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Loco Roco trailer online

Cute. Fun. Top.

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News by Tom Bramwell Former Editor-in-Chief
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We played lots of things at the Tokyo Game Show. Xbox 360 games, PSP games, PS2 games, bread roulette. All sorts. One of the ones we get asked about most though is Sony's PSP tilty platform puzzler thing Loco Roco, which we included in our quirky PSP game roundup.

It's out in early 2006 apparently, which is a shame given that we want to play it NOW GODDAMMIT NOW, but in the meantime Sony's just launched its official Japanese website. Almost entirely bereft of detail (or indeed interactivity), the one highlight is a stream of the Tokyo Game Show trailer.

With that, you ought to be able to see what the game's about – and why we're really looking forward to sitting there like spanners on the Tube hammering shoulder buttons. Has to be more dignified than the last time yours truly tried playing Winning Eleven on the way to Oxford Circus, which resulted in a 60 year-old woman attempting to wash my mouth out with soap.

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