#2 Did you know that: Chocobos

Hi here we are again which some FF info. Final fantasy has brought us a lot of monsters, characters, races and names. Most of them came up just form the imagination of some people, while other came from very interesting stories, cultures, legends and life itself. This topics will help us know a little more about our beloved final fantasy game ;).

This time we will feature: The Amazing Chocobos!!(info extracted form wikipedia, angelfire and other sources).

Whats a Chocobo??

Well a chocobo is something like KC, well....maybe a bit different :oops:..Ok, ok ..Its a fictional large, normally flightless galliforme/ratite bird capable of being ridden and is a staple of the Final Fantasy series. While ordinary Chocobos are yellow, certain rare breeds are of different colors and have special abilities, such as crossing mountains or flight. An even rarer, more extreme variant is the Fat Chocobo (or Chubby Chocobo), which resembles a morbidly obese yellow or white chocobo and can humorously stock the party's items in its stomach or appear randomly when summoning a chocobo in battle. Chocobos have occasionally been sighted as lightly armored war mounts in which case they can assist their riders with beak and claw. Overall, the species is a very versatile and useful bird, which comes in handy as horses are untamed or non-existent in Final Fantasy games.

They have been known to have various cries throughout the series. The earliest games had them crying "Cooc Cooc," the newer games had them crying "Wark," and the newest games have them crying "Kweh".

Creation and Influence

The chocobo was created by Koichi Ishii, a video game director who worked on various Final Fantasy titles. A basis for Chocobos was Kyoro-chan, a character in TV advertisements for Morinaga & Company's chocolate candy (who also has its own anime series), Chocoball , having in common with the Chocobo that it is a bird with the call of "Kweh". Morinaga has also released a tie-in product Chocobo no Chocoball (Chocobo's Chocoball). The Chocobo design is said to be based off of Hayao Miyazaki's Horseclaws, which appear in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

The Chocobo signature theme is an immediately recognizable upbeat ditty that is present in one form or another in all Final Fantasy games since Final Fantasy II, frequently as variants or remixes: for instance, the Final Fantasy VII Chocobo races have a frantic version, while the futuristic and relatively realistic Final Fantasy VIII has a more modern one. It is titled with the suffix "de Chocobo," and is prefixed by the name of the game it is played in. For example "Techno de Chocobo" from Final Fantasy VI features a dance remix, while "Cinco de Chocobo" from Final Fantasy VII features a jazz remix (in 5/4 time, 'Cinco' being Spanish for the number 5). A new version of the theme titled "Swing de Chocobo" was created by Nobuo Uematsu for the concerts titled VOICES and Play! and was performed by a number of different orchestras between 2005 and 2007.

Types of Chocobos

Generally, in Final Fantasy titles, if there is any difference at all in the abilities or disposition of a chocobo, it is based upon their color and one might assume implied race. Below are a list of traditional colors for chocobos, where they appear, and what that means in terms of their abilities if anything.

Black Chocobo

Black Chocobos are rare and they are, with gold, the only type of Chocobo that can fly. They can only land in forests. They first appear in Final Fantasy IV, and they cannot fly over mountains. When mounted a second time, they automotically fly Cecil and his friends back to the forest near Toroia, the only forest in which they can be found. A Chocobo farm near Toroia raises Black Chocobos, however, these versions cannot fly. In Final Fantasy V, Black Chocobos can fly over mountains as well, however, they cannot fly over tall, snow capped ranges. A Black Chocobo is found in a forest near Crescent, and has two Job Crystals stuck in it. These include the Hunter and Bard. A Black Chocobo can also be found in Mirage Village, and riding the Black Chocobo is the only way to reach the Phoenix Tower. In Final Fantasy VII Black Chocobos can walk over mountains and across rivers, but cannot fly. They are bred by mating a Blue and a Green chocobo with a Carob Nut. In Final Fantasy XII, they wander the Ozmone Plains, and will attack anyone on sight.

Blue Chocobo

Blue Chocobos appear in Final Fantasy VII, in which they can cross rivers, and in Final Fantasy IX, in which they can cross oceans. Lighter blue Chocobos can only cross shallow water.

