Nintendo sneaking a new Chibi-Robo game out this month

by JC Fletcher { Jul 8th 2009 at 12:00PM }

Nintendo has released a trailer for its latest Chibi-Robo sequel for the DS. Called Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! Happy Rich Osouji! (Welcome home, Chibi-Robo! Happy Rich Big Cleanup), the third Chibi-Robo game returns to the house-cleaning gameplay found in Skip's original GameCube game.

The new game takes place in the home of a grown-up version of Jenny, the frog-obsessed little girl from the original game. Chibi-Robo sweeps, vacuums, scrubs with a toothbrush, and sifts through dust to find gems, which he trades for money that can be used to buy things from a home shopping channel.

Happy Rich Cleanup is coming out in Japan on July 23, which seems really soon! See the trailer after the break, and see short video clips of the game here.

Tags: adventure, chibi-robo, japan, skip, welcome-home-chibi-robo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Girugamuk (Moptimus Slimed) @ Jul 8th 2009 12:12PM

I can haz US release?

Mr Khan @ Jul 8th 2009 12:35PM

Hopefully this will create some demand for NPC! Chibi Robo over here.

Hopefully

Adv2k1 @ Jul 8th 2009 12:54PM

I didn't like the gamecube game because of the odd controls. Maybe with Wii controls it would work better.

I never played the DS one.

Miranda @ Jul 8th 2009 1:32PM

I loved the DS version of Chibi Robo. The Gamecube version was hella cute but I never finished it; I'd guess I got about 2/3 of the way through. I will *certainly* buy the new DS version if it ever comes to the US. If it weren't a game that requires a certain amount of reading, I'd buy the Japanese version!

Chibi Robo ... it's no accident that his first name means "cute." :-)

maddiyer @ Jul 11th 2009 2:43PM

Actually, "chibi" doesn't mean "cute". It means "little".

Orion @ Jul 8th 2009 1:28PM

Wait, I'm confused.

All you do is clean and vacuum for the messy kids? Is that really fun?

ben murray @ Jul 8th 2009 1:44PM

it has to be said that, on description alone, this sounds like the worst game in the history of time.

a game about tidying??

raindog @ Jul 8th 2009 1:45PM

Orion, it'd be easy to look at gameplay video from the original and think the same thing, but really the goal of that game was to save a family from falling apart. For appearing to be such an E-rated "kiddie" game, it was really layered. I think it was one of the best Gamecube games. I assume there's going to be some similar storyline here, since it looks much more involved than the first DS game.

Park Patrol kind of disappointed me after the depth of the Gamecube one, but I'm really looking forward to this. Hope there's an English version, and if not, I hope there are enough rabid Chibi fans to do a fan translation.