Video Game / Xolga and Mr. Toko

Xolga: Let’s get out of here.
Mr.Toko: Um, to where though?
Xolga: I don’t know. Take us to any world, any place, any time period. I bet that there are still a lot of worlds out there that we haven’t seen . . . And we’re still on an adventure, right?
Mr.Toko: . . . Yeah!

A series of games by Pacthesis.

Xolga was spending a normal day in work when suddenly, the Agency gives him an assistant, a kid named Mr. Toko. Later they were sent to retrieve a pendant, which is actually an Artifact of Doom that turns Xolga into a stuffed bear and Mr.Toko as a flying egg. Desperate to turn back into humans, they go into an adventure and cross dimensions in chase of the pendant.

Now has the sequel.

Character sheet is here.

This game provides the following:

• Abandoned Hospital: The true form of the White Void Room hospital, which is shown to you after The Reveal about Sam.
• Acid-Trip Dimension: In the series one finale, the pendant's Lotus-Eater Machine slowly turns into this over the course of the episode.
• Aerith and Bob: Right at the first episode, we have Xolga, Linda, Walter (Western-ish names) in contrast to Kai and Mako (Japanese names). Even better (or worse) in the case of Xolga, as despite also being Japanese and the fact that his name was supposed to be Ryota, his mom was drunk when she named him.
• Ambiguously Evil: The locket.
• Amnesiac Hero: Mr. Toko fits this, but starts getting his memories back during the sequel.
• Arc Words: Dream in the first, Friends in the sequel.
• Art Evolution: Not obvious in this series, but when you compare the way some characters in Pacthesis' older works were first drawn and how they look here, you can clearly see the artist's improvement. Notable examples include Emerson and Zane from Idol Days (season 1, ep 3) or Joseph (season 1, ep 2) from Kingdom Days.
• Big Little Brother:
  • At first, Kai is appropriately younger-looking than Xolga, who is two years older than him. However, after the curse, Xolga is shrunk into a small teddy bear body, while Kai goes on two time-skip - two years and five years after that, respectively - making him both literally and figuratively bigger than Xolga.
  • And while they are not related, in a way, Xolga fits as this for Mr. Toko, as despite being two years younger, Xolga is the older-looking, taller and more mature of the two. This is briefly averted in episode 6 of season 2 however, when they come to Lance's world and drink a potion that turns Xolga into a kid version of his, and Mr. Toko into his appropriate 21-year-old form.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: The duo fall into this dynamic from the very first episode, with Mr Toko as the Boke and Xolga as the Tsukkomi.
• Break the Cutie: Mr.Toko. Not only does he forget his memories for more than half of the series, but after he finally remembers everything, he believes that he wasn't meant to have friends because the friends he did have died; One he witnessed being killed, and one who died to keep Mr.Toko alive.
• Chekhov's Gun: Mr.Toko's diary in series two is vital in Xolga's attempt to set up a Stable Time Loop in the last episode.
• The Comically Serious: Xolga, especially in the Dreamboat Kingdom.
• Continuity Overlap: With Pacthesis' other works, where the titular duo were Recurring Extras.
• Continuity Porn
• Crossover: With most of, if not all, the previous sim dating games Pacthesis made.
  • From the first series:
    • Ep 2: Joseph from Kingdom Days appears as a younger version of his and a young Elliot from Wonderland Days.
    • Ep 3: Kai (Xolga's cousin) meets Emerson and Zane from Idol Days.
    • Ep 4: Ferris from Kingdom Days appears as a way to further elaborate on how he was locked in a coffin.
    • Ep 5: Nina and Terry from Project Toaster.
    • Ep 7: Teddy and Landon from Chrono Days.
  • From Again:
    • Ep 1: Emmett from Chrono Days.
    • Ep 2: Terrance/Soa from Lunar Days.
    • Ep 4: Another crossover with Nina and Terry, who is now an adult and a Deceptively Human Robot, respectively.
    • Ep 5: Daniel from Kingdom Days.
    • Ep 6: A younger Lance from Wonderland Days, who is a prince at the time, before running away from home.
  • Also, Xolga's cousins, Mako from Festival Days and his brother Kai from Memory Days are recurring characters. Kai is much more prominent in the series, though, due to being a lot more dead-set on finding Xolga, while Mako thinks Xolga can take care of himself. Kai being a Nice Guy also makes his relationship with Xolga much warmer.
• Cursed with Awesome: Mr. Toko is in no hurry to get rid of his curse. In chapter 2-3, he outright says it was the best thing to ever happen to him.
• Darker and Edgier: While the first series had dark moments, the second series is definitely this, with more of Mr. Toko's dark past coming to light.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Both Xolga and Mr. Toko have pretty awful past, but Mr. Toko takes the cake by having a past so terrible, it makes Xolga's life looks good in comparison.
• Deadpan Snarker: Xolga.
• Deceptively Human Robots: Terry becomes this by the fourth episode of series two.
• Disappeared Dad: Xolga's old man left when he was little in order to 'follow his dreams', but comes back in the penultimate episode of season one in order to support his wife when it seems that Xolga has been missing for two years.
• Doomed by Canon: Ferris has to be found guilty, or else he can't be a Secret Character in Kingdom Days.
• Fanservice: This seems to be the purpose of the bonus extra after the end of the first Xolga and Mr. Toko series.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Xolga's childhood, which includes a Disappeared Dad and an alcoholic mother who was so drunk that she filled in his baby information wrong. He was supposed to be called Ryota.
• Imaginary Friend: What Sam actually is. He is, in reality, just a doll Mr. Toko/Tom had in the hospital. However, thanks to the love Tom had for him, he actually had a soul and a heart like that of human. He even stopped the time for 9 whole years just to keep Tom alive when he was slowly dying of an illness, before Issac cured him. Sam himself "died" (in other words, got broken) and stayed in the abandoned hospital since forever before Tom finally comes back and says one last goodbye...
• Ironic Echo: In the second series, the opening sentences doesn't seem to make sense at first. And then the seventh part comes along... *sniffs*
