Today, we're talking about spreading the happiness,
tiny robots, and a dysfunctional family. It's
Chibi -Robo for the Nintendo GameCube. Welcome
to Retro Game Beyond presents Retro Game Club,
where damn it feels good to be a gamer. And we're
original gamers, Joe, Eric, Ryan, and Jacob Vanderloski.
And today we are talking Chibi -Robo, or as the
mom likes to call him, Chibo, for the GameCube.
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All right, let's go ahead and jump into our first
section here. It's a good old word of the nerd.
We've been into all kinds of stuff, video games,
music, TV shows. So what else you guys been enjoying?
Ever since last episode, I've been getting into
a few of the Silent Hill games. So I played Silent
Hill 2, the original. I played Origins, and then
I also played Shattered Memories. 2 was pretty
good. Origins wasn't bad. It was very formulaic.
Felt a lot like the first game. Is that the PS3
one, Origins? No, it's on the PS2. Oh, is it?
Okay. And then Shattered Memories was... I had
a lot of fun with it, but it's very different.
Is it the Vita one? No, it's the one that's on
the Wii and PS2. It's like the reimagining of
the first game. They had one on the Vita? Yeah.
Was it the book one? Book of Memories or something?
Yeah. But it was also... the most, like, emotional
Silent Hill, in my opinion. Which one? I really
like the Shattered Memories. Oh, okay. But, yeah,
I think the story was pretty good. I always wanted
to keep going. Yeah. So... Well, there's one
on the PS3, right? Yeah, Downpour. Yeah. Have
you played 4? 3 and 4? Yeah, I played 3 a while
ago. Okay. I think that's my favorite. I tried
to play 4. I don't know why. I just don't want
to... Like, I played about an hour of it. For
whatever reason, I just can't get into that one.
It just rubs me the wrong way. I don't know why.
Like, I got into the first, second, and third
game just fine. Origins was... It's a slow...
It's probably the slowest Silent Hill, but even
then, I still enjoyed it. And then, again, Shattered
Memories is completely different. But I think
it was the story, like, atmosphere that kept
me going. But just one more thing about Shattered
Memories. It's... I don't know how many of you
have played it or know anything about it, but
the game changes based on what you do. In between
the over -the -shoulder gameplay parts, you actually
have a therapy session with a therapist, and
what you say to him changes parts of the gameplay.
And I think what it changes is pretty cool. It
kind of does the opposite of what you do. When
the therapist was asking me questions, like I
said that I was friendly to other people and
that I cared about other people's feelings. And
during my first run, the officer, Officer Sybil,
she's like very rude to you if you answer like
you're nice to other people and you listen to
their feelings. But if you say that you don't
listen to other people's feelings and you're
not friendly, she's friendly to you. So it kind
of does like the opposite of what you answer.
Until Dawn had something like that where you
talk to a therapist between chapters or whatever.
Yeah. It's kind of a similar thing. I've also
read the Hunger Games books. They're pretty good.
Yeah. I really enjoyed those. I didn't read the
books, but I watched the movies. They were pretty
good. I don't remember. I think I watched one
of the movies. It was pretty good. Yeah. I think
the original one I've seen. Yeah. They're pretty
good. Pretty good movies. Yeah. What is there?
Three or four books? Just three books, right?
I think there's two prequels as well. I don't
know if they're books, though. I think they're
just movies. Oh, there's more movies now? I only
know of the four, which the last two were the
third book. I mean, there might be more. Maybe
there's just one. The Ballad of Songbirds and
Snakes. Must be newer. All right, cool. What
else? Who's next? I haven't been doing much.
I haven't really been playing video games that
much, honestly. It's a cheapy robo, but I've
been trying to get back into reading again. There's
so many books I need to read. I have a whole
book of all of H .P. Lovecraft's stories that
I've been trying to get through. I've had that
book for years. I don't know. It's just so hard
for me to get into reading sometimes. I love
Lovecraft, man. Yeah, I've never read his stuff.
I'd like to get into his stuff. He makes some
really good stuff. Some of his stories, some
of them kind of seem like rambling. Not rambling,
just, I don't know. You just don't really know
where it's going to go and then the end's kind
of eh. Yeah. But for most of his stuff, it's
pretty damn good. Yeah. But he's hard to read
because it's like 1890s, like early 1900s language
or vernacular. Right, yeah. And there's some
words that I have to look up because I have no
idea what they mean. Yeah. So, I mean, it's just
ridiculous. That was like reading the Great Divine
Comedy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm sure that's even
worse. Well, yeah, that was originally in Italian.
That was a hard read. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's
pretty much it. I have so many other books, too.
I have a whole... william shakespeare book of
everything that he did so i want to read that
if you like uh lovecraft you probably like um
the conan stuff because him robert howard and
uh lovecraft were kind of like pen pals and i
think they were putting like stuff like from
each other's uh books into like you know into
their own books they're like uh working on stuff
together so oh nice okay yeah that like uh you
know terrifying so terrifying you can't describe
it stuff in some of his books too so yeah yeah
like the divine horror whatever it's called yeah
yeah i like that stuff a lot yeah i've heard
good things about the conans too yeah i have
like i have like a stephen king book too and
i don't know i get a couple other stuff i need
to read yep all right cool eric what have you
been up to yeah same i haven't touched video
games much this this uh past past recording time.
I haven't read it. I started and finished Uzumaki
by Junji Ito. Oh yeah, was that any good? Yeah,
it was good. It was definitely weird. Yeah, his
stuff is. Definitely weird. More like body horror,
you know. Yeah, that's what a lot of his stuff
is, yeah. Yeah, it was cool. The ending I didn't
like too much, but. Oh yeah. It didn't really
explain anything, so. I kind of was like hoping
that it would say what's going on, but it never
did. Is there like a continuation or anything
or is that just it? I think that's just it. Okay.
