How are your Chao doing Zig Forums? I bet they miss you

Nothing is stopping you from going back.

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What the fuck happened to the entire genre that was comfy virtual pet games? There's so much that could be done with the genre these days. And fuck Edmund for cancelling Mewgenics to do a braindead Isaac spinoff.

Reminder that time doesn't pass in the Chao Garden unless you're there so don't worry.

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I made mine Chaos Chao so I wouldn't have to stress about time.
Also, one of them is drawing Eggman now.

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>MARIA

youtu.be/XwMZQhL7p1c?t=70

Chao Garden was never good

Zoom Zoom

Suddenly finding one of my chaos turning into one of those water chaos with the weird shaped heads blew my god damn mind as a kid.

How come he don't want me, man?

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throwing you around got old

Shit stats

For me, it's Run > Fly

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I remember breeding Chao for so long trying to get one with all S stats. Through many, many generations of inbreeding I managed to make them produce transparent Chao. I really ought to go back and check them out again.

I could never do that. The game provides no use for them

>told myself one level of city escape and that’s it
>told myself I was just going to pet the chao and leave

60 hours later and I’m in too deep

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>>told myself I was just going to pet the chao and leave
It could be worse. You could've spent that time actually playing Sonic Adventure 2

>Dreamcastfags can no longer know this feel
>PS3fags will never know this feel without hacking
Feels good to be a GBAchad

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I've considered making a Chao clone, but the design is so kino that I don't feel like there's any point. I also don't think it's interesting enough to be its own thing. It works much better in the context of SA2 where you can play around as Sonic & friends, collect drives, and even play as them in the garden.

Is there anyone who didn't main eggman for chao breeding?

>Dreamcastfags can no longer know this feel
Don't underestimate the autism of dreamcastfags. Fans have got recreations of the original SA1 and SA2 sites online that you can connect to with your Dreamcast: youtube.com/watch?v=or2OTZq7vzM

I heard that it has something to do with the copyright belonging to that guy so they can't do it without his permission, or something

It was part of that deliberately obtuse type design that was prevalent back then to either get people to buy guides or to get rumors started on the playground

Yeah, this. I feel like if chao were to be their own game there would have to be more goals to accomplish beyond just the races, like having goals to breed specific types, more ways to unlock cool things like new wing types/horn typs/whatever via breeding, etc.

I had the SA2 prima guide, but I've seen way more obscure shit. Reincarnation and happiness level is already a given, the only sorta challenge is giving all the animals.

Huh, neat.

The issue is there's no reason to think reincarnating it twice will do anything.

>spent that time actually playing Sonic Adventure 2
Hehe that is funny

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>Had SA2:B
>Dumped hours and hours, days and nights, summer vacations into chao
>I just loved the little guys
>My favorite was named Kosmo, kept him in the heaven garden and only visited very briefly to pet him so he wouldn't reincarnate (too retarded to understand the stat mechanics)
>All of my games get stolen
>Years later I buy the steam version
>Make a Kosmo Jr., give him roughly the same animals
>Felt pretty cathartic, to be honest
>Still boot the game up every once in a while to play the campaign again and visit Jr.

>You could've spent that time actually playing Sonic Adventure 2
why the fuck would i want to do that?

Fun fact about the Chao AI: It wasn't originally made for the chao garden at all. The AI's original name is A-life and was developed to dictate the behavior of the Nigtopians in Nights Into Dreams, and was later repurposed into being used for chao. The last game it was used in was Nights: Journey of Dreams, an obscure sequel to Nights Into Dreams on the Wii. There were a lot of added features: back when Wii Connect 24 was still functional, the garden used to update with live weather, they celebrated certain holidays, and things you sucked in from the main stages as well as how well you did on each stage would affect your garden. You could breed your nightopians with friends' nightopians, and there was even an extremely convoluted way to breed nightmares and nightopians to create hybrids, among some other things. The game never got much popularity so we don't know a lot of the secrets that game still holds

youtube.com/watch?v=md_bC8tvorI

>The issue is there's no reason to think reincarnating it twice will do anything.
Chaos can reincarnate infinitely, they just need a minimum happiness. It's hard to fuck up. It'll only get mad if you completely ignore it or throw it all the time. And as a kid, I spent so much time that I easily went through 2 or 3 reincarnations. You're bound to get it eventually.

>The game never got much popularity so we don't know a lot of the secrets that game still holds
I was told it sucked

The thing about the chao garden is that it works under the context of a side thing for a sonic game, but trying to turn it into it's own thing would probably hurt it by trying to incorporate the leveling system into a isolated game, and you just know they would make it a micro transaction nightmare, similar to Sega heroes.

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