If you want my impressions, Chibi Robo's gameplay is absolutely tedious at best, no, that's being too kind, it is offensively bad.
With how I purchase games, it's rare that I wind up with one that I dislike, let alone flat out hate. But gosh, I felt ripped off at $14.99.
Looking at the box I expected some keen platformer-esque knock off of Toy Commander, how wrong I was.
Having to scurry off every time you blink to recharge gets to be infuriating. Even with the couple of extra "batteries" I accumulated, taking on any decent task (moping, using the chibi-copter to jump to a platform) would drain the shit out of me.
Then I'd have to jump down, run to a socket, and be spammed with the ton of pointless dialogue the game spews at you every time you scratch your ass. Then there's the gibber-speak, which is akin to taking the chatter from Animal Crossing and Okami and multiplying the annoying factor x50.
But the general interference to gameplay is what drove me nuts. If I wasn't recharging, racing a clock, or doing something else totally mind numbing, I was being spammed with inane text, STUPID cutscenes, and general handholding stupidity..
That all tied in with the fact that the game is just too obnoxiously presented for me. It makes Katamari Damacy look lowkey and downright coherent by compare, there's quirky, then there's childish and ridiculous.
It's just not fun, I put about two hours into it before I just got entirely fed up and traded it in.
Just an average, poorly designed collectathon with a very wasted concept. Collectathons are inheirently bad, how someone would figure it a good idea to make one with as much pointless fluff, delay and interruption between activies was a good idea really goes over my head.
The best part of Chibi Robo is that I feel signifigantly better about Giftpia never getting localized Maybe it gets better, some of the later gizmos and tools look a little interesting, but no way I'm going to stick around to find out any longer in this type of a game. I was about to lose it after a couple of hours.
Chibi Robo comes out here, Mother 3 rots in Japan, ****ing Nintendo.
If you're this unsure, go ahead and take the plunge, even if the game drives you as nuts as it did me, still just 12 bucks. You can probably still trade it in for just about as much I would assume.