Me and Sarah watched Berserk, the anime, the
97 anime. Oh, yeah. Nice. I didn't like it too
much. Oh, really? Yeah. Compared to the manga,
it's just not the same. Is it follow the book
or is it different? uh it's it's different like
the first like the beginning is you know in in
series with the books but yeah later on it changes
quite a bit yeah kind of like turtles yeah kind
of and the ending the ending of the anime sucks
too oh really yeah dang bro got a bad bunch of
bad endings dude it's like the when that ends
is like basically where the story starts getting
really good oh yeah what when did the manga come
out was it at the same time uh i think the what
was that 92 oh okay so it was out for a while
before i think so because a lot of times those
animes will like they'll start before the manga
is even finished and so they'll like catch up
too quick and they kind of have to like make
their own shit up yeah but if the book was out
that long then that was just I don't know what
the hell they were doing. I think technically
it was 88 or 89. Okay. Yeah. So I don't know
what they, they just decided to do whatever they
wanted, I guess. Like I said, the beginning is
actually pretty, you know, follows a pretty good,
almost word for word. Right. Yeah. But they do
cut out quite a bit of stuff. Well, yeah. Yeah.
And then towards the end, they just cut out a
bunch of stuff. So that's weird. Is there a,
what's up? Is there a newer one? Yeah, there
was a 16. Okay. Which apparently everybody hates.
Oh, really? Geez. Yeah. They hate the animation
style. Oh, okay. Yeah, the newer stuff I could
see why. And I heard it wasn't that great. Like,
it just had a lot of problems with it. There
was also three movies that were made after that.
Yeah. And people liked those. Okay. I found this
thing called Berserk Redux. Yeah. And they basically
just like jam everything together in like one
massive movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they fixed
a lot of like sound issues and animation issues
and stuff like that. Is that a fan made thing
or? Yeah. That's crazy. But everything that's
like been animated has just been like put together.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's not like they animated
their own stuff. Yeah, I know. Still, it's crazy
that they took the time to put all that crap
together. Yeah, it's pretty cool. trying to beat
fucking ninja gaiden but i'm on the last boss
and i can't beat that yeah because uh there's
a save point there and after that they don't
let you get any health yeah that's cool after
fighting two big bosses yeah so now you got yeah
you're kind of stuck there yep i am yeah i uh
i've been i started uh this ghost in the shell
manga i was reading it oh nice yeah i have that
i want to read that too it's it's pretty good
it's it gets very like deep into like politics
and stuff so i kind of get lost like the politics
stuff always loses me i don't know why i just
like my eyes just like glaze over when they're
talking about other countries you know uh presidents
and stuff and all the intricacies of all that
stuff and just like but i mean otherwise it's
still pretty good it follows the Berserk did
that too like where it kind of was like talking
about other lands and stuff yeah yeah I don't
know that stuff just like I don't know always
goes over my head but um otherwise I mean it's
pretty good um the art is crazy it's fucking
awesome um and I've seen the movies and stuff
and the books the movie follows the books pretty
close because I remember I'm reading through
it I'm like oh yeah I remember this I remember
this so oh okay cool But yeah, it's pretty good.
I'm almost through the first book. There's like
three books, I think, and I'm almost through
the first one. Okay. What is it like? There's
like one, one and a half and two or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I think the one and a
half was written after two. It's like a middle
sequel, prequel, I guess you would call it. Okay.
In the collection, I think they just threw them
in order, you know, of the story. Yeah, yeah,
I got you. You got that one big book, right?
Yeah. Yeah. The big hardcover book. Yep. Yeah.
I think that's the same one I have. Honestly,
when I'm trying to read it, I'm like, damn, this
thing is heavy. Yeah. Like, it actually gets
heavy after reading it for a while. It's a heavy
book. Yeah. You have to, like, lay it on a table
and read it. Yeah. Like, what the hell? What
else? Let's see. I finished Spider -Man 2 on
the PS5. That game is so good, dude. Oh, my God.
you like that one better than the first one i
mean dude venom is my favorite like comic book
character of all time so like just fighting playing
as venom and fighting venom it was just so good
dude i loved it so much yeah it's hard for me
but i still think i like the first one yeah i
can i can see it i can understand it but just
i don't know man the first time i saw venom like
actually like not the symbiote but like when
venom showed up dude i started fucking like my
tears I started having tears, like, tearing up
and stuff, dude. Oh, man. That moment, yeah.
Because you're, like, in the lab. Yeah, dude.
And he just turns around. He grows up and turns
around. Oh, dude. That was so good. Yeah, that
was a sick introduction. Yeah. And then you actually
get to play as him. That was wild. Yeah, that
was cool. And then, no more spoilers, but, like,
there was a couple times when I literally went,
like, what the fuck? And the game made me do
that, like, two or three times with some of the
stuff. It was crazy. Yeah, I did the same thing,
bro. The game was so good. My only problem is,
you know, that I don't know why Marvel and all
these other people, they always take Eddie Brock
out of Venom, and I don't understand why. I don't
know why they do that. Like, I don't like Harry
Osborn as Venom, but whatever. This one wasn't,
like, the worst version. It's okay, yeah. Like,
I'm not, you know, I'm not, like, super mad at
it, but I still would have liked to have seen
Eddie Brock instead, but... I agree. It's just,
like, whatever. I can go on for hours for that,
but... But yeah, that game was still pretty good.
I enjoyed every second of it, so it was pretty
dope. Honestly, it felt kind of short, honestly.
I think I got through everything, like platted
it in like 20 hours, I think, which is kind of
short. I didn't platt it, but I do remember the
story did feel like it went quick. I don't know
if it's because I was just playing the shit out
of it. Yeah, it could be that too. Because that
is a game that I wanted to play. Yeah, it's pretty
good. And then I started the Lego 2K Drive, that
Lego racing game. Yeah, I played that too. I
beat the main story. I'm just doing all the collections
and all the extra races and stuff. But I mean,
that's been pretty good too. It's a pretty good
little game. Yeah, it's a fun little game. It's
kind of easy. Obviously, it's kind of a kiddie
game. But some of the challenges, they have like
those challenges, like extra challenges and stuff.
Getting gold in some of those is a pain in the
ass. Yeah. And then some of the later races get
a little tough. Yeah, I never beat it, but I
do remember towards the end it was getting tough.
