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It looks like LocoRoco, which is now officially available here in the U.S., received pretty decent ratings across the board. The Game Ranking's average was 84 percent, with Gamepro giving it a 60 percent and NZGamer giving it a 95 percent. I gave it a B+ in my Rocky review. I loved the game, but it can get a little tedious over time.
LocoRoco belongs to the growing genre of games that experiment with physics. It's a platformer of sorts like Katamari Damacy, but this one explores the properties of gel blobs and gravity. It would be an interesting centerpiece for a programming lecture and it probably belongs in an art museum, but as a $40 video game, it's a little thin.
Grade: Three out of five.
With its constantly singing jelly protagonists and pastel Little Prince backdrops of anthropomorphic landscapes, it would be easy to overlook the subtle pleasures of LocoRoco for the Playstation Portable. But like the underlying message of this playable allegory, Loco Roco's strength can be found in its inventive take on the typical. Grade: B+
Aside from experimental unlocks and silly novelties, the LocoRoco experience is one of undiluted fun. If the tilting, blob moving puzzle-platforming doesn't warm your heart, then the catalogue of alarmingly addictive psychotic J-Pop tunes will have you dancing around the living room. Bound together by bite-sized playability, endless secrets and the most charming 2D visuals ever conceived, LocoRoco is the perfect distilation of everything a handheld game should be. It's the sort of quirkily original PSP title that we've been screaming for - buy it and smile all summer long.
Grade: Nine out of ten.
