Thread 718956586

HOLY SOVL

I haven't played this since I first played it for gamecube when it came out, is the music supposed to stop halfway through the night?

>>718958057
I haven't noticed that. I did notice that telly just keeps saying "come with me"

>>718956586 (OP)
He truly is one of the greatest character designs in all of gaming. Do you think Nintendo still pushes him every few years mostly because of Miyamoto's favor for the little guy, or are there other champions for him at Nintendo?

>>718961086
I dont care about the design all that much. For me its the pretty cozy gameplay loop not that dissimilar from pikmin. Interesting how only pikmin gained any sort of cult following despite CR now being the "cult classic"

I just played it for a couple hours and got the battery charger for Giga Robo, I kinda wish I played it when it came out but maybe it's better this way since the series didn't end up having the greatest of fortunes afterwards.

>>718961430
I never played it as a youth despite playing similarly niche gamecube games like Custom Robo. The formula seems pretty easy to understand. I dont see how the devs of the following chibi robo games could have failed so hard.

>>718961086
I bought his 3DS game and amiibo.

Been playing it for a while
I hate having to use the ladder, it's just slow and tedious
aside from that and having to recharge every 5 seconds it's nice

>>718958057
yeah i don't know why it does that
kinda adds creepiness to it

should I set the time to 5, 10 or 15?

>>718962535
I've been using 15 minutes because there's always a bunch of stuff to do each day/night early on. I assume I might shorten it later if I start getting events that require time to pass to trigger.

>>718962535
15 just makes more sense. Too much time is always better than not enough.

>>718961086
No Smash push behind this one?
It's probably made by a rare team

>>718956586 (OP)
NSO is gay but I'm glad it allows a new generation of kids to experience Chibi-ludo for the first time. It's a great game.

>>718958057
They fucked up and forgot to extend the night music beyond the default "5" time.

>>718961086
I finally saw gameplay footage this year and immediately looked up where to buy a figure because I'm a robot autist and love the design. Some redditor made one out of aluminum which is pretty cool

>>718962823
I'm a 32 year old boomer, I just missed it in 2006 because I was too busy on the DS and waiting for the Wii to come out.

>>718962823
I played it very briefly on my hacked wii a year or two ago. I liked it but it never clicked like it did today. Gathering the cup and realizing it could protect me through the foyer made me cream my jeans.

>>718956586 (OP)
great game but why did they make the space shooting minigame so weird. and you cant even retry much, gotta use save states

>>718962764
That and eventually you get an outfit that lets you switch between day and night with the press of a button so no reason to not set it to 15.

>>718963081
The Damaged outfit can teleport you to the home too. And it gets you the ghost outfit the first time you do it. I legit love how the game rewarded you screwing around to see what happens.

>>718962947
I was speaking from a general viewpoint, not specifically toward your thread. But yeah, the original game came out the same year as the Wii so not a lot people got to experience it even then. I'm glad.

>>718963040
>my disappointment as a kid when I bought a car and a spaceship only for them to be exclusively used for 2 shitty minigames
Otherwise 10/10 game.

reminder you can win against this fucker, just keep reloading the save state before selecting an option for ez money and no need for grinding

>>718961710
Honestly worth it for the amiibo alone considering how the markets have shifted. Games are more devalued than ever and physical merch is king.

>>718963171
Yeah I remember doing that and it was pretty funny scaring the shit out of Telly with it.
Reminds me a little bit how Pikmin 2 had an upgrade that let you play dead and Pikmin would carry you to their onion
Also one other nice touch that doubles as a quality of life is when you fall in the kitchen when the mother is around and she'll catch you and put you on the table or counter. Don't remember which.

>>718956586 (OP)
I've never played this. Can someone give a brief description, and what games it's similar to? I might give it a shot.

>>718963558
It's like Katamari Damacy.

>>718963558
>and what games it's similar to?
There honestly isn't much like it. It's a fairly unique adventure game.

>>718963558
there's really no way of comparing it to other games, think of it as an adventure game with simulation-like elements

>>718963474
>savescumming

>>718963558
Considering the ease of access of a wii vs a modern equivalent of the Switch 2 NSO there are definitely fewer excuses to not give it a shot. Time sensitive resource gathering paired with a day and night cycle. If you're a fan of Pikmin or other resource management type games you will have a good time with chibi robo. It has an interesting balance of platforming and resource management that is replicated in very few games

>>718963558
It's kind of unique in the platforming genre. Like it has that openness of Mario 64 but it's all in one huge house (at least from your perspective), and progressing the story unlocks other parts of the house.
You get currency by passively doing chores as you explore and you use that to get even more shit, and nooks and crannies usually have little doors you can plug into and it gives you a bunch of money as well..
The main goal of the story is to get number one in Chibi Robo rankings, which you just so happen to get by, in the grand scheme of everything that happens, resolving family drama and more or less putting an end to a terrorist organization and I'm not really kidding.

>>718963040
It sucks. The best way to get the sticker without savescumming is watching an S-rank video and just imitating where/when they shoot.

>>718963896
i'd rather not constantly skip through days to grind money for giga robo

>>718964016
Having not gotten there before, is there an obvious place to save state prior to it?

