Look I’m just saying, why has Sega NOT created a Chao Garden mobile App?! Seriously a virtual pet raising app on mobile devices with online racing and karate fights..... Sega is just sitting on a gold mine and doing NOTHING about it.
Miles Hikari They’re sitting on a blue diamond mind! I actually always wanted some kind of spin-off. Chao Island? Make your own character, some plot about how your character is a chao raiser, and boom, out you go to start your own Chao Garden, raise, breed, discover new types. You run around doing quest or some other mechanic to get rings, animals, items to sell, etc. More Chao activities other than racing and karate. New Chao types and forms. More hybrids, colors, patterns. Special Chao you can unlock and breed into more special Chao. A virtual pet app would be fantastic, as well! But I hope it’s full price, because it would be agony having to constantly play and stop because your own of energy and either have to wait hours or pay with gems to continue doing your stuff.
Hell they could even replicate the GBA jewel Chao by making them unlockable in the mobile ports of the classic games. Beat a game and you can transfer a jewel chao into the garden app. Gives incentive to buy the ports and to quote EA "a sense of pride and accomplishment" but for real.
I currently have a breeding program of creating the all-S chao just to destroy the competition on that game. They all however like the same fruit and have the same personality. Yes, there was incest involved, but that's what happens when you breed for desired traits.
Well Sega made the shadow dlc for forces free, I think they'd make the more important stuff free like tails, Amy, and knuckles Chao but special toy's and stuff would cost money, bit maybe special stuff could be free for a month before needing to be bought
The fact that Chao Garden hasn't been in a Sonic game in 16 years is absurd. I have put in like 100+ hours in SA2 and I still pop in one in a while on my GameCube save that I got when I was like 4. Seriously Sega give us Chao Garden.
You really have to wonder WTF Sega thinks they are doing? They had the PERFECT way to instantly boost a Sonic game's replayability by adding the Chao guarden but they just stopped using it after SA2. Which is strange because they didn't ditch the Sonic Adventure Formula until the failure of 06 ... because Sega are morons and couldn't figure out why 06 failed and decided to spend the next decade throwing out Gimmicks hoping one would stick. But seriously Sonic Colors was probably the PERFECT game to bring the Chao Garden back for. With those little color fairy things who's names I forget you could feed them to Chao for stat boosts and more and it would make so much sense! But no Sega is run by out of touch morons that have no idea what their own fans even want.
@@metazoxan2 you gotta remember they were traumatized from making Sonic 06 so they never recovered or smth idk lmao. Chao Garden is still a one-time miracle
No mention of the absolutely heartbreaking music that played if you tried to "say goodbye" to a chao because you could only have so many chao in your garden at one time??? It was the most memorable/traumatizing part of the chao experience!
Please...don’t...mention that. It’s like a real bad Vietnam flashback to me...............**sobs** Angela, why?! WHY DID I HAVE TO LET YOU GO!?!?!!! **ugly cries** 🥺🥺😫😫😣😣
i once bred a black chao and it had a weird face, i didnt like it after raising it for some and turned off my console without saving, i felt so bad afterwards could never see it again :(
I have a Chao that I've raised since I was 7 years old. I'm turning 21 soon. I found out about chaos chaos late in high school and now my Chao is technically older than my parents in Chao years! Since then I've bread two all S chaos and made them chaos too. The Chao garden will always have a special place in my heart as SA2 was my first video game ever.
I swear we bred versions of chao no other person had. Once you start making translucent chao (invisible + gold = partially invisible), the possibilities are endless! I would always spend hours on the GBA maxing out the chao's stats to completely destroy all the other chaos in competition. I really, really wanted a chao-specific game. No sonic, just chao.
The chao garden was the only reason I continued to buy more sonic games up until like 2006... hoping it would come back. As a 10 year old kid I was obsessed with the near-infinite variety of chao you could breed and have. My favorite was my alternate-color flying hero type chao that had a deep purple body and gold highlights. Literally spent over 1000 hours of my life in the chao garden as a child and I don't regret one instant.
God I remember being a kid, I didn't have sonic advance, so i had no way of getting jewel chao. I really wanted one so I could breed with a shiny for the mythical *translucent chao* but my friend who had one refused to give it up. As I grew up I finally fulfilled my childhood dream. And even as an adult, I still go back to see my translucent neutral chaos chao
fun fact: the translucent chao are actually glitched! they are supposed to be neon (GLOWING!) chao. still pretty cool. the invisible ones are supposed to be a different color too but i forgot
Funny how Billiam tries to take care virtual pets and when he done it the "proper" way all of a sudden they just die. Every. Single. One. DIED. I think it's a curse!