Yeah. Well, the rubber banding in that game is
ridiculous. Yes. It is ridiculous, dude. They're
right on you all the way until the last lap,
and then they still stay with you. It's like,
dude, I've been turbo boosting this whole fucking
race, and you're telling me they're still right
behind me? Get out of here. Come on. Yeah. That's
ridiculous. That's what I've been doing. Everybody
else? Oh, go ahead. Yeah, I finished the first
season of solo leveling. Oh, yeah. You said you
were watching it. Yeah, I stopped watching it
for a long time. And then I picked it up again.
That one's pretty good. Dude, I was enjoying
it. But then the last two episodes of the first
season was awesome. Oh, yeah? All right. Yeah.
All of you guys should probably watch it because
it's awesome. All right. I might check it out.
Video game related. Yeah. What is it? Solo leveling?
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. There's like these.
portals that opened up in the world and there's
uh hunters that go out and like clear dungeons
and stuff oh nice okay but um the main character
gets this like system where he can like level
up like in a video game almost like an rpg where
you yeah yeah so and it's pretty much that's
pretty much you know the main plot there so oh
that's pretty dope yeah yeah it's pretty good
sounds like right up my alley so yeah dude you
i'm telling you would enjoy it and the animation
is freaking awesome too oh yeah nice yeah the
only thing is i i do see a lot of people complain
is that the main character is kind of like i
don't know just kind of blah like there's not
much personality oh yeah yeah and at some points
it is like that so he's like generic yeah he
just does not a lot not a very an emotional person
like yeah yeah yeah i mean that's pretty i don't
know video games but i don't know yeah i don't
know it's just funny because he's like true he
just kills this big boss and he's like all right
you know yeah just not much emotion there yeah
all right cool i'll have to add it to my ever
-growing list of shit i'll never do yeah trust
me i know yeah yeah because now i want to read
the the books of those yeah right yeah all right
let's jump over to the game Alright, today we
were playing Chibi -Robo for the Nintendo GameCube.
It was developed by Skip, limited, and published
by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube in 2006.
Actually, the director for this game, Kenichi
Nishi, he also worked on Incredible Crisis. You
guys remember that game? Dude, didn't I mention
something like that? I was like, it had that
feel. Yeah, I think you did say something about
it, yeah. Yeah, the guy who worked on this actually
worked on that game too. Okay. Yeah, it has that
art style, that feel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then
he actually worked on a game called Moon, which
was a Japanese -only RPG. But that game inspired
Undertale. It was an inspiration for Undertale.
This game actually started out as a point -and
-click game. They started it out as a point -and
-click, and then you were like the robot. You
were trying to protect your... uh creator from
like other robot attacks or something but you
didn't actually control him you like you know
you like uh commanded him through a point and
click uh ui but apparently they put it on hold
and then miyamoto somehow got a hold of it and
he he gained interest in the character and then
that's when nintendo kind of got their hands
into it and that's when uh they made this game
they took it and made chibi robo so i thought
it was pretty cool little history there seems
like it took a complete different turn from what
it was supposed to be. Yeah, I think Miyamoto
didn't really like the game, he just liked the
character and he's like, alright, I'm going to
take that and make something. Yeah. What was
that point and click on the computer? Machinarium?
Machinarium, yeah. Yeah. That's free right now
on Epic, I think. Oh, is it? Yeah, I got it.
That was a cool game. I was like, what? That
game's awesome. Yeah, that game was pretty cool.
I played that a long time ago. Yeah, oh yeah.
Alright, were you guys able to complete this
game? Uh, no. Yeah. I did. Yeah, I finished it.
How far did you guys get? I don't know. Pretty
far. I got a charged a giga battery. Okay. Yeah,
what does that take? Like 10 ,000? Yeah, 10 ,000
yen or whatever it was. I filled it up to like
7 or 8. But that's not... You still got other
stuff to do, though. Like, before you can do
that. Fill it up all the way? Well, once you
fill it up all the way, you still have to do
two other things to the robot before you can
wake him. Oh, do you? Yeah. So, you guys are
probably, like, halfway through the game. Damn.
What? Mm -hmm. Jesus. There is a lot of content
in this game. Have you seen the aliens yet or
anything? Yeah. Oh, you talked to the aliens?
Yeah. Oh, OK. All right. Then you're a little
bit farther than halfway, maybe. Eric, you didn't
talk to the aliens yet? No, I haven't yet. Yeah,
you're you're about halfway. Ryan, you're a little
bit over halfway, but. OK. Yeah, this game is
actually surprisingly pretty wrong. So you are
you are a chibi robo. You're a tiny little like
cleaning robot. You're supposed to be helping
you just like, you know, around the house helper.
And you are you're brought into this family who
the dad kind of bought you, even though even
though they don't really have any money. And
so, you know, you come into this kind of dysfunctional
family because the mom and dad aren't seeing
eye to eye. And the daughter, for whatever reason,
thinks she's a frog. She's like stuck as a frog,
which is pretty funny. And then you come to find
out that all the toys in the house are actually
alive and they want your help, too. So it's pretty
funny, too, because like the main the main, you
know. plot of the game is to help all these characters
in the house and everything but i think it was
cool that they also added the ability to like
actually do your job of like cleaning the house
and everything i thought that was kind of funny
yeah it's kind of satisfactory to like pick up
trash and clean the like dog tracks and foot
tracks and stuff on the floor that was cool and
then you can also do all that and um that'll
gain you like happy points and uh uh money and
then like the happy points kind of like level
you up so it's actually you kind of kind of need
to do that stuff too uh because the more you
level up the more you uh the bigger your battery
gets so one of the um points of this game is
your basically your health is your battery and
as you play the game your battery is just always
going down and then um you have a little plug
behind you and you can take the plug at any time
and plug it into a wall and charge it back up
which it was kind of annoying at first because
the first like Before you get any upgrades, you
have to really pay attention to that. There's
not really much you can do for the first hour
or two of the game. Yeah, you gotta get a couple
of those battery upgrades before you feel like
you're confident enough to walk around the house
without getting hurt. Battery anxiety. Yeah,
pretty much. But to be fair, it doesn't let you
really go too far at the beginning of the game
anyway. I guess they're trying to ease you into
the game yeah i mean it's definitely like a slow
burn for sure that was the other thing too one
of the things that i didn't like about this game
was that uh time limit i didn't like the five
minute time limit that was kind of annoying because
you're just starting to get into something and
then you know the day or the night's over and
then you have to go back to the to the house
to your chibi house and start the next day over
so that was kind of annoying Has there ever been
a game that has a time limit where it's not a
payment? Uh, I can't think of anything off the
top of my head. No, I always hate it. I know
it would have been better if it would have been
more like, if it just been a seamless, like,
you know, time, like a month, a day to night,
like, you know, seamless thing. You know what
I mean? Yeah. Um, but I mean, so you can, you
can buy an upgrade that changes it to 15 minutes
and those are permanent, which I didn't realize
that at first I thought they would only be like
a one -time thing, but yeah. Um, So that helps
a little bit, but it never goes away completely,
which is kind of annoying. But still, like you
said, you're in the middle of trying to do something.
