Why Haven't We Seen Another Chao Garden? 

Chao Gardens should return. There's so much they can do with Chao. Not to mention some chao could use color palette updates.

Not only should they bring it back but make a full game revolving completely on the chao garden. I would also be happy to get a mobile chao garden.

The fact that they haven’t thought about a mobile app and are just thinking about toys is baffling

Chao are literally the only reason I enjoyed Sonic Adventure 1 or 2. Because of them, i felt a reason to get things from enemies around the world. Including rings.

Sega doesn't believe in happiness...

I honestly think they should bring back Chao Garden. it's a great game & would love Sega to upgrade the game, adding new breeds of Chao and more ways of playing with them

I love the Chao Garden, not only they're adorable creatures but it helps relieve stress

Me and a friend have been discussing this for years! But I do think they know quite well howbeloved the Chao Garden is, specially since the Official Sonic social media pages interacts with the public with jokes and memes for the past 4-5 years. Plus that animation they made is pure love for the little creatures. Definetly something is gonna happen soon!

Chao's could easily be one of the most popular media franchises on the planet if they did it right. It could never beat Pokémon but that doesn't mean it couldn't be absurdly successful. It's truly astounding they've never expanded on it. The money they could make is off the charts.

I’ve heard the next game could potentially be an open world game so the chao garden could make a return

The chao garden was my absolute childhood I remember playing it for hours on GameCube, ps3, Xbox and now pc I recently download chao garden extended. I’ve been wanting them to bring it back for so long. Hopefully they bring it back soon, after all I’ve been replaying this game since I was 7 and watching my brother play it before that. I’m 17 now

i would love a standalone Chao Garden mobile game. you could play minigames with your Chao to level up stats, compete in online races/karate to get rings, visit other peoples gardens, maybe even see your Chao through AR! theres SO many possibilities.

Sega is stupid for not bringing Chao Gardens as a separate installment to iOS & Android. This thing would be perfect for microtransactions & milking the cash cow - plus you could use your chao to battle the ones of your friends online... So much potential - how can they not see it?

I want another one so badly I would play a game I didn’t really like just for the garden

There really should be a chao game that let's you play as these little guys and go on an adventure. Included will be all the customization utilized up to this point and more

Really love the way you narrate and describe things. Precise and brief. Keep up the videos!

I wish all videos on youtube were short but cover all the topics in the same time like this amazing video :) Thanks for bringing hope to us, i really feel nostalgic for chao garden and sonic adventure and i hope they return in a sequel

I have never played a Sonic Game since Chao Garden was removed and will not until it returns.

I would love a Chao Garden game, perhaps something akin to the Chao Island Resort fangame, but of course in 3D. They could bring the Sonic Forces character customization, add a bunch of new minigames and competitions and add online multiplayer so we can compete against other people's Chaos, and of course, a full revamp of the Chao, with new color palletes, maybe even new types! They could even add a gene/ancestry system, and make the breeding aspect not complicated, but more intricate and fun. The Sonic Tesm can do so much with Chao Garden, and I hope they can see then potential in it. I feel like a stand alone game would be amazing, but also a part of me feels that if they do decide on making a Chao Garden game, it'll be mobile. It being a free-to-play filled with microtransactions is one of my biggest fears when it comes to the Chao Garden, haha.

love him or hate him, his spitting straight facts.

If they make another Sonic Adventure instalment I hope they actually make another Sonic Adventure instalment, not a corruption of key characters with 'Sonic Adventure 3' slapped onto it And yes, the Chao Garden needs to be there for authenticity

I feel like they had a perfect opportunity where they could have used the chao garden to flesh out sonic frontiers. It's not out yet but there's been no information and nothing on demos indicating chao gardens. You could have explored the open world and collected chaos drives or animals which would encourage people to explore more and give more objectives or goals to the open world, which many people are currently worried is empty and without many real goals or purposes for exploring.

I find the garden to be a good place to take a breather from hard levels while watching something develop with time.

