Gabriel Garza: Coupled

Gabriel Garza: Coupled (released in Japan as Gabriel x Claire's Troubled Paradise) is a platform video game based on the Gingo animated television series Gabriel Garza, developed by Argonaut Games and Digital Eclipse and published by Universal Interactive. It was originally released in late 2003 for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, N-Gage, and Microsoft Windows. The Game Boy Advance version was also released on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with Zina Supermoon: The Cosmic Adventure‎ in 2005.

Coupled was the first Gabriel Garza game to feature cel shading, in vein of the original series. The game follows Gabriel Garza and his girlfriend Claire Jones as they get lost together while trying to defend Sinking Spring from an invasion of the main antagonist Vio and his henchmen.

Upon release, the game received mixed to positive reviews from critics, who commended its graphics, humor, and writing, while some unfavorably compared its gameplay to Ico; some considered it to be an improvement over 2001's Gabriel Garza: Vio's Return. As of 2007, over two million copies of the game have been sold.

Gameplay
Gabriel Garza: Coupled is a free-roaming platform game in which its plot is pushed forward by going through levels. Tokens littered throughout the levels can be collected to unlock extras such as concept art. In addition, the player also collects coins, which may be used for opening some locked doors. Gabriel is occasionally accompanied by a second character, in this case his girlfriend Claire Jones.

The most significant feature is the ability to switch control between Gabriel and Claire; other features include the couple's ability to pick up objects and characters. In some areas of the game, either Gabriel or Claire will go solo. The player must steer the scrapping pair around obstacles to reach their goal.

Plot
Three years after his previous defeat in Gabriel Garza: Vio's Return, Vio returns to exact revenge on Gabriel. Vio and his new henchman, Joe are rebuilding an upgraded, token-powered robot in outer space. However, they only need a lot more tokens to reach the robot's maximum capacity and they do not have any of their operatives left on Earth. Vio then devises a plot to manipulate Gabriel into retrieving the tokens for him.

Meanwhile, Gabriel and Claire are hanging out at Claire's house. The two need to go to a shop to get some batteries for Claire's computer, but the two are abducted. Vio eventually tells the two to collect the tokens and return them to his current assistant, but when Gabriel and Claire destroy Joe's mecha suit and defeats him, Vio gets furious. After gathering all the tokens, Clare manages to hold a steady connection to reveal Vio's ultimate plan; with the energy harnessed from the planetary alignment, Vio will power the gigantic robot built onto his space station and brainwash everyone on Earth into serving his army.

Gabriel and Claire reach Vio in outer space and defeat him once again before the tokens can be used, leaving him drifting through outer space, but leaves the robot intact. However, with Gabriel's brothers' aid, Gabriel and Claire use all the tokens they gathered and use a laser beam machine powered by the token's energy to break the robot apart, with one of the pieces falling back to Earth.

Voice cast

 * Debi Derryberry as Gabriel Garza and Additional Voices
 * E.G. Daily as Claire Jones and Additional Voices
 * Jim Cummings as Vio, Joe and Additional Voices
 * Rob Paulsen as Roge Garza and Additional Voices
 * Billy West as Mikey and Additional Voices
 * Charlie Adler as Maxio and Additional Voices
 * Jeff Bennett as Big Guy and Additional Voices
 * Other Additional Voices by: Dee Baker, Bob Bergen, Corey Burton, Bill Farmer, Jess Harnell, Tom Kenny, Carolyn Lawrence

Development
This game was originally going to be developed by BigSky Interactive, but was developed by Argonaut Games instead due to BigSky's bankruptcy and closure.

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