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Tokobot is a platformer puzzle game developed and published by Tecmo, released in 2005 for PlayStation Portable. This is a single-player game.

This game received mixed reviews from the gaming press; some critics praised it for its original and numerous enough to keep you busy for a while, and the gameplay is extremely fun and not very complicated. But some other critics considered that it was a too simplistic game. But it also features innovative and interesting game mechanics.

In Tokobot you play as Bolt who is a kind of junior Indiana Jones who is really talented to find things; Bolt is also an agent from the Canewood s Lab and during one of his research expedition he discovers some rare Karakuri robots known as Tokobots. Tokobots are a pack of tiny prehistoric robots.

At the beginning of the game you are traveling through ancient ruins when you happen upon these creatures who take a liking to Bolt and begin to follow him around. You must then use the Tokobots to travel around the rest of the environment, uncovering their secrets and finding more of them.

You must also use the Tokobots to do complex tasks and can even fuse the Tokobots together to make Karakuri combinations that can do almost everything from activate dead gears to shoot laser beams.

There are two types of Karakuri robots in Tokobot, Keepers and Workers. Workers do odd jobs while Keepers protect the ancient ruins. Each type has a range of enemies of different sizes.

With the workers there are small Clunkers and the large Tornader. The Keepers include tiny Beepers and the evil Zero. Bolt fights plenty of both types.

There are three human villains in the game. They each battle Bolt with large Karakuri robots. First there is Flames. Her robots are Chocoroc, Tankaloo, and Purple Chocoroc. Then there is Bart.

You will have to defeat them during boss battles, you will have to fight which attack will be effective against them; and during the combat to be successful it requires a couple of joint actions.

At the end of the boss fights, you will uncover additional Tokobot slates, which reveal new Karakuri combinations. While some of the combinations give you additional jointing actions, others create entirely new forms for the Tokobots to take. And to take on forms, you will need to unlock them and have enough prehistoric parts to make them.

He fights with Torcherer. He also owns a robot called O-EDO but, he is not in the game. Then there is Colonel Fuel, who is a renegade scheme master. He battles with Tornader and Battleby.

Bolt unravels an evil mystery about a prototype Tokobot named Zero. Zero is a gigantic planet destroying robot programmed for evil. Bolt has to find and destroy Zero before it can destroy his world.

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