LocoRoco (PSP)

Small, smiling spherical bundles of joy, LocoRoco are the latest addition to gaming's growing group of high-profile cutesy characters. Starring in their first...See more » Small, smiling spherical bundles of joy, LocoRoco are the latest addition to gaming's growing group of high-profile cutesy characters. Starring in their first self-titled outing on PSP, Sony's gelatinous globules join the likes of Worms, Lemmings and Pikmin as instantly recognisable icons in the making, embodying everything good, great and fun about current handheld gaming. Of course, plenty will scoff at such neon-coloured nonsense. And admittedly, LocoRoco isn't one of those titles that pushes the PSP's polygon power or sets its scene in a grimy, downtrodden dystopia of a gameworld. Indeed, as a purely 2D, side-scrolling puzzle-platformer, it's an erudite example of gaming that we're more used to seeing on the DS. However, against the more action-oriented PSP library, it could easily end up an undiscovered gem.See less »