I've said it multiple times, but I can't believe SEGA hasn't made a Chao raising mobile game. They could rake in SO much cash from a Chao Garden app, I'm serious. Take SA2B's existing Chao system and tweak it with new features: • Rework the Chao Adventure 1 and 2 minigames for mobile. Playing these minigames will raise your Chao's stats. • Incorporate the animals and chaos drives as pickups within the minigames / rewards for completing a minigame. • Add a new color of chaos drive that helps raise stamina. • Implement the race and karate systems from SA2B, with changes as needed for mobile devices. • Implement the kindergarten and black market. Bring the Jewel Chao and Moon Chao to the market for purchase. I don't understand why SEGA hasn't considered making a Chao Garden mobile game. Such a thing would probably do very well.

Honestly the Chao Garden could be its own standalone game with other ways to power them up like a little gacha machine that uses coins awarded after a race or dojo match. It just needs to come back

Just to point out, the sequel in 2001 was Sonic Adventure 2 (non battle), and had no Chao Karate or Levels :P - 2003 was the Battle version. Cool vid :)

I'll be honest, if we get a mobile chao garden I think I might hate that more than never knowing if we're getting a new chao garden. If it lands on mobile the experience will be watered down with microtransactions aplenty, and that happening would pretty much cement it in my mind that we'd never get another garden in a mainline game. I'd be more than a little heartbroken for something I loved so much to get completely... I dunno, trounced on? Kinda distorting the whole reason I liked it in the first place.

The insane thing to me is how much of the fanbase (and even some people outside of it) share the sentiment that chao garden should return yet it hasn't happened. Even a standalone chao game on switch would be amazing

I feel they should either finally make Sonic Adventure 3 or remaster the other two and make a much bigger chao garden (like do a weird combo of all the gardens the two games had?) and add a whole bunch of stuff to it like a few more games and such (and more character themed chao would be neat too not to mention have a method to get a Tails, Knuckles, and Amy chao without hacking the game lmao

Chao Garden would appeal to not only kids but people in their late 20's and 30's already

3:08 LOL thats the noise chaos make when you abuse them and they are running away from you.

This could have been Sega’s Pokémon. So many possibilities with breeding, animal parts, special character Chao, mini games, etc. Single handedly extended the hours I played SA2 by the hundreds.

Chao garden was at least half the reason for the success of Sonic Adventure 2

Thank you so much for this video! I loved this game growing up! I definitely signed that petition

When I was eleven or so, a sega america developer came to my middle school. This was around the time that Sonic Rivals was coming out, and being a massive sonic fan, I asked him about it. He told me a little bit about game design, and then I asked him why there hadn't been any chao gardens in the last several games. He looked at me point blank, utterly shocked and said "You actually like that? I didn't think anyone cared about the chao garden." and proceeded to walk away. I don't know if that was the opinion of one person, or the studio as a whole, but to this day I still cannot fathom having such an utter disregard for a feature that is so beloved.

Hey, nice video. And to your question at 4:26, making a video like this and compiling footage to gather comments is perhaps part of the battle : ) let's get SA3 for Sonic's 30th anniversary!

I MISS THEM SOOOOO MUCH!

Chao were so good at adding replay value to Adventure 2. Some people NEED that break from the action (especially if your new to sonic or haven't picked up sonic in a good while) and some people need a tangible reason to replay levels. A well executed chao garden was perfect for that.

I would buy a standalone Chao Garden game with all the gardens and mini games from the past games

Sonic adventure 3 with chao’s sounds like a dream

Nah, am sticking to Sonic Adventure 2 battle. If they do a Chao Garden who's to say they won't mess it up. Am just happy they remember the little chao's. =)

That you kept saying the ate and consumed the animals had me dying 😂

It would be cool to see it become it’s own thing somehow. I loved everything about the chao garden as a kid, but the mini games felt limiting. I always wanted to do more with the chao’s than watch them fight or race even if I was able to get them to be the very best. Having the chao as a little tamogatchi on my Dreamcast memory card was really fun too.

if the chao i raised in 5th grade were still alive today they would be old enough to drive a car...

