4-Player Battle Mode and Team Battle Mode

   One of the main two modes in ChuChu!, Battle Mode (and it's variations) is a four-player (either human or computer) ChuChu fest that is a riot to play. The gameplay is simple: get the most ChuChus in your rocket (differentiated by color), while avoiding the KapuKapus, to win.

   This mode is played in a first to X games won manner. The default number is three, but this can be changed by pressing the L and R triggers in the level select screen, or in the options screen (see section 02.screens for more info). The default game length is 3 minutes, although this can also be changed.

   Both 4 Player Battle and Team Battle modes use this Battle mode layout; in 4 Player, it's every player for himself, but in Team there are red/blue & yellow/green teams. Also, there are no 50 Chus in Team mode (to my knowledge).

   Unfortunately, there is no good way to tell you how to be good at playing Battle Mode in ChuChu. The old tirades of "practice makes perfect" and "stuff firecrackers down your opponents' pants to distract them" work well here. Something else that can be beneficial is to take some time to play versus the computer on different difficulty settings; this can really help your play against living, breathing opponents (as opposed to the Dreamcast, which only thinks, and doesn't truly live... well, most of the time, anyway). Also, keeping the following facts in mind will improve Battle performance:

• Each player can place three arrows at a time. After the third is placed, the next arrow placed will cancel out the first one that was placed, and so on.
• Arrows will disappear after a while (15-20 seconds or so). They will flash before doing so.
• KapuKapu will eat 1/3 of the ChuChus in a rocket if they enter it.

     Finally, knowing what each ?Chu effect does, as well as what it looks like (each effect has a different color panel in the spinning box that comes up when a ?Chu arrives in a Rocket), can help you react much quicker:

  ?Chu Effects
  Name	Effect	Color
  Mouse Mania!!	Lots of really fast regular & 50 chus.	Pink
  Cat Mania!!	Only KapuKapu come from the hatches.	Blue
  Place Arrows Again	Stops time for a few seconds.	Orange
  Everybody Move	Switches rocket placements.	Yellow
  Speed Up	Really, really fast mice.	Red
  Slow Down	Very slow mice.	Purple
  Mouse Monopoly	Chus automatically fly to your rocket.	Light Pink
  Cat Attack!	A cat gift for each of your enemies.	Green

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