Green Chocobos

The Green Chocobo appears in Final Fantasy VII, and can be used to cross mountains. In Final Fantasy XII they appear in the Salikawood, usually sleeping

Gold Chocobo

Gold Chocobos first appeared in FFVII and cross all terrain, including oceans. They appeare in FFIX, and can fly. Like its predecessors in FFIV and FFV, they can only land in forests. :?

Fat Chocobo

As a girl in FFIII said: Fat Chocobo can store items in its belly! isnt that hilarious? And Slighty disturbing?.

Well it sure is:P. Also known as the Big Chocobo in FFIV, the Fat Chocobo ia a large and hefty CHocobo. Its first appearences was in FFIII, he can only be summoned bya a Carrot (or Gysahl Green in the DS ver.) in some specific areas. These areas generally appear in Chocobo towns and also in the Invincible, the final airship earned in this game (hope this is not a spoiler :P). Once summoned he will store items in its belly for the party.

In FFIV he fulfills the same role, appearing in Chocbo foress mostly but there is also such an area in Dwarves Castle. A Big Cochobo can also be found on The Big Whale.

The Fat Chocobo appears as random summon in FFV and FFVII, as well on Triple Triad card in FFVIII. It also appears in FFIX in Chocobos Paradise.

In FF Tactics, he is mentioned in the treasure Chocbo Cannon, whcich gets a Fat Chocobo to drink gun powder to fire like a cannon. As it rarely hits, I see no practical use :P.

Triple Triad

The Chubby Chocobo is a Level 8 Card.It has no elemental attribute. 1 Card can be refined into 100 LuvLuvGs. To obtain: Win a card game against a male student outside the Balamb Garden Library.

Red Chocobo

Red Chocobos are the fastest type of Chocobo in Final Fantasy Tactics, and are known for their powerful Choco Meteor' attack. They also appear in Final Fantasy IX, in which they can cross mountains. In Final Fantasy XII, they appear on the Ozmone Plains, and if players fulfil certain conditions, a level 99 one will appear. This special chocobo will always drop a Ribbon. Red Chochobos are mentioned, although not seen, in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, as the Gotor Sands area is "famous for its mirages and red Chocobos.

White Chocobo

In Final Fantasy IV, the White Chocobo recovers the MP of Cecil's party. In Final Fantasy VII, it is found in the small town of Mideel and is the source of the Contain materia. A white Chocobo can also appear as an opponent in Gold Saucer's Chocobo Racing. In Final Fantasy XII, the Elite Mark Trickster is a giant white chocobo.

Brown Chocobo

From Final Fantasy XII, this dull Chocobo can be found in the Salikawood, sleeping, and just generally ignoring the player party.(couldnt find a nice image :P)

Appearences

Final Fantasy II

Chocobos are found inside Chocobo Forests, near Kashuan Keep. After dismounting, they return back to the forest

Final Fantasy III

Fat Chocobo stores items when given a Gysahl Green. He can only be summoned in places that smell of Chocobo.

A Chocobo can also be summoned, learned from the Level 1 Summon Magic spell Escape.

• Chocobo Dash: allows the party to escape battle.
• Chocobo Kick: deals damage based on the difference in level between target and caster.

Final Fantasy IV

Chocobos can be found in Chocobo Forests situated throughout the world. They come in several varieties. The regular Chocobos can be used to travel around the world normally. They run away after each dismount. White Chocobos recover the MP of the entire party when they are approached. The Black Chocobo, found only in the forest north of Toroia, is a flying chocobo, however, it can only land in forests. Black Chocobos do not run away after a dismount, however, when they are mounted for the second time, they always fly back to the forest near Toroia. Finally, there is a Big Chocobo who can store items for the party. In order for the Big Chocobo to appear, the party must use a Carrot, or in other versions, Gysahl Greens at a place where it "Smells like Chocobos!" The Chocobo also appears as a Summon for Rydia.

Final Fantasy V

Bartz Klauser owns Boco, arguably the most famous Chocobo in the series. Boco is left behind at the Pirates Cove for most of the game, however, upon reaching the Third World, Boco rejoins Bartz and apparently got married with a Chocobo called Koko and had children with her. Bartz can then ride Boco around the world. Boco does not run away upon dismounting. There are several side quests involving Boco.

The Black Chocobo appears her as well, and plays a similar role to the one in FFIV. It can only land in forests, however it can also fly over mountains that are not capped in snow. Bartz and his friend ride a Black Chocobo after the Streamship is sucked under the water. The Black Chocobo can be found in Mirage Village in the Third World, and is needed to reach the Phoenix Tower.Enough said :P.