Id be willing to buy a new sonic game if it had a proper chao garden; like the ones in SA1 and 2, but expanded upon. Sega is sitting on a gold mine being able to make a Chao Garden mobile game.
If Sega were to remake Sonic Adventure. They should have the Chao Garden have the features from the Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2. Maybe include the Taxman & Stealth remakes of Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles (Albeit with different music for Carnival Night, Ice Cap and Launch Base Zone), and CD as unlockable games.
it makes me sooo happy to see someone else who was obsessed with the sonic adventure games like i was and spent so much time on them.. once my sister and i devoted an entire summer to raising all three chaos chao. we would put them in the corner and stand to block them so they couldn't drown (we were afraid they would get upset with us and then not reincarnate) and then leave the game on for hours. chao are so amazing!
Let's not forget some weird glitchy chao. You could make invisible chao and transparent chao. My favorite was getting a transparent red shiny chao. He looked like he was made of Jello~
I remember hatching an invisible chao. It was just a pair of floating eyes and wings. Very confusing at first... The translucent two-toned chao were cute, too! I think 166,299 is still too low of a number for the possibilities of chao types you can get given those glitchy chao.
God, the time I spent farming levels for animals and breeding the perfect chao in all color options (two-tone whites were my favoriteeeee) - to date I still think SA2B has more hours in it than any other video game, and I logged 1300 hours in The Sims 4 this year alone (among countless other games)
Chao Garden was a *brilliant* way to give the SA games replay value. Not only did it give you a reason to keep playing to collect the different Chao colors/varieties, but it also kept you playing the action stages to collect drives and animals to boost their stats. I hope they bring it back one day :(
I may have spent more time playing in the chao garden then in the actual story in my original play through of SADX and I have no regrets. It was fun getting all the different colors and types and breeding them.... and throwing the eggs till they hatched..
I loved the Chao garden so much I remember family coming to the basement and thinking their was something wrong with me, specifically when my brain was fused in the Chao garden for hours of course.
Know what's funny? I was so obsessed with Virtual Pets at the time that I bought a Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure BECAUSE of Chao. I HATE Sonic! But I love Chao. Shoot I actually bought a Japanese VMU and downloaded Chao Adventure to it off the Japanese version before the Dreamcast ever even hit the states! I kinda hated SA2 though because the Hero/Dark thing kinda punished me for petting my Chao. Either way I'd LOVE for Chao Garden to return as like a separate app that connects with various SEGA games. How cool would it be if every time you bought or played a new SEGA game you got more stuff for your Chao Garden. "Nice highscore in SEGA AGES Space Harrier! Have 2000 Rings!" "Thankyou for buying Yakuza 7, here's a Majima suit for your Chao!" I've never wanted such a flagrant marketing tool more in my entire life.
GELTONZ how did dark/hero system punished you for petting a chao? it just meant more chao variants. god the first time i tried making Nights chao, boy i made a txt file documenting my every interaction with it with any character to make sure its gonna be neutral.
The hero/dark system was in sonic adventure 1 as well it wasnt something newly introduced how ever it was easier to control in the first game as once you had all three gardens unlocked you could use any character to access it. Which made controling what influence was affecting the chao's a lot easier so you didnt always have to spend rings to get the hero fruit. But in sonic adventure 2 you kinda got what you got.
@@NoraIconiq Hero/Dark system was only in the DX versions of SA1. Hero and Dark chao did not exist in the Dreamcast version of SA1. There is flat out no way to obtain Hero or Dark Chao in SA1 Dreamcast.
@@KOTEBANAROT Because SA2 was kinda annoying when it came to wanting specific types of chao since you have to use specific characters to make either a hero, dark or neutral. It was all about which characters you used affected the chao's alignment and what it will be when it evolves. So you had to be very careful if you wanted specific chao. Wanting a neutral chao? Better remember to constantly switch between a hero and dark character every time you come to the garden to raise it's stats with whatever animals and chaos drives you got. Raise it too much with hero and it becomes hero, raise it too much with dark and it becomes dark. So it was annoying that simply raising it with different characters affected it's alignment constantly. Unlike in SADX where they made it easier as the characters themselves do not affect it's alignment, you just have to feed it special fruits as a baby from the Black Market to get Hero or Dark. Want a hero just feed it hero fruit. Want a dark just feed it dark fruit. Want a neutral just don't feed it either of those fruits. Even when they reincarnate they are reborn close to the alignment they once used to be so you don't even have to constantly keep feeding them hero or dark fruits. Unlike SA2 when every time a chao reincarnates you have to be careful with which characters you use so you don't end up with the alignment you didn't want it to evolve into.
