Sonic's Chao Garden Resurrected In Adorable & Nostalgic Fan Game

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A Sonic The Hedgehog fan has used Dreams to recreate the adorable Chao Garden from the Sonic Adventure games. A surprisingly popular side activity in the Dreamcast-era Sonic games involved raising the cute little blue creatures that roamed in these virtual gardens, using various fruits, animals, and power cells collected through the made adventure to increase their stats as they grew and evolved. Players could also have their Chao compete in minigames like races and karate matches against other critters for prizes, and could even take them on the go with them using the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in the GameCube remakes of the Sonic Adventure games.

The Chao Garden feature vanished from Sonic games following 2001’s Sonic Adventure 2, and the Chao themselves have been seeing somewhat less screentime and focus throughout Sonic’s later titles. However, the lovable little creatures have been seeing a comeback in tie-in Sonic media over the past few years, including a wholesome Chao-filled web animation in 2019. This has led fans to start requesting that Sega bring back the old Chao Garden in a future Sonic game like the upcoming Sonic Frontiers.

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Reddit user Style-Z has shared a cute video of a Sonic Chao fan game created in Dreams(via GameRant). The game is more or less a modern remake of the old Chao Garden of the Adventure era, with an added feature that lets players take direct control of their Chao and alter its stats based on how they play in real-time. The minigame is part of a larger Dreams-generated Sonic fan game titled Sonic Style, where players can explore as Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles. Players can collect Chaos Drives that they can use