Ranking EVERY Chao Garden (12+ Gardens)

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Sonic Adventure is a platform video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Dreamcast as the first video game to be released for the system. It was originally released for the Dreamcast in 1998, with enhanced ports of the game being released in 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube and in 2004 for Microsoft Windows. It has since been re-released as a downloadable game for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in 2010.
Taking place on a fictional island connected to a city, the game follows the adventures of the protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog. An ancient entity named Chaos is released by series villain Doctor Eggman and plots to steal the seven Chaos Emeralds for the entity. Sonic is joined by his best friend Miles "Tails" Prower, Amy Rose, who views Sonic as her love interest, Knuckles the Echidna, who plans to reassemble the Master Emerald, Big the Cat, a cat who attempts to rescue his frog friend, and E-102 Gamma, one of Eggman's robots.
Sonic Adventure received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the game's graphics, gameplay, and soundtrack. The game would later go on to become the best-selling Dreamcast game. A sequel, titled Sonic Adventure 2, was released in 2001 for the Dreamcast. -Wikipedia
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[@nay_oh_mi]

The SA2 regular Chao garden has been my phone background for years. It's a peaceful place for my apps to live and roam.

[@CrookGerards]

if you transfer a chao from tiny chao garden to an adventure game it will know how to walk even with no upgrades or stats in run skill

[@Choa]

Wow did not know that!

[@BinglesP]

Imagine wanting to NOT have sprites of the chao crawling _so badly_ that you make it a cross-device transfer bonus that they just automatically learn how to walk when you transfer them 💀

[@CrookGerards]

Its just a thing. Im sure some people would like that. For me if it can crawl it can brawl!

[@OneManFlashMob182]

Fun fact: you actually CAN drown in the more “recent” chao gardens! Tails is short enough that in the hero garden he can drown if he sits still in the water for long enough!

[@Pogal]

I swear that only worked on dreamcast. I'm sure I would have done it if not :P

[@OneManFlashMob182]

@@Pogal I’m 99.9% sure you can on the GameCube release, because i swear i remember doing it when i was younger and i never had the Dreamcast version

[@Pogal]

@@OneManFlashMob182 That's so strange. Tails was my favourite character to play in the chao garden and I never did it.

[@keirii6003]

@@OneManFlashMob182 Only on Dreamcast, tested.

[@thehatman7051]

@@OneManFlashMob182 IIRC they made all the water in the Chao gardens shallower in battle to make it harder for tails to drown, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was still possible in some spots. Still not sure why on-foot tails was programmed to drown at all considering you never use him in an actual level

[@donnaabbott2079]

Of all people to show you how you can try to cage a chao, its wallace 7:56

[@ThirdDimensionalBeing]

Honestly id even be happy with a new chao mobile game.

[@e2011ugdia]

There IS but IT doesent have Hero Nor DARK Chao and you can only have one Chao and the Training are minigames

[@cruelcimmcia859]

@@e2011ugdia what’s it called!

[@AFJVV]

@@cruelcimmcia859 pocket chao garden

[@BinglesP]

I wish it existed, especially for iOS. I've been having a little bit of fun with Pou but I wish my Pou was a chao

[@Ben-gj6fk]

I had no idea there were alternate hero/dark gardens on the Dreamcast. The GameCube dark garden always disappointed me and I never used it. The Dreamcast version looks amazing

[@surfperch8943]

You forgot about the Chao Garden in Sonic Chronicles; sure it's an instant E rank with how basic it is, but it would still be pretty funny seeing it ranked alongside the others.

[@robynslater95]

I think he didnt rank it because it wasnt made by sega

[@andygiraldo7898]

@@robynslater95 nor was tiny chao garden

[@robynslater95]

@@andygiraldo7898 12:42

[@zenvariety9383]

The Chao Garden in Sonic Chronicles was view only. Chao were mere power-ups that function similar to badges. Yet Chao acting as power-ups would be cool.

