Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure!: Difference between revisions

'''''Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure! '''''is the first game in the [[Chibi-Robo! (series)|''Chibi-Robo!'' series]], and was first released for the Nintendo GameCube in Japan in 2005. It was developed by [[Skip Ltd.]] and published in Nintendo. It became a part of the New Play Control! series in Japan for Wii on June 11, 2009. The main objective of the game is to earn [[Happy Point]]s by making people happy, and eventually become the best [[Chibi-Robo]].

* [[Chibi-Robo]]: A robot produced by Citrusoft Robotics, programmed with the goal of making people happy.

* [[Drake Redcrest|Space Hunter Drake Redcrest]]: A hero from a very famous TV show. [[Mr. Sanderson]] is one of his many fans and has everything related to him, like a [[Mug]] and a [[Toothbrush]], both of which Chibi-Robo will use as [[Tools]].

* [[Sophie]]: [[Tao]]'s chew toy, who has a crush on Drake Redcrest and loves to watch his patrol.

* [[Free Ranger]]s: An army of egg soldiers.

** [[Sarge]]: The leader of the Free Rangers.

* [[Captain Plankbeard]]: An old pirate who wanders around the [[Basement]] and asks Chibi-Robo for several things in order to be able to sail again (like recovering [[The Scurvy Splinter|his ship]] or hiring a pirate crew, for example).

* [[The Great Peekoe]]: A strange toy who likes to meditate and "purify souls" (a gambling mini-game that can be used to make much [[Moolah]] in little time).

* [[Sunshine]]: A bear starving for nectar.

* [[Princess Pitts]]: A lovely princess living in [[Jenny's Room|Jenny's bedroom]].

* [[Mort]]: A mummy living under Jenny's bed with a crush on [[Princess Pitts]].

* [[Dinah]]: A dinosaur made of bricks with a crush on [[Funky Phil]].

* [[Funky Phil]]: Another toy, who loves to dance and ends up with a bunch of [[Phillies|sprouts]] who dance with him.

* [[Primopuel]]: A toy in a [[Tamagotchi|Treasure Chest]].

* The [[Sandersons|Sandersons family]]:

** [[Jenny]]: The eight-year-old daughter who wears a Frog Costume all day and thinks she is a [[Frogs|Frog]].

** [[Mr. Sanderson]]: The unemployed father of the family. He quits his company without telling [[Mrs. Sanderson]], which makes her mad at him, especially since he keeps buying new [[Drake Redcrest]] toys without telling her.

** [[Mrs. Sanderson]]: After discovering her husband's resignation, she eventually ends up locking herself in her [[bedroom]] and threatens him with a divorce.

** [[Tao]]: The dog of the family, also interacts with Chibi-Robo.

* [[Kid Eggplant]]

* [[Mr. Prongs]]

* A [[Bird]]

* Two [[Frogs]]

* The [[Tamagotchi]]

* The [[Fish]] (Chibi-Robo, however, only interacts with the goldfish by feeding them with [[Crumb|Cookie Crumbs]].)

* [[Telly Vision]]: [[Chibi-Robo]]'s manager, a small TV-shaped [[Robots|robot]] who offers support to Chibi-Robo, most of the time by talking in his place whenever Chibi-Robo is unable to speak. His dream is to become a singer, already having a song, [[Teriyaki Blues]].

* [[Giga-Robo]]: A giant robot deactivated in the [[Basement]]. He shares a close relationship with all the other [[Toy]]s, but due to an energy crisis, he was deactivated.

* [[Spydorz]]: The evil spider robots designed by [[Mr. Sanderson]] and reprogrammed by his company in order to be hostile and evil to [[Chibi-Robo]]s everywhere. Chibi-Robo uses his [[Chibi-Blaster]] to destroy them and used their [[Scrap]] to build [[Utilibots]] in the [[Chibi-House/Plug Into Adventure!#Recyclotron|Recyclotron]] in order to help him reach otherwise impossible to reach spots or move around the house faster.

* [[Queen Spydor]]: The titular queen of the Spydorz, who is soon destroyed by Chibi-Robo with the help of [[Mr. Sanderson]], who upgrades his [[Chibi-Blaster]].

Chibi-Robo! was announced in early 2003 with publishing rights held by Bandai. Its original projected release date was June 2003 in Japan and spring 2004 in North America.<ref>http://cube.ign.com/articles/394/394043p1.html IGN Staff (April 17, 2003). "Chibi Robo - GameCube Preview". IGN. Retrieved May 26, 2008.</ref> Unlike the released version of Chibi-Robo!, the beta version entailed the player training Chibi-Robo to defend the home of his inventor from a pair of burglars. The gameplay was different as well; instead of a platform-adventure game, it played like a point-and-click adventure title, where the player was not in direct control of Chibi-Robo, but was rather conveying commands to him by clicking a cursor around the area.<ref>https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0507/2_2/ Nintendo staff. プラグをかついで プレイレポート (in Japanese). Nintendo. Retrieved March 26, 2011.</ref>

Data from these demos exists in the final US and European versions of the game: stage28 is the demo's Chibi-House, and stage29 is the demo's Living Room. The US versions of these rooms are very unfinished, being modified copies of slightly earlier localizations of these rooms. They do not make a functional demo, and the game crashes trying to access these rooms at certain points. This may indicate that the US demo was not finished until after the final US version of the game was completed.

== Trivia ==

*At the start of development (presumably 2002), the game's eventual director, Kenichi Nishi was not part of the project.