The Chao were my favorite parts of the SA games when I was younger, they helped me a lot because I didnt really have many friends and I played them all the time. I really hope Sega brings them back somehow
I remember when I was 7 and my favorite chao red died and I cried for three days I remember my mom trying to tell me he wasn’t real and it made it worse... good times..
I played Sonic Adventure Battle 2 for the chaos alone!! FOR YEARS. We need them back. Thank you for this video the Chao Garden meant a lot to me as a child as well.
The chao garden, besides content creator videos and memes, is the only interaction I've had with sonic games. Back in middleschool, my friend's younger brother created a Chao for me and he managed it. When ever I went over to his house, he would show it's progress.
Your site looks awesome, beautiful shots as well as your instagram. I’m surprised SEGA hasn’t made a Chao Garden for mobile, probably only a matter of time, great video, I love your content a lot and your videos are so good and fun.
Man the reason I finally subbed to you is because you keep bringing back nostalgic topics that are quite interesting. Different approach keepa things fun, keep up the good work!
So funny how I'm seeing all this new SA2 content while I'm replaying it. This game was such a huge part of my childhood. Playing it and raising chao takes me to my happy place and helps me deal with how stressful my adult life has become. I just bred a trio of all S rank shiny chao and I'm working on turning them into each type of chaos.
Makes me cry manly tears to think about the current state of our blue boi. I dont know who worked on SAB2, but they crushed it. We need those guys back, they really knew how to handle a 3d sonic. Chao World was incredible for me as a kid too, and even now I wish they would make another incredible sonic game with this incredible little world in it.
Chao garden will always have a special place in my heart. My niece loved Sonic since birth and we were so excited to unlock hell. The werid little ones we were. RIP Lille.
This video just ripped open a hole in my nostalgia gland. The ps2 had the pocketstation, a peripheral that went in the memory card slot that had a screen and a d pad. I remember getting ff8 when it came out (I'm very old) and seeing that there was something called a "pocket station" that you could put a chocobo on and raise it. Much like the chao garden thing with sonic. Im a big time tamagotchi guy (i have the 2 newest U.S. iterations right now and go through phases where I use them a lot) and I was always jealous of the dream cast kids with their little chao. I waited, and waited, and waited for the pocket station to come out. Idk if it ever came to America. Dreams dashed. Hopes crushed
I played the tiny Chao garden game on one of my flip phones before I went to school and thought it was the coolest thing ever. I don't think Sonic was seen in the game at all lol. SEGA needs to make a Chao mobile game. I'd play the hell out of it.
I feel you I am 34 now and when i was a lot lot younger i invested at least a few hundred hours into chao's. My buddy rebuilds old systems and sells them he didn't know anything about any of this. So thank you for the video it covers a lot of everything he could do to help people get the equipment to start fighting chao's again.
See when I was REALLY young, I had Sonic Advance. I loved the Tiny Chao garden, but I didn't understand how most of the mechanics worked. I took care of it for YEARS until later on I got Sonic Adventure DX. When I found the 3D garden and learned that I could transfer chao, I went into a frenzy trying to find that copy of Sonic Advance. With all the time I spent on it, I had created a Super Chao with a massive fortune of rings. Good times were had. . .
"Balan wonderworld" just came out and was made by the people that made Nights into dreams, and features a chao garden-esq overworld hub where you raise "lums" between levels.
I was a huge sonic nerd as a kid so none of this was new information. But it was still nice to hear someone else geek out and go as in depth as I once did.
Chao Garden defined my childhood, alongside my sisters and friends we all played and invested countless hours into the game. Would love a Chao Garden app or even a full game, would be an instant buy.
I played the heck out of the chao garden, and for the last 12 years I always thought you got the bad/evil chao by beating the hell out of them with any character. So chao abuse ran rampant in my childhood.
They should study the boys who had loved chao gardens as an adult. They'll either make great fathers or the baby will end up with shaken baby syndrome.
The earliest version of the chaos are actually from NiGHTS into dreams with the nightoptians being early prototypes of what the chaos will end up being.
For a long time I thought that chao were a complete construction of my imagination and disassociation as a child. So it’s like some crazy fever dream now realizing that THEY’RE A REAL THING AND IM NOT CRAZY!?
I would be a really different person if I didn't realize my love for raising Chao. Something about seeing these little things grow up and change still stirs my cold and jaded heart. Sega needs to bring this back in some way or another, for sure.
