Those lovely people at Sony have released a demo of Loco Roco for the PSP. I’ve just spent a good forty-five minutes or so playing it. And it’s wonderful. It’s a 2D platformer at heart, where you control a blob and try to get from left to right, eating fruit to make you grow. Left shoulder button tilts the world left, right one tilts it right, pressing both makes you jump. Press O quickly to split your big blob into little ones, hold O down to recombine them. It’s got lots of charm, bags of fun and tons of secrets. The obvious comparison has to be Katamari Damacy. Hoepfully this’ll be another – gnng – “wacky” game that crosses over to a larger audience.

(Well, at least in the States Katamari seemed to crossover. Over here it just seemed to die, as far as I can tell.)

It’s a sure buy for me, though I can see it getting too hard later in the game and making me cry.

If you have a PSP and you don’t mind updating your firmware then you really need to go and get this. Instructions over at Eurogamer should see you through. Go, go, go!