From TheBestLinks.com
fr:Chocobo
A Chocobo is a large fictional ostrich-like animal first featured in Final Fantasy II and then in all the following games of the Final Fantasy series of video games and its merchandise. Wild Chocobos can be captured and ridden and used as a form of transport over otherwise unaccessible terrain, usually escaping after the player dismounts. One exception occurs in Final Fantasy VII; when you rent stables from the Chocobo Farm, Chocobos can be sent there, and if you take them from the stables to ride, they will not escape when you dismount. When riding a Chocobo, random battle encounters can be avoided. Most Chocobos are large, bright yellow and fluffy, making sounds such as meeps, kwehs, cues or warks. These yellow chocobos are capable of running very fast over level terrain but they cannot submerge underwater or fly.
In Final Fantasy VII you are able to find, capture in battle, and breed more advanced Chocobos. The obvious goal in breeding and raising chocobos is to improve their performance in racing at Gold Saucer. Chocobos are also used to support gambling through the Chocobo Races. The rumored goal in breeding chocobos is to produce a chocobo of a different color, which allows the player to traverse terrains to areas otherwise innaccessible even with the airship, such as materia caves requiring one to traverse mountains, shallow water, and the ocean.
Domesticated Chocobos in Final Fantasy Tactics are used much like cavalry, as a means of faster transportation. Wild Chocobos are monsters that players would slay in battle, but can be bought under one's control with the proper Job and Ability.
A spin-off series, Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon, also features Chocobos.
Another spin-off is Chocobo Racing, which is sort of a Super Mario Kart game, FF style, except for possibly the way the programers devised who are playable characters.
A Chocobo also appeared in Seiken Densetsu 1, but later changed into a Chocobot. It was taken out in the 2003 remake, Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana in the United States), in favor of the Cannon Ball Travel, which originated in Secret of Mana.
Related links
Top visited
0 of
0 links
[no links posted yet]
>> place link >>
Discussion
Last posted
0 of
0 messages
[no messages posted yet]
>> post message >>
Watch
You can
add this article to your own "watchlist" and receive e-mail notification about all changes in this page.