Like, oh, I'm almost out of time. I got to rush.
Yeah, you always feel like you're rushing. Polish,
not rushing. The other thing about that, too,
is it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to
completely redo everything that you were working
on. That, too, yeah. Because I was in Jenny's
room. and I was trying to get the princess out,
and I was so close. I was so close to getting
her. Time went up. Yeah, the castle, right? Climbing
that castle is a pain in the butt. Yeah, and
I was like, okay, well, I guess I'll just come
back the next night, and hopefully everything
will be here. Guess what? Nothing was there,
so I had to redo the entire castle. Yeah. So,
yeah. Yeah, that part kind of sucks, but I mean,
I don't know. I did enjoy this game. It's pretty
cool because you collect a bunch of stuff. You
get a toothbrush to do the cleaning and then
later you get a spoon to do digging and you can
plant stuff and everything later. What else?
You start out with a copter. You have your little
chibi copter to use. The platforming in this
game is pretty good. I thought it was a little
weird. For the most part. I'm not big on the
hold action or hold the button to climb and stuff
like that. yeah it took me a minute to get used
to it yeah that gets a little annoying it's it's
a very like um legend of zelda type thing it's
legend of zelda does that too um yeah we just
like where you just like run up to a jump and
then he'll just automatically jump um but yeah
you have like a chibi copter where you can just
like walk off edges and stuff with the with the
copter and you're like you know safely land um
but i wish i actually noticed like if you if
you like jump off of a Counter like near one
of the characters. They'll actually grab you
like chibi be careful. Yeah Yeah, yeah, which
is pretty funny Yeah, so part of the story is
you're just going around and helping all these
toys So there's all these like all the toys are
alive at night and they all have you know issues
That you're they ask you for your help like what's
his name Drake Redcrest. He wants you to help
patrol the house Which I love all the characters
in this game. They're also like quirky and I
don't know. They're just fun. They all have like
such a big personality. Yeah, they're all pretty
funny. Yeah. Like the dog toy. She's like she
has a huge crush on on the Red Crest. The action
figure. Yeah. I love the eggs. I think. Yeah,
the military. Yeah. Yeah, that was funny. And
then you got like the pirate guy. He's down in
the basement. He wants to. do some looting and
stuff and everything. What else was there? There's
the Lego T -Rex, which was pretty funny. The
dancing flower. They had the dancing flower in
the window. That was funny. Yeah, the humor is
great in this game. I love the humor, too. Yeah,
it's just like that kiddish humor. Yeah. It's
actually pretty funny. Yeah, they do a pretty
good job on it. One gripe I had is just the cut
scenes where the text they just take forever
yeah i i don't yeah that's true because the text
will like go like word for or like letter for
letter sometimes and it takes sometimes yeah
it's like letter for letter and i'm like yeah
yeah i definitely use the fast forward button
a lot on that one yeah i don't know why they
were doing that i don't know i mean like you
know maybe it's just that quality of life thing
wasn't around but when i press the button it
just complete the Yeah. You know, the sentence
or the paragraph. Yeah. Let me read it at my
own pace. My guess is those were cut scenes.
That's probably why. Yeah. I don't know. They
just they dragged on a little bit. They did.
I can agree with that for sure. Yeah. I mean,
the story is kind of silly. You know, this dad,
he's been he was fired from his. I don't know.
Did he quit? I don't know. He was fired or quit.
I can't remember from his job. And the mom's
taking care of all the bills and they're kind
of. She's kind of worried about money and he
keeps spending all his money on toys until eventually
she's had enough and she locks herself up in
a room. And then, you know, finally, the dad's
like, all right, maybe I should actually start
doing something around the house. So him and
the kids start trying to help, you know, do better
on the house. And then then the spiders start
attacking. There's like these tiny robots that
start attacking the family. I don't think you
guys do. You guys didn't fight the spider queen,
right? I haven't made it to her yet. I did. Eventually
those tiny robots come together and there's a
big spider robot that attacks the whole family.
You gotta protect the family from that. Eventually
they all see eye to eye and get back together
and everything. I guess a happy ending there.
There's plenty of missions to do here. There's
plenty of characters. One of the things in this
game is there's a lot of running around. There's
like, what, six rooms in the house? But you're
going to be going back and forth between them
a lot. And that's why the time limit kind of
sucks. Yeah. You've got a lot of time running
and not being able to do anything. You get some
help. There's a couple. They're called Utilibots.
You can collect scrap from the spiders that you
destroy. And then you can create these little
things. They're basically just ladders. There's
one that's like a teleporter. so you can like
skip stairs and stuff and everything but still
for the most part you still have to go room to
room before you can even get to the uh you know
to like the missions to start the missions there's
certain costumes you can get you can get up you
can get throughout the game after doing certain
activities like um let's see there's the frog
outfit that you can get and um every single every
single character reacts differently to whatever
outfit you have on which is pretty cool like
Because Jenny thinks she's a frog, if you're
in the frog suit, she responds positively to
that. Yeah, that was funny. I think you can actually
talk to her. Yeah, she actually talks to you.
Because when you help the frogs out, you can
understand. I think it's frogging ease, I think
is what they said. Yeah. Yeah, there's a bird
that you run into in that game, and you had to
have the frog suit in order to understand them.
