LocoRoco on PS3 - No tilt control? What the ...

[Dolla Dolla]

"What about motion control?

"The one thing we never did during my demo was use the Sixaxis to tilt the entire game world. That is what you would have expected, had you played the PSP original.

"Instead, we moved the butterfly over various objects and tried to tilt them. For example, in this post’s big screenshot, do you see that big red flower? If we hovered over that with the butterfly it might have caused the flower to spin, the petals to fall off and a few hidden LocoRocos to be uncovered. See those two guys standing above the cog wheel? Hovering over them and shaking the Sixaxis left and right might cause them to raise and lower the handlebar between them in order to make that wheel turn.

"Now that I think of it, we played “LocoRoco CocoReccho” almost as if it was an old-school point-and-click adventure game. We used the butterfly as a mouse pointer and utilized shakes of the Sixaxis controller in place of probing mouse clicks. We wanted to see what happened and kept trying to meddle with different parts of the scenery."

Full article:
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2007/08/31/mixed-motions-how-locoroco-on-ps3-takes-unexpected-twists/

That's just ... odd. After I played the PSP game and heard they were making a LocoRoco for the PS3, I thought it was a match made in heaven. LocoRoco + SixAxis = Duh! I guess I was wrong ...

Edit:

To add to it, eurogamer is saying that LocoRoco is nothing more than an interactive screensaver.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=82514

"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."

I wanted this to be like the PSP version. Seems like they're taking it in a completely different direction