[@GutsyMacGamer]

I'd say the dreamcast version of the egg carrier would be best suitable for swim type chao

[@IronWaffles]

I love playing the actual Sonic Adventure DC Chao Garden. It's very basic but it's really charming and ridiculously easy to get a Chaos Chao out of with the VMU.

[@Emberson-9000]

Thing about the Tiny Chao Garden is that its a means to an end more than its own thing. It lets you grind out some more levels for your chao on the go, and it offers exclusive items as a bonus not unlike getting the bonus features for Metroid Prime by linking up Metroid Fusion. As a garden? Meh. As a way to unlock bonuses and take your favorite Chao with you to level up? Its great!

[@MrsIggyKirkland]

From what I remember, you can't throw chao off the mystic ruins DC version. I believe there's an invisible wall for them, but it's been a while since I've played the Dreamcast games.

[@mrdonutswildride7808]

No, you can. I did it many years (like 20ish) ago. It think it destroys the chao because I did it to the one egg that spawned there. It spawned a new egg after I checked if the chao respawned where the player does and then left and came back in.

[@sammcburney148]

Mystic ruins garden is my favorite of them all. I just love the look

[@LobotomyTC]

Since you asked. the Dreamcast version of the Mystic Ruins Garden straight up kills you. You respawn at the minecart.

[@WaterKirby1994]

GameCube does the same thing, not sure about the later versions.

[@robonaught]

@@WaterKirby1994 Gamecube added an invisible wall so you can't jump over the fence. So I don't know what your talking about.

[@casev799]

I've always spent 98% of my time in the nuetral garden, but If I had the DC versions of the other two, I woulda used then more. Also Like #60

[@LeiosLabs]

Yeah, tiny chao garden is my favorite so I don't have to play the stages. I got a bunch of lvl 99 chao there. It's fun because when you transfer them to the gamecube for the races, they are still in their baby forms.

[@whitesonicsuper953]

Fun fact: in tiny chao garden, in Sonic Pinball Party, chao can swim. (Also in advance 2, I completely forgot about that.)

[@andygiraldo7898]

Also in advance 2

[@whitesonicsuper953]

@@andygiraldo7898 *Also in advance 2. (Thanks)

[@Hyde_Lawrence]

You do such a great work that i'm here hooked for 15 minutes watching a tier list of a game that i've never played lmao. I hope one day I can start my chao garden and follow some of your tips

[@LumbagoV1ct1im247]

7:56 as a brit, i was so caught off-guard by wallace

[@TheRealMightyEmperor]

Loved the video, Dreamcast hero garden is basically the only one I use

[@MO-zk8qs]

I really appreciate your channel!

[@supermatteobros4459]

Nice picks on the gardens

[@Whidoyt1real]

I love chao maps❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Yaboialloy]

hero garden no matter the version is like my exact aesthetic im in love

[@jillian5394]

I've never seen the dream cast gardens. They're so cutesy and basic lol

[@foulestset60928]

Fun fact: Chao Garden HAD A VERY HIGH CHANCE to be on official roblox sonic game, files for the kindergarten are in sonic speed simulator for a half of year now, but, sadly it was never used. I just hope they didn't cut chao garden because I love this feature...

[@SuperApplefox]

GREAT VIDEO

[@rockinslugz]

A Sega Chao Garden mobile game is such a good idea, now I want that

[@VitoYedda]

You're so right about a chao garden mobile game, sadly Nintendo is too busy hurrassing their player base to do anything descent these days..

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

Nintendo?!

[@QvartzEDM]

idk if it's valid to say the Dreamcast gardens look graphically subpar when you are running them through the SADX port that messed up all the lighting. They look a lot better on the OG hardware.