God, I loved the Chows! I only played the first Sonic Adventures, but I think I spent more time on the Chow Garden than I did playing the actual game... They were adorable! I think the most important part was that you could make them so happy, and I loved that! So cute! ^^
I LOVED CHAO GARDEN! Thank you SO MUCH! I've wanted to remember what sonic game it was for years! I really really wanted to play it for years as well because I only ever experienced the chao by way of my friend's game. I do hope that the garden from adventure 2 comes back in some capacity. It probably won't so imma go find a let's play of the game for some vicarious reliving of the good old days.
"I have probably spent more time playing the Sonic Adventure games than doing anything else in my life" is the biggest mood. I don't think any amount of obsessively playing games as an adult will ever reach the sheer hour count I put in Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube alone, let alone on the Dreamcast and PC, let alone the first Sonic Adventure on all those platforms.
I 💕 the chao garden as a kid. It was the best hours at my cousin's house running home from school to play with them while waiting for my parents to pick me up.
If they could do all _that_ with such a comparatively 'ancient' title, I'd shudder to imagine the lifetime's worth of chao collection that would ensue when they eventually decided to cash in on this
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Look I’m just saying, why has Sega NOT created a Chao Garden mobile App?! Seriously a virtual pet raising app on mobile devices with online racing and karate fights..... Sega is just sitting on a gold mine and doing NOTHING about it.
Gold mine is an understatement
Agreed
They can even make it healthy like the more you walk the more money you get.
Miles Hikari They’re sitting on a blue diamond mind! I actually always wanted some kind of spin-off. Chao Island? Make your own character, some plot about how your character is a chao raiser, and boom, out you go to start your own Chao Garden, raise, breed, discover new types. You run around doing quest or some other mechanic to get rings, animals, items to sell, etc.
More Chao activities other than racing and karate. New Chao types and forms. More hybrids, colors, patterns. Special Chao you can unlock and breed into more special Chao.
A virtual pet app would be fantastic, as well! But I hope it’s full price, because it would be agony having to constantly play and stop because your own of energy and either have to wait hours or pay with gems to continue doing your stuff.
Hell they could even replicate the GBA jewel Chao by making them unlockable in the mobile ports of the classic games. Beat a game and you can transfer a jewel chao into the garden app. Gives incentive to buy the ports and to quote EA "a sense of pride and accomplishment" but for real.
I kept playing Adventure 2 for the Chao Garden, too.
I currently have a breeding program of creating the all-S chao just to destroy the competition on that game. They all however like the same fruit and have the same personality. Yes, there was incest involved, but that's what happens when you breed for desired traits.
I still have that game 🙂
@@l1z4rdbr34th90 when I began reading your comment I wasn't prepared for the sheer escalation factor near the end and it got a good laugh out of me
Yes that was my childhood, raising chao. Staying up late at night just to play SA2.
Imagine if the Chao Gardens came out today though. There'd be enough microtransactions to make your head spin.
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Yeah exactly on one hand if done right it would be something everyone could enjoy. But given now days they would monotize it into oblivion.
Well said.
So true! I hate all that now! Bugs me to death!
Well Sega made the shadow dlc for forces free, I think they'd make the more important stuff free like tails, Amy, and knuckles Chao but special toy's and stuff would cost money, bit maybe special stuff could be free for a month before needing to be bought
And it's a little piece of weirdness that everyone demands to come back .
yup!
@@Zucchinna people want it back for very good reasons fuck you.
@@zeroni77 did I miss something what the heck?
@@gambitchains "mostly everyone" don't be calling the chao garden weird.
It was a lot of fun, everybody loved chaos
The fact that Chao Garden hasn't been in a Sonic game in 16 years is absurd. I have put in like 100+ hours in SA2 and I still pop in one in a while on my GameCube save that I got when I was like 4. Seriously Sega give us Chao Garden.
Heck it's not even a Spirit in Smash Ultimate!
You really have to wonder WTF Sega thinks they are doing? They had the PERFECT way to instantly boost a Sonic game's replayability by adding the Chao guarden but they just stopped using it after SA2.
Which is strange because they didn't ditch the Sonic Adventure Formula until the failure of 06 ... because Sega are morons and couldn't figure out why 06 failed and decided to spend the next decade throwing out Gimmicks hoping one would stick.
But seriously Sonic Colors was probably the PERFECT game to bring the Chao Garden back for. With those little color fairy things who's names I forget you could feed them to Chao for stat boosts and more and it would make so much sense!
But no Sega is run by out of touch morons that have no idea what their own fans even want.
