CHAO GARDEN

Sonic adventure 2 has the best side game on its own: Chao garden! You raise these Chaos´ to race, evolve  and make them go to school, amazing. There is this whole website for the chao island and what you can do there and how you can get different evolutions: https://chao-island.com/info-center/life-cycle/evolution. Essentially, it’s a virtual pet simulator where you can raise your Chaos by giving them items to improve their stats which then influences what they are going to evolve to.

You start by going to the Chao Garden and hatching your Chao from an egg! There are different ways to get the Chao to hatch and the best way is to wait but some meanies tend to smash it to the wall to get the Chao to be born, makes me sad. 

In the kindergarten where the fortune-telling house is you can put your tiny baby to do a kindergarten class and your chao can learn to shake some maracas or draw with crayons, it’s so cute. The only way to give a name to your chao is to go to a chao fortune teller who gives the chao a name, which usually is Bongo, Melody or Elvis. In my opinion It’s forbidden to name your chao to something other than Bongo.

You can raise your baby's stats by playing the main game and collecting items raising stats such as flying, running, swimming etc..It’s pretty annoying when your chaos skill level of swimming is 0 and it’s almost constantly drowning. Anyways, you need the stats to race or prevent the drowning, your choice. Chao racing is one of the main points of the Chao Garden section of the game, you can race other chaos and by winning your chao gets a rosette to show off the superiority of it’s skills. 

Evolution, babyy.. It’s kind of complicated and there are many variations. They are sectioned to normal, hero and dark types and then by stats like a swimming type and then how old the chao is.. fff. To save myself from explaining here is a chao viewer where you can see how many possibilities there are available. https://chao-island.com/viewer/

WOW, when I started to write this I didn’t realize how much there is to explain. *INHALE* *EXHALE* There are animals which you can give and create little freaks, they can be better because their stat boosts AND the glorious glitch where the chao absorbs almost infinite numbers of animals if you do it right.

What I am trying to say is.. This part of the game is lit and they are cute I am obsessed with Chaos'...

This post doesn’t make sense anymore so here is my precious Bongo lookalike..