A chocobo can be used as a Lvl 1 summon as well. Sometimes a Fat Chocobo will appear :).

Final Fantasy VI

Chocobos can be rented in various towns and stables located around the world. The stables are hidden in forests, making them equivalent to Chocobo Forests in this game. They run away after you dismount :?. Setzer has a Slot called Chocobop whic summons a Chocobos in battle :P. Strago and Relm can also equip a piece of armor called Chocobo suit. Jidoors Auction House also like to auction a Chocobo they claim to speak, although the player can nvever confirm nor deny this, cause and old man and his son always peace the winning bid on this particular item :?.

Final Fantasy VII

Chocobos can be caught in monster battles by using greens and defeating all enemies. After acquiring the Highwind, the player can keep chocobos, and even transport one on the Junon Cargo Ship. It is possible to breed chocobos to generate different colored ones. The different breeds of Chocobo allows the player to travel across different terrain. In order, they are: Yellow, Green, Blue, Black and Gold. There are 4 Materia Caves that can only be reached via a gold chocobo.

There are also chocobos including races at Gold Saucer. these are different colours form the normal chocobos including pink and white:P. In addition there is a summon Materia that can be found early on the game, which summons a Choco/Mog. the summon can sometimes attack with Fat Chocobo :lol:.

Final Fantasy VIII

There are many sidequests involving Boco, who is a Chicobo (baby Chocobo). There is also a Boco card used for the Triple Triad card game. The minigame Chocobo's World, which can be played on a PocketStation, a device sold exclusively in Japan, unlocks certain items in the game. The game is also included in the PC version of Final Fantasy VIII.

A playe Summons a Chocobo in battle using the Gysahl Greens; sometimes the Fat Chocobo is summoned instead, but this is random and Boco must already attain a cerain level. It has 4 different attacks ChocoFire, ChocoFlare, ChocoMeteor and ChocoBuckle, howeverto get different attacks Boco must level up or trigger an event in Choco World, or use a cheat device :P. In spite of that, people without the POcketStation, cant use much of Bocos help :(.

Final Fantasy IX

Chocobos are also found in Chocobo Forests in Final Fantasy IX. This game features a sidequest entitled Chocobo Hot and Cold, which involves a Chocobo, aptly named "Choco", searching for buries treasures such as Chocographs, which reveal sthe position of buried treasures. Choco can learn new abilities if the player finds more treasures.

Final Fantasy X, X-2

Chocobos are widespread throughout Spira, mainly used for transportation as what they are well known for. Chocobos power ships, and provide safe transportation along the Mi'ihen Highroad. In Final Fantasy X-2, with the advent of hovers in the Highroad which provide faster transportation and chocobo-hunting fiends around, chocobos died down in the Highroad. They cannot be ridden until Chapter 5 of the story, and depends on the actions of the player. You can capture chocobos in battle here like in Final Fantasy VII, if the player helped Clasko open the Chocobo Ranch in the Calm Lands that replaced the abandoned Monster Arena.

Final Fantasy XI

In the online incarnation of Final Fantasy, Chocobos are one of the faster forms of alternative transportation. They are significantly faster than walking by about 2 or 3 times. You cannot start with a chocobo license, which is what is required to rent one from one of the dozen or so stables around Vana'diel. Generally speaking, there is one stable in each of the 3 starting cities, three chocobo stables in Jeuno, a chocobo stable in Al Zahbi (which may or may not be in business, depending on whether or not the NPC in charge has been taken prisoner during Besieged), and others scattered around telepoints and some of the smaller cities on the planet. The quest required of characters once they reach level 20 is to head to Dangruf Wadi and get some greens to feed to chocobos in Jeuno in order to gain their trust and friendship. It seems chocobo abuse is a problem on this world.

Roughly twenty years before the game's current timeline, the Kingdom of San d'Oria possessed a unique combat ****known as Chocobo Knights. Though this information has been known for some time (due only to a single piece of concept art and a brief, one-time mentioning confirming their existence), the concept of the Chocobo Knight was not once touched upon or even mentioned by the actual game-given information, thus their existence was hardly known at all among the players.