@@metazoxan2 you gotta remember they were traumatized from making Sonic 06 so they never recovered or smth idk lmao. Chao Garden is still a one-time miracle
No mention of the absolutely heartbreaking music that played if you tried to "say goodbye" to a chao because you could only have so many chao in your garden at one time??? It was the most memorable/traumatizing part of the chao experience!
Please...don’t...mention that. It’s like a real bad Vietnam flashback to me...............**sobs** Angela, why?! WHY DID I HAVE TO LET YOU GO!?!?!!! **ugly cries** 🥺🥺😫😫😣😣
I remember doing that once and I actually felt so terrible afterward, I never did it to another Chao again. I was like 12...
i once bred a black chao and it had a weird face, i didnt like it after raising it for some and turned off my console without saving, i felt so bad afterwards could never see it again :(
Why WHY! Why did you mention that *Sobs* Why did keno leave WHY! *Idiot crys*
PLEASENINTENDONT ya
I have a Chao that I've raised since I was 7 years old. I'm turning 21 soon. I found out about chaos chaos late in high school and now my Chao is technically older than my parents in Chao years! Since then I've bread two all S chaos and made them chaos too. The Chao garden will always have a special place in my heart as SA2 was my first video game ever.
Now 24 or 25...
I was never really big into sonic but I could never forget the Chao Garden
One of the main reasons I return back to the game
same!
"Weird type of onion baby with wings." Best thing I've heard all week.
I swear we bred versions of chao no other person had. Once you start making translucent chao (invisible + gold = partially invisible), the possibilities are endless! I would always spend hours on the GBA maxing out the chao's stats to completely destroy all the other chaos in competition. I really, really wanted a chao-specific game. No sonic, just chao.
This video is pretty adorable. I relate, but my weird obsession was pokemon breeding. I spent weeks of play time hatching eggs, I swear.
I miss Chao garden
Same here.
I'd keep making Pichu eggs to hatch them to involve them into Pikachu.
TheModernFate nice Pokémon game It take long time to make mixed match Pokémon breed
Still I never get horn and wings chao
A chao garden mobile game could work as it's own thing.
The chao garden was the only reason I continued to buy more sonic games up until like 2006... hoping it would come back. As a 10 year old kid I was obsessed with the near-infinite variety of chao you could breed and have. My favorite was my alternate-color flying hero type chao that had a deep purple body and gold highlights.
Literally spent over 1000 hours of my life in the chao garden as a child and I don't regret one instant.
The Final Sara
Wasn't that the competitive hover board racing one?
@@Ratchet4647 no
The Chao garden was my shit when I played sonic adventure
Why are you shitting Chao Gardens? You should consult your doctor.
The hours my sister and I wasted playing with the Chao garden. Sometimes I wish I could relive those days.
Same, me and my sis probably put like 2000 hours into it if not more when we were younger lol.
my friends used to fight if something happened to their chao
D Levin me and my sister did as well! I relate to this so hard
Same
God I remember being a kid, I didn't have sonic advance, so i had no way of getting jewel chao. I really wanted one so I could breed with a shiny for the mythical *translucent chao* but my friend who had one refused to give it up. As I grew up I finally fulfilled my childhood dream. And even as an adult, I still go back to see my translucent neutral chaos chao
Bawbeh bro I had a tails chao, a transparent chao, shiny two tones, and a completely invisible chao ( excluding eyes mouth and ball
I could never 😭
fun fact: the translucent chao are actually glitched! they are supposed to be neon (GLOWING!) chao. still pretty cool. the invisible ones are supposed to be a different color too but i forgot
Funny how Billiam tries to take care virtual pets and when he done it the "proper" way all of a sudden they just die. Every. Single. One. DIED.
I think it's a curse!
I remember when I was a kid everyone thought you could only get a dark Chao by abusing them
I’m not ready for the amount of weird nostalgia I am about to be hit with.
GrimBrotherIV could you subscribe
Smashmaster Kj been subbed to Billiam since I found his digimon series
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Man I remember my first video of bills was his Simpson's games video.
How far he has come.
ogogo ogpgpg yes.
Id be willing to buy a new sonic game if it had a proper chao garden; like the ones in SA1 and 2, but expanded upon.
Sega is sitting on a gold mine being able to make a Chao Garden mobile game.
If Sega were to remake Sonic Adventure. They should have the Chao Garden have the features from the Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2. Maybe include the Taxman & Stealth remakes of Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles (Albeit with different music for Carnival Night, Ice Cap and Launch Base Zone), and CD as unlockable games.
