Nintendo is placing a particularly uncommon GameCube sport on Swap 2 subsequent week

When Nintendo announced that it was including GameCube video games to its (inexplicably Swap 2-only) Nintendo Switch Online providing, individuals had been understandably excited in regards to the likes of Tremendous Mario Sunshine and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker becoming a member of the service. And I used to be certainly one of them (even when I’d personally lose little sleep if Tremendous Mario Sunshine was fired immediately into the solar).

However as a lot as I need the plain GameCube classics on my Switch 2, it’s the extra underrated gems I’ve heard a lot about from hardcore Nintendo followers over time that actually pique my curiosity. Video games like Chibi-Robo!, for instance, which Nintendo has confirmed as the subsequent title becoming a member of the Nintendo Swap On-line + Enlargement pack library on August 21.

Chibi-Robo! is a 2005 platform-adventure sport a few pleasant little robotic whose foremost aim is to assist the Sanderson household by taking over varied housework-related missions and performing usually good deeds on request. Chibi-Robo’s helpfulness isn’t restricted to people, although. In its quest to unfold happiness, it additionally assists a number of animals and even enchanted toys alongside the best way. As a participant, it’s important to control the robotic’s battery life and use energy shops dotted round the home to recharge it. Fail to take action and it’ll collapse, and also you’ll lose a bit of the in-game forex you’ve collected.

Chibi-Robo! seems to be like a usually charming Nintendo sport in each respect, but it surely was truly initially conceived by now-defunct developer Skip Ltd. as a point-and-click journey sport, with Bandai because the writer. Precisely how or why the sport ended up transferring over to Nintendo stays a thriller, however director Kenichi Nishi instructed Time Extension that Shigeru Miyamoto took a specific liking to the character design. The legendary Mario creator then went on to play one thing of an overseer function within the sport’s growth below its new writer.

Chibi-Robo! spawned quite a lot of handheld spinoffs, however the unique sport stays the one with cult traditional standing. It’s additionally develop into more and more exhausting to play over time, with Nintendo selecting to not port the sport ahead. Lately you possibly can anticipate to pay as a lot as $200 for a second-hand bodily copy. As somebody who categorically doesn’t have that type of money to chuck at a 20-year-old online game (or any sport for that matter), I’m wanting ahead to seeing what all of the fuss is about when it lands on Swap 2 subsequent week.