Chibi-Robo! is the Best Game
Shigeru Miyamoto is known for many things - loving Popeye, making a hobby out of measuring things, and, of course, being Bowser Jr’s mother. But what we don’t talk about is how he saved a little robot and his annoying floating television from eternal development hell. In 2003 skip Ltd. was developing a point and click adventure with a tiny robot taking orders from the player. You would fix appliances and collect gear in order to defend your home from two burglars in a strange parallel to Home Alone. An ambitious attempt to make Chibi-robo evolve and learn how to interpret orders left me with the feeling of an early Nintendog. He would start to anticipate orders for a careful player while an indecisive master would result in a Chibi-robo acting out of turn. A neat idea but little substance. The game proceeded to get stuck here until Nintendo heavyweight Kensuke Tanabe brought i...