I spent so much time raising chao that even my parents have the garden theme deeply ingrained in their brains.
it makes me sooo happy to see someone else who was obsessed with the sonic adventure games like i was and spent so much time on them.. once my sister and i devoted an entire summer to raising all three chaos chao. we would put them in the corner and stand to block them so they couldn't drown (we were afraid they would get upset with us and then not reincarnate) and then leave the game on for hours. chao are so amazing!
Let's not forget some weird glitchy chao. You could make invisible chao and transparent chao. My favorite was getting a transparent red shiny chao. He looked like he was made of Jello~
I remember hatching an invisible chao. It was just a pair of floating eyes and wings. Very confusing at first... The translucent two-toned chao were cute, too! I think 166,299 is still too low of a number for the possibilities of chao types you can get given those glitchy chao.
If i had the money I'd literally buy the chao and theyre rights off of sega just to make a well polished chao app
"hyperbably"
I was so obsessed with the Chao garden to the point that I named my channel after one I owned. True story.
God, the time I spent farming levels for animals and breeding the perfect chao in all color options (two-tone whites were my favoriteeeee) - to date I still think SA2B has more hours in it than any other video game, and I logged 1300 hours in The Sims 4 this year alone (among countless other games)
I remember running the knuckles space stage like a hundred times because I liked the Phoenix animal. Needless to say I had A LOT of flying type Chao.
I feel sega would completely ruin the Chao Garden with micro transactions
This is the second video released this week that says that the Chao Island is Alcatraz lmao
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@billiam wahats that track at 8:03. I’ve been binging your videos the past couple days. It really makes me lol. Can’t wait for more videos
Chao Garden was a *brilliant* way to give the SA games replay value. Not only did it give you a reason to keep playing to collect the different Chao colors/varieties, but it also kept you playing the action stages to collect drives and animals to boost their stats. I hope they bring it back one day :(
I wish they'd bring back chao. I swear, if they made a game with JUST chao I'd pay full price for it.
Slapped Potatoes SAME
I may have spent more time playing in the chao garden then in the actual story in my original play through of SADX and I have no regrets. It was fun getting all the different colors and types and breeding them.... and throwing the eggs till they hatched..
I was literally obsessed with breeding unique chao back when I was twelve years old.
I would basically speed run sonic advance to farm coins for the chao garden in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
I remember I cried as a kid when my brother erased my Sonic Adventure 2 save BECAUSE I LOST MY CHAOS OMG I MISS THEM
I loved the Chao garden so much I remember family coming to the basement and thinking their was something wrong with me, specifically when my brain was fused in the Chao garden for hours of course.
Great video, particularly the part about childhood anxiety
Know what's funny? I was so obsessed with Virtual Pets at the time that I bought a Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure BECAUSE of Chao. I HATE Sonic! But I love Chao. Shoot I actually bought a Japanese VMU and downloaded Chao Adventure to it off the Japanese version before the Dreamcast ever even hit the states!
I kinda hated SA2 though because the Hero/Dark thing kinda punished me for petting my Chao.
Either way I'd LOVE for Chao Garden to return as like a separate app that connects with various SEGA games. How cool would it be if every time you bought or played a new SEGA game you got more stuff for your Chao Garden. "Nice highscore in SEGA AGES Space Harrier! Have 2000 Rings!" "Thankyou for buying Yakuza 7, here's a Majima suit for your Chao!" I've never wanted such a flagrant marketing tool more in my entire life.
GELTONZ how did dark/hero system punished you for petting a chao? it just meant more chao variants. god the first time i tried making Nights chao, boy i made a txt file documenting my every interaction with it with any character to make sure its gonna be neutral.
The hero/dark system was in sonic adventure 1 as well it wasnt something newly introduced how ever it was easier to control in the first game as once you had all three gardens unlocked you could use any character to access it. Which made controling what influence was affecting the chao's a lot easier so you didnt always have to spend rings to get the hero fruit. But in sonic adventure 2 you kinda got what you got.
@@NoraIconiq Hero/Dark system was only in the DX versions of SA1. Hero and Dark chao did not exist in the Dreamcast version of SA1. There is flat out no way to obtain Hero or Dark Chao in SA1 Dreamcast.
@@KOTEBANAROT Because SA2 was kinda annoying when it came to wanting specific types of chao since you have to use specific characters to make either a hero, dark or neutral. It was all about which characters you used affected the chao's alignment and what it will be when it evolves. So you had to be very careful if you wanted specific chao. Wanting a neutral chao? Better remember to constantly switch between a hero and dark character every time you come to the garden to raise it's stats with whatever animals and chaos drives you got. Raise it too much with hero and it becomes hero, raise it too much with dark and it becomes dark. So it was annoying that simply raising it with different characters affected it's alignment constantly.
