Locoroco!

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:50 pm

I got the game this morning... it's just about the happiest thing I've ever played

Literally, I've been smiling and giggling at it all morning! Just thought I'd recommend it to anybody who wanted to give it a go (think it's only PSP atm but hopefully it may spread to other consoles).

You get to save a bunch of singing, brightly coloured blobs by rolling them around a cartoonish landscape! What are you sitting there for? Get rolling!

Sorry, it's so squeeish I just had to make a post on it :3

I've decided I want to be reincarnated as one of these little guys

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:27 pm

Its a wonderful game. I love the way that the loco rocos sing the background music as you play

The Moja scare me though

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:34 pm

They actually scare me too! It's the way they appear out of nowhere with that awful voice of theirs! o.O

The singing is fantastic though, I've been whistling most of their songs all day

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:45 pm

Sounds crazy, like Parappa the Rappa.

Which means I'd probably like it.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:13 pm

I want the main theme tune as a ring tone on my phone...

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:33 pm

Yaya wrote:Sounds crazy, like Parappa the Rappa.

Which means I'd probably like it.

It's swiftly becoming one of the highest rated games on the PSP, which has suffered awfully from most developers who just treat it as a way to dump naff, scaled-down PS2 titles. Not helped by Sony's ridiculous attitude to proprietary movie formats, which means using it as a media player is needlessly complicated.

I really like the idea of being able to download anime and watch it on there (yar, between Linux, anime and Computer Science in general I'm a pretty big geek) but it involves converting things into a particular mp4 format (not just any one will do) then giving them unwieldy filenames (M4V00001.MP4 for example) then putting them in the exact right place on the memory stick. Yeesh. And don't even get me started on how dumb the UMD DVD idea is- I don't want to repurchase my whole DVD collection just to watch them on my console!

Locoroco, Lumines and GTA are all lots of fun- it's been a very long time since I found any games worth taking the time to play on any system really.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:00 am

Look out for the F-word.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060728.jpg

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:24 pm

Or at least it *was* fun until my memory card snapped.

Yes. SNAPPED.

I took it out, put it into my USB memory card reader and discovered the card has all the strength of cardboard- it snapped straight in two with less pressure than it would take to open a greetings card.

All my save games, music and anime wiped out. I'd only had it a week, I hadn't even thought to make backups of it yet.

So that's another £30 I can't really afford gone on a replacement, I get to start all over again (which will be a pain for everything except Locoroco) and have to spend another X hours downloading all the movies.

Sigh. Nothing of any real value was lost but its needlessly inconvenient for something I've had less than a fortnight. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so painfully predictable, my 'jinx' with most electronic/computerised items is legendary. Not that I believe in luck as such, I just seem to encounter a statistically improbable number of preposterous setbacks with just about any electronic device I encounter. ffs.