The “Chibi Robo” series is vastly overlooked. In today’s gaming world filled with hyper-realistic graphics and violence-fueled platforms, Chibi Robo: Park Patrol may be too cutesy for most. However, by passing up this game because of its cuteness, gamers are doing themselves a great disservice and missing out on a fun game.
The point of Chibi Robo is to grow flowers in a park and get visitors to come to this barren wasteland. The environment is in trouble and Citrusoft, the makers of the Chibi Robo units, are making special Chibi units to clean up the parks for free. In order for the four-inch hero to get more flowers into the park, he must dance to make the plant send out more buds. It is a strange concept, but it’s a lot of fun. Then, armed with his trusty squirter, Chibi must water all of the buds and continue to do this until the park is green again. Every action is controlled with the touch screen.
During his mission to restore the park, Chibi can also collect happy points to upgrade himself, buy new items and even get vehicles to make traveling faster. Mini games are also sprinkled around through out, the best one being five-pin bowling.
There are very few enemies in the game. Chibi will only have to fight Smoglings and Smoglobbs. This tends to make the game repetitious. Even though the game can get a little boring with the same tasks being performed every day, somehow the new items for sale and mini games keep the game just fresh enough.
Chibi Robo: Park Patrol is a charming game for everyone. Although not as good as the GameCube iteration, it still deserves to be played by fans of the series and gamers looking for a fun DS game. The game is only available at Wal-Mart, and I urge everyone to buy it so Nintendo makes a Chibi game for the Wii.
Source: Advance Titan