RU-vid just recommended me this vid and I'm glad I watched. Tbh with the scope of Frontiers, it would be the best time to bring Chao back imo.

No one asked for racing car or werewolf sonic games we have been asking for chao gardens for years.

Well since we have that one sonic frontiers interview and with those sells we’re definitely going to get the chao gardens back at long last in sonic adventure 3

When you said "20 years since SA2 came out", I quite literally gasped because holy crap where does the time go! Fantastic video, I remember being so excited for Chao in Sonic Heroes and then the devastation upon realizing that it didn't existed. 😭

They'd be perfect for a mobile game, too, tbh

I think Chao could compete with Pokémon if done right it encourages raising/ strengthening and customizing chao and it baffles me how sega hasn’t done this yet with the success and popularity of them.

I think the chao garden will maybe be added in a sonic frontiers update. That would be damn awesome!

what if adventure 3 is going to be the 30 aniversary surprise?

I miss my chao, Tempo :(

Maybe we will see the chao garden in Sonic Frontiers ?

Well, Now there is a Chao Garden(except it's in a Minecraft Sonic DLC) But the only features it has is petting, hitting, Enderman Chao, and a Chao Garden with no mini games. *SAD*

I swear to the good lord that sega would have never tanked if they kept the chao garden concept

I used the tiny garden on my Sonic Advanced to intensely/rapidly train my chao in SA2. It was technically faster to grind with.

I play this game back on gamecube and spend a lot of time on the chao and never knew all the things that you can do with chaos, now these days I have it on my xbox and im hook to it again, looking forward to do many things that I didn't knew back in gamecube, anyways I hope they can bring them back soon enough.

They really announced an open world sonic without mentioning on chao garden

we should make a petition!

I got a modded Gamecube, borrowed my sister's GBA and cleaned off my Sonic Advance GBA cart to find my favorite chao, a Sonic chao named Hope, still kicking. I've had him since I was a child, lost all of my other chao due to formatting (my own fault, messed up when using a JPN Gamecube), and although he isn't an all S rank superstar, he's my most prized possession. I know I couldn't theoretically bring him along on a new installment, but I'd love to see a modern take on the garden, maybe with a Tiny Chao Garden companion app, online racing with friends, that sorta stuff. I just pray they don't ruin it.

a standalone Chao garden would be perfect for the switch

I feel like Sonic was just tired of being a father

1:00 not that they are hidden, you just have to view the stats on the VMU minigame

Two years later and still nothing on the Chao front. Its a shame, chao are incredible but if anyone wants to try something new based on the Chao Gardens, look up Poglings! Its recently finished its kickstarter campaign and blew itss goals out the water. We should get it in a year or two on switch!

Because Sega hates money. Think about a MMO Chao game where you run around looking for animals to collect and raise your Chao, go into other peoples Gardens, multiplayer minigames its simple enough conception to throw on any console don't even need it to be Sonic themed just throw in a some event sonic clothes to dress them up in

they should just make a game about raising Chao

It would be cool if there were a spin off chao garden game where you can take care of chao and you can put in a previous chao by syncing in sa2 or SA1 and sonic advance. New chao breeds: mystic chao can fly and carry mystic rocks called mystic toys.

Great video

i think the reason may be sentient ai isnt a thing yet

In terms of a new game with a Chao Garden, I think we should instead have a Pokémon Home-like approach with a Central Garden that is basically it's own game and a Cloud-Crossplay function and every future game could be developed with a link in mind, to use Chao as Power Up-Sidekicks floating behind you and in return send Rings and other stuff to the Chao-game. That would be awesome and noone would need to begin raising their Chao in the next game from the ground up, like Adventure 1 and 2

I'll be honest and the only reason I played a sonic game is because of the Chao. Honestly I just want a Chao game

I’m glad this video was made

It’ll be interesting to see them go the Pokémon GO route.

