YMMV / Choro Q

• Contested Sequel: Road Trip Adventure (HG2) is generally considered the best due to the Wide-Open Sandbox giving the illusion of a worldwide road-trip, relaxing storyline, memorable characters, and varied racetracks. Gadget Racers (HG3) is seen as a step-back due to smaller and closed-off open-world and Sequel Difficulty Spike, while Choro Q (HG4) is generally seen as a different game due to being handled by different developer, and it shows (very different characterization, different controls for non-racing events, and different handling system, though HG4's racetrack is seen to be more varied and more outlandish).
• Cult Classic: This is what many fans regard the series as.
• Developer's Foresight: Road Trip Adventure (HG2), if you attempt to enter the ski jumping event while having the flight wing item equipped, it will be removed. Makes sense given that being able to literally fly in a distance based event would probably be ridiculously overpowered. If you hack the game or use the debug menu to enter it with a flight wing, it will reveal that you are restricted to a considerably smaller amount of the map, only being allowed to go up to about 1100 meters.
• Harsher in Hindsight: As of January 2023, it's difficult to go back and play HG2/Road Trip Adventure nowadays as a large chunk of the game's soundtrack including those featured in E-Radio when free-roaming was plagarized from American composer Michael Walthius' MIDI tracks from the 1997 album "Dreaming in Stereo" and no credit was given to him for 20 years until the players found out the tracks were stolen before approaching the artist about the terrible news.
• The Scrappy: The Zasto trio from HG4. Every time you cruise by Goltica's Chocolate Factory, these three will constantly ask you for money until you say yes.
• Scrappy Mechanic: And how! Nearly every single game in the series had at least one of these. Prime examples include gas, ironically, from Choro Q Wonderful and the other Road trip games, brake locking from HG1, and spinning out or bouncing all over the place from HG4.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Subverted. A lot of the tracks from HG2 were originally composed by Michael Walthius. See Harsher in Hindsight above.
• That One Boss: The Phantom from Penny Racers Party: Turbo-Q Speedway, (Choro Q Wii). Not only is he bigger than everyone else, but he is also surprisingly fast for his size, and he's also guaranteed to catch up with you if you don't have the right parts. What makes things worse is the track you face him on, The Lab-o-rinth, which has a very nauseating and confusing layout.
  • Atlus gives us Kamikaze from Choro Q (HG4). Especially on Trans Trip SL. Once he gets ahead of you, there is absolutelty zero chance of you ever catching up.
• That One Level: Planet Jump from Choro Q (HG4) thanks to it's low gravity mechanic making driving very difficult.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Norkia is a man, but extremely feminine, and fond of flowers. His body isn't a giveaway, either. Even the official website has a page about it.
  • May happen in HG2, depending on the viewer. Some males have brightly colored bodies.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Not entirely the series itself but come Shin Combat Choro Q and Choro Q HG4 and you will see themes of death, horror (especially the living dead) and corruption involved in the stories. Very appropriate for a +3 game with deformed vehicles, isn't it?