Unlike in SADX where they made it easier as the characters themselves do not affect it's alignment, you just have to feed it special fruits as a baby from the Black Market to get Hero or Dark. Want a hero just feed it hero fruit. Want a dark just feed it dark fruit. Want a neutral just don't feed it either of those fruits. Even when they reincarnate they are reborn close to the alignment they once used to be so you don't even have to constantly keep feeding them hero or dark fruits. Unlike SA2 when every time a chao reincarnates you have to be careful with which characters you use so you don't end up with the alignment you didn't want it to evolve into.
Oh gosh, when you played a snippet of the music from the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure 2, I had a wave of nostalgia washed over me!
Your videos are so genuine and I love it
The Chao were my favorite parts of the SA games when I was younger, they helped me a lot because I didnt really have many friends and I played them all the time. I really hope Sega brings them back somehow
I remember when I was 7 and my favorite chao red died and I cried for three days I remember my mom trying to tell me he wasn’t real and it made it worse... good times..
Chao Garden made me put hundreds of hours into Adventure 2, always wanted it to return as its own fully fledged Chao raising game.
Chao garden really brings me back. So much time invested. So much entertainment. Such a well done virtual pet side activity. Let the Chao live on!
I played Sonic Adventure Battle 2 for the chaos alone!! FOR YEARS. We need them back.
Thank you for this video the Chao Garden meant a lot to me as a child as well.
the thing on the bottom is for straps and stuff so you can kinda use it as a keychain
The chao garden, besides content creator videos and memes, is the only interaction I've had with sonic games.
Back in middleschool, my friend's younger brother created a Chao for me and he managed it. When ever I went over to his house, he would show it's progress.
Your site looks awesome, beautiful shots as well as your instagram. I’m surprised SEGA hasn’t made a Chao Garden for mobile, probably only a matter of time, great video, I love your content a lot and your videos are so good and fun.
"Chao are this weird type of... onion baby with wings."
Lol, that's the best way I've ever heard somebody describe them.
Man the reason I finally subbed to you is because you keep bringing back nostalgic topics that are quite interesting. Different approach keepa things fun, keep up the good work!
Oh I thought the prison island where Sonic was kept was Alcatraz.
So funny how I'm seeing all this new SA2 content while I'm replaying it. This game was such a huge part of my childhood. Playing it and raising chao takes me to my happy place and helps me deal with how stressful my adult life has become. I just bred a trio of all S rank shiny chao and I'm working on turning them into each type of chaos.
"Humph. Humph. Humph."
"Everything's going to be ok. Everything Every Everything's going to be ok."
Still burned into my mind.
Don't worry Buddy
Now There
YOSH
I wasted so many hours in Sonic Adventure 2 throwing Chao at the walls and trying to drown them in the pond. Good times.
did anyone else make their dark and light chao look like the characters
I remember my cousins and I obsessed over sonic adventure and chao sooo much
Makes me cry manly tears to think about the current state of our blue boi. I dont know who worked on SAB2, but they crushed it. We need those guys back, they really knew how to handle a 3d sonic. Chao World was incredible for me as a kid too, and even now I wish they would make another incredible sonic game with this incredible little world in it.
Been watching your channel for over a year. Just subscribed. Thought i had already. I was mistaken.thank you for this great channel.
Chao Garden was Sonic the Hedgehog's version of Digimon/Tamagotchi
I respect these videos. Putting a lot of effort on the things you care about.
Chao garden will always have a special place in my heart. My niece loved Sonic since birth and we were so excited to unlock hell. The werid little ones we were. RIP Lille.
"If they like you! They'll reincarnate... Mine do not reincarnate..."
The Chao Garden Was -Weird- MY CHILDHOOD.
i remember in sonic adventure 1 feeding them certain animals to make the chao a sonic chao it was sick
This video just ripped open a hole in my nostalgia gland.
The ps2 had the pocketstation, a peripheral that went in the memory card slot that had a screen and a d pad. I remember getting ff8 when it came out (I'm very old) and seeing that there was something called a "pocket station" that you could put a chocobo on and raise it. Much like the chao garden thing with sonic.
Im a big time tamagotchi guy (i have the 2 newest U.S. iterations right now and go through phases where I use them a lot) and I was always jealous of the dream cast kids with their little chao. I waited, and waited, and waited for the pocket station to come out. Idk if it ever came to America. Dreams dashed. Hopes crushed
it was ahead of its time, this wouldve worked well with switch. and the connecting via the usb thing is cool
Chao garden was cool. Me and my friends had our very own chao and we use to compete them lol. I feel you bro. Ah the good old days!