So it's more than just them. But yeah, that was
another aspect I really liked. Not only was it
fun to have each suit have its own function,
but it was also immersive for every character
to have their own lines about Chibi Robo's suit.
It was really cool to see what they all had to
say. And some of them are required to get through
some of the stuff. You have to have that frog
suit to get some of those frog missions done.
There's actually... And there's a ghost costume
later on that you have to get to finish the princess
side quest and everything. So, yeah, some of
them are actually required, which is pretty cool.
And they're all pretty awesome. Yeah, you have
the Tau one, so you can talk to the dog. Yeah,
he's pretty funny. Yeah, the dog one's awesome.
Yeah, because it actually has the wagon tail
on the back of it and stuff. Yeah, and then each
costume you can do a pose. Yeah, you do the pose.
And the dog one, you like sit all on your legs
and bark. Yeah, it's pretty funny. Let's see.
There's also a bunch of collectibles in this
game. There's coins. There's trash. There's the
frog rings. There's something else, right? Wasn't
there something else? Just a bunch of stuff.
Oh, yeah. The crayons. The doors. They have those
chibi doors that you can unlock with your energy.
Yeah, what's up with those? Those are weird.
Yeah, just weird little doors. I don't know.
They're funny, though. What's the point of those?
I don't know. I just think it's a weird thing
they added in the game. Yeah. It's like no context.
Yeah. It's funny, too, because. Oh, yeah. You
got your little buddy. What's his name? Telvo.
Telly. Telly. That's right. Yeah. He's like your
I guess he's basically just your mouth. He can
talk for you and everything. But when you come
out of the room, he's like, are you OK? Yeah.
It's pretty funny. It is weird because it plays
weird music and then there's like eyes all over.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is the Japanese being
weird, bro. That's all it is. Yeah, I don't know.
The only thing, what kind of annoying was the
coins and the trash. I mean, I understand why
they did it, but that stuff never goes away.
Like, it always comes back. Yeah. I wish there
was a point where you could, like, you know,
complete that and you're like, oh, I finally
cleaned this room, but the room's never freaking
cleaned. Well, it's like real life. I guess so.
I guess so. It's too much like real life. That's
probably why I didn't play this game that much
because I'm too busy doing that in real life.
I don't really want to sit down and play video
games and do it again. You don't have to clean
the house. In real life, yeah. No, I mean in
the game. I mean, like you said, you kind of
do to get to happiness. Yeah. When you beat the
game, you get unlimited energy so you don't have
to. Yeah, I don't know. It does make the game
easier. It does, yeah. Plus, there's also chivos
to do it. Well, yeah, we're going for them chivos.
Like when you unplug the plug from the wall?
Yeah. Sometimes you just randomly get hit by
something. Which is weird. I figured they would
kind of do the opposite on that. What do you
mean? Actually unplugging it seems like the right
thing to do instead of just running away. You
can just run out of it and unplug it that way.
I figured they would hit you in the head for
doing that. I don't know. I don't know why they
do it at all. It makes no sense. Dude, I just,
tonight when I was playing, it did it to me like
four times in a row. Yeah, it's random. I was
like, what? I just did it until I got the achievement
and then I just ran every time. It's hilarious,
dude. Every time you get hit, tell it counts.
He's like, that's happened three times. He does
it for the charging too, which is pretty crazy.
It tells you how many times you charged. yeah
i thought that was a cool cool aspect speaking
of that why i don't know why game developers
do this why in god's name is the action button
and the pick up your cord button the same button
why yeah i know i can't tell you how many times
i'm knowing dude yeah because you try to talk
to somebody or pick something else up and then
you pick up your your uh plug and it's just like
why do they do that there's there's 16 buttons
on this controller do use another one yeah i
agree not to mention like that's not the only
game that does that sorry go ahead jacob not
to mention like the only reason that you need
to pick up your plug is so you can plug yourself
to an outlet why not just have it so when you're
near the outlet press a and it charges yeah just
picks he picks it up and then does it there yeah
exactly yeah yeah i don't know I don't mind the
picking up part, it's just why they're the same
button as trying to talk to people. Well, apparently
if you pick it up, you move faster. Yeah, you
do move a little bit faster, yeah. That's why
you can do it. Still, it's dumb. One of the stupid
Assassin creeds had the talk and assassinate
button as the same fucking button. What are you
doing? I can't remember which one. I think it
was Origins, I think. Eventually they updated
it and changed the button, but what? What developer
sat down and said, this is a good idea? Yeah,
then somebody QA'd it and was like, oh, this
is great. This is a good idea. I didn't accidentally
kill that guy I was trying to talk to. Did you
even test it? Whatever. I feel like most of the
time they don't. No. I mean, it wasn't a huge
deal. Just every once in a while I was kind of
like, son of a gun. I didn't want to do that.
I wanted to pick this up, you know. I do it all
the time. Yeah. Yeah. And again, it does get
annoying. And this game is not a huge deal because
there's not really much of a high stakes in this
game. No. The only thing that was really, really
tough in this game was some of those stickers,
man. So there's also stickers you can get, which
are kind of just like challenges or basically
like achievements for the game. Um, and some
of those are tough, dude. Like, did you, did
you get all the stickers, Jacob? No, I got about,
I think half or so. Okay. I went through and
got them all. That's stupid. Did you do the space
one? The space race one? Oh yeah, I tried. I
mean, I did the mini game, but I didn't win it.
That one was tough, dude. That one took me a
while to get. That one was tough. Um, but yeah,
it's just like, they're just like collect all
the chibi doors, get like win that space race
one. meet some of the characters, do all the
side missions. That's basically what it was.
When you get them all, it doesn't really do anything.
It's just a nice, look what I did kind of thing.
Besides picking up your plug accidentally, the
controls are actually pretty good. Yeah, Chibi
feels pretty good. Getting into the change your
weapon or copter or whatever your upgrades are
is easy and simple. Yeah, it's a very quick menu.
