What the Hell are Chao?
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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Some Tiny Chao Garden footage: The D-Pad 
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“i decided to learn about Chao”
oh. so that’s why he was gone for so long
This is funnier than this comment section gives you credit for
I guess all the questions I've been pondering for the past couple years were just answered by this comment
Idk about you, but it makes since to me...
True true
True
This comment is truth
Clearly from the complexity of all this we can tell that the chao garden is the main game, all those action stages are just a minigame to get items for your chao
I became very good at SAB2 because of the item fetching.
Yep that is correct. Also, I got the 69th like 😉
@@-Gwa I will find you.
@@-Gwa I will find you
If you get into chao breeding this is legit what it feels like.
That fucking kills me the way the max intelligence chao just begins contemplating all of existence when confronted with a jack-in-the-box
@@mediamementosofficialA low intelligence paraphrase of the original comment.
The only winning move is not to play.
Ignorance is bliss, max intelligence stat means overthinking whenever the mind is let loose
After hearing how Chaos chaos are made, I think I understand why rumors about unlockables in other games were'nt immediately dismissed. "Yeah, you just gotta beat ocarina of time seven times while walking backwards and then wait at the final picture for two hours and three seconds and you'll get the triforce."
This is why things like "how to unlock sonic in melee" was so believable.. BECAUSE THEYVE DONE IT BEFORE lol
Nah you Just need to input 2 million specific button presses at the first cutscene in Order to code the game into having the triforce and an botw reference
@thealezito '_' At that point you're not even executing Ocarina of Time code anymore.
Nah you gotta get to the water temple without the blue suit, then you gotta backtrack to the temple of time, while you see the transformation to child cutscene and quickly press L L Z A B c left B A A A Z L R Z A L c down. Then take out the cartridge, insert your copy of Super Mario 64. Get to yoshi, then reinsert you ocarina of time copy then get to Ganondorf but spend 3 hours without attacking him. And then reset the game and a chamber will appear in the temple of time and that's where the
Triforce lies
your comment just made me realize that the plural of chao is chaos. mindfuck
I'm baffled they haven't turned Chao Garden into a mobile game yet.
theres a fan game, Pocket Chao Garden , never played it tho
bruh if it was a mobile game and it was *just* the gardens and the kindergarten and the chao I'm afraid whoever'd make it a p2w because _How else are you gonna get RiNgS???/?_
@@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789 They could have a feature where you can import rings from other Sonic games you own. Most probably the other mobile games like Sonic Dash.
Most people I know who loved the Chao Garden also liked Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, so I totally agree.
I'd worry about it being infected with p2w crap, but little in-app purchases for some extra stuff (like accessories or additional space for more chaos) could work. They could replace the stuff you get from the levels with various Chao-related mini games.
It seems perfect for a mobile game that you'd pick up for 5 minutes a few times a day just to check in on.
why did the Chao Garden have more complexity than some full released games
I have no idea.
Flagship dream cast game
@@nyetloki this comment made me realize so much about SA2
Battlefield? Cyberpunk? Whomst?
Because Sonic Team actually liked their job. Passion does A LOT
Eggman slapping the absolute shit out off a hero chao and then petting a dark chao at 34:57 made me laugh so fucking hard
omg i totally missed that first time i watched. that is so good
i love how this explained pretty much everything except what the hell the chao actually are
i went in wanting to know how or why they were made inlore or if they just always existed, what their relation to chaos is, etc and instead learnt about a whole ecosystem
the closest thing i can describe to what im feeling about this is that its like being led right into a prank in public but then given 5000 dollars but youre still pissed off internally
I don't know how much is said but in SA1 when you go back in time you see them all hanging out around the master emerald. Tikal helps raise them I think.
Sonic Frontiers spoilers
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Well, now it's confirmed that Chaos and Chao are relatives to aliens.
Thank you for your comment, now I have to go through the same thing.
Well we got a whole ass game explaning their origens (kinda)
Go play frontiers its really good
@@valletasOrigens reads like an early gen pokemon name that will mess up my understanding of spelling and language for life and I'd only understand where that misconception came from when I get back into pokemon in my late teens
My man literally made a thesis essay about Chao, Chao Theory, and Chao raising.
Is that my man Brak?!
You
Your finally awake
You were trying to cross the border to go into hiding so you wouldn't have to complete the sonic 3 bonus video
@@TommyGhostal YEAH BUDDY
What if this is what he was working on for the last three years
I like ur pfp
Embarrassing story: when I was a kid I was abusing my Chao and laughing at the silly animations like getting dizzy. But then I left it alone and it started to shiver, guilt started washing over me and I approached it, then it screamed and ran away from me. I had attempted to jump in front of it, but I jumped on top of it instead, and of course being Sonic I hit him again. Then it happened, it stood there and started to cry. I felt so horrible, not realizing they actually felt hurt, and then I cried too.
Since then I took really good care of him and he became my best Chao.
I miss my babies sometimes, spent many hours raising them and watching them. It was my favorite feature in SA2B, and I've missed it ever since.
That's pretty fuckin weird but ok.
i miss chao too 😭
This. I've gotta say, the way people treated their Chao was always one of the biggest indicators of a person's character to me when I was little. I knew a person who had a super strong Chao that I couldn't keep up with as a kid, but that Chao ultimately entered a white cocoon and died. Which should speak volumes as to what that person was doing when not putting that Chao in races or karate matches. I always lost to that Chao, but retrospectively, I'm kinda glad that I did.
This person had also taught me that the literal only way to hatch eggs was by breaking them against the wall. I found out otherwise later on of course, but my first action after breaking the egg was always to cuddle the newborn Chao like there was no tomorrow to keep it from crying.
