I just stared at the screen dumb founded, wondering what I had done wrong. I chose yes, seeing no flaw in my plan upon which my character jumped off the cliff to his untimely death, booting me back to the title screen. Upon investigating the cliff, I was asked if I’d like to jump off it. One of the key moments that clicked for me was early on when I encountered a cliff in town. When I came across Chulip, I had no clue what I was going into and it had been a while since I had played an old fashion game. However, the gameplay is a pretty big reason I found this game so appealing. Now, I know I’ve spent most of this article simply telling you how the game plays and not exactly what makes this game worth a recommendation. Meanwhile, the regular townsfolk are somewhat more straight forward, requiring you to piece together what is troubling them by finding clues around town before they let you smooch them. You’ll want to check it quite frequently. That’s where the instructional manual that comes in. Now, what makes them happy varies and can at times be very obscure. The underground residents can sometimes range in how difficult they are to smooch, but have the following basic rule: if they are happy and thus have song notes around their head, you can kiss them successfully. The more story based townsfolk and the more self-contained underground residents. Thankfully, you have two types of townsfolk you are aiming to smooch. This health is important because on your path to kissing the more difficult folks in this world, you are going to get hurt. Each time you level up, you’ll gain more health. In his quest to become a man among men, your character will level up at times after successfully kissing an ever increasing amount of people. Still, you aren’t totally helpless in this world. Almost all of them with the power to instantly kill you, sending you back to the title screen without as much as a checkpoint or quick save. Again calling back to many older titles, there are quite a number of things that want you dead in this game. You see, the world of Chulip is a dangerous world. That’s where the bread & butter of Chulip’s gameplay comes in. People don’t always want to kiss you even if you want to kiss them, as is the way in real life. Heck, there’s even a dedicated button to kissing. Still, there is something nice about how straight forward it all is. What’s a guy to do? Well, improve both his people and smooching skills of course! That’s right the point of this game is to kiss your way through a whole community of oddball characters to eventually win over your dream girl.ĭefinitely not your average premise for a game, but still rather reminiscent of some of the strange narratives many earlier Japanese titles had during the NES and early PS1 eras. However, she’s not quite convinced that you are the man for her. Almost immediately after moving in, your character meets the girl of his dreams and makes it his goal to win her over. You play the role of a young lad who has just moved into town with his rather poor father. But to overlook Chulip and have it remain in the shadows forever would be a crime.Ĭhulip starts off with a fairly basic and almost classical premise. I’ll admit this game isn’t for everyone despite this being my Game Recommendations column. This quirky and oddball title is a throwback to many old NES and PC games that practically depended on the instruction manual to complete despite being rather straight forward in their goal. We have ourselves yet another obscure title in Game Recommendations this week: Chulip on the PS2.

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