LocoRoco has been on my play list for quite some time, but I had just never got around to it. The cute colors and simplistic gameplay drew me in as soon as I first heard of the title. Having recently found myself with a lot of down time, I finally gave it a shot. It’s certainly a heck of a lot of fun, if perhaps completely without any challenge.
Gameplay is little more than using the L and R keys to tilt the world left and right, causing the LocoRoco to roll across the level. There are a few enemies here and there to dodge or jump into, but by and large you’ll just be sliding around making your way to the exit. There are no real cliffs to fall off of and very few dangers large enough to actually cause a game over, nor are any of the puzzles difficult. The low difficulty actually makes the game quite relaxing to play.
Picture something like a web game you might seen done in Flash or Java and you’ll have a good idea of LocoRoco’s graphics. They’re not bad by any means, but they’re that sort of simplistic vector type commonly seen in small online games. Here it’s likely just a style choice. The audio had me laughing right from the title screen. Between the hilarious but cute fictional language all the songs are sung in. and the way the little LocoRocos all shout when you push O to reform, I was hooked.
