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LocoRoco PS3 not a game News

PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese

31 August, 2007

Sony has revealed that LocoRoco Cocoreccho! on PS3 won't be a game, but an interactive screensaver with which you can interact. Interactively.

Once you've sat looking at your telly for long enough the experience will begin, putting you in control of a little butterfly who has to wake the singing LocoRoco up. When they do, you'll have to guide them around the level, tilting branches and other platforms using the motion-sensing Sixaxis controller.

Along the way, you'll bump into one of the three mini-games that reward you with more LocoRoco, but you'll also come across threats like the hungry Moja who will gobble you right up. If you lose too many of your blobs, the big boss BonMuncha will wake up. Uh-oh. If you see him its interactive screensaver over.

All in all there will be 200 LocoRoco to roll around, all drawn in lovely 1080p style, plus online rankings for you to compete for.

But unfortunately there's no word on a date or price yet, although Sony has said it will definitely be this year and won't be free.

Sing your way over to our LocoRoco Cocoreccho! gallery for the first screenshots.

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AcidSnake
31/08/07 @ 15:55
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Riiiight...
So free then? At least I sure hope they won't ask money for a screensaver...
cthulhu_steev
31/08/07 @ 15:56
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I hope this isn't going to be another racist game!
Shyvah
31/08/07 @ 15:57
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@ AcidSnake

From the above article:

But unfortunately there's no word on a date or price yet, although Sony has said it will definitely be this year and won't be free.
myiagros
31/08/07 @ 15:58
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still interested, if it comes with cool music.

Hopefully a full sequal to LocoRoco won't be far behind (either for PSP, PS3 or both).
AcidSnake
31/08/07 @ 15:58
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@Skyvah:
Ah hey...I was just checking if you were paying attention...

Nice job!

/re-reads article 6 times just in case...
kangarootoo
31/08/07 @ 16:01
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Kind of sounds like a game to me, with just an odd launching mechanism.
geepersd
31/08/07 @ 16:04
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it does sound like you need to lose a game to switch off a screensaver... which is obviously not the case - shame it's not going to free though as that'd be nice, or a vib ribbon screensaver maybe
quantumsheep
31/08/07 @ 16:09
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"or a vib ribbon screensaver maybe"

Genius!
myiagros
31/08/07 @ 16:12
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"or a vib ribbon screensaver maybe"

give this man a knighthood!!!
el_pollo_diablo
31/08/07 @ 16:23
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Wahey! I was thinking exactly the same thing about Vib Ribbon last night, how it'd make an awesome visualiser/toy to replace the naff Winamp Geiss-esque one they have at the moment...
Great minds and all that.

Still, this looks... interesting. If a bit iffy.
Moz
31/08/07 @ 16:23
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Sounds cool, maybe it's just badly worded press release, in that it is a game (all be it a small one) but you can also set it as your screen saver.
Xerx3s
31/08/07 @ 17:33
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Erm, I'm not sure that sony understands what defines a game anymore. :/

Why on earth would they name one of their most important games a 'screensaver'?
dominalien
31/08/07 @ 18:34
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"a little butterfly who has to wake the singing LocoRoco up"

So let me get this straight: they're singing while they're sleeping? Is this, like, some malady, like snoring in humans? "Wake me up if I snore too loud" == "Little butterfly, wake me up if I start singing like Pavarotti"?

Sold!
Steroyd
31/08/07 @ 19:07
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"or a vib ribbon screensaver maybe"

:O I've never played Vib Ribbon but I've seen it, who owns the property please say Sony. :(
Altrezia
31/08/07 @ 19:47
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oh :(
MrsPacMan
31/08/07 @ 21:42
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lol, nother great idea from slowny
Nesty
31/08/07 @ 22:07
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way to go sony, kill your best new franchise...
dominalien
31/08/07 @ 22:15
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@ Egster

'Twas a joke, that was.

/note to self: work on sense of humour
Lim-Dul
31/08/07 @ 22:49
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Waaaaait a minute...

@AcidSnake & Shyvah

But unfortunately there's no word on a date or price yet, although Sony has said it will definitely be this year and won't be free.

And then we have this article posted a bit earlier:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?art...

LOL! Eurogamer contradicting THEMSELVES? :-P
playgen
31/08/07 @ 23:58
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Since when does a game console need a screensaver? nobody uses them on a PC anymore, as it justs makes more sense to switch the thing off (or let the monitor auto power down)

Seems like they just havent bothered developing a proper game, so rather than selling a tiny little crappy game, their selling an impressive screensaver - as nobody has high expectations for a screensaver.
menage
01/09/07 @ 02:25
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What a waste.
DanWhitehead
01/09/07 @ 09:49
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In other news, LittleBigPlanet is actually a mouse mat.
AOFanboi
01/09/07 @ 10:22
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Um, PS3 owners who have downloaded Folding@Home uses that as a screensaver. Why would they need an interactive one? If you are active in front of the PS3 you have no need for a screensaver.

So: More exactly this is a game that starts up automatically if you don't do anything else. Except it does not compute protein folding effects and thus contribute nothing to medical research...
TheUnionFrag
01/09/07 @ 21:38
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I still don't get it.
Pulsar_t
02/09/07 @ 04:03
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In other news, LittleBigPlanet is actually a mouse mat.

Bwahahaha!
DanC89
02/09/07 @ 09:24
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I loved LocoRoco, but this is ridiculous.
Daikon
02/09/07 @ 10:08
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Interactive thingy? Flashback to 1996.
Retroid [mod]
02/09/07 @ 14:02
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May I just say: FFS

/Plays PSP
Loowis
02/09/07 @ 16:46
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I actually think it's quite neat. Because to be honest, what can a PS3 Loco Roco game do that a PSP game can't do better? What do we want, sweating, dribbling Loco's in ultra High Def graphics?

Sound pretty cool.
Lim-Dul
03/09/07 @ 22:56
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What do we want, sweating, dribbling Loco's in ultra High Def graphics?

Is that like an erotic fantasy of yours? =)
m0thr4
23/09/07 @ 15:44
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It's not a screensaver at all... Eurogamer are lying to us once again. It's a game; a short game, but it only costs £1.99 and no one's forcing anyone to buy it.

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