LocoRoco Cocoreccho is coming to the PlayStation Network “next Thursday” in Europe according to CVG. Whether next Thursday means tomorrow or the following week if your call, but since we’ve previously heard 9/21 as the release date for Japan, my bet is we’re not talking about this week.
The game will retail for the cool price of £1.99 (roughly $4 USD). It’s set to be an “interactive screensaver” according to Sony. No word if the game will run from the Games section of the XMB or if it will just be a screensaver in the background of your PS3. Either way, it’s pretty cheap for a cool gameplay experience.
We’ll keep you updated as more info comes out for a US release.
Sony quietly dropped the release date for the PS3 version of LocoRoco at a post E3 event in Japan. The game will be released 9/21 in Japan, with no worldwide release or pricing set.
There are some major differences from the PSP version. You take control this time of a butterfly, or perhaps a group of butterfiles, known as “Cocoreccho.” By pressing the circle button, you can make the Cocoreccho shout “boo boo.” This makes the sleeping LocoRoco in your area wake up and come to you. Your goal is to lead the LocoRoco to the stage’s goal.
The game’s title, incidentally, tells the whole story. “Boo Boo” is what Cocoreccho say to make the LocoRoco come to them (“oideyo” is Japanese for ordering someone to come to you).
I’m very excited for this title, as the PSP version with insanely addicting. Even the cheesy music got stuck in your head.
The little screen inside the first PS3 Home trailer may have served this purpose, but Sony just announced that LocoRoco is coming as a downloadable title for the PlayStation Network.
The game is tentatively titled “Buu Buu Cocoreccho! by LocoRoco”… ummm, yeah. Not sure the name is the best, but if the gameplay is anything like Loco Roco, I’m sure this is going to be fun.
Sony describes the game as “It’s LocoRoco, but it’s not — a peculiar extra chapter.” That, and a sentence with three different uses of the world play: “Even if you don’t play it [as in control the game], the world and the LocoRoco will play [as in both playing amongst themselves and as in playing back like a video] on their own.”
Yeah, that’s pretty damn vague there Sony. The game is set to have around 200 LocoRoco characters and utilize SIXAXIS motion controls. Sony says the game is around 95% done, so I would expect the game to be out this fall.
After seeing the cool video of the PS3 Home service, we now bring you a video of the Hall of Fame feature of Home. It’s sort of like the Xbox 360’s Achievements, but a more visual demonstration where you have a huge trophy room. Check it out for yourselves…
Did anyone else catch that Loco Roco section in the Hall of Fame? Does that mean we’ll see the terrific PSP title on it’s big brother sometime soon? Gamespot caught up with the director of Loco Roco, Tsutomo Kouno’s, during his presentation at GDC on the game’s development. From their interview:
But perhaps most interestingly, he teased, “I’d like to use a new way of playing the game for the next version of LocoRoco.”
He wouldn’t talk about it during the session, but he did promise attendees “a new and pleasant surprise.”
Very interesting, indeed! Is this new way of playing the SIXAXIS? Only time will tell, but I think it’s fairly certain to see that the next version of Loco Roco will be making it’s way onto a PS3 near you. More and more reasons coming out to own one, which is a sigh of relief for PS3 owners.
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