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Message: [QUOTE="hembruh, post: 49664, member: 939"] great timing for this post. I played and beat Clean Sweep for the first time last week. I love the first Chibi Robo. got it for under $10 on clearance when either a K or Walmart was clearancing GC games a couple years into the Wii. played it a bit, didn't really like it, went back to it a few years later when I was 17 or so and the game totally clicked for me that later go-around. an ex got me a 2DS when they came out to play 3ds games with her and one of the games she got me initially was Park Patrol along with a couple other DS and 3DS games. I liked it, but didn't love it and kinda had a "huh, so this is Chibi Robo 2? weird." reaction to it. I had known there was another JPN-only DS game, but assumed it was probably more Park Patrol, played Photo Finder and Zip Lash as they came out and again had a "huh, so this is Chibi Robo now, weird and disappointing" reaction. I liked Photo Finder for what it is just fine, I had fun with it, and I didn't hate Zip Lash but just thought it was a waste of the IP. Anyways, flash forward to today, a decade later I was updating the software on my modded Wii U and 2DS because I haven't touched either in a couple of years beyond playing what's already on them, and got a larger SD card for the 2DS so I ditched an old flash cart and put DS games on twilightmenu and added all the newer gamecube and wii fan translations of the last couple years to the U and played the wii port of the first game and fell in love again and decided to try out Clean Sweep on the ds. I don't know if I have ever been so disappointed to play a game I loved in my life, disappointed that it was the one we didn't get here, disappointed that there wasn't a console follow up or an enhanced port of clean sweep on the wii, disappointed that translation has been out since 2016 and I hadn't played it and disappointed there wasn't a true follow up to it at all. Clean Sweep is fantastic, I might think it's the best of the series. I think with Chibi Robo as it shook out, it ended up a directionless series, as unfortunate as that is. There's the first game, the true sequel (Clean Sweep), and 3 games that tried other things that didn't particularly work. I think this is the fault of the sales not being particularly good for any of them. the first game I actually remember being pretty heavily advertised, however I was a kid middle school or under age so I might have just been the exact age I was looking at the magazines and such that had the ads so it seemed that way to me. Park Patrol was stuck as a Walmart exclusive in the states which automatically being a store exclusive limited it's exposure. I think if we had gotten Clean Sweep it maybe wouldn't have been a bestseller but word of mouth would have went a long way on it. by the time we got Zip Lash it was already sort of a failure to launch in the west and scrambling to do different things with it wasn't the ticket to bring the series any momentum, imo it was going to fail even if it was amazing. a real shame because the two "main" games are great. fun, satisfying gameplay and genuinely funny sense of humor to them. I'm really hoping that koROBO game ends up being a great follow up, but I do wish they would have been more of a Nintendo staple because I think a good console Chibi Robo game on the Wii and U would have made good uses of their respective console gimmicks. [/QUOTE]

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