Chibi-Robo! Park Patrol

Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol is a video game for the Nintendo DS, developed by skip. It is the sequel of the original Chibi-Robo! game for the Nintendo GameCube.

Unlike the previous game, Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol takes place outdoors, where Chibi-Robo must battle Smoglings and grow flowers with his squirter. Chibi-Robo can also use vehicles such as buggies, cars, and boats as well as grow park flowers through the use of a boombox. It is a sequel to the Gamecube's original game and stars a newer model of Chibi-Robo. Since the letter buttons can be used as the D-pad, the game is good for left-handed people without having to switch from the D-pad to the stylus too much.

Following rumors of its cancellation in North America, Nintendo announced that the game had been delayed during development, pushing the release date back from September 24, 2007 to October 2, 2007[3]. The game was released in the United States as a Wal-Mart exclusive[4]. To promote the game, Nintendo of America gave out packets of seeds to 500 randomly-selected people who registered the game on the company's website.[5] The game has not been announced for a European release.

Contents [hide] 1 Gameplay 2 Reception 3 References 4 External links

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Though key elements from the first game are still featured in this game (such as losing watts by walking and performing actions), There are plenty of new features, like the game takes place almost 100% of the time outdoors. You still have many tools to use, but most of them are new, such as the bom box and the clippers. There are also transportation devices like carts and bikes you can ride in.

The game has two sections: the park, and the town. The park is where you will spend most of your time in. You water buds with your squirter, and they grow very quickly into either white flowers or colored flowers. If they are white, use your boom box to make them change color and spread seeds. The boom box does not work on colored flowers. To use your boom box, select it in your inventory next to white flowers. A wheel will appear on the screen when you select it. Spin the wheel at a moderate pace to play a catchy tune. Do not spin it too fast or too slow. At the end of each tune, there is a rating that scores your pace from 0-100. if you get a rating below 70, nothing will happen. If you get a rating 70 and up, your flower will change into a different color and will spread seeds to the surrounding area. If you grow 40 flowers in one area, the area will turn from fertile soil into green spaces. In green spaces, you cannot plant anymore flowers in the area, unless you lose a flower in that area. Plants cannot grow in sand.

In the town part of the game, there is a flower shop, a burger joint called Monkey Burger, and an alley where your friends hang out. At the flower shop, you can clip flowers from the park and give to the clerk to earn lots of happy points. You can collect happy points by doing good deeds like planting flowers or defeating smoglings. There's also a special flower of the day that if you give one to him, he'll triple the happy points. There's not really much to do at the Monkey Burger, but you can learn new dance tunes from a toy monkey if you give him a monkey burger. All around the town are boxes and garbage that are sometimes filled with things like candy and cartridges. There's also a crosswalk in between the park and the town and a manhole that connects street closest to the park to the alley.

In between the park and the town is the chibi house. Most of the features from the old game are included in this game such as the watts reserve and the Chibi PC. But there are still some differences such as Telly Vision being replaced with a robot connected to the wall named Chet. There's a reader that reads cartridges you collected and gives you games and utilities to put into your park. The Chibi PC has more features then from the first game including a park projects section where you ask your friends to do the projects you want them to do. You can mess with the tiller, the height, and roads and rivers. There's also a smogling forecast where you can check how many smoglings or smogglobs are going to be in your park.

The enemies of the game are called smoglings. They turn your flowers black and wither at dusk. You defeat them by squirting them until they explode. Water sprays all over the place after they explode and flower seeds spread from them. You can stop them before they kill your flowers by shrinking the holes they come out of with your squirter. Smogglings can also react to food items like candy if you give some to them. Smogglobs are giant versions of smogglings and it turns flowers into black flowers when e steps on them and miasmo flowers when he unleashes smoke. Miasmo flowers still wither at dusk, but you can change them back by squirting them or walking over them. To defeat a smoggling, you need to knock it down with a vehicle and squirt at it until it explodes.

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Review scores Publication Score 1UP.com B Eurogamer 3.0 of 5 Famitsu 31 of 40[6] GameSpot 8.0 of 10 IGN 7.8 of 10 Nintendo Power 85 of 100 X-Play 2 of 5

Aggregate scores Aggregator Score GameRankings 75 of 100[8] Metacritic 78 of 100[7]

According to Media Create, Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol entered the Japanese sales charts at number two, selling over 45,000 units.[9] An additional 26,905 copies were sold the following week.[10] By the end of 2007, the game sold 160,376 copies in Japan according to Famitsu magazine.[11]

Reviews of the game were mixed. The game currently has a Game Rankings rating of 75 out of 100 based on 15 reviews and a Metacritic rating of 78 out of 100 based on 14 reviews.[8][7] X-Play said that it "lacked the immense open world and range of gameplay that the original Chibi-Robo! had". They also said that the gameplay was repetetive and had terrible sound effects but praised the graphics and charm of the game. GameSpot cited that it had "an innovative use of the touch screen, fun minigames and a great cast of characters but had slow paced gameplay and the minigames would have been great for multiplayer." Nintendo Power claimed that "it was a great change in pace for adventure games" also praising the great controls and amazing cast of characters but said "sometimes switching between touch screen and D-pad made for some awkward controls."

Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol was ranked number 5 on Gamasutra's Top 5 Overlooked Games of 2007.[12]

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