Anytime I ever accidentally hurt a Chao by landing on them after a jump, or by playing around with the in-garden attacks, there was an instantaneous feeling of guilt and shame that shot through me like lightning. It always took a while for me to emotionally recover from having accidentally hurt my Chao, because I couldn't physically bear to watch them cry and shudder.
I honestly feel like the Chao Garden had to be one of the best early examples of how narrative violence works in media, and set the stage for my enjoyment of things like Undertale. I hope it does come back in some form in the future.
@@TheSinisterTerror That is actually a really interesting thought
Can’t believe Chaos can teach a kid empathy
I'm calling Chao Protective Services. >:^(
"Chao Departure Machine" sounds like the perfect name for a Sonic themed death metal band. Their first album could be titled "Genocide City"
More like, Genocide City *Zone*
From what I've gathered, a lot of people in East Asia have the tradition of going to a fortune teller to name their child, to get a 'lucky name', that's why in the game you have to go to a fortune teller to name the chao.
They've got an entire system in Japan where they count the number of strokes in different segments of a name, and how that impacts luck in each phase of life.
So, for instance, it might turn out that "Oh we really want to name our daughter Akiko, which combination of kanji will be the luckiest?"
I'm still surprised the Chao garden hasn't returned as a smartphone gacha game
Let's be glad it won't.
Knuckles: Oh No
To be fair literally C and Ping the cho garden with a little dropper for the chaos and animals would be a great mobile game
Sonic Grand Order.
Chao Waifus.
the chao garden would make for a great mobile game. too bad itd probably be riddled with ads and microtransactions.
It is Baffling that they put this much effort into an entirely optional feature of the game. I want a spinoff game that is literally Just chao raising now.
This has been one of my childhood dreams. I see a lot of people talking about the possibility of a chao mobile game. But honestly that would the worst. All the chao lore and gameplay can encompass an entire 60$ game I believe.
@@bnewtz7492 I think more a $40 game for the switch and pc and maybe ps5 and series x. It would combine all content throughout the game as well as over doubling the current content by adding so much more. Possibly maybe some dlc as well as seasonal events and updates in the game as well as ways to change the appearance of your island or terraform and create structures. Maybe they could create a whole create-an-island feature.
Yea, imagine if they made it just like Viva Pinata but for Chao and bigger
Standalone Chao Garden is a really bad idea. How would you get Chaos Drives and Animals without spending real money / rings without doing some dumb minigame? They're made to be part of the games.
@@frost_sprite i feel like this mindset is what holds the Sonic Team back on a lot of things. A standalone Chao garden would work just fine
The woman who helped make the Chao garden is one of the people leading Sonic Frontiers development. Fingers crossed. If it has a Chao garden I'm gonna shit my pants
It won't
Well, Iizuka is also still there ...
I'd rather they focus on making the actual game not terrible (doubtful)
big oof
This game is gonna suck
The Chao murder% speedrun killed me as well as the chao.
This man really just left for two years, comes back and makes an hour long video abt wtf chao are
right after a half hour video on why sadx is a bad port
i blocked ads watching this video. Idk why do you ask?
WAIT ITS AN HOUR?
*You see, this is what he was working on for the entire time*
@i blocked ads watching this video. The most recent patreon posts are from 2017.
Chaos being a Mutated Chao seems like an important thing to just omit from Sonic Canon.
“All you ungrateful Echidnas who took everything away from me, will feel my loss and despair!”
Yay 100 likes
Well, technically any chao that changed its original shape is also mutated.
I believe the whole concept of a Chao (and the 7 emeralds)was conceived as a cute twist of the primordial state of the "waters of Chaos" , pretty much a metaphoric representation of formless mixture of everything that gods from many myths used to create all things, or better said, give physical shape to their ideas.
A Chao only physically changes after being influenced. I suppose a chao, with a lot of input, can potentially become anything, as such is the case of Chaos. Yet for the purpose of the game's scope they only can be customizable blobby munchkins.
Chaos somehow warped Its chao body into basically primordial water. Add the 7 emeralds boost, then instigate It into an intense state of rage, and you will have the massive liquid anaconda that loosely resembles kukulkan, the mayan serpent God.
It's funny to ponder how both chao, shaped by thoughts, and emeralds, powered by thoughts, are closely related in essence.
HES WHAT
To be fair Chaos and Chao are themselves omitted from Sonic now so not like it matters.
Tip: if you want to find a bunch of skeleton dogs to remove animal parts go to pumpkin Hill (knuckles stage) go to the church mountain in the grave yard you'll find a skeleton dog every time you restart the stage.
If you already knew about this, cool.
Headcanon: The reason a Chao would want to wear the hat after being given a skeleton dog, is because it feels naked after getting an animal part removed. Or it just feels the same effect even if it doesn't have an animal part. So it wearing the hat makes it feel covered up again.
When he says “Actually, I’m the Chao doctor,” I always used to think it was only one Chao working all the jobs and that he just dresses up and plays make belief with all his different roles lol
Me too, only I thought he was just those two! I always had this mental image of him tearing off the sideburns, bookin' it to the Principals Office and putting on the glasses and beard every time you switched rooms. None of the other chao in the building ever caught him and all had no clue, but he was telling you, a random stranger in the building, like "Shhhh, don't tell anyone!"
Unkle Ruckus Chao
That's my headcanon now
I remember the fortune telling chao that you could name your chao with
That’s cool man
When I was a kid my Sister poured, literal, hundreds of hours into the Chao garden.
