Teaser Video for Rolando: a Platform/Puzzler Game for iPhone

O_O Yet another wad of $$$ to go after Monkey Ball has been beaten.

WTF?

/strangely I want
//I blame the music

i don't get it!

iNelson said:

i don't get it!

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Yeah, me neither. And the graphics look like my 9 year old niece drew them. But other than that, cool!

It does appear to be very similar to Loco Roco. I loved that game on the PSP. Now it makes me want Loco Roco on the iPhone. Using the accelerometer to control the loco rocos would be great.

I really like the look of this

wildcardd said:

It does appear to be very similar to Loco Roco. I loved that game on the PSP. Now it makes me want Loco Roco on the iPhone. Using the accelerometer to control the loco rocos would be great.

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I second that wholehartedly! For now, from what I can see in this trailer, I would call this quite a blatant rip off. The Loco Roco people should be pissed as their quite distinct graphical style is blatantly copied here.

Doesnt mean the game is bad though.

sebimeyer said:

I second that wholehartedly! For now, from what I can see in this trailer, I would call this quite a blatant rip off. The Loco Roco people should be pissed as their quite distinct graphical style is blatantly copied here.

Doesnt mean the game is bad though.

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i agree.
ripped off.
see how the enemies are virtually the same as in Loco Roco lol.

sebimeyer said:

I second that wholehartedly! For now, from what I can see in this trailer, I would call this quite a blatant rip off. The Loco Roco people should be pissed as their quite distinct graphical style is blatantly copied here.

Doesnt mean the game is bad though.

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I agree on both points.

Unless Sony releases Loco Roco first, Handcircus might make a fistful of dollars off this clone.

And yes, the music is catchy. Sounds like something you'd hear in an iPod commercial, which is even more effective here. Anyone know the song?

arn said:

somehow the music makes this trailer/teaser.

arn

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Someone find out who this song is by. I suddenly need to own that tune

arn said:

I'm surprised people haven't heard the song before.

It's 'The Clapping Song" by Shirley Ellis. iTunes actually doesn't have this version. Here it is on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Clapping-...f2_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1214973669&sr=102-1

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Thanks Arn!

Awesome!! Loco Roco is/was my favorite game for PSP. I didn't think that I'd buy any games, but I think that Rolando will be my first game purchase for my iPhone.

TOUCHARCADE! That was it. I couldn't think of it earlier. Looks like you took my advice, arn, by advertising it more. I bet many of us will become addicted to it with time and all the crazy games that will be coming to the iPhone.

I wish you would make a version which has all iPhone APPS related news. I know there isn't a ton now, but I do enjoy the TUAW feature that they have a few times a week where they post all the new iPhone apps that were announced over the past few days. Hmmm...on second thought, maybe I will start that site myself.......

this game looks brilliant
there's something amazingly addictive about the quite simple gameplay of LocoRoco and this game looks to have much the same
just hope they haven't over-complicated it by adding too many other mechanics to make use of the touch interface to interact with scenery items

I'm going to go broke on games from the App Store.

This game really looks like fun. I don't play a lot of games and don't plan on buying many, but something like this could definitely make it's way onto my phone.

AppleFan333 said:

I'm going to go broke on games from the App Store.

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I'm going to run out of flash memory on games from the App Store

I'm going to agree that the music somehow made that trailer.

arn said:

somehow the music makes this trailer/teaser.

arn

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Seriously, I loved the music in the background. If they can only incorporate it in the game! Now if the game is $9.99 or less, I'm so there, looks interesting!

wildcardd said:

It does appear to be very similar to Loco Roco. I loved that game on the PSP.

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Yep. Hope this guy doesn't get sued. Seriously. I hope he's done his (legal) homework.

Hm, honestly, it looks like Loco Roco, only fun.