I played the tiny Chao garden game on one of my flip phones before I went to school and thought it was the coolest thing ever. I don't think Sonic was seen in the game at all lol.
SEGA needs to make a Chao mobile game. I'd play the hell out of it.
Chao (INSERT BAD THING HERE) is a serious problem.
raping
Trafficking
Climate change
Breeding methods is confusing.
Poop???
I loved Sonic Adventure and the Chao Garden. Love that you're giving this lovable mechanic attention.
I still play sonic adventure 2 solely for the Chao garden
keep making memories man, and never stop making videos.
CHAO GARDEN WAS THE SHIIIIT! And your awesome Billiam for making this video.
i've wasted the past 4 years of my life in the chao garden whenever I get the chance to play SA1 or 2
The only thing I got from this is there more chao than pokemon.
I feel you I am 34 now and when i was a lot lot younger i invested at least a few hundred hours into chao's. My buddy rebuilds old systems and sells them he didn't know anything about any of this. So thank you for the video it covers a lot of everything he could do to help people get the equipment to start fighting chao's again.
See when I was REALLY young, I had Sonic Advance. I loved the Tiny Chao garden, but I didn't understand how most of the mechanics worked. I took care of it for YEARS until later on I got Sonic Adventure DX. When I found the 3D garden and learned that I could transfer chao, I went into a frenzy trying to find that copy of Sonic Advance. With all the time I spent on it, I had created a Super Chao with a massive fortune of rings. Good times were had. . .
"Balan wonderworld" just came out and was made by the people that made Nights into dreams, and features a chao garden-esq overworld hub where you raise "lums" between levels.
6:00 oh my god i used to go to that chao site all of the time when i was a kid, chao were my life.
Here I was thinking you could only get the blue or blacks ones, what the fuuuuuuuu...
I'm def revisitting this.
I was a huge sonic nerd as a kid so none of this was new information. But it was still nice to hear someone else geek out and go as in depth as I once did.
I spent so much time in the Chao Garden a few years back, and I ended up doing a research project on Chao for the Chao Island forums
Chao Garden defined my childhood, alongside my sisters and friends we all played and invested countless hours into the game. Would love a Chao Garden app or even a full game, would be an instant buy.
I played the heck out of the chao garden, and for the last 12 years I always thought you got the bad/evil chao by beating the hell out of them with any character. So chao abuse ran rampant in my childhood.
God dammit now i wanna pick up my copy of SA2 to spend more hours of my life rasing the adorable onion babies. Thanks man.
They should study the boys who had loved chao gardens as an adult. They'll either make great fathers or the baby will end up with shaken baby syndrome.
The earliest version of the chaos are actually from NiGHTS into dreams with the nightoptians being early prototypes of what the chaos will end up being.
For a long time I thought that chao were a complete construction of my imagination and disassociation as a child. So it’s like some crazy fever dream now realizing that THEY’RE A REAL THING AND IM NOT CRAZY!?
love that ol' billy used the take where he burps mid sentence. very relatable.
I would be a really different person if I didn't realize my love for raising Chao. Something about seeing these little things grow up and change still stirs my cold and jaded heart. Sega needs to bring this back in some way or another, for sure.
I've only ever played through Sonic Adventure 2 once (through the GCN port), and yet, Eggman saying "Yosh" while petting a Chao has stuck with me.
I had all the chaos Chao and it was such a big part of my childhood gaming. I miss it so much. 😢
God, I loved the Chows! I only played the first Sonic Adventures, but I think I spent more time on the Chow Garden than I did playing the actual game... They were adorable! I think the most important part was that you could make them so happy, and I loved that! So cute! ^^
I LOVED CHAO GARDEN!
Thank you SO MUCH! I've wanted to remember what sonic game it was for years!
I really really wanted to play it for years as well because I only ever experienced the chao by way of my friend's game.
I do hope that the garden from adventure 2 comes back in some capacity.
It probably won't so imma go find a let's play of the game for some vicarious reliving of the good old days.
"I have probably spent more time playing the Sonic Adventure games than doing anything else in my life" is the biggest mood. I don't think any amount of obsessively playing games as an adult will ever reach the sheer hour count I put in Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube alone, let alone on the Dreamcast and PC, let alone the first Sonic Adventure on all those platforms.
I 💕 the chao garden as a kid. It was the best hours at my cousin's house running home from school to play with them while waiting for my parents to pick me up.
Oh man, that speech at the end, I felt that shit bro
If they could do all _that_ with such a comparatively 'ancient' title, I'd shudder to imagine the lifetime's worth of chao collection that would ensue when they eventually decided to cash in on this