It pauses the game, but it doesn't like stop
the game, which is nice. Yeah, and then like
Chibi feels pretty good. You know, he's got a
good feel. He's a very simple character. I mean,
he can only really jump. And when you put the
attack, when he's got like a gun that you can
use to to attack the spiders. But that's about
really all he can do other than climb, you know,
too. But I think sometimes the camera was kind
of a pain in the butt. It would get stuck every
once in a while. But compared to some of those
3D games back then, the camera's pretty good.
Oh, yeah. You can play Bugsy. Yeah, Bugsy. There's
a new Bugsy coming out. Yeah, 4D. Crazy. Freaking
crazy. I don't know. It blows my mind some of
the things that have stood the test of time.
There were so many edgy 90s video game mascots.
Why did that one? Why is Bubsy still around?
I don't know. Whatever. Because it was so bad
that people still talk about it. I guess so.
There was like Akro the Aerobat. Where is he
at? You know. Yeah. Fucking whatever. Anyway.
All right. I guess that's it. Nothing really
else on the story, gameplay. I mean, it's just
a fun game. I had a ton of fun playing this game.
I couldn't put it down. I kept coming home from
work every day. I was like, all right, what am
I getting into today? This is so much fun. I
didn't look up anything for this game. I did
all of it on my own. It was so much fun. Just
like trying to find every nook and cranny in
the house and and talking to all the characters
and everything. I don't know. I really love this
game. All right. Let's see. So the graphics.
I mean, the GameCube is fine. It's aged better,
I guess. And I mean, it's aged OK, I guess. It
looks all right. Yeah. For this aesthetic, it
works. Yeah, because it's very simple. It's a
very colorful, very simple looking game. You
know, Chibi Robo is just a little round cylinder
robot. But yeah, the game looks fine. I like
the house has a very exaggerated 50s nuclear
family aesthetic. It's pretty cool. I like it.
I like the way the house looks and everything.
It's very colorful. with a bunch of like weird
like crazy flair and stuff around the house so
if that was real bro that that is one ugly house
yeah it kind of hurt your eyes yeah way too much
stuff going on yeah for sure i mean that was
just that style back then so i mean it's definitely
exaggerated you know but yeah yeah but i don't
know i like it i think it was a cool look for
the house um yeah in the game it's awesome it
makes it does brighten things up The colors are
very vivid in the game. And then just the layout
and everything. There's so much to explore. Climbing
up the counters and trying to get up the stairs
and falling down from the armoires and everything.
It's just a lot of fun to run around that house.
And then I love all the characters and stuff.
The characters are cool. They're unique. Some
cool designs on them. They're very animated too.
They move around a lot. But their movements are
also like very in line with their character.
Yeah, true. They're very, very animated. Well,
so, yeah, I agree. All right. Now we can get
into sound. So like you were saying, one of the
cool things is that a lot of the things that
Chibi does has like like interactive sound effects.
Like when you're walking around, there's like
a xylophone sound for every step. whenever you
do like clean up just depending on like what
surface you're yeah it's true when you like walk
on a carpet it's a little bit different than
walking on the tile and stuff which was cool
yeah um and then like like whenever you clean
up something that has like a little guitar riff
on it uh yeah digging has like a different little
sound so yeah it was pretty cool um the soundtrack
which was done by hirofumi taniguchi uh it's
pretty good it's got like a It's got that, like,
late 90s, early 2000s, like, jungle beat for
sure. You can totally hear that, like, style
in there. It was, like, super popular at that
time. It was pretty good. There's also some,
like, parts with, like, heavy guitars and stuff.
Yeah, dude, the sound design in this game was
awesome. Yeah, it was really well done. Just
the sound effects more than anything. Yeah, sound
effects are great, yeah. Yeah, like, when you
open the menu and click something, it makes a
little... noise and Definitely. Yeah. The only
thing is like the walking does get a little annoying
sometimes. Yeah, it can a little bit I mean,
it's not like super loud so you can just kind
of ignore it. But yeah, it's it's there all the
time Yeah, it doesn't go away Yeah, you get used
to it though you can I at least I was able to
tune it out Yeah, just kind of comes before part
of the back sound effects in this game. Like
when you climb and jump on things and stuff i
mean there's it's pretty cool how everything
has a sound effect yeah i think it was a tiny
little robot yeah right yeah i think everything
was really well done i even like i like the like
crazy voices and stuff telly's voice is so funny
to me i love that sound yeah i like the sergeant
bro yeah his is great too yeah Yeah. His makes
me laugh. That was so funny. Yeah. That was great.
The aliens were pretty good too. But I like how
the father would always do like that and they
were like going on the white screen. It was so
stupid. He did it so much too. And then I like
when the mom when you made the mom happy she
was like wow. Yeah. I love how she calls you
Chibo. Yeah, Chibo's hilarious. She's like, oh,
hey, Chibo. Yeah, because that's something a
mom would do. It's so funny. Yeah. And then she,
like, stitches you sleeping pajamas, too. Yeah.
And then you can, like, fall asleep. Yeah, that's
something you could do. Later on, you could get
pajamas that would let you change the time of
day at any time. You, like, dress up in pajamas
and you, like, lay down on a little pillow. Oh,
man, it's so funny. Yeah, there's a lot of detail
into this game. Yeah, there is. It's great. It's
definitely got all of that Nintendo charm, for
sure. All right. Anybody want to say anything
else about Chibi -Robo? Sometimes, I guess, the
only thing it suffers from is it gets a little
redundant sometimes. Yeah, you're definitely
going to be doing a lot of backtracking in this
game, for sure. I think that was because there
was like a point where I was just like, I don't
know if I was just doing something wrong or not,
but there was like when I was playing, there
was like three or four days where like just nothing
was happening. Yeah, I think it's near the beginning.
It's just kind of slowly trying to it's like
I said, it's definitely a slow burn. That first
part, it's slowly trying to teach you parts.
It could have been a little bit. It could have
been a little bit faster in that part for sure.
Yeah, because I needed to get up higher, and
I'm like, well, how do I get up there? Yeah,
yeah, yeah. It took forever for those robots
to show up. Yeah. I think in the beginning of
the game, too, there's only, like, you know,
you have to do one thing to progress the game.
