Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder

Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder, known as Chibi-Robo! Let’s Go, Photo! in Europe and Australia, is a video game for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console via the Nintendo eShop. It is the fourth installment in Chibi-Robo! game series developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo. In the beginning, Chibi-Robo appears in a ventilation system within a museum, with a semi-glowing red button in front of him. After pressing it, a trap door goes off in the floor, and Chibi-Robo falls through. He lands in the Curator’s office, where he meets the Curator and a cell phone-like robot Telly, who is Chibi-Robo’s manager.

The Curator explains Chibi-Robo’s purpose to collect photos called NostalJunk using silhouette film to help increase the museum’s popularity. While performing this task, Chibi-Robo meets living toys and objects around the museum and helps them with their duties in exchange for silhouette film. At one point, the Curator is asked to speak in front of an audience (which doesn’t go well due to his stage fright) and later decides to write a book about his museum. In the end, the museum becomes a thrilling success, with the Curator giving Chibi-Robo credit for his efforts.

Unlike past entries in the series, Photo Finder doesn’t focus on cleaning or performing helpful tasks, but rather, a brand-new mechanic that involves the 3DS’s augmented reality capabilities. The game revolves around collecting everyday objects, known as NostalJunk, and placing them on display in a museum. The game still has cleaning functions, as with Chibi-Robo: Plug Into Adventure! and Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol, but Photo Finder turns said cleaning sections into missions Chibi-Robo can access at any time using the Chibi-PC.

These missions are jobs that several of the supporting characters send via email, and include cleaning out a garage, or blasting wasabi into various sushi on a conveyor belt. The player is awarded Happy Points based on performance, which function once again as the game’s currency. Happy Points can then in turn be traded in for silhouette films that show outlines of household objects, which can be purchased from the shop, which can also be accessed from the Chibi-PC.