SAN JOSE, Calif.--As part of Phil Harrison's keynote address at the 2006 Game Devleopers Conference, Sony has confirmed that Loco Roco, the 2D ball-rolling game that some have likened to a 2D take on Katamari Damacy, will be coming to the US and Europe as part of the game's worldwide release this summer.
The game was first shown to the public at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 last September. Loco Roco revolves around what can only be described as an orange blob with a voracious appetite. Using the handheld's triggers, gamers tilt the screen back and forth in order to progress through levels.
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Great news. This should be a fun game.
The game looks awesome...
Not the best it be an ok PSP game. This game seems to be something that the Japan would like why is it been relesed here.
WHAT is this.
this will be the the best psp game yet
Hmmm, still not convinced.
omg!! tha psp is ruling this year wit games!! i already knew its time would come, jus like ps2 it took it a full year to get its games great!! i love tha psp!! =]
Good news that its coming here, it would have been stupi for this not to go worldwide seeing how katamari has landed in the u.s. well
They just showed a new video of it at GDC .Apparently it looks decent. Not that I will be getting a childish game...(in that case I'd get a Gamecube :P)
awesome!
You know what? Who cares if it's even remotely like Katamari? Katamari Damacy was one of the first semi-creative (actually, it was pretty creative...the authors must've been doing acid or some other hallucingenic) games to come out of the industry in a long time. I'd LOVE to see something else in the same vein, but with a twist. Fortunately, Loco Roco seems to be grinding its own path, with a likeness to Super Monkey Ball, Mercury, and/or the old tilting Labyrinth board games. If making the orange ball made it grow or gave it different abilities, that'd make it even more like KD, but cooler IMO. I'm all for the industry going ballistic with creativity, rather than pumping out the sequel-icious drivel that's been paid for time and again for the past 10 years. GO BUY STUFF LIKE PSYCHONAUTS!!!! Support the little guys!!! (yes, I know SCEI isn't the "little guys" I was talking about, but the developer is most likely taking a chance for the in-house group that Sony drives.)
Guess I need to do some reading on Loco Roco. Don't know too much about it.
LORO ROCO - ROOOOLA HOOLA GOOLA
nevermind its more like those funny little handheld things full of water that you tilt to make the bubbles move through
it seems to be a little more akin to super monkey ball. Only the ball is super hungry instead.
Nice launch line-up
Awesome.
This is good news. This game looks like fun and it is somethign different from a lot of the me too games that dominate today. One last point Loco Roco is certainly not a Katamari ripoff, I don't even begin to know where you got that impression. Loco Roco has much more in common with a game like Mercury than with KD.
IMO its far from a 2D katamari.
Good news! I've been waiting for the crazy blob game to make its North America debut.
i still like loco roco even if it is a katamari rip off.