I spent a bunch of money on a car and have no idea where is it or how to use it

>>718963659
Theres definitely similar energy to katamaris timer is static. Chibi robos timer has a lot more flexibility depending on your skill level

>>718963949
>If you're a fan of Pikmin or other resource management type games you will have a good time with chibi robo.
As a Pikmin fan, that's all I needed. I'll check it out. Would kill time before the Kirby DLC later this week

>>718964115
Just watch this and imitate where he shoots.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_lW9OurBcaY

>>718964116
I have bad news, anon
>>718963445

>>718963558
you're a tiny robot that go around in a house doing stuff
your charge is your life and you need to plug into a socket to recharge as every action you do drains your battery
your goal is to make the family that lives in the house happy and you'll progress using tools you'll find
the controls are kinda unintuitive at first, like jumping requires you to hold a direction, you can't just plug into a socket by pressing a you need to grab your plug and then press a into a socket, it's a one of a kind game that shares a similar energy to pikmin in doing stuff within a time limit (although you aren't really limited by days so don't worry about that, the timer is just to swap between day and night)

>>718962279
>wow this ladder will be really handy
>it can only be moved a few places in the room
>also drains your battery super fast so you probably have to run to an outlet real quick after using it

>>718963558
>what games it's similar to?
It reminds me a lot of the Rugrats and Toy Story games I had on the PS1 as a kid. Mainly because you're a small character running around a house. Also Pikmin I guess. I know they're not all that similar gameplay wise but still.

>oh shit you only have eight item slots, I better empty stuff in the trash as often as I can
>turns out you have unlimited item space, it just only shows eight slots until you pick up a ninth

Play it.

There's one outlet up high in the living room that won't let you plug into it even though it looks the same height above Chibi than every other outlet. Does this come into play later or what?

>>718963558
The whole game was like a fever dream
>dad unemployed retard and came off like Nintendo mocking its own fans
>daughter dealing with childhood trauma
>a bunch of toys like the plush dinosaur who falls in love with the Japanese robot guy
>there are some black bug robots you have to defeat at the end

Are these weird rooms ever explained?

>>718966465
I did

I remember getting filtered by that army of egg soldiers because I didn't understand how I was supposed to get past them. As soon as you enter the Foyer they'd immediately start shooting you and I always tried to just run past them but of course that would never work. I even started having nightmares about the Foyer and those egg soldier toys. Eventually I realized you're supposed to use the fucking coffee cup as cover and just waltz right past them.
Always loved how this game made you think

>>718956586 (OP)
the DS game is even better. I wish they could port it but it uses a lot of touch screen gimmicks.

>>718967154
really a shame it never released outside of japan.

>>718967154
The Switch 2 has every gimmick from the DS, same as the Wii U. If they wanted to make a DS NSO they could.

>>718966573
I've grown to love ridiculous concepts like these. I'm kind of glad Nintendo still does weird shit now and again even if it's not as weird as older games were.
>>718966764
Random fun fact, in the Japanese version when you get past that bit, the sergeant yells "GODDAMN" in Katakana and it caught me off guard when doing a Japanese playthrough for the hell of it.

>AAA studios aren't making games like this anymore
>Indies aren't
>Even if they were I wouldn't have the time to play them anymore
Bros... is this what that walking simulator with the baby was supposed to be for the new generation?

what sucks about this game is how slow the dialogues are, with no option to skip, specially with how annoying and repetitive some character voices are and all the repeated dialogues from the tv robot

>>718967409
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119190/koROBO/

By some of the original Chibi Robo developers.

>>718967504
You mean you don't like the sound of someone flipping their lips up and down with their index finger while talking?
I do somewhat agree though even if I'm a little more immune to it.

>>718967504
The slow/unskippable text is my only significant criticism of it. Playing it on Dolphin for the turbo button is a must.

>>718967504
>devs are called Skip
>can't skip dialogue
One job.

>>718967619
looks fun honestly. I love the idea of being tiny and exploring big houses, it's so much better than the lame stuff where they just let you climb around outside. I don't know exactly what it is, it just adds so much intrigue / mystery to any game and makes the platforming seem much cooler than a convoluted open world where you're the size of a human exploring some human towns.

>try to shoot down the swing in the basement
>doesn't work no matter how much I shoot it
>walk near it
>HEY CHIBI MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY SHOOTING THAT
>now it works
Thankfully that's the only time the game seems to bullshit you like this.

>>718967504
>get the pirate ship
>go down to basement to deliver it
>really long cutscene of Plankbeard getting scammed by the fortune teller
>another long cutscene of his backstory
>finally reach the long cutscene where I give him his ship back

>>718968232
>>try to shoot down the swing in the basement
>>doesn't work no matter how much I shoot it
>>walk near it
>>HEY CHIBI MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY SHOOTING THAT
>>now it works
lmao that happened to me too

>>718968232
Seems to be a thing in a fair amount of Nintendo games from that era. I remember one of the Hamtaro games you figure something out really quick even as a kid but it still makes you do every step the devs intended you to do before a flag triggers that allows you to do it.

>>718956586 (OP)
I've always wanted a non-portable sequel to this that includes many more areas to explore outside the house. There's just something extremely satisfying about exploring cozy everyday environments at a small scale.

>>718956586 (OP)
does it actually run good on the emulator? I know windwaker is ass.

>>718962823
>forgot to extend the night music beyond the default "5" time
kek

>>718968640
runs perfectly fine.

>>718963445
>>718964116
>>718964481
The DS sequels fix this btw

>>718967504
some of the dialogue when they talk slower than usual for a dramatic effect pisses me off

>>718966573
>The whole game was like a fever dream
this
The game feels so fucking surreal and even unsettling at times. There were even areas I would avoid at night and only do my business there during the day, unless I was forced to go there at night obviously

>forgot and accidentally gave bone away before going back in time
>have to wait several days for it to respawn
thank god i had the jammies

Kinda wish there was a bigger focus on cleaning. Finding doors gives you enough money to buy junk and beyond happiness being easy to farm elsewhere You get auto rank 1/infinite energy at the end. By the mid game I wasn't even scrubbing messes on the floor.

>>718973695
why