2 posts tagged “locoroco”

I finally figured out how to take screen shots while playing LocoRoco - and I wanted to post them :)

LocoRocos singing the moon awake, moon looks a little plastered, eh?

This is what happens when an owl eats you, sometimes I'm other shapes too.

When you split apart, you stay that different shape.

When you get caught in a breeze, you break apart and surf!

The "Truffle Shuffle", LocoRoco style.

I love his expression!!!

See? The owl ate me and now I'm a square!

I'm a tomato!

I'm a triangle here, and I sang to the clouds who are lifting me.

LocoRoco

I've realized that I don't always pick the most intelligent games to play :) My newest love, though I still enjoy WTF, is LocoRoco. In this game, you start as a small ball of goo and you collect berries that makes you a bigger ball of goo :) Seems simple, and it is, but at the same time very challenging. You use the right & left shoulder buttons on the PSP to tilt the world 30° in either direction and it causes LocoRoco to roll in that direction. You can also jump. As you grow. you'll find you can't fit into some spaces so you can break down into smaller pieces and then reassemble at the end of the tunnel! Most times you can go back by tilting the world - but sometimes you cant and that's where the difficulty lies. The point of each level is to collect as many berries as you can (max is 20), as many pickories (which range in the hundreds and can be used as currency in the mini games), and also Mui Mui's which range between 3 to 4 each level. Each Mui Mui you get you also get a LocoRoco house piece. I'm not that interested into building a house - but I thought to mention anyhow.

Screenshot

There are a few reasons I love this game:

1. Its frackin' cute! You're a ball of smiling goo people! And you just get bigger & bigger!
   
2. The music is nice, and I've discovered that it's an imaginary language that they're singing in :) When you break apart into many LocoRocos, it sounds like a choir which is just too cute.
   
3. The games technical dynamics are actually quite impressive, as the goo gets bigger you take on the consistency of a water balloon which is very interesting.
   
4. Its easy, and the replay value is good - I'm already to world three but I've played each level over and over and over again. It gets harder and harder though.