She had 3 full Gardens on 2 seperate Memory Cards and somehow made time to not only raise and tend to all of her Chao, but also put most of them through Kindergarten, Races & Karate.
(I remember that she had made charts/diagrams just to keep track of what Chao were in what Gardens and on Which Memory Card.)
Sure, she had her Favorites, but all of them had unique names, stats, types & animal features.
She would meticulously plan which types and animal combos she wanted to make, figuring what stages/characters she'd have to play as to get the animals she needed, and which enemies she had to take out to get certain Drives.
And since we didn't have easy access to the Internet as kids none of the information you mentioned in this video was available for her to use as reference for YEARS, So a lot of this stuff she had to figure out on her own.
Granted, we did eventually get internet access which made things a heck of a lot easier for her to study and keep track of, but that wasn't until long after she had hit her stride in Chao "Gardening".
Gotta' say, thinking back on it... it was pretty impressive!
That’s wholesome
I feel this so hard, I cried so hard when my first Chao, Cheese, was lost due to my SADX file getting corrupt, i had had him for years on my GBA first and after a few years of raising em, I finally had one of them GBAtoGCN link cables, transferring between all 3 games. We had a good run until the corruption, but after that I tried and tried and tried to get another one like it. Turning into a mad scientist with every single one of them things. After a while I really figured out that everything is random af with certain things that you could do to change em. I gave up tho. lmfao. I had notebooks full of this unnecessary knowledge lmao. I had so much fun reguardless. I did bring with what I learned about chao with me to other games like Pokemon and all that with how you wannna raise em to their full potential for what you need em for. :P
My neighbor was this way! I didn't have a GameCube so I used to go to her house and spend all day on the chao garden, but she was so expert in raising chaos it was pretty impressive too
This is me right here, except I have 3 memory cards instead of 2
I have too much time on my hands :,)
@Static Gaming you're supposed to say "it takes one to know one"
The Angel and Devil chao evolving next to each other at 38:40 is very useful for demonstating them but the amount of effort it would take to accomplish that moment (legit) boggles my mind
Yeah, if you were to do it the legit way. He just uses mods though.
It is very satisfying to get an immortal chao but to be honest, aside from a few rare animals, a lot of it is waiting. Like you can just let the chao grow and reincarnate for 2 whole lifetimes just having the game minimized on pc or left on overnight on console. Still, knowing that you didn't mess up the animals given, it was happy enough to reincarnate twice, and (if you wanted neutral chao) balanced the evil/good meter are all satisfying once it happens :)
The one that's even more difficult is breeding an all S chao for an immortal chao. I did this twice a few years ago for a hero immortal chao (the bunny) and a neutral immortal chao. Basically you breed them together and hope they inherit the best stat from their parent, then you grow them into a certain form to increase that stat's rank by 1, (B goes to A, A goes to S, etc) so then you do that a few times and breed that chao and another chao with a different S rank stat.
That loop goes on several times until you get a baby chao that inherits 4 S ranks, and you grow it into the 5th S rank over a few lifetimes, then you perform the immortal chao ritual stuff, then you get a perfect chao for races that will live forever :)
Time passes when you are IN that specific garden. Let's say you're in the hero garden, then only the chao in that garden age and can evolve while chao in the neutral and dark gardens cannot age and evolve. So if you could get those times right, then they could evolve and roughly the same time. (I know this because I frequently play SA2 one of my FIRST chao I've hatched, that one is STILL in its first life when I've had LATER chao that I've hatched and some of those have died/reincarnated)
Thx to hbomb for giving me a reminder to rewatch the best video on RUclips
Thanks Kat
@@BoserPSN she's so great, I love her
who is hbomb
@@pinkpoolsher mother's very proud
@@yusa00 a libcuck
People: Sonic is just running fast and stuff!
SA2:B: *Yo, wanna learn genetics to breed some lil bastard children? Of course you do*
and i’d fucking do it again
@@rensin4666 Same
Back when Sonic games actually had gameplay :(
I actually learned about genetics from Chao videos, not school.
Nice
If Chaos is a mutant Chao, does that mean he could absorb a penguin and get those funny eyebrows?
If Chaos can absorb entire Chaos Emeralds and integrate them into its body, becoming stronger and more monstrous in the process, can other Chao do that too?
@@Tinlion09 Imagine you COULD give your chao chaos emeralds, would the community then have to start appending the naming scheme of Chaos forms onto the chao naming scheme to make abominations like "dark-normal-run 0", "hero-fly-fly 6", or "perfect neutral-normal-normal" based on how many you gave them? That would be hilarious. I kind of want to see a "perfect" chao now. They'd probably just look like the abominations you get from allowing extreme values in the editor.
@@graysongdl Nah, they'd just become Super Chao if you gave them all seven.
So we need to be able to give them _every_ transformation artifact in the series to compensate. The Sol Emeralds, a little Chao-sized Excalibur, whatever the hell triggered Darkspine Sonic, throw some Color Wisps in there (actually I think a Wisp Chao could look pretty cool), the Phantom Ruby...
@@Tinlion09 "Whatever the hell triggered Darkspine Sonic", eh? Imagine you give one the world rings have like a 50/50 chance between getting a cool chao with a Darkspine Sonic texture or an abomination that looks like Alf Layla wa-Layla. Hell, I'd take the risk. XD
I know lot of people say "ugh, why is SEGA bringing back the wisps AGAIN?" every game, and I definitely understand it, but wisp chao sound cool. Having the wisps in yet another game would be a small price to pay if they incorporated them into a new chao garden or something.
The phantom ruby just maxes luck but drops strength to 0. Your chao will insist it's not weak, but we all know the truth.