Quality content

We made them compete too hard, their little hearts gave out and now theyre extinct. You monsters

Bro chaos in space 2022

that is a good point about the quality of the game needing to be good enough for a chao garden. definitely dont wanna have to replay the recent games over and over just for chao. a standalone chao game could remedy that tho. or just make better sonic games, idk

I also loved the Chao Gardens. When I still had my Dreamcast, I would walk outdoors to have my Chao with me all the times. I even brought it to beach, though obviously would sit in the shade while I was swimming, even when he was Swimmer type-- poor thing 🤣 I really didn't like how the Chao Garden in SA2 was shoehorned in and how it forced you to look for keys to unlock a chance to get into the level. I'm still wondering how the hell can I bring my Chao to the school on the SA2 version on Steam, but the rest of the game was a painful experience just to check if I could get my fix of Chao breeding like in the past. Too bad there are still no news about a SA3 nor a Chao Garden implementation as of 2022...

they should also make them not die. Nothing is worse then coming back years later to your favorite game to hold a funeral session. Especially when you didn't know they could die

I honestly would have love to see how Chao would look like in 06 but it was just a reboot not SA3 so it's understandable

I would love a game just entirely based on Chao garden. Idk how they would do the gameplay loop without the Sonic portion but I will say whenever I think about coming back to a Sonic adventure game, the main thing that interests me is the Chao garden.

"Okay, we need to stretch out the gameplay time for the next Sonic game. Should we add more poorly controlled 2D sections?" "How about the Chao Garden-" "MORE SHITTY 2D SECTION IT IS."

it makes me sad that they won't give us the chao garden in the future games

20 years waiting, get things rolling already, PLEASE, PRETTY CHAO PLEASE

It's now 2022 and we definitely need a new Chao Garden addition

If there's no chao garden in Sonic Frontiers, we riot.

Two years later, almost to the day. The original 4chan leak for Sonic Frontiers (called Sonic Rangers at that time) mentioned a Chao Garden was in the works. Here's hoping!

with sonic frontier coming...Maybe we can have a chao garden? Like...open world game...easily could make collectibles for a chao garden to work

well when they ever announces a Chao garden I'll back it in a heart beat just got sonic on PC and damn I miss raising my chaos

The chao garden is the best sub feature in any game! Lol, good content

Stumbled upon this video while revisiting Sonic Adventure 1 & 2. Sega really loves leaving money on the table don't they? I haven't bought a full priced Sonic game in over a decade because they never brought Chao back. No comparable pet sim exists, and it's a real shame they are both holding out on the demands of fans and failing to capitalize on a massive gap in the gaming market.

I think there should be a Chao that looks like me one day :)

Let’s bring back the Chao garden #MakeSonicGreatAgain

What's even more frustrating is that the VMU functions could easily be put in a companion phone app, with better graphics and better features and even some gameplay, as long as they don't shove in microtransactions. It would offer a deeper experience where players could bond with their chao even when they're away from their consoles and computers.

For 2021, The 30th Anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog should definitely bring back the chao garden. For years people have practically begged and begged for chao to return in it's proper form, and not just a camo or background reference. It's been nearly 20 full years since sonic adventure 2 which was the last game with a proper chao garden, they have teased and teased us with chao animations, hints and little nods recently, the fanbase have practically mastered the chao raising skills and is ready to raise them in a modern game on next-gen with all new features, breeding, stats and more. Lastly, people actually enjoy the sa2 story with sonic and shadow being rivals and everybody hunting for the emeralds to either save or destroy the world, with a plot twist of gerald robotnik and everybody becoming a team to stop the ark station from crashing into earth. Good. It's still one of the hottest sonic topics even today and even myself would give up on everything sonic if the next game features no chao, and that's not a joke... Who agrees? Should sega make a sonic adventure 3 with new story, heroes and villains, next gen graphics and a whole new chao garden? :)

they should release a chao garden game for nintendo switch would look amazing on OLED screen

Good video

I want huge Chao gardens in the next Sonic game, or Chao garden spin off

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