Chronoblobs are blob-like Time Monsters in Blinx: The Time Sweeper. This bouncy creature usually jumps around in a fixed territory. It's not very smart, but it will defend itself.​

Appearance

The main features of a Chronoblob besides its round blob-like body structure consists of two white eyes with black pupils (which are generally in crossed-eyed position unless actively observing an object; their eyesight rather limited), a maw filled with human-like teeth and tongue, and two antennae ending in triangles at the top. Lacking any sort of limbs, Chronoblobs move via hopping about their environments.

Chronoblobs come in three colours: green, yellow and purple. Green Chronoblobs while common, are the weakest (take one hit), yellow being slightly stronger (two hits), and purple being the strongest (three hits).

Behaviour

​From a behaviour standpoint, Chronoblobs are not very intelligent, but they are very territorial and will guard a general area, sometimes by themselves, but often with fellow Chronoblobs or other Time Monsters. When a Chronoblob detects a Time Sweeper with its limited field of vision, it will hop into the air, and then proceed to hop toward the Time Sweeper until it is within range to make a short-ranged charge. However, Chronoblobs are not very fast outside of the said charge and rely on numbers or small environments to overtake a Time Sweeper.

Chronoblobs can exist in numerous types of environments, ranging from cities, caves, ruins, temples and mines, however, they are never found in frigid or hot environments. They are encountered in Time Square, Déjà Vu Canals, Hourglass Caves, Forgotten City, Temple of Lost Time and the Mine of Precious Memories.

Strategy

Dealing with and defeating Chronoblobs is generally a fairly easy task for players, and generally does not require the usage of Time Controls. As the majority of Chronoblobs are the green subtype, only a single piece of trash is required to defeat it, while yellow subtypes require two pieces of trash to be defeated, and purple subtypes require three pieces of trash to be defeated.

Given Chronoblobs limited senses, it is generally very easy to take these enemies out, or at least land the first hit before it detects the player's presence. It should be noted that when a Chronoblob detects the player, it will jump high into the air (sometimes resulting in Chronoblob missing trash shot at it in the process) and focus its eyesight on the player, before proceeding to hop towards the player. Chronoblobs are slow-moving enemies and are fairly easy to outrun or outmanoeuvre, however, later worlds and levels will often place Chronoblobs in cramped environments with little room to manoeuvre and/or place other enemies nearby.

Chronoblobs only means of attack is to slam their bodies into the player, and they can only do this body-slam charge at close range. When they commence the charge, they are temporally invulnerable to attacks, and trash shot at them will be destroyed without damaging the Chronoblob.

Name Meaning

Chronoblob is a portmanteau of words "chrono" and "blob", with chrono being defined as "something relating to time", whereas blob is defined as a "globule of liquid with an undefined shape".

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Last updated on 05 Feb 2023