Now that you mention them just turning super when you give them the chaos emeralds, it would be so cool if you could then bring your chao into normal levels and they'd attack enemies like super Tails' flickies in Sonic 3.
ok so Chaos but with those big ol' penguin eyebrows just lookin all like *MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM *intense stare**
I usually don't leave comments, but I've watched this full thing like six or so times since it came out. I don't know what it is about it, but something about cybershell calmly explaining Chao's with a pinch of occasional sass is just so engaging. I've watched all his other videos, and they're good, but none quite do it for me like this one. I didn't think anything special about it when it first came out, but somehow I just keep finding my way back here. Truthfully I've never even played any sonic game, other than mania which I played for like 15 minutes before realizing it just wasn't for me, but I have already sunk 8 hours into this one video, and suspect I'll sink many more into it for years to come. Thanks you for making such an absolute masterpiece of a Chao video Cybershell.
Yup same I literally don't even like sonic games but for some reason I like his breakdown of the Chao system so I've watched this like four or five times.
This is also my emotional support video
Bruh I'm creeped out cause I'm the same
I was worried about being the only one but now I’m relieved I didn’t go crazy. We are a family now.
Omg same it's my third time watching this
I always thought the "chao sounds" in that cutscene were chao offscreen getting stomped on.
Yeah, that was my understanding? They show the warriors murdering all the Chao earlier in that scene IIRC. My interpretation was always that they were Chaos’ children too, that “Chaos is a mutated Chao” explanation feels way too weak and literal. 🙄
@@RisingSunfishi mean, chaos IS a mutated chao
It takes longer to legitimately obtain a chaos chao than it does to 100% Sonic Forces.
and its not even that difficult to do, at that, I used to think achieving a Chaos chao was some unholy undertaking but its apparently piss easy, only requiring a bit of grind.
Maybe not; did you know there's an achievement for getting 100,000 rings? It only counts what you are holding at the end of a level, and the max is 999, so you need to grind a certain stage like 70 times after you've gotten everything else in the game. This really adds to the playtime in the worst way possible. Not counting that achievement (which isn't really in-game in any way), Forces would probably be faster.
Thanks for this video
@@hoodedman6579 yes a challenge,not obligatory.
@Saiasha well yes, but actually yes
The Nightopian ecosystem is some of the most magic mushroom shit I've ever heard.
The craziest part is that it's not only optional, it's almost totally disconnected from the rest of the game. Nightopians are so utterly irrelevant to their own game that most players never recognize them as anything more than background elements. At least Chao racing gets you a few Emblems.
@@Tinlion09 not to mention the only way to check being on an entirely separate disk
I beat the whole game but didn’t have the patience to not accidentally loop around them
@Tsukiru At least the PS2 and HD versions have (most of) Christmas NiGHTS built-in.
@@KopperNeoman wait nights on ps2? oh i checked and it was japan-only. that's pretty interesting though
When I was a kid, I imagined Chao Garden was like what Heaven looked like. The peaceful music, the nature, and the carefree lifestyle. Kids who passed away would go to a Chao Garden like world. That’s why I find it so upsetting to see Chao abused 😢
What about the dark garden?
@@Random_Guy11156 I just thought it was like a Halloween world 😆
@@jaystYou know, I kind of felt/thought the same way as a kid.
I'm one of those crazy people who wish to have a little chao for themselves in real. They look so precious
You are not alone
They already exist, they’re called children
@@Scatmanseth here you can abuse them without getting charged :D
@@Vlumpty_Vonty bro WHAT
@@Scatmanseth nope
I remember killing a chao i actually liked by accident with knuckles. Really not the best decision to have the grab button be the same as the "punch stuff dead" button.
Yea, I remember first playing as eggman in the chao garden and I accidentally smacked a new born chao at least 2 times, so that's why I just use characters like sonic or shadow
@@princesspomegranate6692 Literally in the video he explains and demonstrates killing a chao 18:00
I visited chao garden for probably the 1st time today, and ended up spin jumping as Sonic on a chao accidently, I felt bad but didn`t think it will have major effects, and now it has that dark chao grin on it & since I found out that character of one side upsetting a chao can cause it to turn towards becoming chao of the other side... yea my mistake is gonna turn that lil baby into a naughty boy, I`m just gonna reset my chao garden data I should start over again
EDIT: NVM not gonna reset the process is too complicated for me
Yeah, I tended to always use Tails in SA2B because he ran more slowly than the other characters, so I wouldn't accidentally kick a chao, and his flying also made it easy to search the garden if I had a lot of Chaos in one area. The others tended to be kind of annoying to control. I used Rouge for dark Chao since Eggman walks really strangely and Shadow has Sonic's speed walking. Once they evolved though, I always swapped back to Tails.
@@MokohiChan in SA1 though I always accidentally hit the chao because of his tail attack.
"I was never a chao guy" *proceeds to talk about them for an hour*
He just absorbs fandom wiki articles.
Honestly they look likey brothers shit when he eats to much blue cotton candy
@@filoz2005 it's a joke.
@@filoz2005 Do you really think homosapiens can absorb wiki articles? No. it was a joke.
@@filoz2005 It clearly was, you just can't tell
I always got a kick out of imagining the Chao doctor/principal hastily switching out their disguise Doubtfire-style as they hurried through some secret passage between the rooms
Sonic Frontiers would have been perfect for a chao garden comeback…
I love how he didn't make a big deal about his return or post a long explanation as to where he went, he just randomly drops in and says "yo you guys wanna hear about the fuckin uhhhh dreamcast games?"
*hell yeah I do*
jojo pfp gang
@@nyorri3490 *the JoJo pfp alliance*
@@melon6444 *J O J O P F P M I L I T A R Y*
Wouldn't want it any other way.
