Chibi-Robo: Nintendo’s strange, charming and underappreciated hidden gem

Chibi-Robo: Nintendo’s strange, charming and underappreciated hidden gem

I’m willing to bet that you haven’t played Chibi-Robo.  It’s fair to say that the game, released for the GameCube in North America in 2006, was always doomed to fail. It was the start of a new franchise with a strange gameplay loop released for a largely unsuccessful console at the tail-end of its lifespan. This all created a recipe for a surefire commercial failure — and what a spectacular failure it was, selling a measly 390,000 copies through…