Nintendo Is Putting An Extremely Rare Gamecube Game On Switch 2 Next Week

When Nintendo announced that it was adding GameCube games to its (inexplicably Switch 2-only) Nintendo Switch Online offering, group were understandably excited astir nan likes of Super Mario Sunshine and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker joining nan service. And I was 1 of them (even if I’d personally suffer small slumber if Super Mario Sunshine was fired straight into the sun).

But arsenic overmuch arsenic I want nan evident GameCube classics connected my Switch 2, it’s nan much underrated gems I’ve heard truthful overmuch astir from hardcore Nintendo fans complete nan years that really pique my interest. Games for illustration Chibi-Robo!, for example, which Nintendo has confirmed arsenic nan adjacent title joining nan Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion battalion room connected August 21.

Chibi-Robo! is simply a 2005 platform-adventure crippled astir a friends small robot whose main extremity is to thief nan Sanderson family by taking connected various housework-related missions and performing mostly bully deeds connected request. Chibi-Robo’s helpfulness isn’t constricted to humans, though. In its quest to dispersed happiness, it besides assists respective animals and moreover enchanted toys on nan way. As a player, you person to support an oculus connected nan robot’s artillery life and usage powerfulness outlets dotted astir nan location to recharge it. Fail to do truthful and it’ll collapse, and you’ll suffer a chunk of nan in-game rate you’ve collected.

Chibi-Robo! looks for illustration a typically charming Nintendo crippled successful each respect, but it was really primitively conceived by now-defunct developer Skip Ltd. arsenic a point-and-click escapade game, pinch Bandai arsenic nan publisher. Exactly really aliases why nan crippled ended up moving complete to Nintendo remains a mystery, but head Kenichi Nishi told Time Extension that Shigeru Miyamoto took a peculiar liking to nan characteristic design. The legendary Mario creator past went connected to play thing of an overseer domiciled successful nan game’s improvement nether its caller publisher.

Chibi-Robo! spawned a number of handheld spinoffs, but nan original crippled remains nan 1 pinch cult classical status. It’s besides go progressively difficult to play complete nan years, pinch Nintendo choosing not to larboard nan crippled forward. These days you tin expect to salary arsenic overmuch arsenic $200 for a second-hand beingness copy. As personification who categorically does not person that benignant of rate to chuck astatine a 20-year-old video crippled (or immoderate crippled for that matter), I’m looking guardant to seeing what each nan fuss is astir erstwhile it lands connected Switch 2 adjacent week.