Yea its so humble! Its like seeing an old friend
Also jojo pfp squad hehehehe
He was gone for 3 years because he had to grind levels for that skeleton dog.
I've got a fast technique that involves pumpkin hill. There's one out in the open on church mountain and potentially 2 of them can pop out of the 2nd chao box. While you're there you might as well get the half-fish. I think it removes animal parts too.
@@GoldenGrenadier half fish mostly give the orb a flame appearance. Just like how bats delete the legs.
@@GoldenGrenadier you can also use pyramid cave (sonics level)
bat, skeleton dog and half fish remove other animal parts
but bat also removes feet and half fish gives flame
The half fish does not remove animal parts, only the ghost dog can do that.
They do fly, one of my favorite things to do as a kid was to max out their fly stat and put them at the top of the waterfall, and sometimes they’d fly and get stuck flying around the garden, other times they just drop to the floor but their jiggle physics makes it really funny to look at
Kat/Hbomberguy sent me here.
"Chaos is a mutated Chao"
For some reason that was always painfully obvious to me, it might be because when I first played these games, my writing and reading skills were poor and I just made the connection because Chaos' name is just Chao with an s.
Using smol brain to make big brain play
@@relt745 "I don't know how but you got the right answer with the wrong method"
Yeah, I always just assumed chaos was a chao mutated by the chaos emeralds.
@@superlagbro192 yeah and the colors are similar
@@superlagbro192 I just assumed the Master Emerald was the reason Chaos mutated.
Yeah, your Chao is going to live happily in a faraway forest, it says, as you hear the machine make a bunch of violent grinding noises.
best comment lmao cybershell please pin this
I love the idea of Robotnik trying to take over the world but ever so often he checks on all these little baby creatures hes raising x)
The time stamp skip joke actually legit just made me laugh out loud. Nicely done.
You leave for almost 3 years, with no acknowledgement that you exist on social media, convincing a bunch of people you're gone for good. Then out of no where, you make a 75 minute video essay on all the comprehensible information and intricacies of Chao. Never change Cybershell.
Well shit dude it takes 3 years of grind to go through all the chao content. He was busy making this video all that time, didn't have the liberty to post on social media.
@@LilJbm1 He's gonna do the same nowadays I assume
I thought the principal saying "actually, I'm the Chao doctor" was meant to imply the one next door was a quack.
I can see that, with the doctor's... unusual expression.
That will now always be the cannon solution to that for me.
My friends and I thought this as well which was compounded by how rare chao sickness was. I'd take my little guy to the doctor when he has dizzy eyes only to be told he was healthy.
We even had a rumor that the doctor would make your chao die in a grey caccoon regardless of if it had a happy life.
I still remember my 3 favorite chaos:
Melody (angel), Pebbles (normal), and Dixie (dark).
I had a dozen others but those three were my LIFE as a kid and one day.... they just...... left....
They formed an egg around themselves and just disappeared and I never knew their fates 😭😭
Oh boy... How should I tell ya buddy... Um, you're Chao died.
It was traumatizing!
27:26 “because animals are so much better than chaos drives you basically have no choice but to use them”
Me, someone who had this game as a kid, and has spent upwards to 10 hours in Prison Lane runs farming drives: sorry what
"How's those background NPC's coming along?"
"I gave them genetics, John. They can breed with monsters, John. I am God, the Creator of Life, John."
" "
How did you get a hidden recording from the production meetings for Nights?
@@AltName7 I use to work as a spy for Nintendo.
Lloyd's beacon profile pic? Nice. Shame it's such a useless item in-game.
@@joelfilho2625 Maybe in vanilla, but Shattered's is way better!
The background NPC's programmer is Garfield?
(It might make a whole lot more sense.)
Cybershell was stockpiling videos while he was gone.
Probobly
It's just like stocking nuts for the winter
probably! i cant want to have hours and hours of cybershell being cybershell
@@her0966 deez nuts
@@yosup6604 HA
GOT EEM
Iv watched and listened to this video falling asleep over 50 times so far.
ever get to the end?
Hey Cybershell. I don't know how to articulate this exactly but your videos are like comfort food to me. Whenever I'm feeling like total shit I think "hey I'll throw on that really long video about Chao" and it never fails to distract me from the suffocating existential nightmare of living. This inevitably leads to me marathoning your content, which as a therapeutic tool might be questionable, but fuck if I know how my brain works. Anyway, point is, I think your videos are pretty great.
"Everything'll be okay."
I always used Tails in the chao garden because his tails were the perfect length to measure how far away you had to be from the chao to turn around and dupe your animal/drive.
damn that's a good measure method xD
Thanks dood, I had no idea I've been emulating it and just using Eggman cause it's funny. Can't hit that glitch consistently to save my life.
Screw feet. Tails are the new measurement unit.
@@DeevDaRabbit tails' tails vs banana measurement
@@zemshea further evidence that tails has the srongest maternal instincts in the series
I cried so much when my brother "Good-bye"d my chao in Sonic Adventure DX. We were young and I had made this unique purple chao that had predominant peacock features. She was so overpowered that she was doing that thing where she laid down before starting to run.
My brother threw her away cuz he was mad at me and my father didn't knew what to do. He was asking my brother to "give him his baby back" but ofc he couldn't.
All my pain was lost when I found chao editor hehe. Everything was a chaos chao and I loved it.
“Give him his baby back” PLEASE 😭😭😭 imagine being a parent trying to govern inter-child chao politics
NOOOO!!!! how cruel..
