The LocoRoco edition of the PlayStation Portable becomes yet another gaming product to take advantage of the great crossover between fans of video games and fans of string cheese, as seen in a circular from this past weekend.
There’s a new LocoRoco game due out later this year, and a new game means new gimmicks, in this case a fundamental change to the game’s simple control scheme, with the introduction of the “boing”.
We’ve bemoaned the lack of LocoRoco merchandise previously. For a franchise so steeped in cuteness, it’s a mystery as to why we aren’t drowning in plushies and other assorted pieces of licensed crap.
It all starts off innocently enough, but when you start mixing franchises in your video game-inspired holiday gingerbread cookies it can only end in tears.
Okay, Sony. Stop the cute train, we want to get off. On paper, blending the adorableness of LocoRoco‘s blobs with the preciousness of LittleBigPlanet‘s Sackboy looks like a win-win. In practice, though… :( We’ll just keep chanting “Ico and Yorda Sackboy costumes!” until it becomes reality.
Hi Tsutomu Kouno. As the guy who made LocoRoco, and who is making LocoRoco 2, what do you think about…uh, Tsutomu?
Sony’s PSP title LocoRoco is back with a cleverly named sequel: LocoRoco 2. And it’s brought annoyingly catchy music with it! If you watch this trailer at least twice, you’ll have that tune stuck in your head all day. Once, even.
Proof you can’t keep a hopping, adorable mass of singing blobs down, Sony have today announced that LocoRoco will be making the jump from Sony console to mobile phone. And not as an “interactive screensaver”, either, but as a proper LocoRoco game. It’ll be priced at ¥420 (USD$US 3.80), and goes on sale…oh, today! SCEJ、EZweb「LocoRoco MOBILE」配信開始 PSP「LocoRoco」を携帯電話で可能な限り再現 [Game Watch]
