Again, a simple mechanic that developers put to brilliant use. This lets you access special areas that require you to be a certain size, plus it lets you snatch those hard-to-reach pieces of fruit that only an army of tiny Locoroco can reach. The bigger you are, the more pieces you break into. This ties into the second ability, which lets you break the Locoroco into smaller blobs by tapping the circle button. First, they grow by eating fruit, so you need to find as many as possible. Simply rolling and jumping won't get you far, though, and you need to use the Locoroco's special abilities. Even more important than that, the game happens to be highly addictive and ridiculously fun. It's not simplistic so much as it's refreshingly elegant. There's more to the game, but in terms of getting anywhere, it's tilt left or right, jump or roll. That's literally as complicated as navigation ever gets.

Your globular friends then lazily roll downhill or, if you want them to jump uphill, you can just tap both shoulder buttons at the same time. You do this by pressing the two shoulder buttons, depending on what direction you want the environment to go.

In a way, it feels like you're a god holding a planet, and whenever you want the Locoroco to roll in a direction, you merely tilt the whole world. Plus, you never control the Locoroco at all, only their environment. Where most gamers can only fathom what it's like to steer a bi-pedal, two-dimensional character through a stage, it's a completely different story here. Where it changes has everything to do with how you reach the exit. In this regard Locoroco behaves like any other 2D platformer. Your goal remains the same through all 40 stages and five worlds of the game. The goal in every level sees you steer the Locoroco - smiling blobs of goo - to an exit.