They-Kobazco especially-were screaming because the game didn't break. This helps explain all the screaming at the top. And if someone was able to do every frame perfect input without error, it'd still take a whole hour. Kobazco attempted to train a computer to do the work, but couldn't figure it out. "Even at thousands of percent faster speeds it's still tedious as hell to watch and incredibly funny." "Once I had gotten the hang of it and saw how little he had actually traveled via the inputs I started losing it," said Jaxler. Sometimes being "frame perfect" means it requires precise and difficult timing, other times it literally means nailing the timing during an exact frame or else the trick cannot happen. Upstairs, perhaps?Ī one-frame window is ridiculous, requiring what is called "frame perfect" input. This opened the door to moving into locations deemed off limits. Crucially, it was something that could be repeated. With a little bit of experimentation, it was discovered that it was, in fact, possible to force Chibi-Robo to move a few pixels at a time by executing a specific set of inputs within a one-frame window. Normally, falling off means exiting the mini-game, but Kobazco relied on a separate glitch to force a text box to appear. Last week, Kobazco was screwing around with a mini-game in Chibi-Robo and fell off a rail. "A lot of games don't even have a small community for the speedrun, so I'm more than happy to have found friends who also play Chibi-Robo in the same way I do." $250 wasn't enough to move the needle.Īnd then suddenly everything changed, as often happens with speedrunning, by accident. Thirty-seven upvotes this time, but no one responded. "I for one think this game could really do with a fresh pair of eyes, and we always want more people to enjoy this really fun (but cutscene heavy) speedgame," wrote Kobazco. Kobazco then linked to a video he'd made showing and explaining various Chibi-Robo Speedrun strategies, with a plea for help in making progress on this "upstairs early" skip.īack in October, Kobazco returned to reddit and made another plea for someone to help unravel the potential of "upstairs early." The community even pooled together $250 for it. In this case, a hidden piece of geometry is missing, meaning it's impossible for Chibi-Robo to make it up the stairs, ensuring you play the game properly. Instead, you walk up to objects and Chibi-Robo (the character) climbs up onto them. All players need to do is climb some stairs, but Chibi-Robo doesn't have a jump button. It could bring speedruns down by as much as 15 minutes, breaking the two-hour barrier. That "major skip" they'd been theorizing had been dubbed "upstairs early," a way of jumping further into the game by sequence skipping the requirement to build a ladder that lets players access the game's upstairs area. "For a very long time, we have theorized a major skip that has never come to be."
"I'm one of the like 3 people who are currently active in the Chibi-Robo speedrunning community," said Kobazco. A lovely, funny, adorable game.Last summer, Chibi-Robo speedrunner Kobazco posted on the popular /r/speedrun forum. The more the player helps around the house, the more Happy Points Chibi gets which will get him rewards from Chibi Robo HQ as well as bigger batteries. Chibi only has limited battery life in the begining and frequently needs to recharge his power supply. Chibi cleans the house and cheers the Sanderson family up, and also befriends their toys and helps them with their dilemmas.
The player takes the role of the Chibi Robo model of the house. The Sanderson house is also filled with toys who wake up and go about their ways at night or when the Sandersons are away. And the daughter acts like a frog (possibly to deal with depression). The mother is disappointed with her life. The father is unemployeed and constantly spends money on gadgits and toys (who among us can't relate). The Sandersons are a loving family but a dysfunctional one. On his daughter's birthday, the father of the house buys her a Chibi Robo model (more of a gift for him than for her), which upsets his wife due to the Chibi Robo's high price. The game starts in the Sanderson family's house where little Jenny Sanderson is having a small birthday party.
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Chibi Robo is a series of tiny mass produced robots who help people and act as maids and companions. The game was directed by Kenichi Nishi (Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, LOL: Lack of Love) and was produced by Nintendo deity Shigeru Miyamoto.
Chibi Robo is a platform adventure game developed by Skip and published by Nintendo.