LocoRoco 2 2008

Is it still worth playing?

Sony Computer Entertainment's platformer for the PlayStation Portable, released in Japan and PAL regions in 2008 and in North America in 2009, the sequel to LocoRoco. Once again you play as the planet itself. The shoulder buttons tilt the world to move the LocoRoco, and pressing both makes it jump. That single large LocoRoco can split into many with the circle button or at certain points in a level, and merge back when the button is held. The sequel adds swimming underwater, squeezing through crevices and many new abilities, along with new characters such as the evil red BuiBui, a purple LocoRoco named Viole and an old lady named Galanmar. On the PlayStation 4, a remastered version came in 2017. Moving by tilting the whole world, rather than steering a character, still gives it a feel of its own today.