[@infernape100]

what sega should do >Release a new sonic game with a chao garden, but... >Free app, with in-app purchases that HAS the chao garden for on the go, so if you're not at home you can raise your chao and transfer it back to main game. The app has extra eggs, costumes, etc that you can either pay with real money or coins in game...or buy coins in shop. A companion app would do wonders.

[@orngevods]

Your Jewel Chao looks so pretty in your SA2 game! Are you using a specific mod for it?

[@kenzooie]

My fav is the dark cave!

[@Choa]

[@e2011ugdia]

​@@Choa Rank Rank Rank S S S

[@shinyshinx789]

One cool thing about the tiny chao garden is that (i am quite sure) the eggs that you buy from there are born with better stats than usual.

[@kittyiscanon]

HELP THE WALLACE AND GROMIT SKIN SCARED ME 8 MINUTES IN

[@robonaught]

I never liked the SA1 DC gardens. Now Station Square garden is okay but sometimes the Chao get stuck on the fountain area and behind the VMU transport machine which makes them unreachable. Mystic Ruins garden suffered from an annoying glitch where sometimes Chao would spawn inside the ruins or the giant rock making them unreachable so you had to exit and re-enter hoping they'll spawn somewhere else so glad they fixed this glitch in the DX version. Also yes you could flat out jump over the cliff fence and die. Egg Carrier garden with the water being far too deep not did this make Chao unreachable if they swam out too far unless you knocked them to the shore by attacking them (which you don't want as Chao can die very fast from abuse in SA1 DC) but the animals also had a habit of walking into the water where they fall past a barrier making them unreachable and thereby wasting them. Heck if you had 10 animals 2 automatically get tossed in the water due to the spawning point and the direction the animals launch out of the character is always the same. And you can't just exit and re-enter because animals vanish the minute you exit regardless if they were used yet or not on DC forcing you to go back and get more from a stage.

[@cloud09gaming]

One thing I want to mention. As I recall, you do not need the Sonic Advance game to get to the Tiny Chao garden. I never got the Advance series on GBA, but I was still able to transfer, use and collect items that were in the TCG all the same. Now of course there was no way to directly save to anything without transferring the Chao back to the GC since there was no game, but I definitely remember doing a little bit to get the few items from the GBA that were not buyable in the GC alone for my Chao. All that said, maybe I'm completely wrong. I do have an action replay for the GameCube so maybe that was the reason instead? I could probably go over and test to see before I type all this out too lol but I'm like 90% sure my memory is correct.

[@clarences.2877]

I didn't have sonic advance but I could use the tiny garden with my GBA, no action replay! Haha I remember I bought a silver chao because it was the most expensive I could afford and the batteries were running down. I think that was the only jewel chao I managed to nab on old hardware.

[@wakkaseta8351]

You're remembering correctly. The Gameboy Advance era had a lot of instances where you could just straight up download truncated versions of games onto the system to play for a bit if you linked it to a gamecube game or conected with someone with the physical copy of the game.

[@artey6671]

The Chao garden is about half of my childhood. The music, the absurdly complicated systems, the grinding for animals, the races, it's just all from a time that probably won't come back. For the tiny Chao garden on GBA, it's a little strange. The rubber duck always swims into the corner over time and there are ridiculously expensive eggs like at 14:21, but they vanish before anyone can reasonably acquire enough rings. My Chao has maxed out stats there, but sadly they can't evolve, making it kind of pointless without the Gamecube gardens. I played the Sega Superstars Chao garden ages ago and from what I remember it was fine, but I really don't know much about it anymore. The EyeToy camera is also not very reliable in my experience. And of course, there are the Chao gardens in Sonic Chronicles and Shadow the Hedgehog, but you can be forgiven for omitting them.

[@chaofan106]

Are you able to get the gold and silver chao eggs through the sonic advance tiny chao garden to transfer over to sa2?

[@gustavomartins364]

The battle content is dlc on modern releases, so i saw a dreamcast dark garden mod when i was kid and thougth was from the dlc.

