Tokobot for PSP

[Dylan1CC]

Just got this today and although it could use some polish on the camera, it is a very solid little platformer so far.

It's a bit of Mario 64 meets Pikmin in a high-tech victorian/steampunk setting. Graphics are beautiful and the game has excellent presentation (the heroes and villains are some of the nicest character art I have seen since Joker Jun's 'Laputa style' work in Progear) and a personality all its own. Music ranges from nice orchestral to a mix of boppin' 'saturday morning cartoon' style music which has a fun sort of "smart alecky" feel to the background vocals.

Control is well done. Using the 'bots to form up, latch/climb and attack is VERY intutive and very enjoyable, the anlog nub works fine with the game. Only "cheap" deaths I have experienced so far were a few times early on where I was testing the limits of the game and was dumb enough to think I could make a jump over a small ravine without having to use the 'Bots.

Sometimes of course you lose a few 'Bots when going over a ridge/wall/obstacle but it's usually not frustrating (so far) and you can just use the radar to call them back if they fall into a pit. The game enncourages you to pick up your "strays" which is OK by me.

First boss battle was great even if a bit too easy. You fight a big 'bot with springy arms who runs around the room. You have to wait till he tires himself out then you use your "spin formation" to hit him.

Unfortunately I did have to update my firmware (criminy, Sony cut me a break will ya???....). But when I owned Battlefront II for awhile last month I just used the downgrader which works fine (refer to the PSP tutorial thread on the first page of TNL forum if you want more info).

Anyways, I'd been anticipating this for months and James (from Hardcore Gamer) told me to go ahead and buy it and I'm glad I did so far. Only $30 too. The first good PSP platformer with plenty of originality. Glad I resisted the urge to buy Ape Escape since that one is supposed to be broken.

[elbarto]

Unfortunately I did have to update my firmware (criminy, Sony cut me a break will ya???....). But when I owned Battlefront II for awhile last month I just used the downgrader which works fine (refer to the PSP tutorial thread on the first page of TNL forum if you want more info).

What does the game want an upgrade to? 2.0? or higher?

Good to hear you're enjoying it, I should be picking it up soon

[Thunder Force]

Unfortunately I did have to update my firmware (criminy, Sony cut me a break will ya???....). But when I owned Battlefront II for awhile last month I just used the downgrader which works fine (refer to the PSP tutorial thread on the first page of TNL forum if you want more info).

Battlefront II could be played in firmware 1.5 without updating, by running the UMD from Fastloader 0.7 as long as you kept the CPU clock set to normal. Maybe worth trying something like that for this new game Tokobot too...

[Dylan1CC]

Unfortunately I did have to update my firmware (criminy, Sony cut me a break will ya???....). But when I owned Battlefront II for awhile last month I just used the downgrader which works fine (refer to the PSP tutorial thread on the first page of TNL forum if you want more info).

Battlefront II could be played in firmware 1.5 without updating, by running the UMD from Fastloader 0.7 as long as you kept the CPU clock set to normal. Maybe worth trying something like that for this new game Tokobot too...

Thanks, TF. Will have to look into that.

And elbarto, it updates to 2.0 which is downgradable.

[elbarto]

Thanks. My machine came with 2.0 installed anyway, but I don't want to upgrade above that unless I absolutely have to.

Haven't got round to trying the downgrader yet, I'm still hoping they'll find a way around 2.0 for the emu stuff.