GOD WE DID IT https://t.co/Wrv9qG8ZR4 pic.twitter.com/UI0BZXib3OApril 21, 2023
Thankfully, as Serinide's tweet reveals, the Pikmin was successfully plucked out of the Pacific Ocean - saving it several months' worth of walking. "BY GOD WE DID IT," the Pikmin Bloom player's tweet reads, along with a screenshot of the probably very tired little guy.
It turns out, Serinide isn't the only person to find themselves in this sort of predicament. In the replies to their tweet, several other Pikmin fans celebrated the adventurer's return and shared their own stories. "Remembering when I was [in] Mexico and I sent a Pikmin to [the
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