Some other puzzles will require just a little attention. The levels are filled with secrets and parts that you have to discover for their home (this makes perfect sense if you stop to think about it). His main goal is to gather berries (don't ask why) so he can grow larger and multiply inside the same individual. Pushing them will tilt the world in either side, left or right, and holding them will cause the usually adipose Locoroco to jump. There are no combinations and no lists of actions you can perform, but even so, the player's actions will require some skill.Ĭontrary to the common practice of assigning the usual buttons to the main actions, in Locoroco the main controls are L1 and L2. The controls are not complicated and, in fact, only three buttons are used. Nonetheless, there are some exceptions and Locoroco is certainly one of them.Īs I was saying before, the player plays the avatar of the planet and this method of control reflects perfectly in the gameplay.
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I've always regarded the PSP platform like a universal support for ceaseless arcade games, with no substance and just mind-flattening gameplay. I'm placing these categories together, because they are so intertwined they can't be set apart and, frankly, this is a quality I would enjoy finding in many more games. Unfortunately, the poor Locorocons aren't capable of fighting so it will be up to you, by controlling the planet, to guide and rescue them from the slaughter (I've just added that because it sounds so barbaric in fact they are going to be ok.) More details regarding the story or the background would have placed the game into an entire different category.
They are making sure that the planet is protected, the nature is cared after, but this state of fact comes to an end when the vicious "Moja Troop" arrives to conquer the planet. The facts are quite simple: the main characters are the Locoroco of course, and their friends, the Mui Mui. The idea of this game came to him while on a train and in fact most characters in today's game are based on the drawings he made that day.Īny great game must have a big, Hugo awarded writer behind it. The game has been created by the Tsutomu Kouno, apparently a big legend in the games community, with his contribution to one of the best games ever developed by Sony for Playstation, Ico. I actually started talking to myself, recognizing the ingenious idea behind, what I believe to be, one of the best games I have ever played on the PSP. This simple arcade (although calling it just a simple arcade is almost an insult) is simply mind-numbing. Despite what some might think, I'm not wearing a white jacket with sleeves tied to my back and I'm not on any medication. Locoroco is the Half Life of shooters, the Need for Speed of racing and the Red Alert of strategy.
10 minutes later, I was laughing like a small child with a shiny toy.
Even when I got a copy, I wasn't too enthusiastic about it, thinking that this is just a chore I'll have to eventually overcome. When I first saw the name Locoroco surfacing on the internet, I instantly thought it was going to be just another PSP game, like a dozen more, meant to fill somebody's pockets.