Locoroco Cocoreccho on PSN

By Robert Purchese Published 21 September, 2007

Europe shafted on the whole.

In case you hadn't noticed, yesterday saw the release of LocoRoco Cocoreccho on the PlayStation Network.

Although bullied by other games because of its screensaver heritage, Cocoreccho lets you enjoy rolling 200 different blobs around minimalist but artistic levels. It's an interactive screensaver, you see, one that uses the motion-sensing abilities of Sixaxis.

So, if that sounds like your cup of tea, then simply pop GBP 1.99 in the slot and get going.

Or, of course, you could enjoy the other Playstation Store offerings in the shape of two PSone games: MediEvil and Syphon Filter, both GBP 3.49.

Or. No, wait, there's nothing else apart from a Jericho trailer. Well that's OK, at least until you look over to the US where PS3 owners are enjoying nine trailers, four demos, and LocoRoco Cocoreccho.

Snot fair.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (31) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • SeesThroughAll #1 4 years ago

    Who's in charge of SCEE? Have him pick up soaps in prison and see if he likes it!

    >:[

  • peterfll #2 4 years ago

    Why is is called a screensaver when in fact it just is what is is; a short downloadable game that's launched from the XMB as a game?

  • kangarootoo #3 4 years ago

    I also wonder what the point is of descriving this as a screensaver. Its a bloody game, that just happens to launch in an odd way.

    Is the News at Ten a screensaver just because watching it will stop a plasma telly scorching?

  • SeesThroughAll #4 4 years ago

    What happens if you let it launch and don't use the controller? Does it do something on it's own? Then it warrants the "interactive screensaver" name.

  • penhalion #5 4 years ago

    Where the heck is the synergy between the US PSN and the european one? On live you get demo's that come out pretty much the same time in UK and USA even if the game is not due here for a while. Probably because the demo isn't going to change any from one continent to the next!

    Are Sony really stupid enough not to see that simply fact?

  • Syrok #6 4 years ago

    But Locoroco is cheaper over here. (as said many times before)
    And it's not really that difficult to download the demos from the US store.

  • peterfll #7 4 years ago

    I haven't let it sit alone for any amount of time.

    "that just happens to launch in an odd way."

    ?

    You launch it from the XMB like a game, no? Am I missing an exciting feature?!

  • Les #8 4 years ago

    "On live you get demo's that come out pretty much the same time in UK and USA even if the game is not due here for a while."

    Are Live demo's all localised? Unfortunately, that's apparently very important for Sony.

  • SeesThroughAll #9 4 years ago

    Apparently it has an auto-run feature, similarly to F@H.

  • Hughes. #10 4 years ago

    Situation normal, but as long as Sony doesn't do anything as stupid as disabling international accounts so you can't just grab demos form other stores, it could be worse.

    Of course betting on Sony not doing something stupid is a fast way to lose money.

    And, Medievil is fixed!

    \o/

    It should have been working in the first place of course, and there's still no sign of Spyro 2 returning to the store.

  • Stormflood #11 4 years ago

    It's really not hard to get a US account if you want those demos. Though I was too busy enjoying Loco to care about the demos last night..

  • jellyhead #12 4 years ago

    Have NOE taken over SCEE? 0_o

  • flapps #13 4 years ago

    To the whingers - sure it'd be great if we could have the same content as the US on the same day, but there is a little something called 'localisation' that happens to get in the way of that most of the time...

  • marilena #14 4 years ago

    Yes, translating something from English to English is very hard.

  • aidey6 #15 4 years ago

    Re: marilena comments; they're called SCE Europe not SCE UK,although I have a US PSN Account, so I have downloaded Sega Rally, Skate and Stuntman demos.....

  • Artemis_Matsas #16 4 years ago

    Locoroco is great fun, but does anybody know how it can be used as a screensaver?

  • Nobuo #17 4 years ago

    Does this work on an SD telly? The specs suggest not...

    Where the hell is T5:DR Online?

  • kangarootoo #18 4 years ago

    @peterfll

    Actually I am making an assumption there. I figured it must launch in an odd way, otherwise what exactly makes it a screen saver? If you launch it from the XMB, and then play it as a game... well thats just a game right?

    Am I being dense or something? Please someone tell me why this is being called a screensaver, otherwise I'll never sleep (and if I don't sleep, no one sleeps).

  • Darren #19 4 years ago

    I rarely bother with the lousy European PS Store now, I go straight to the US one which has FOUR playable demos this week: SEGA Rally, Stuntman Ignition, Skate and NBA 08 as well as lots of trailers, LocoRocco and FREE wallpapers, including two superb Lair ones. Why the feck don't we get the free wallpapers, do they take months to localize or something? /rolls eyes

    Sort it, Sony! :x

  • DocTep #20 4 years ago

    @ Kangarootoo...

    Nope, there's no auto-start feature. It behaves just the same as any other downloaded game from PSN.

    I'd guess someone decided it would be a good idea to call it an 'interactive screensaver' to excuse the lack of content when compared to many of the more expensive games. Of course the fact it's only £1.99 does that anyway, and does so without creating confusion about what it actually is too. Don't you just love self-defeating ineffectual marketing...

  • numptyboymatt #21 4 years ago

    I was a bit disappointed with this - was expecting something a bit more akin to the psp game

  • Weaverz #22 4 years ago

    u no, u should all just get american and japanses PS3 accounts. that way, u dont have to wait!

  • belziah #23 4 years ago

    @Weavers

    u know we shouldn't have to.

  • m0thr4 #24 4 years ago

    Wah, wah, wah... it's not fair... Sony hates me... boo hoo.

    Get yourself a US account, download the demos and trailers from the US Store and stop crying like a little baby.


    EDIT: that was @ the writer of the original article BTW.
    Edited by 1 at 23/09/07 @ 08:53

  • Nithron #25 4 years ago

    m0thr4: cool name, btw
    Surely Sony would still *be* wankers if we all got overseas accounts, it just wouldn't be getting in our way personally?

  • White_Westie #26 4 years ago

    Sony shafting people because they live in europe? I cant believe it....never....

  • m0thr4 #27 4 years ago

    Nithron: Sony aren't wankers in any way more than Microsoft or Nintendo.

    When it comes to shafting European customer with game releases and download content, particularly the hobbled European virtual console, Nintendo gets the 'Golden Cock Award'.

    And both those companies shaft us on price, charging us double what the Yanks get away with paying.

    On Sony's UK PSN store, the prices almost reflect the true USD/GBP exchange rate.

  • m0thr4 #28 4 years ago

    By the way, Locoroco Cocoreccho is not a screensaver... and don't believe anyone who tells you it is. It's just a short puzzle game - there's no way to set it as a screensaver on the PS3.

  • homerramone #29 4 years ago

    Thatll be on account of Europe bieng their best market eh ?

  • 3william56 #30 4 years ago

    It burns my eyes! It burns my ears! It burns my brain!
    Aaaarrrggghhhhhh!

    /runs off screaming

  • Les #31 4 years ago

    "Well that's OK, at least until you look over to the US where PS3 owners are enjoying nine trailers, four demos, and LocoRoco Cocoreccho."

    Ah well, given that demos "are a total and utter waste of time in that it's usually a) in an unfinished, unoptimised state, b) from a really early point in the game when it's too easy and gives no impression of the depth" we're not missing much over here... ;)