"Give him his baby back" This absolutely ended me, ohhhh my god
lmao "Give him his baby back."
"Can't. She belongs to the forest now."
based brother
Having all the info laid out like this it's astounding that me and my brother and sisters found out most of this stuff even the god chao just by playing the game with no internet.
Hbomber and Kat have sent me here
Funny fact. Not only happy chao from different alignments greet their bonded character differently, but they also hate their abuser differently. Hero chao simply runs away while crying. Dark chao will first *baaaah* you, then stomp his legs on the ground when you go away, and at -50 or lower relation they may run to you and try to attack you.
This looks incredibly funny.
Now go beat that dark evil dude.
They actually go "Eck, taaah!" If I recall. "Baaah" I think is when they surface during swimming. But let's be honest, the only reason anyone would abuse their chao is to get THAT MOTHER F***ING HAT OFF THEIR HEAD!!!!!
h a t
@@TheDragonfang134 My absolute favorite Chao had a damn hat on his head by accident and I finally decided I wanted it off. I felt sooo horrible getting it off and I bought the best fruits for him. Sadly I can't find the memory card he's on ; - ; Poor Spice, I'll find you!
That's actually based on a Chao's Hero/Dark alignment score, not if the Chao is Hero or Dark itself.
The alignment score has no visible effect on adult Chao, whose alignments are fixed, but it is what determines the BEHAVIOURAL effects.
Not only did he come back this year but he also uploaded MORE THAN ONCE
It’s also an hour.
*TWICE IN A DAY WHAT IS THIS MADNESS*
IT'S A SIGN
little me would be proud
Boy, at this point we KNOW the reason he took so long is because the video requests were swarming in, and the Patreon goals were achieved.
The Chao were meant to be raised to compete with other players. I remember this and it was so much fun to just be able to take your controller and your memory card to your buddys house and have your Chaos do Karate or Race. We had some stupid powerful Sonic-hair rare metal chaos and I had a dark-aligned Shadow-haired chao. Good times.
If anyone new gets into Chao, 32:36 This glitch is the main thing you need and from there you could decide how you want your chao to look ^^
as a child, i distinctly remember being absolutely distraught to the point of tears when my brother sent his chao away in the machine, begging him not to do it
i'm 22 and to this day i am the same way. it's too sad.
I'm honestly relieved to see how many other people also cried about chao as a kid lmao
I really regret doing it.
i did too, had to leave a dislike for the chao killing speedrun joke.
my memory card corrupted and i lost all of my chao, i was inconsolable for days
OTHER FUN FACTS ABOUT CHAO:
- In the Dreamcast version, it is possible to bring your Chao from SA1 over to SA2 using the VMU... but the system isn't programmed very well and bugs are likely to occur. A silver Chao I imported looked normal in SA2 but all of his offspring were Moon Chao. Another one had all of the polygons in his model permanently scrambled up, including one in his head that stretched across the entire garden. (I had to cover it with a mask)
- In SA1, you can kill your Chao by feeding it too much. I'm not sure what causes it, but my best guess is that food restores a small portion of your Chao's HP, and if you give it too much, the value will eventually roll over to 0.
- Also in SA1, fruit that you shake down will inflict damage to your Chao if it hits them. It is possible for them to die this way. SA2 fixes this because, while it is hilarious, it also sucks. Sometimes your Chao will start eating the fruit as soon as it hits them, and then immediately die once they finish
Maybe they just die from obesity
*me going to try this out rn*
This is the real reason they exist. It was a demonstration of the stupid / awesome VMU accessory. Sonic adventure was “the” launch title for the Dreamcast and they needed to demonstrate what it could do.
._ . Sonic frontiers might have gave us an answer for this...
i remember my first Chao, Cinnamon. :') he was red and i only "fed" him penguins for aesthetic reasons.
To clarify.
The Chao that skipped the Fruit puzzle happened because he tripped right at the starting point of it.
I've had it happen to my Chao, but it's super rare because there's a very small window that they can trip and just slide forward enough that they skip the flag to do the puzzle.
ok but it sounds f!!king glorious
Yes, i remember one time my chao did that, and it skip the puzzle completely.
wtf, thats crazy! Speedrun strats!!!
@@gabbylaggy2179 It also has the risk of softlocking :)
Two things:
- I'm 30 and am never ever realized how complex the Chao Garden is.
- The whole concept and architecture of the Chao Garden is far beyond from the whole project of Sonic Forces.
(Cybershell, the editing on this video is pure gold; thank you)
I shall politely ask permission to tell you ok boomer
@@cronkinthehouse Denied
I’ll have you know I am a Millennial, and at least I ask for permission.
tf2 scout be' like True
@@cronkinthehouse man, 30 year olds are also millenial.
20:54 Thank you BASED GOD
What DO Chao taste like? I imagine it tastes a bit like cream of crab soup.
Plot twist: Cyber was gone for almost 3 years working on videos just so he could daily upload all of them for the next 3 years
I hope he made the sonic 3 bonus video
It all makes sense now
You beat me to it.
honestly thats a good theory
Stonks
My mind is completely blown
yes.
Dude, same! I don't even play Sonic, and this shit is just massive to me. XD
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wow this is... weirdly complicated and detailed for what is basically raising a little pet as a side game to a sonic game. im fascinated to know what went through the game makers heads to make all this honestly
with that said i love all their designs though, wish i could have plushies of them ngl
1:35 Th way he says Bonus makes it painfully obvious how scarred he was during the Sonic 2 *Bonus* Video
BOU-nus
39:28
Chaos: (Stuffed animal noise)
Echidna Leader: (The sound of an anime character being stabbed in the throat)
‘what the hell are chao?’