At first, the use of chocobos was limited to traveling from easily accessed hubs to less populated places quickly; however, square has added chocobo raising as a part of the expansion, Treasures of Aht Urhgan. Players can raise their own chocobo to have different strengths and weaknesses. The appearance of the bird changes as well.

Square has also recently added Chocobo Racing, though at the moment it is not PvP.

With the upcoming expansion Wings of the Goddess, the time travel element of the game sends players back to the time period where Chocobo Knights were a known combat **** Rumor has it that one of the new job ****s to be introduced in this expansion will be the Chocobo Knight, and few pieces of evidence (scattered and rarely found or mentioned) seem to support the rumor. :?. (sorry if it was being extense but most of us, dont know FFXI´s game :P).

Final Fantasy XII

Chocobos are a common sight in Final Fantasy XII. The yellow Chocobo is the tamed one and can be rented for transportation from Chocobo Wranglers at most towns based on the ground of Ivalice. Some appear in the background of various areas, including on top of the airship. The yellow Chocobos allow players to ride them, provided that the player feed them their stock of Gysahl Greens. There are also other colored Chocobos that can be fought in the wilds of Ivalice; these come in red, black, brown, green and white varieties. There is also a rare variant of black Chocobo, a powerful red variant, and even a white Chocobo recognized as a Mark.

Characters can ride a Chocobo for a maximum of 180 seconds before it drops the character. Chocobos have the ability to access special paths that player characters cannot cross on their own. Some story elements of the game require characters to use a Chocobo, and in those situations, they are free of charge. Riding a chocobo allows the character to cross mpas faster without being harrased by enemies.

Revenant Wings

Chocobos is a rank 1 Non-Elemental Physical summon. He has no special attack, and his normal attack only causes minor damage, but it is the fastest summon in the game.

Final Fantasy Tactics

In Final Fantasy Tactics, Chocobos appear in three different varieties: Normal (Yellow), Black, and Red. Each is slightly different in the types of abilities it can use in battle. If a Chocobo is recruited by the heroes, a human character can ride the Chocobo in battle for much quicker transportation and to fly over obstacles.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

In this game, Chocobos are used as a mount for the judges and the Animist job can use the ability Chocobo Rush, which summons a couple of Chocobos to trample everything in a line. Furthermore, Chocobos are only mentioned briefly, e.g. In certain areas some red Chocobos were sighted.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2

Chocobos can be mounted by the Moogle job, Chocobo Knight.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

Chocobos appear as as weather vanes.:P

Final Fantasy: Unlimited

There are many chocobos found within the anime. A chocobo named Chobi accompanies the Hayakawa twins Yu and Ai. The characters Chocobaba and Chocoimo ride upon chocobos and seem to be an expert on them. The twins will also arrive in a world where there are lots of chocobos of varying colors.

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales

The game takes places in a Chocobo Farm in a faraway island. As such, there are many Chocobos living

Chocobos (often a specific member of the species, having the proper name "Chocobo") are the primary protagonists of their very own spin-off games that delve into a variety of genres. Several of these games are limited to Japan-only release, although a couple have crossed over to the states.

• Chocobo Racing, a kart-racing game for the PlayStation.
• Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2, dungeon-crawler games often marketed as beginner RPGs.
• Chocobo Stallion, a game designed to mimic the look and feel of horse racing at a derby.
• Dice De Chocobo, a video board game similar to Monopoly.

Chocobos are also a common sight in other, unrelated Squaresoft and Square Enix games.

• Seiken Densetsu (Final Fantasy Adventure): A Chocobo serves as a mount, but is later changed into a 'Chocobot'. It was removed from the 2003 remake Sword of Mana (Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu in Japan), in favor of the 'Cannon Ball Travel', which originated in Secret of Mana; however, a Chocobo can be seen in Sword of Mana by waiting for a certain period of time after the completion of the game.
• Legend of Mana: Wild black Chocobos are random monsters and uncapturable, but it's possible to grab bird eggs from several locations, and these have a chance of hatching a tame yellow Chocobo, a pet that would fight alongside the player. Moreover, if the player has a game save from Final Fantasy VIII on their memory card during the Monster Corral tutorial quest, the egg obtained during this quest will hatch a Chocobo (rather than a Rabite).
• Secret of Evermore: A Chocobo Egg is a rare item which can increase the protagonist's maximum HP level.
• Kingdom Hearts: A Keyblade known as the Metal Chocobo has a key chain resembling a yellow Chocobo. A type of Gummi Ship (a flying vehicle used in the game) named "Chocobo" is in the form of one. There's also a drawing of a Chocobo in the cave on Destiny Island. It has been crossed out, possibly by Donald Duck, whose drawing is right next to it.
• Parasite Eve: A banner picturing a Chocobo hangs over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History, most clearly visible from the map screen. Inside the museum, a Chocobo skeleton can be found inside an exhibit about primitive species.
• Tobal 2: A Chocobo is obtainable as a combatant.

