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I beat the game and decided I was having so much fun with it that I would get all the stickers too. The Space Scrambler one fucking sucked though. FUCK that minigame. If it weren’t for save states, I think I would’ve skipped that one. Everything else was super fun though.

I loved how much personality this game had. The UI, the art style, the cast of characters, it all works together so well. Just great vibes all around. One small detail I really liked was how the sound of your footsteps would change depending on the type of surface you were walking on.

The main plot of the game is pretty simple, but it’s compelling. You will discover at some point that the family was having financial problems even before the game starts, and then the (unemployed) dad goes and buys Chibi-Robo for ‘crazy’ moolah, as a receipt you can later find reveals. This causes a rift between the husband and wife, upsetting their daughter Jenny, and you can try to help save the family.

Though one thing I do like is that despite having this overarching narrative, alongside several other side stories to discover, you’re never given some kind of quest log or objective tracker or anything like that. Basically the game starts up, you’re told that getting enough happiness points will let you become Super Chibi-Robo, and then you’re set out into the house to explore and discover all of these things for yourself. You have the freedom to come up with your own goals, naturally come across events and decide what you want to do with the information you just received. It’s very open, and I think that really enhances the adventuring and exploration aspect of the game. It was fun to see something I wanted to get to or some character that I wanted to help out, and then figure out how to go accomplish that. I tried to refrain from looking anything up while I was playing because of this, but I did start to towards the end when I couldn’t figure out where a few of the final things I had left to find were. For the most part I’d say that things are pretty intuitive, however.

Overall, I had a lot of fun playing Chibi-Robo, and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested in trying it out. I really liked the main ending of the game (it made me cry, even), and the side stories were all good too. Out of them, I’d say that my favorite was Mort and the Princess, though Dinah and Funky Phil are a close second. Thanks for reading, and have a super day!