LocoRoco

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LocoRoco (Japanese: ロコロコ Rokoroko) is a title from Tsutomu Kouno for the Sony PSP. In the game, the player must tilt the environment in using the L or R shoulder buttons in order to maneuver a various colors of jelly-like characters through each level via gravity.

Contents

1 Plot
2 Gameplay
3 Pre-Release Demo
4 Music
5 Reviews
6 See also
7 External links
8 References

Plot

Living peacefully with the planet they lived on, the LocoRoco -and their friends, the Mui Mui- helped looking after nature, making the planet a "pleasant place to be", until the Moja Troop came to the planet to take it over. The LocoRoco themselves don't know how to fight invaders from outer space, so the player assumes the role of 'the planet' and must tilt the landscape to defeat the Moja Troop and rescue the LocoRoco. You will also meet many different characters along your way, who you know nothing about. Find out what they do and they could be a help... or not.

Gameplay

By eating 'berries', the LocoRoco will grow in size, which indicated by a number on screen. By pressing Circle, the larger LocoRoco splits into many smaller LocoRoco. This is necessary for travelling through tight spaces. The many small LocoRoco can be recombined by holding down Circle. When L and R are pressed and released, the planet will bounce the LocoRoco into the air.

During the game, LocoRoco will encounter characters who will give them Loco House Pieces, which are saved and available from the Loco House Mini game. Loco House Pieces come in different rarities, rated from one star pieces (common) to three star pieces (rare)

Apart from the main gameplay, there are several mini games included.

Loco House

Loco House Parts collected from the game and other mini games can be used to construct a non-interactive playground that your LocoRoco can play within. Parts, once collected, can be selected from a menu and placed into the House level. The different parts can be rotated, but not scaled or flipped before being placed. Once the level is filled with parts as the user desires, they can press Start to allow collected LocoRoco to explore it, pressing Start again to make more changes.

There are also Parts tokens floating around in the House level. Players can arrange their parts in such a way that the LocoRoco will pick up the tokens, which add a random part to the Player's collection.

Mui Mui Crane

A skill game where more Loco House Parts can be obtained. The game is very similar to many real-life arcade crane games. There is a bin full of prizes, which include live LocoRocos of various shapes and sizes, and part tokens. The stars on the tokens indicate the rarity of the Loco House Part you will recieve. Rarer Part tokens are harder to pick up than the more common tokens, due to their shape.

Chuppa Chuppa

A game where the player controls a creature called a 'Chuppa' to launch LocoRoco certain distances. Making it slide to the next Chuppa, who, in turn, launches it to the next and so on. Once your LocoRoco gets to the end you get a prize in the shape of a Loco House part.

Loco Editor

Similar to the Loco House except the is a normal start and goal area and after you place parts you can press start and actually play the level. There are 12 more special Loco Editor Parts not available in the Loco House.

Pre-Release Demo

Following the release of Firmware 2.7 on April 25 2006, a demo of the game was released on the game's website -- the first Sony-sanctioned user-downloadable game for the PSP. It includes one level that will take the player around 5-15 minutes to complete, depending on the number of secret areas the player encounters. Currently the demo is available in Japanese, English and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified).

Music

Music plays a large part in LocoRoco, with each LocoRoco singing the song for each stage, and the title screen. These LocoRoco have different voices depending on their colour, varying in pitch and tone.

The lyrics of the songs and 'LocoRoco Language', a fictional language were invented by Tsutomu Kouno in order that the music would be the same worldwide.

Reviews

External links

[LocoRoco website (Japanese)] (requires flash)
[Download trial]
[LocoRoco website (English)] (requires flash)
[LocoRoco MP3 Music]

References

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