Loco Roco Review (Playstation Portable — PSP)

James Whitlock
5 min readDec 15, 2022

In September 2006, American shores received one of the most unique and weirdest titles to be seen since Namco released Katamari Damacy a few years ago. The title of the game isLocoRoco, and it was developed by Sony for their PlayStation Portable.

The storyline in LocoRoco takes place on a far-off planet where the small little blobs known as LocoRoco reside. If one were to visit the planet, they would see that the LocoRoco are a peaceful creature living in harmony, always singing and laughing. However, this all changes one day when the Moja Corps invades from the stars and begins terrorizing the planet. Having always lived in peace, the LocoRoco don’t know how to deal with these evil creatures, and so it is up to you to take control of the planet and help save the LocoRoco!

In order to save the LocoRoco, you will basically have to move one of them throughout each of the game’s levels and try to locate the exit. However, the thing is that you aren’t actually controlling the LocoRoco, so in order to move them you will be using the L and R shoulder buttons to tilt the screen in one of the two directions, moving the LocoRoco along the way. Also, there will be some instances when the LocoRoco will need to jump to either defeat an enemy or make it through some environment, which can be done by holding down both of the shoulder buttons. The only…

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James Whitlock

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