Squelching butterflies & singing blobs - Locoroco Cocoreccho

Yesterday I forked out the least I’d ever spent on a computer game; and that includes the version of Civ I picked up at Oxfam. For a penny under 2 quid I download the ‘interactive screensaver’ of Locorocco Cocoreccho for the PS3; and today me and the boys put it through its twinge inducing paces.

Perhaps this sees in a new era of pocket-money (allowance) games for which kids can save up a little over the cost of two weeks of the Beano to download their own games… and Sony have been very canny in allowing ‘master’ accounts to set up funds into wallets for just this sort of purpose.

Why only a two star game? after the jump

Don’t get me wrong, I like this game. It’s a pleasant way to while away an hour now and then, and is very enjoyable in a pass the joypad around to the next person kind of way; but my forearm now twinges from shaking the controller up and down to shake the sleeping LocoRoco out of the branches (a LocoRoco is a small singing space-hopper). I suppose this PS3 wrist is a close relative of the reported Wii-elbow, but it’s not something I’d let my kids do to themselves; the problem is every go seems to last an hour or so, and so we now pass the controller around.

On the up side, it is a bit harder than its first incarnation on the PSP, stretching No1 child’s problem solving neurons further; it’s singalong style has No2 child entranced; the botty-trumping sound of the flatulent butterfly makes us giggle; and it was less than a pint of beer and will last longer. So worth getting, but not a classic.

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