The Chocobo is parodied in the browser-based game Kingdom of Loathing as the Cocoabo familiar, which can charge monsters to deal damage, heal characters by nuzzling them (much like a phoenix), run around monsters to confuse them, and dig in the ground to give the characters extra money ("Meat," in the game). The Cocoabo is shaped like a Chocobo but is apparently made of cocoa or chocolate, hatched from a cocoa egg item.

In Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete a blue Chocobo-like creature drives the wagons of the traveling circus, Carivan. The red dragon Ruby mentions it was a Chocobo, but quickly changed it into "Chuckoboo".

Battle for Wesnoth features a "Chocobone" unit. The official unit profile on the Chocobone states that "Riding the bones of ostrich-like large birds once used as mounts by a lost civilization, the skeleton Chocobones can move faster than most cavalry units."

Others

• Rules for using Chocobos in Dungeons & Dragons were published in the September 2004 issue of Dragon magazine. The rule set contained information on two different breeds of Chocobo, yellow and black.

• An episode of the popular web animation Weebl and Bob, parodying Final Fantasy VII, features a badly drawn chocobo uttering "wark".

• In the manga Naruto, the villain Deidara has a giant clay bird that greatly resembles a Chocobo.

• The anime series Last Exile features large unnamed birds that closely resemble Chocobos in several episodes. They come in various colors and are bet upon in races, but bear two rows of sharp teeth.

• In the weekly comic VG cats, chocobos are occasionally mentioned, including one mention to their use in Final Fantasy VII as breeding material for the creation of the golden chocobo.

• In the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown, there is a red, blue, and yellow creature similar looking to a chocobo.

• On the website gaiaonline there is a Monthly Collectible called Roc, which resembles a Chocobo.

Fiuuu...Tht was a long, and interesting info :P, I hopeyou enjoy it :) Take care and see ya in couple of weeks for more did you know that :) Thanks For reading.

FINAL FANTASY FANS UNION

yes!!! thats exactly what I was thinking. !! :)

Is the same for the Union...and Chocobo KC :P

I never go for chocobo's sidequest in any FF:| But well info. thx.

I never even heard of these chocobos before. Ill have to go back and check again.joeadonis1

I never even heard of these chocobos before. Ill have to go back and check again.joeadonis1

[QUOTE="joeadonis1"]I never even heard of these chocobos before. Ill have to go back and check again.Supreme_Fantasy

Probably :P......lol..

And for teh Chocobo Weapon....I only have to say WARK WARK !!! :lol:

[QUOTE="Supreme_Fantasy"][QUOTE="joeadonis1"]I never even heard of these chocobos before. Ill have to go back and check again.angelbless

Probably :P......lol..

And for teh Chocobo Weapon....I only have to say WARK WARK !!! :lol:

Wark...? :|

hey angel did YOU realy type all of that?maniamsmart

Well...practically I extracted most of the things form the sources I mentioned before, and typed some things. :)

[QUOTE="maniamsmart"]hey angel did YOU realy type all of that?angelbless

Well...practically I extracted most of the things form the sources I mentioned before, and typed some things. :)

[QUOTE="angelbless"]

[QUOTE="maniamsmart"]hey angel did YOU realy type all of that?maniamsmart

Well...practically I extracted most of the things form the sources I mentioned before, and typed some things. :)

No??? why not?? ...lol...:P

[QUOTE="maniamsmart"][QUOTE="angelbless"]

[QUOTE="maniamsmart"]hey angel did YOU realy type all of that?angelbless

Well...practically I extracted most of the things form the sources I mentioned before, and typed some things. :)

No??? why not?? ...lol...:P

weapons maybemaniamsmart

Could work, thxs.... but I got the next theme in construction, hope you all like it :)