[@Stormeko]

Is that what the Hero Garden in SA2B Steam version looks like? The Dark Garden is slightly different too! It's slightly different from the GC version! That was interesting to see! Or is that one of the mods?

[@KxNGFeel]

Bro said cho wha

[@Tjprower]

There's also the chao gardens in Sonic Advance 3, as well as in Sonic and the Dark Brotherhood, though, they are way less intractable.

[@beatziegraham6928]

How could you miss the Sega Superstars Chao Garden?

[@Choa]

You must have missed the part where i talked about it

[@mawdewile]

I would assume the Chao Garden from Sonic Chronicles would be in its own tier below E

[@Danny_Boii02]

Had the modern gardens had the design and ambitions of the earlier DC gardens while retaining their upgraded quality, we would've been golden. Of course I'm thankful for the mere existence of the product regardless, but there really were a lot of low hanging fruit easily missed. Hearing you mention the DX Dark Garden as the "last garden" hurt.....when will they give us back the treasured relic we've wanted? (I miss my old chao)

[@biohazardbin]

yeah that's cool, now rank the Chronicles Garden 😈

[@BobbyHillHyperTails18]

in the DC mystic ruins garden you can jump off the cliff and throw chao but i think they just disappear if you throw them

[@wavesworld2o3]

Neutral garden C tier and hero garden A tier is crazy

[@NylonBrony]

I'm not sure if its cause its modded or what, but that Hero Garden from SA2B is a bit different to the original... The pillar in the back @10:06 should be fallen over. I'd always stick my chao behind it when i wanted to level them quickly with the animal/drive glitch.

[@fernando98322]

If SA2B's Dark Garden had gotten that hill and secret cave inside, I might have passed more time there than in the Hero Garden!

[@kittengamer3609]

Should I not buy sa2b for my PC because I have the old Hero Garden and I spend the most time in Hero garden

[@wakkaseta8351]

There was in fact no barrier in the Mystic Ruins garden in the DC release, and If I remember correctly, you actually lost lives if you jumped off.

[@robonaught]

Yeah you could just jump straight over the fence and die in that version. I think you could also throw Chao over the fence too. Not sure if they just re spawned or flat out die never to return.

[@jesusbarrera6916]

please do make a ranking of mods or CHAO garden mods.... there's not exactly a lot of content on that nice video

[@DerFalke86]

SADX neutral garden on D tear uff that hurts in my opinion its THE garden i grew up with this one and i wasnt able to play sa2b til 3 years ago cause my parents allways said they are short and dont even know where to find this old game so seeing the SA2B garden and the physics n everything is so unusual for me that i rather tend to play SADX for the chao garden

[@marialinares4201]

Hey choa what do the emblems do in sonic heroes

[@robonaught]

They unlock the different modes in Multiplayer

[@Cowgirlthefirst]

I still have a gamecube and I play on it :)

[@eeveefennecfox]

why did they get rid of the extra things in adventure 2 battle? I feel ripped off now

[@StarlessTheAndroidYT]

What do the emblems do sonic heroes

[@Pepperknight341]

I noticed your SA2B Hero Garden is modded.

[@unphadableresilience91]

I wish Sega Dreamcast withstood the test of time. The mechanics aren't the same on any other system.

[@richardgamin5883]

Woah, so Eggman has his own Chao Garden?:o

[@Choa]

[@gustavomartins364]

I used to be scared pf the dark Garden.

[@e2011ugdia]

What did you get sa2 at 5 years old or something?

[@DanielVega-nm2wz]

so no mention of the chao VMU game?

[@robonaught]

That's not a Chao garden so it doesn't count

Add a chao garden in sonic speed sim.

