It needs to be fed and brushed occasionally, especially after outings. Adult (Approximately 260 - 400 hours): The chocobo could be equipped, bred, and sent to towers.It needed to be fed and brushed occasionally. Chick (Approximately 24 - 60 hours): The chocobo is growing into an adult.The player could brush the egg, but it didn't have much effect. The player couldn't do anything with the chocobo yet, apart from renaming them from the status screen. Egg (Approximately 4 - 20 minutes): The chocobo is getting ready to hatch.Special items in the shop could be purchased with "Chocopoints", which had to be bought with real money.īelow is the list of each stage in a chocobo's life, the length of the stage, and what is available during that time: Gil and golden feathers were awarded when the player's Breeder Rank increased. Gil (and an assortment of gysahl greens) was awarded to the player if they logged into the game on each consecutive day, in what was known as a "daily login bonus". Each day the shop had a new item at a reduced price on display, which could be bought once. From the same shop, players could also buy gysahl greens and equipment/battle gear for their chocobo(s). In addition to these features, players could customize the farm their chocobos live on by purchasing different objects and backgrounds from the shop using gil. Ways for the player to earn experience included brushing and feeding their chocobo, brushing and feeding other players' chocobos, placing feathers on other players' chocobos and clearing towers. If the bar was filled up, the player's Breeder Rank was increased by one. As the chocobo grew, the player was awarded with achievement trophies and experience points, the latter of which slowly filled up an EXP bar at the top of the screen. The player's role was to ensure that a chocobo reaches adulthood so that it can be sent into one of the many towers to vanquish the monsters inside and claim whatever treasures it may find. The player could have more than one chocobo on the farm at one time. After a set period of time, the egg hatched into a chocobo chick. To begin raising a chocobo, the player had to place an egg into the provided nest (the player could unlock more nests when they progressed through the game).
Shopkeepers, such as Botteli, sell greens to feed the chocobos.Ĭharacter growth revolved around the player visiting their chocobo(s) on a regular basis and feeding them the various color Gysahl Greens raise their stats, and brushing their feathers to keep them clean. The program was a success, and novice royal chocobo breeders have since come in droves to breed and train the chocobos to continue their quest to destroy the towers.Įlena Xequs, one of the royal chocobo breeders, trains novices in the breeding program. This chocobo, Boco, was hailed as a national hero of Enisque, and since then, the kingdom of Enisque started a chocobo breeding program, sending chocobos into the tower one after another.
It had ventured inside and vanquished the monsters within, because the tower was silent. One day, a chocobo emerged from one of the towers, heavily wounded. Many adventurers tried to destroy the monsters and the towers, but a black curse left by Evilzard before his death prevented them. Monsters crawled out of the towers, spreading fear. The Meteor shards fell across the land, spawning an intricate network of towers and dungeons. An evil wizard called Evilzard had summoned the Meteor of the Apocalypse, but a brave hero shattered the Meteor and save the world.