Gargantuan Garden exam briefing: medal milestones, Practice and Take Exam

About this game

Developer: Nintendo · Publisher: Nintendo · Platform: Nintendo Switch 2 · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

The Dandori Academy exam briefing is a study sheet before it is a menu: the left card states the task ('Collect all the treasure and gold nuggets!'), the time limit (05:30) and one tactical hint (Purple Pikmin carry ten times a Red's weight), while the right column turns scoring into five explicit medal thresholds, from bronze 100 to a black 460 that also demands a 3:30 finish. Practice and Take Exam are kept as two separate commitments with their own attempt counters (Practice 2 left, Exam 0 used, window until 10/18), so the player can rehearse without spending a scored run, and the High Score (349) sits beside Practice as the bar to beat. The 'Saving...' tag is the game's own autosave indicator. Frame at about 12:05 in the Nintendo Treehouse Plays video (YouTube), pipeline candidate candidates/v0_0009.png at 724.75s; Treehouse Plays footage of the Switch 2 Edition ahead of its Nov 12, 2026 launch.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

split-panel stat-panel action-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu Choices Clock Button prompts Resource bar

Screen inventory

• a full-screen exam briefing on graph-paper background, split into a left stage card and a right milestones column
• orange header reading 'Gargantuan Garden' with a 'Saving...' autosave tag at its top left
• yellow objective strip reading 'Collect all the treasure and gold nuggets!' over a photo of a giant watermelon
• a 05:30 duration pill over the photo and a tip box noting Purple Pikmin have 10 times the weight and carrying strength of Red Pikmin
• footer rows reading 'Pup Strength' with a level-5 weight icon and 'Pikmin Present' with Red and Purple Pikmin portraits
• right column: green 'Exam 2' pill, 'Elementary A' difficulty label, 'Redo Passes: 99/6' at top
• a 'Medal Milestones' box listing bronze 100, silver 120, gold 140, platinum 250 and black 460 (3:30) thresholds
• two large orange buttons, 'Practice' (Attempts: 2, High Score 349) and 'Take Exam (Until 10/18)' (Attempts: 0, Official Score blank)
• green footer bar with controller prompts: Options, Scoreboard, Gameplay Guide, Reward List, Back, Confirm

Top 3 colors

#fdfefe 32%#828a42 20%#f4f5ec 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Nintendo, Pikmin 4 screenshot: Nintendo Treehouse Plays video (YouTube 6x-yH4wkOYQ), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Official game page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-03: pipeline candidate frame inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); real game UI (Gargantuan Garden briefing, Medal Milestones 100/120/140/250/460, Practice and Take Exam buttons, controller prompt footer) confirmed visible and legible; no stream overlay in frame

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