Seeking out berries is never a chore because the levels are designed to make the player always feel they’re within reach. Touching one of these where you shouldn’t will cause a LocoRoco to eject from the main blob in panic – if you don’t chase it down you’ll lose it for the rest of the level. There are more enemies than before, including spiky creatures, long-tongued plants, stinging bees, blowfish, Bui Bui (the anti-Mui Mui) as well as floating Moja. Unlike the first game, however, the little cuties now face a genuine threat. Finding all 20 berries in each level, some of which are incredibly well hidden, is your primary motivation. By holding Circle, the LocoRoco will call out to each other, inching closer until they are one again. By tapping the Circle button you’ll trigger a bolt of lightning that causes the LocoRoco to split into a number of smaller LocoRoco, allowing them to pass through tiny cracks in the environment and reach new areas. Most obviously, you seek out the 20 berries hidden throughout each level, each one making the LocoRoco grow. Moja boss Bonmucho, having concocted a new song that sucks the life force from any living thing, launches a fresh invasion on the LocoRoco planet, forcing the environmentally conscious bouncing balls to once again beat them back.Īs in the first game, each level is as much a collect-a-thon as it is a captivating puzzler. Following their defeat to the LocoRoco in the original game, the Moja army returns to its home planet determined to get revenge.
While this might sound a little constrictive, and, at first it does feel a little odd, after ten minutes it becomes second nature and all memory of awkward analogue nub controls melts away like one of LocoRoco’s trademark invisible walls.Īlthough the plot plays a secondary role to the platforming, effort has been made to tell a story through charming cut scenes, so we’ll give it a paragraph. Pressing and releasing the L and R buttons together causes the LocoRoco to jump – the longer you hold the buttons down, the higher the jump will be. You play the planet, weirdly enough, and are able to tilt it left and right (using the PSP’s L and R buttons), combining gravity and momentum to move the LocoRoco about the 2D environment. The Moja are an evil alien race hell bent on ruining the loveliness of the LocoRoco’s planet.
The LocoRocos are a race of small, singing bubble type creatures who, along with the Mui Mui, care dearly for their planet’s well being. If the word LocoRoco sounds like a particularly uncomfortable pirate-related disease to you, allow us to explain. And anyway, its charm, beauty and uplifting nature is just as potent a second time around, even if you’ve felt it all before.
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Essentially it’s the same game with different levels and a few gameplay tweaks, but then revolutionising the fundamentals that made the Sony Japan Studio developed title such a perfect fit on the PSP would have run the risk of ruining it. Some will say LocoRoco 2 is too similar to 2006’s brilliant original, and with good reason.
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The L and R buttons are used to tilt the beautiful 2D game world and the Circle button is used for everything else. They are games of love, not hate.The genius of Tsutomu Kouno’s LocoRoco concept is that its gameplay hasn’t been forced, like a square peg to a round hole, into the confines of the the PSP’s control system, like so many first-person and third-person titles are.
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But I still enjoy the game, I play them on the PS4 with my niece sometimes, and they are still absolutely a lovely experience should you want to engage with it. But the games can absolutely be shared and enjoyed for all the great things they are while recognizing the faults and the failures that allowed them to happen. It's a great piece to point to when we talk about institutional racism in games - it should have been fixed.
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There were in fact articles about it and I wish it had been addressed with a redesign at the time, but corporations are still only now starting to respond to issues in an appropriate manner.Īll this is to say I believe the design is a sign of institutionalized racism being pervasive even in a game that is overtly inclusive, positive, cheerful and full of love. But when you consider the themes of the game, the cultural blends of music, and the origins of the game, it is definitely a mistake and not an intentional design.
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