• Ironic Name: Xolga, a definitely-not-Japanese name, belongs to a Japanese guy who was supposed to be named Ryota. And Mr. Toko, a somewhat-acceptable-Japanese name, belongs to a guy who actually only thought that that was his real name. His real name turns out to be Tom Kro.
• Keet: Mr.Toko.
• Kid Sidekick: Mr.Toko, much to Xolga's horror.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: In finale of series one, Xolga is trapped in one of these after opening the pendant.
• Long List: Xolga's "10 Things that could happen to us" in the first series' episode four.
  Xolga: One, we get attacked. Two, we get eaten. Three, we get captured. Four, we end up wasting time. Five, we catch a foreign disease. Six, we get lost. Seven, we get weird stares from people. Eight, we get stepped on. Nine, we are forced to become slaves. Ten, we get mugged.
  Mr Toko: ...If we did get mugged, what would they even take from us? Your ribbon?
• Meaningful Echo: "Friends forgive each other."
• Meaningful Name: "Cigam" is the word "magic" backwards.
• Megaton Punch: Xolga's MO. Usually used as an extremely violent Dope Slap on Mr Toko.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: If Travers's word is any indication, the mayor apparently only got her job because of her husband.
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: Averted. Xolga meets his future self in the seventh episode of series one, who gives him a shortcut to finding the locket rather than letting them go through as many universes as he had to. In the last episode of series two, the past-meeting-future and the future-meeting-past variants are both used in quick succession due to Xolga setting up a Stable Time Loop.
• Odd Couple: Guess. Bonus, for them being actual detectives as well.
• Once More, with Clarity: The context of the quotes that pop up at the beginning of each episode are usually shown at the end of their respective series: those from the first series are from the speech that pendant gives Xolga, while those from the second are Mr.Toko's thoughts while in hospital. Also, the scene where Xolga is shot at in the very first episode is revisited at the last episode of series two, where it is revealed that the shooter is actually a future Xolga, who is trying to distract a future Mr.Toko from attempting to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
• One-Gender Race: The Dreamboat Kingdom from the sequel series is so manly that everyone is born a man, and they have to chose which gender they associate with. 'Men' look extremely Macho Camp, while 'women' are girly Bishōnen.
  Mr.Toko: How do you guys repopulate then?
  Xolga: NO. NO. NO. DON'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
• Only Sane Man: Xolga, when compared to some of the characters he meets on his travels and Mr Toko.
• Perspective Flip: While most of the episodes in the first series are told from Xolga's point of view, the third and sixth parts follow Kai and Mr.Toko respectively.
• The Pollyanna: Mr.Toko generally stays ridiculously upbeat no matter what the occasion. The Whole Episode Flashback implies that he was like this even while working for the shadowy, dangerous and possibly criminal Organisation. This is heavily Deconstructed in the second series, as more of his Dark and Troubled Past comes to light.
• The Power of Friendship: Plays a key part in helping Xolga to break free from the pendant's Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Private Detective: Xolga works for a detective agency.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Mr.Toko has several during the very first episode.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Xolga is the Blue to both Mr. Toko's and Kai's Red.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Terry, the toaster robot you meet in series one.
• Running Gag: Xolga seems to punch Mr.Toko quite a lot throughout the series.
  • Mr Toko's 'ant brothers' also pop up in both series.
  • Kai hugging Teddy!Xolga, and promptly getting a Megaton Punch for his troubles.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The first series has a lot of these. First we have episode four, when despite the duo's efforts to prove him innocent, Ferris is found guilty of murder and imprisoned. Next we have episode six, that has Mr.Toko's friend Austin getting shot right after they both escape from the Organisation. Finally, the entire series seems to be one for Xolga after the pendant tells him that their human bodies have been 'eaten' by it and they're stuck in their current forms forever.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: At the end of series two, Mr.Toko goes back into the past in order to prevent himself from finding the locket and traveling with Xolga. However this proves to be in vain, as the Xolga from the altered timeline decides to pull one of his own in order to prevent this and get everything back to normal.
• Significant Anagram: Mr. Toko is based on his real name: Tom Kro.
• The Smurfette Principle: The amount of female characters in this show can be counted in one hand: Xolga's mother, Nina, Princess Dreamboat, and if being mentioned counts then Saige, the protagonist of Chrono Days gets bonus points for being mentioned twice by Teddy and Emmett. That's it. And in the case of Princess Dreamboat, she identifies as a woman but sure as hell doesn't look like one.
• Stable Time Loop: Xolga sets one up in the last episode of season two as part of his own Set Right What Once Went Wrong attempt, in order to reverse Mr.Toko's original Set Right What Once Went Wrong effort.
• Sugar Bowl: Wonderland in the first series. The Dreamboat Kingdom in the second takes it up to eleven.
• Wham Line:
  • Episode 1-4: "Guilty"
  • Epidode 1-6: "What's wrong with you, Johnny?!"
  • Episode 2-7: Happy birthday Tom.
• White Void Room: The seventh episode of the second season features an white void hospital. It's where Mr.Toko resided until he was cured and recruited into the Organisation.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: Episode 1-9 focuses on stat management rather than the typical point and click. This foreshadows the fact that Xolga is actually trapped in the pendant's dream world.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Episode 1-6, which chronicles Mr.Toko's escape from the Organisation, although you don't find out until the very end of the episode.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Discussed and Lampshaded when Xolga and Mr.Toko get introduced to each other, although Mr.Toko's name is deliberately chosen.

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