The Situation: After working for five years at the same company they've finally let you go. Not for stealing pens and other office supplies. Not for fraternizing with your co-workers. Not because they are downsizing. They fired you because you "weren't a team player," whatever that means. For five years you played for their team, yet all of a sudden you aren't good enough for them? Exactly how much ass do you have to kiss in order to be a "team player"? Oh sure, the other slackers in your office are still employed, getting races and other perks, but you have to sign up for unemployment insurance and try to find another job. That's five years you wasted trying to make your company the best it can be, and this is the thanks you get?

Will LocoRoco Help? LocoRoco will make it easy for you to forget about how much you hate that spineless scumbag boss that let you go while you are collecting unemployment. But maybe it's not a great idea for you to spend too much time playing games ... you have a whole city to explore in order to find a new job. Of course, one could probably argue that having LocoRoco with you would break up the monotony of dropping off job applications. And hey, the game might even keep you grounded. It's hard to be too pissed off when playing a game like this, what with those cute singing blob creatures that seem a little too happy when lightning strikes and they break up into dozens of little pieces. How many game characters can you name that are happy when they are hit by lightning? If that's not influential then I don't know what is.

The Situation: You try to make ends meet, but life just keeps you down and all you can afford is Section 8 housing. Day in and day out you're doing the same old thing, but no matter what you do it never seems to go anywhere. Your kids barely have enough food to live and you're living around crazy people and drug dealers. Thankfully you've made friends with the next door neighbor ... at least one of his personalities. But the real tragedy is that you feel like you can't dig your way out this hopelessness and despair. You know there's a better life out there, but at the moment it seems like that better life destined for somebody else.

Will LocoRoco Help? With filth all around you, crazy people you don't want to talk to and hopelessness everywhere you go, this is the one situation where LocoRoco might actually help. In all of the other scenarios put forth, LocoRoco does nothing more than help you forget your problems for a few minutes, but when it comes to living in Section 8 housing, you really have nothing better to do than sit around and play the happiest game of all time. When all you see is sadness and despair you might as well cling to something that brightens up your day, and there is no game brighter than LocoRoco. Is that enough to make you completely forget about your terrible life? No, but it's a good place to start!

The Situation: ThThe boot. The old heave ho. Backstabbing. Whatever you call it, it looks like your fellow band mates have gotten together behind your back and decided that they don't need you anymore. Apparently you're the one thing that is keeping this group from hitting the big time, and they want you gone. It doesn't matter that you were one of the founding members of the band, that you were the one that came up with the name, and that you are the lead singer that all the girls seem to love. Nope, they want to forget all about you and bring somebody new in, somebody that they say will get them on the radio and opening for whatever the flavor of the month is. This hurts, it's a complete betrayal. And now all you can do is hope for a successful solo career and pray that your old friends crash and burn in their attempt to get on MTV.

Will LocoRoco Help? Sure LocoRoco will help you forget about the band members that screwed you out of potential riches, but how rock 'n roll is playing a game with singing blobs? What would your fans say if they saw you playing this cute PSP platformers? For years you have been the lead singer that isn't afraid of setting himself on fire, performing after way too much to drink and beating up people in the audience that yelled out "Freebird". There's just no way people would accept you playing the most adorable game ever released. So put down that PSP, dude. It's time for you to pick up that axe and rock harder than you ever have before. It's time to show the world why you didn't need a bunch of losers weighing you down!

The Situation: You've been to every doctor within a five state radius, you've talked to foreign experts and you've double checked everything on the internet, but the only thing they can agree on is that they don't have a clue what is wrong with you. Every day you are getting worse and almost everybody expects that you only have a few weeks before you discover whether or not they have plastic in the afterlife. All around you are your friends and family constantly crying and bringing you flowers, it's almost worse when they are around because it reminds you of your mortality. You sit in the hospital room day after day wondering what will happen to you when you pass, worried about your family and what your legacy will be. You sit there watching the daytime television getting even more depressed by how terrible it is, praying for death to take you so that you don't have to put up with another minute of the Rachel Ray Show.

Will LocoRoco Help? It's not going to keep you alive, but LocoRoco might keep your mind off of the sadness that is all around you. After witnessing the horrible television programming and your emotional family, it will be awfully nice to just lay back and enjoy something that takes very little thought or skill. The characters are just cute enough to keep a smile on your face, and it's hard not to love a game that has their main character constantly singing cheerful songs. But then, do you really want to spend your last few days on Earth playing LocoRoco? Please tell me you have a better Make-A-Wish than that! You don't? Well, then have at it with the 'Roco. Everybody around you might think you're crazy, but there's something infectious about a game like this. Hmm, maybe that was a bad choice of words. Sorry about that.