Yeah. So, like, and you have to find it. If you're
not looking for it or anything, and you're just
cleaning, you're not going to find it. But if
you're, like, towards, like, halfway or the end
of the game, there's multiple things you can
do. Yeah, I agree. There's a lot to do. But the
beginning of it, it takes a minute. It just gets
a little redundant. That's one of the cool things
about this game. You could start one mission,
and then you do that during the daytime. And
then at the nighttime, you go and do another
mission that's at the nighttime. And then you
just kind of go back and forth. It's kind of
cool that you don't have to do one side quest
all at one time. You can keep going back and
forth through the different ones, which was kind
of cool. And then if you don't even want to do
them, you can just go look for collecting stuff
and that too. So there's a lot of, a lot of,
um, kind of different paths you can take. Yeah.
Freedom. Yeah. Yeah. So. but yeah i can see it
definitely does because you're gonna like when
you're doing like one side quest you have to
go like especially when it's like in jenny's
room you have to go to jenny's room every single
time and go all the way up there and then talk
to the character again and then he's gonna be
like well i need this and then you gotta go and
find and then go all the way back up to the room
so yeah it definitely gets a little rip out of
them for sure freddy freddy fish flashback yeah
is there a lot of backtracking in that game Oh,
my God. Was it? I don't remember. That's basically
the whole game. Yeah, I guess so. Well, I mean,
at least they had the teleporters, though. Yeah,
that helps a lot. Climbing those stairs was a
pain in the ass. Yeah. I remember Pajama Sam
finding all the socks was a lot of backtracking.
Yeah. Freddy Fish was the same one. Was it? I
don't really remember Freddy Fish that much.
Okay, let's talk about the achievements. I guess
I'm the only one who mastered this one, right?
Yep. Are you guys planning to do it all? Probably
not. I want to, yeah. I want to, but I probably
won't. They're not hard. It's just, it's a little
time consuming, but the achievements are pretty,
I actually like the achievements set on this
one. I thought it was pretty good. I do too.
Like I said, a couple of those stickers are kind
of a pain in the ass. They're a little tough.
That space. Race 1 is probably the hardest one
just because you have to figure out the flow
of that one. It's such a pain in the butt. Again,
but that doesn't really have anything to do with
the achievement, really. That's in -game. Well,
it's to get the sticker, right? Well, that's
what I'm saying. It's part of the game. Oh, yeah.
The achievements in this game aren't really making
you go out of your way to do stupid stuff. No,
not really. No, I actually think this is one
of, if not the best set so far. Besides that
one where it's like, don't die before you recharge
the robot or whatever. Yeah, that one's kind
of a pain in the butt, but it's not a huge deal
because if you can die, you can just start, you
can just reload your last save. It's not a huge
deal, but yeah, it's something you have to, like
if you didn't know about it before you started
or, you know, it's just something you have to
be conscious of for sure. Yep. But other than
that, it seems like the achievements are like...
strictly like stuff that's in the game yeah it's
pretty much just do everything in the game um
yeah you don't have to go out of your way to
do something or yeah yeah and there's really
something repetitive there's really only a boss
with one eye closed yeah well i mean there's
only like one boss in this game anyway so yeah
and you don't have to you don't have to do a
no hit run on that one so But for this type of
game, though, there's no point. I mean... No,
that would be ridiculous for this game. There's
no point to... I mean, I understand having, like,
maybe, like, kind of, like, difficult kind of
achievements for this game, but I just don't
think it fits the game. That's the other thing.
Achievements need to, like, fit the game of what
you're playing. This is a laid -back, sit -down
-and -relax kind of play game. This is not a...
And the achievements need to reflect that, which
I think they do. Yeah, I think they do, William.
It's just collecting is, you know, it's like
the only thing. Yeah. And finding like hidden
stuff, you know? Yeah. And like I said, I, I
didn't look up anything for this game. I figured
everything out on my own. So the game's not,
it's not that hard to find and do everything
in this game. Yeah. I mean, there was a couple
of points where I, it took me, I had, I got stuck
and I was like, all right, well, I'm going to
go do this other mission. And while I was working
on that mission, I was like, Oh, maybe I should
try that for that other one. You know? And I
kept going back and forth. Yeah, you can pretty
much figure it out on your own. I won't spoil
it, but there is one thing I was like, what the
fuck do I do here? I got stuck in the princess
and the mummy one. I got stuck on that mission
for a little bit. That one took me a little while.
Yeah, I won't say anything, but yeah, that part
was a little tough. Yeah, a pretty good set.
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed playing it. I think you
guys can finish it pretty easily. yeah yeah it's
just you just got to put the time into it that's
all yeah it's just a time thing yeah yeah um
so all right that's the achievements let's go
ahead and jump over to the final All right, quick
explanation. We're not doing scores or anything
like that. It's just a quick, did you enjoy it
and would you recommend it? So let's go ahead.
Eric, why don't you go first? How did you enjoy
your first GameCube game? I enjoyed it a lot.
It's a good game. I really wish I had more time
to put into it because I really did enjoy the
game. It's fun. All right, would you recommend
it? Yeah, definitely. All right. Ryan, what do
you say? Yeah, I definitely enjoyed this game.
I'm definitely going to go back and beat it.
I'm definitely going to try to master it too,
but I liked it a lot. It's a good game. All right,
cool. Would you recommend it? Yeah, absolutely.
There's not really a whole lot of... I can't
think of anything right now, anything bad about
this game, really. It's just a nice sit -back,
kind of roam around, find and collect stuff.
Just the interactions with everything, too. The
characters, just chibi. I don't know. It's such
a good game, man. There's just so much character
and detail into this game. I would definitely
recommend it. Yeah, for sure. All right, Jacob,
do you enjoy it? Yeah, it's a good game. It feels
almost like a collect -a -thon. But I like going
around and just doing all different kinds of
things. Exploring the map, you know, going to
new areas was also really cool. And it just has
so much charm. You're going to want to talk to
every character because they're all just so awesome
and fun to talk to. Yeah, yeah. All right. So
you would you recommend it? Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, I mean, I agree. This game just so much
fun, man. I couldn't put it down. There's just
so much like opening up new parts of the house,
like you said, is so much fun and exploring the
new rooms and then like who you're going to meet,
like all the crazy characters and everything.
