Tiny Tower

The hub from which you access the various worlds is effectively a Chao Garden by another name – only here you’re invited to look after the Tims, a group of tiny, adorably pudgy critters that are hungry for the gems you bring back. You’ll scatter these among like-coloured flowers for the diminutive pets to scoff, before leading them to a kind of hamster wheel that they’ll leap aboard, spinning it to unlock the first part of the Tower O’ Tims, which appears to be a miniature playground of sorts. The more they interact with it, the more it grows; whether it’s purely decorative or it leads to somewhere new and exciting isn’t immediately apparent, but watching them hop around the place is a cute distraction nonetheless.