Chibi-Robo loves you!

Just want to plug a great little game that does something quite different to anything else I've played.
In Chibi-Robo on the GameCube you play the little robot of the title and it's your goal to make the family who have just bought you happy. The dad is obsessed with a cartoon character and spends money without thinking. The daughter wears a frog hat and doesn't talk properly. The mum is trying to cope with her dysfunctional husband and daughter while trying to balance the bills. Oh, and the toys come alive at night.
Into this mix you appear and you will be cleaning doggy footprints with a toothbrush, rescuing frogs from bedrooms and spending time in the kitchen letting the mother offload her problems onto you over a cup of tea.
There are many neat little design touches – such as your battery life, which goes up as you increase the family “happiness”, which then allows you to wander further into the house. Then there are the pieces of equipment you gather and the various costumes which allow you to talk to other characters and further unlock game areas.
It could easily feel repetitive, but the characters, presentation, breadth of tasks, the way the tasks deliberately connect to the story, the day/night variation in gameplay and the fact you can “buy” different lengths of time for the day/night cycle make it very varied.
And amazingly I'm playing a game where the aim isn't to kill everything! What a refreshing change.