Choro Q Wonderful! (チョロQワンダフォー!) is a 1999 role-playing and racing video game for the PlayStation, developed by E-game and published by Takara. It is the successor to the Tamsoft-developed Choro Q 3 and hence the third sequel to Penny Racers (1996); the "Wonderful" name in its title, in Japanese pronunciation, is a pun on "four". An English-language fan translation was released in 2023.[1]

Choro Q Wonderful!
Developer(s)E-game
Publisher(s)Takara
Director(s)Etsuhiro Wada
Producer(s)Takeshi Ikenoue
Composer(s)Fumio Tanabe
SeriesChoro Q
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
  • JP: August 5, 1999
Genre(s)Racing

Gameplay

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Gameplay screenshot showing a dialog between the player car and another character

Choro Q Wonderful! was the first Choro Q video game to incorporate plot-based progression with role-playing elements.[2]

Reception and legacy

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Famitsu scored the game 26 out of 40.[3] In an import review, PLAY UK magazine scored it 66% calling it "not wonderful, just plain dull...".[4]

In 2002, E-game and Takara produced Road Trip Adventure on the PlayStation 2 which was localized globally, with a similar racing-RPG concept.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Rejuvenate The Soul". Kotaku. 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  2. ^ "Choro Q Wonderful!". Kotaku. 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  3. ^ "チョロQ ワンダフォー! まとめ [PS] / ファミ通.com". 2018-07-30. Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  4. ^ Paragon Publishing (May 2000). PLAY UK Issue 062.
  5. ^ Virtue, Graeme (2014-10-26). "Road Trip Adventure is a refreshingly laidback RPG". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 2024-10-24.