History VideoGame / Pikmin2

* IconicItem: Out of all the treasures in the game, the Rubber Ugly is easily the most iconic and recognizable of them. Appearing frequently throughout various marketing and prerelease material before the game's release, and is frequently used to represent the treasures in the game. It even made a return in ''VideoGame/Pikmin4'' with its own series called the "Rubber Cutie series." All of this is fairly ironic given the treasure's name literally having the word "Ugly" in it, and the not-so-pleasing things Olimar has to say about it in his Piklopedia log.

* LuckBasedMission: Challenge Mode has a luck-based level called Concrete Maze. It has 3 floors. You have a strict time limit on each floor. The first floor is a maze with randomly placed destructible walls blocking most of the dead ends, a key behind one of the randomly placed walls, & a buried exit behind another one of the randomly placed walls. The buried exit will only emerge after you get your pikmin to take the key to the ship (which takes a really long time if the key is really far from the ship). The second floor is like the first floor but it's bigger, it has way more paths, & bomb carrying spiders randomly fall from above to suicide attack you & your pikmin. All you have to do on the third floor is throw your pikmin into flowers to get more pikmin & have your pikmin get some treasure for you that's laid out for you. That floor is really easy if you don't assume you need to be careful about which colors of pikmin you get from the 3 flowers (which change colors every few seconds so going for specific colors takes a while).

** One of the underground levels, the Submerged Castle, is more similar to a true sewer level due to consisting of partly flooded tunnels and pipes, and can only be entered enter with blue Pikmin. It's also a bit more difficult than other underground areas thanks to the invincible Waterwraith that chases you down if you dawdle around on one level for too long.