> 1 hour and 14 minutes
*Procedes to give a detail guide on how to raise them*
After learning about all the breeding intricacies, you could totally conduct a biology class about chaos and their genes
The Chao Gardens were such a huge part of my childhood and this video brought back so many good memories. I was surprised by how strong of an emotional reaction I still had to seeing the Chao in this video run up to you with that happy little heart or seeing them cry. The old save on my cousin's GameCube had a Chao named after me, it was a shiny mint green (apparently mint Chao are rare which is why I never saw another one that color) hero swim/swim Chao with phoenix wings that could breathe fire and loved to sing. I was so worried about it dying but it eventually turned into an Angel Chao :)
34:04 the way knuckles puts his sunglasses on before beating his chao made me burst out luaughing
His vision is augmented
12:33 Speaking of the Chao Doctor/Professor, Fun Fact: Remember awhile back when it was reported that an unused SA2 Omochao line indicated that Eggman’s mustache was fake? Well, as it turns out, that’s actually not the case! The Japanese version of the line actually indicates that he’s talking about the Chao Professor and how his mustache is fake, NOT Eggman’s.
So rejoice Robotnick fans! You may rest easy once more, now knowing that your favorite over-300 IQ Mad Genius’s facial hair is 100% real.
My childhood was a LIE, how dare they Denigrate the great and WISE DR.ROBOTNIK!
I'm reminded of the Sonic Heroes English manual referring to Eggman as a feminist, when the original Japanese actually called him a womanizer.
@@LonelySpaceDetective Not the first time things get lost in bad translation.
Thanks god i thought all My live ,that robotnik's mustache was fake
Who's Eggman? And who's Robotnick? and why would I care about their mustache? If you want to see a good mustache then you do not need to look any further than Dr. Ivo Robotnik. He has the greatest mustache and his mustache is very real. His mustache is much better than that of that Eggman and Robotnick, whoever they are.
It's amazing to me that Chao appearances are modeled as a generative vector-space, in a game series from 1998.
I _absolutely love_ the fact that Run/Run Chaos look like Sonic and Shadow.
"no limits" is how Chaos went from Chao to fish jello man
He never meant to leave. His internet was just so slow that it took 2 years for his videos to fully upload. Now they're all coming up at the same time.
"Kept ya waiting, huh?" now it all makes sense
@@MrLordSith it does
"What is political reform? Is it tasty?" - Chao during a political debate
straight facts
finna eat some labour laws
me and the boys chowing down on the means of production
Damnit HBomb, I freakin' LOVE Chao, so of COURSE I'm gonna watch an hour long video essay about them! GG, Cybershell, you're a gem :)
I've always told people SA2B was a game about raising Chao where you do mini games with the sonic characters to get chaos drives and animals for them. That is legitimately how my friends and I played it as kids. I never even beat the story because I didn't need to for raising Chao which I considered the main point of the game and much more fun than the stages.
"Nights isn't that important" proceeds to talk about it for 6 minutes😂
ikr
6 minutes out of a 1 hour 14 minute and 39 second video doesn't seem that important.
@Catgamer615 calm down
@@Negative-3000 if it wasnt important than it wouldnt be in the video.
6 minutes is literally less than 10% of the video, it's not that much lol
I can't believe after all these years Sega never made a new Chao Garden.
What a missed opportunity.
They could even release Chao Garden as it's own separate spin-off game and it would be guaranteed to sell well. Making money from nostalgia is all the rage these days and the kids that grew up playing SA2 are now adults so it's a no brainer.
@@spongemaster Having tried Chao Garden in my last playthrough of SA2, i find it really boring now when i put a lot of time in it in the early 2000s. Chao Garden is one of those things that are really only appreciated by children and early teens, and color me surprised if any late teen or adult would actually put any time into it except to just get the emblems for 100% completion.
With that said, i'm surprised they haven't brought it back because of their obssesion of padding their games to increase playtime. It's why the Werehog is in Unleashed, just padding to make the game longer. A Chao Garden would be a no brainer to increase playtime.
@@okagron agreed. my friend and i returned to sa2b chao garden to make all s rank chaos of different colors and tones, and chaos chaos. the most boring parts were waiting for the chaos to evolve, which you can accelerate by forcefeeding them a lot of fruit, and moving them across gardens for mating/to have enough room in garden for the egg to actually spawn. also annoying ass rng that gradually flattens as you get closer to all s rank, since by that pt most offspring are born with all as or s
@@okagron werehog add a new mechanic not seen on sonic games often, as a extra he have unique gameplay and they clearly have put a lot of effort on it and the lore involving is 100% not just padding, and to be honest i not see why people hate werehog i always found their section of stages pretty much good, maybe the battle theme can get repetitive but dunno (then again i played sd/ps2 version not the ps3/xbox version so who knows)
Why do I envision a Chao adventure game, similar to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon? Like, instead of them speaking in "baby talk", they speak actual english to one another, and they set out on an incredible journey, possibly to stop some force of evil, or make some big discovery.
And why do I see it riddled with easter eggs to other Sega games, like Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, Phantasy Star, and of course Sonic? And why am I dreaming of buying such a game and playing it online with friends for hours on end??
I loved this! Really took me down memory lane from when Chao Island was the Hippotank, and even taught me a good amount of new stuff. Some great funny bits too lol.
Chapters!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:02 NiGHTS
0:06:47 Which game?
