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[ethelred]

Please, people, do yourselves a favor and buy this game.

 

[Madame M]

Ordered last night. It has pirates people, come on. And frogs that love rain. I hate you if you don't want this game.

 

[Tarazet]

Played a few hours of it tonight.. tomorrow it's going back in the mail. I'm not even going to get this when it's $3 in the clearance bins.

 

[ethelred]

Played a few hours of it tonight.. tomorrow it's going back in the mail. I'm not even going to get this when it's $3 in the clearance bins.

Really? What was it that you disliked so much about it?

 

[SuperPac]

It's a cute li'l game, in much the same vein as Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon. It's not a technical wowie-zowie bang-bang game. But my casual gamer self has been having a blast with it in bite-sized doses.

 

[Tarazet]

Really? What was it that you disliked so much about it?

Not really dislike - I think for what it is, it's done well, though I do think the controls are unnecessarily limited. It's just that I started it up already wanting to hate it because of its premise, and nothing changed my mind. Now that I have an idea of what it plays like, I can be rid of it and wait for MS Saga to arrive in its place.

 

[Monorojo]

I personally love the game, everyone should to give it a shot....the game deserves atleast that.

 

[ethelred]

Not really dislike - I think for what it is, it's done well, though I do think the controls are unnecessarily limited. It's just that I started it up already wanting to hate it because of its premise, and nothing changed my mind. Now that I have an idea of what it plays like, I can be rid of it and wait for MS Saga to arrive in its place.

Fair enough, at least you gave the game a chance.

 

[Spencerr]

Lol it sounds like Sonarrat bought it so his hate would have justification

My gf has been BEGGING me to get this game so, might as well for the price.

 

[Tarazet]

Lol it sounds like Sonarrat bought it so his hate would have justification

Gamefly'd it actually. I don't buy games I don't want just for the hell of it, unless they cost less than a rental anyway.

 

[joshschw]

:lol :lol gamecube mat00r!

 

[Akia]

Bought. Hopefully it'll be here by Spring Break.

 

[drohne]

It's a cute li'l game, in much the same vein as Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon.

i was going to read up on chibi-robo and maybe buy it, but this sentence saved me the trouble. you probably didn't mean to deter potential buyers, but thanks all the same. :lol

 

[Spencerr]

Placed the order. Hope the girlfriend gets 32 dollars of fun out of it :lol

 

[jj984jj]

This game doesn't have much in common with Animal Crossing, and is definitely not like Harvest Moon. If anything, the game is the spiritual successor to Lack of Love on Dreamcast.

 

[ethelred]

This game doesn't have much in common with Animal Crossing, and is definitely not like Harvest Moon. If anything, the game is the spiritual successor to Lack of Love on Dreamcast.

I've never played that particular Dreamcast game, so I can't comment on the comparison. But here's my take on the game:

Gameplay-wise, I'd say that Chibi Robo has almost nothing in common with Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon -- really, it only resembles Animal Crossing in terms of its quirky visual and aural style and in the type of characters the game contains. The gameplay, really, most closely resembles a Zelda game... that's really the closest thing I can think of to it. Chibi Robo is much more reliant on its narrative presentation, though, and the game is much more driven by the variety of mini-quests.

 

[jj984jj]

Yeah, I guess it's kinda like Majora's Mask as well.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Is there much or any combat in Chibi Robo? My girlfriend loves the exploring and puzzle solving of Zelda but gets all flustered with combat sometimes.

 

[ethelred]

Is there much or any combat in Chibi Robo? My girlfriend loves the exploring and puzzle solving of Zelda but gets all flustered with combat sometimes.

There is very, very little combat, and all of it is almost painfully easy. The only reason the combat is there at all is just to collect a few types of items that you use to acquire a certain type of tool.

The gameplay is almost all exploring, puzzle solving, and resolving character-based quests. Combat is superfluous.

 

[jj984jj]

Is there much or any combat in Chibi Robo? My girlfriend loves the exploring and puzzle solving of Zelda but gets all flustered with combat sometimes.

Not much, it tries to incorporate Metroid Prime a bit with a little blaster, but there isn't much combat in this game overall.

 

[DDayton]

i was going to read up on chibi-robo and maybe buy it, but this sentence saved me the trouble. you probably didn't mean to deter potential buyers, but thanks all the same. :lol

I hate Harvest Moon and I tolerate Animal Crossing -- Chibi Robo is like neither. Chibi Robo is fun, in a weird way. To be honest, it feels like a weird Sega game... I almost feel like I'm playing the "Toy Story rip-off" stage in Illbleed at times due to the general bizareness of the story itself. The gameplay is...er... good, but it won't seem like it until you've played for a few "days".