[@AFJVV]

Compare also chao adventure

[@theconnorthatusedtoreactto6283]

My weird ass ranking 13. Gba Chao garden (Sa2) 12. Mystic ruins Garden (Sadx) 11. Mystic ruins Garden (Sa1) 10. Station Square Garden (Sa1) 9. Dark garden (Sa2b) 8. Station Square Garden (Sadx) 7. Dark Garden 6. Regular Garden (Sa2b) 5. Regular Garden (Sa2) 4. Egg Carrier Garden (Sadx) 3. Hero Garden (Sa2b) 2. Egg carrier Garden (Sa1) 1. Hero Garden (Sa2) Nothing to say other then the dreamcast version is better than the remakes Also yes you can hara kiri yourself of the cliff in the dreamcast Mystic ruins Garden and also your chao gets sucked back into the garden so you Can't throw them of the cliff

[@azuraslegs]

The SA2 (dc) normal garden that you showed is NOT indicative of what the actual garden looks like in the original game. The trees are wrong, the grass texture is wrong, the cave entrance actually glows in the original game and not sa2b, and I'm pretty sure there are no flowers either. Edit: just double checked, and yes, there were only 2 trees by default, and no flowers

[@Choa]

Yes, you are correct about the trees and flowers but everything else is exactly the same as sa2b which is why I ranked them together :)

[@J4MJ4M5]

Did u forget the sa2b neutral garden? It must be the exact same for it not to be included

[@Choa]

Yes, I ranked the sa2b and sa2 version together

[@moana_skellington]

Chao Chao Chao Chao

[@moana_skellington]

CHAO CHAO 🎉

[@tomgrimard8075]

Hmmm, ok I wouldn't play a chao game on the cellphone...Unless it's compatible with a game on the switch, kind of like how they did Crystal Chronicles playable with a cellphone for multiplayer

[@SuperGamefreak18]

late to the party but do you know what makes the whole chao garden thing worse...them trying to force wisp down your throat for a full decade...id say something about the cocos but they are something different.

[@Theregulersonicfan]

But chao can fly

[@cherbycontreras5396]

i know no one cares but there is one in chronicles

[@mightymadness5355]

DO NOT EVER MENTION THE WORST ROBLOX SONIC GAME EVER MADE LIKE YOU DID HERE!

[@sonic-bb]

i like, heavily disagree with you. Personally, i find the gamecube remakes to be better than the dreamcast gardens

[@robonaught]

I will admit I like the SA2 DC gardens (aside from poor Tails drowning in the Hero Garden) but indeed the SA1 DC gardens are shit. DC Station Square garden is okay though but DC Mystic Ruins and Egg Carrier gardens SUCK! Mystic Ruins had an annoying habit of making Chao spawn inside the giant rock making them unreachable unless you exit and re-entered the garden. Not to mention you can just jump straight over the fence and die as there's no invisible barrier. Egg Carrier garden the water is way too deep meaning you can't reach Chao if they swim out too far unless you straight up attack them to knock and bounce them to the shore (which is bad cuz Chao die way too easily from abuse in SA1 DC). Animals would also walk and fall into the water past a point where they are unreachable thus wasting them. So glad they fixed all this BS in the DX version.

[@sonic-bb]

@@robonaught agreed 😌

[@robonaught]

@@sonic-bb To be honest raising Chao on Dreamcast just sucks in general. You need a VMU to do nearly everything to properly raise Chao like all the special fruits, naming them and seeing their stats. SA2 its impossible to raise Luck and Intelligence without a VMU. SA1 was even worse as Chao die way too easily due to a HP stat which was what was keeping your chao alive. Hit them too much they die. Don't feed them every like 15 seconds they die. Don't feed them they hatch after reincarnating they die! Even Chaos Chao can just die making them worthless. Don't get me started how they would cry tantrums for food a lot more and how annoying the sounds of their crying is (some would freaking cry the minute they hatched!) Also SA1 DC had a bug with the time passing in the gardens. Time is only supposed to pass when in a garden and only in the garden you are in but this bug made time pass in gardens your not in so I had chao evolve, die or reincarnate in gardens I currently wasn't in.