0:07:48 SA2B
0:08:51 Chao Kindergarten
0:13:07 Raising Chao 1: Stats
0:16:15 Raising Chao 2: Chaos Drives
0:18:22 Speedrunning
0:19:34 Raising Chao 3: Life Cycle
0:22:44 Chao Appearance Tool
0:24:27 Raising Chao 4: Animals
0:33:40 Raising Chao 5: Alignment
0:39:50 Raising Chao 6: Breeding & Eggs
0:45:35 Black Market
0:48:38 Chao Races
0:54:54 Chao Karate
0:57:19 Chao Machine
1:03:05 Character Chao
1:05:30 How To Get The Tails Chao
1:06:41 Forbidden Chao
1:12:22 Outro
Thank you to Hbomb for bringing me here- I too was the person who played Adventure (specifically Adventure DX on the GameCube) on repeat while barely touching the Chao. I’d fall into a rabbit hole each time where I’d get one Chao beefed up and racing, but that’s it lol
Honestly I wish Sega would just straight up make a game where you raise Chao as like a spinoff. You'd think there'd be no audience for a game like that, but if the Pokemon breeding scene has taught me anything it's that people will sink DAYS into breeding the perfect creature, and I'd love to play a game like that. It doesn't even need to have Sonic characters in it, just put it in the Sonic universe and give players that custom character maker from Sonic Forces and I'm sure plenty of Sonic fans would love it
Hell, there was already a whole game series centered around this type of concept. Look up Monster Rancher sometime, it's not Chao Garden but it proves to me that there is definitely a market for this.
Well, they did made a chao garden spin off
Sadly it was only Japanese only for phones, probably the reason they aren't doing anything like that cuz I heard that it was a rare game to have, like that Kingdom Hearts V-cast game
@@LonelySpaceDetective I have played Monster Rancher! That game and many other monster training games are my favorite genre! If only Monster Rancher wasn't dead too . 3.
Maybe the Chao Gardens are why there's so much overlap between Pokemon fans & Sonic fans? I remember how disappointed I was when I put in Sonic Heroes & learned there wasn't a chao garden. I get the feeling Project 2021 will have the Chao Gardens return at long last. I wonder what the New Chao Gardens for the 2020s games will be like?
Why would you think there would be no audience? I've always thought they should do this, for like 10 years. Every time SA1 or 2 is brought up people always mention the Chao Gardens as an amazing feature, one of the best in the games, and how they all loved it and wished it would make a return.
Based on my observations I'd say there's likely a massive fucking audience for it, but SEGA is stupid and dumb with crappy marketing and people who can't read the room, so I doubt it will happen. Lots of companies today just seem out of touch.
The amount of this I figured out as a literal child is completely baffling to me. I had like multiple cha-os chaos, angel and devil chaos, multiple breeds of every typing. I was probably like 8 when I played it, and the internet and friends definitely helped, but it's still ridiculous.
Yep same dude I had a chaos Chao as well and man that was a grind. Hell I got to a point where I didn't even play sonic adventure 2 battles normal game anymore just grind for this and phantasy star online lol. Then came middle school and halo 2 lol
I had some maganize that had this huge guide about chao breeding, stats, animals all that stuff. I think it was the first time I ever metagamed as a child
I did all that without the internet or friends but retained none of it
Same I got shadow chao sonic chao, shutting off ps3 before chao died etc
@@whatsacone "looking it up" literally wasn't really even a thing at the time. You could go on GameFAQs I guess, but if they didn't have a guide then your only option was to _literally call Nintendo._ That's right, they had a phone line specifically for people stuck on games! It seems so quaint now lol
I fell asleep to this video. and woke up in cold sweat later thinking the chao were chasing me in my dream 9/10 pretty fun dream
God this brings back memories. Its crazy how much effort they used to put in to really minute parts of these games that you didn't even have to use to beat the game. I remember Pokemon Red even had a full casino to spend time at.
Those super-chao at the end are literally Chaos...
Thats what Chaos is, a mutated Chao that surpassed the limits of reason, growing too large, transparent, and powerful
Basically them but reaching his peak of power.
Got it all wrong. Chaos is just a chao tikal accidentally gave a bucket of water to and absorbed it when she wanted it on his head. Why you think chao never drink for?
I'm a bit surprised Cybershell didn't mention that, I was waiting for it. Fuckin' spooky
Whhhoooaaaa!!
They have ascended to a point where the game can't process a physical form for them
"You can even do a paraloop to kill one if you want. Although much like real life, this is considered a social faux pas and it lowers the mood of every other nightopian in the level."
24:58 that was the slightest jumpscare I ever saw
Fucking adorable that's what they are
Coming back in style, man. This is crazy impressive!!!
Youuuuuuuu
Sup game apologist
Hey game apologist
Wasn’t expecting to see you here
The legend
"I wasnt one of those weirdo kids who spent hours in the chao garden"
makes hour long video about chaos, complete with spliced-together clips of gameplay from the chao garden
Damn near everyone spent hours in the chao garden lmao we used to act like we were trying to find chaos emeralds at recess in kindergarten
I dont trust this guy for not sinking hours into this as a child lol
I love the Chao Garden, I spent ages playing it as a kid. Now I don't think I have the patience for the grind, and their lifespan works in real-time and is something like 8 hours long, so raising a super chao through reincarnations is insane.
It's a huge shame that they never followed up on this gameplay, cos Chao are adorable, their baby sounds and toddler behaviours are so sweet, they have such a variety of forms they can take that actually dramatically change the model over time, you can really work to customise their appearance and behaviours, everything about them is cute and charming and surprisingly complex and deep.
Watching these lil blobby creatures excitedly run up to you and make happy noises fills my brain with happy chemicals, and I'd easily pay for an upgraded version with more conveniences and ways to interact with them.
The fact so much was spend on this aspect of the game is honestly mind-blowing