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this game really makes me titillate like a japanese schoolgrrl.

i stumbled upon this wonderful game for the psp while doing my ritualistic combing of one of my favorite websites. innovative right from the getgo, loco roco fuses light-hearted gameplay, great music, spiffy character design, and some unknown addictive element akin to heroin to make a wonderfully playable journey through a curious world.

its quite easy to pick up the game mechanics. you direct your lovable, singing smiley blob through various obstacles, picking up pieces of your house and friends along the way. by pressing the left and right buttons on your psp, you are able to tilt and rock the entire environment (and sometimes the environments are the innards of snakes or intestinal passageways of penguins… maybe our sexless protagonist is some type of bacteria?) using gravity to roll your soon-to-be chubby buddy through the labyrinth-like landscape. its quite a nice concept, for game play involves using the environment to move your rotund hero and not direct manipulation of the character. No computer game slaves at the whim of a perverse gamer in this game!

another nice feature about loco roco is that when you grab particular flora and fauna within the stages, you can reproduce. that’s right. somehow the hero of the game can clone itself when touching special flowers. in no time at all, you will find yourself rolling and bouncing around 20 little communistically driven buddies of gelatinous cute-ness into one huge super blob (or mob) and vise versa.

in order to unlock certain elements of the game, you need a minimum number of blobby-fun-dudes. this mostly entails having enough of the little buggers to have a big enough chorus to sing parts of the landscape awake.

This game is addictive. “How?” you may ask? I am writing this review with the knowledge of only playing 2 stages of this super game until my psp was stripped away from me by a certain maedelmaedel. For someone who says they were never into video games as a child…

Here is a link to 1up.com, which has a nice interview with the game’s director and some nice media to get an idea of what loco roco is all about.

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