And yeah, it was just so much fun, man. It totally
has that Nintendo charm for sure. It's just such
an easy it's such an easy game to play, too.
But it's not like it's not that it's like. It's
still challenging, but just so easy to sit back
and play. It's such a... I don't know, man. I
had a ton of fun with it. So yeah, I would definitely
recommend it. I think anybody could sit down
and play this game. I mean, I don't know. If
you can't have fun with this game, I don't know
what you're doing. I don't know about you guys,
but this is now my favorite game that we played
for this show, for sure. Yeah, I figured that,
yeah. I love this game. I'm upset that I didn't
have this game when I was younger because this
would have absolutely been like a classic for
me. But yeah, this is my favorite game now. Okay,
I can see that. I think this is a very slept
on game. Yeah, for sure. I really want to see
what those sequels are, so I'm going to check
those out too. Yeah, yeah. All right. Is this
anybody's favorite or least favorite change with
this game? Nah. Nah. Like I did, I really, really
like this game, but it didn't click the way that
some other games have. Sure. Yeah, I mean, it's
got a couple things wrong with it. It's definitely
a little bit slow. Some of the gameplay controls
is a little strange, but I don't know. It's not
a huge thing. There's such tiny little nitpicks
for this game. Yeah, for sure. I'm not saying
it's a bad game. No, I know. Just something just
didn't click the way some of the other games
I've played have. There's no leaderboards to
fight Ryan with. That's the biggest thing. Yeah,
it's not my favorite, but it's definitely up
there. This was far better than some of the games
that we've played. Rule of Rose number one. Yeah.
Yeah. That's our final letter for Chibi Robo.
Let us know what you guys thought. Is this your
most favorite game? All right. Let's go ahead
and see what our next game is going to be. So
we're going to be playing Baroque for the Sega
Saturn, which was a Japanese exclusive. So we're
going to be doing some English patching here.
You guys know anything about this game? Absolutely
not. Not at all. Kind of a little bit. Yeah,
I don't know anything about this game. I've never
heard of it until we started this podcast. The
Saturn was one I skipped. I've always wanted
a Saturn, and I just never got around to getting
one. I've always wanted one, though. It looks
like it has some cool games on there. I'm definitely
looking forward to it. There was a lot of Japanese
stuff. Yeah, the Saturn didn't do super great
in America. They definitely had more Japanese
releases, I'm pretty sure. Alright, let's take
a look at the cover art here. I think this is
a slipcase because I've seen two different covers
here. I think this is like a see -through slipcase
over the white background. It's got a bunch of
characters on the front and they're standing
in front of this like... I'm guessing it's like
some kind of dungeon tower thing back here. It
just has a bunch of words on the front here.
It definitely has that... It looks like a Japanese
RPG to me. Yeah, trippy. Why is the text in English
in the background? The words... On the front
are in English. Yeah, because Japanese can read
English. No, they can't. Yes, they can. Most
of the world can. Distorted pearls. Yeah, I mean,
this is giving me pretty Japanese RPG vibes.
This is weird. He looks like a fucked up Moogle
from Final Fantasy. The flying thing? Yeah. He
looks like a Moogle. Are you looking for the
Moogles from Final Fantasy? Yeah. He looks like
a really fucked up version of it. Yeah, this
is supposed to be like a horror roguelike game.
Yeah. Which is dope, so. I'm not big on roguelikes,
but we'll see. We'll see how this one goes. Yeah.
I don't hate them. They're just not my favorite.
I am, but I don't know. I'd like to see what
like a retro roguelike looks like. Yeah. Yeah,
for sure. All right. Yeah. I mean, it's a pretty
cool cover. All right. Look. Let's look at the
back. Look at that. There's English on the back,
too. Whoa. Yeah, and it's a poem. All right,
you ready? Baroque. Distorted pearls. A style
of art that once prevailed. Disharmony. Excess.
Confusion. Once upon another time. Age means
change. Meanings change with age. This is the
age of great heat. This is the world it destroyed.
Baroque. Distorted delusions is the age of great
heat. This is the world it destroyed. Baroque,
distorted illusions in this land of devastation.
Don't let go of your illusions. Should you hope
to survive, hold Baroque inside. Hold Baroque
inside. That's pretty cool. I think I'm going
to be confused playing this game. Yeah, this
is going to have a story like Rule of Rules.
They misspelled illusions. Yeah. Well, I mean,
they can read it. They don't know how to spell
it. Wow. You're lucky they put a Nell instead
of an R. come on now big dog what that's pretty
cool poem but it doesn't tell me anything about
this game yeah no oh you have to hold barack
inside i can't who yeah obama i don't mr obama
i can't quite read this this says fury something
fury pseudo game gamer something game this that's
given time time rpg or typhoon It's one person.
Oh, role -playing? Is that what this is? Memory
card, though. It takes memory card. And I can't
read that last one. Baroque means like a kind
of style for the 18th and 19th century. Yeah,
it's like a dark... dark kind of style gothic
yeah well it's not gothic because it's would
be called gothic but but it's similar yeah yes
similar hmm it's like gothic it's strange i think
barocco or like broco in japanese means like
distorted that's what the distorted thing is
about okay i thought he was a president no you
know what it doesn't say on here though atlas
Good. Not in this version. Remastered version.
It will in the future, yeah. I've heard this
was the best version, so that's why I picked
this one. This is the best, best version. For
the Saturn, so... Because they have it on the
Saturn, the PS1, and the PS2. Yeah. Well, the
PS2, they changed it to a third -person view
or something. Well, the PS2 is the remastered
one. Yeah, but they changed the game. But it
came out on the Saturn first, and then... Well,
yeah changed it up a little bit on the ps1 and
they remastered it. Yeah Apparently they changed
it every time they released it on the new system.
So what sounds like a ninja guy? They bastardized
it. All right, you guys looking forward to this
game? Yo, I'm kind of mid on it and be honest
with you. Yeah, that's trippy but mutual feelings.
Yeah, we'll see how it goes All right Let us
know. Do you guys have any experience with this
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