Topic: Adventures of Lolo - Which one should I get?

I'd like to pick up one of the Lolo games with my Internet Channel refund. Which one would you recommend getting?

How did you get an Internet Channel refund? As for the Lolo games, there's really not a whole lot of difference between the first two. Just more puzzles. The 2nd game is probably a little bit harder, so I guess if you're looking for more challenge go with the 2nd one. They are both great games though, you can't go wrong with either.

They haven't announced the full details yet, just that it's valid from October through December for anyone who spent 500 points on the Internet Channel.

Loloes 1 & 2 I got as soon as they went up on the shopping channel, so I'm hoping they release three soon so I can use my refund on that.

Get AoL2.

AoL1 is a bit of an oddity. It was made specifically for the American and European markets to introduce them to the series, and takes levels from earlier games in the series, arranging them in the form of an extensive tutorial. The game is very very simple and easy, and never gets past the point where it stops teaching you how to play and lets you actually solve puzzles instead.

However. AoL2, a real entry in the series, ALSO has a tutorial included that tells you how to play. It teaches you more or less the same as AoL1 did, but it's over much faster, and has actual puzzle levels following the tutorials.
Your choice is, thus, between an overly extensive tutorial and nothing more, or an actual game also including a tutorial. The choice should be easy enough. AoL1 is a waste, get AoL2.

Thanks for the advice!

I would get Lolo 1 because that's hard enough and the best place to start.
Lolo 2 has some very difficult puzzles.

It does, because Lolo 1 never gets out of tutorial mode. The first tutorial level in AoL1 is about as hard as the first in AoL2, and the last tutorial level in AoL1 is about as hard as the last in AoL2.. but the last in AoL2 is given to you much earlier, so you're actually able to reach the meat of the game, which AoL1 never ends up giving you. It's not about challenge as it is of "getting to the point" - AoL2 teaches you everything you need to know, but it doesn't do it at the same ridiculously slow pace as AoL1, which means you actually get to play real puzzle levels too. Getting AoL1 is pointless, since it just teaches you how to play AoL2, and AoL2 does that too.

The precense of actual puzzles is not a negative. The lack of them is.

Well, he should know for himself if he wants the easy or the hard game.

"Easy" and "hard" aren't really the appropriate words to use here. The tutorial levels of Lolo 2 aren't any harder than the tutorial levels of Lolo 1, it's just that Lolo 1 has more of them, and barely any real puzzle levels. Both games do an equally good job of preparing you for the real puzzles, but Lolo 1 does it much slower, and never really gets around to starting on the real puzzles, while Lolo 2 takes care of the tutorial quickly and starts on the real game much quicker.
All the Lolo/Eggerland series has these tutorial levels, and they teach you exactly the same (which makes them rather tiresome if you've played a game in the series before, since you can't skip them, but getting a game that's more or less nothing but an overly long tutorial when there's a real game with a just as effective tutorial on offer seems rather silly.

"Lolo 1" wasn't released until far into the series' lifetime, and it was never released in Japan, so people have obviously managed to play these games just fine without this "learn to play Lolo" pack. It's just a waste, really.

Tutorials? I don't remember any tutorials in Lolo1. Or is that your way of saying it's too easy, ie. 'all tutorial'?

get neither just get zelda or mario or kid icarus maybe mega man but not some useless game that you will only play once or twice

^Did you ever stop and think that maybe I either already have, or don't want, the titles you listed?

Here are reviews for the game. They do pretty much say what Adamant was saying, but they may be worth checking out.
Adventures of Lolo 1
Adventures of Lolo 2

All the Lolo/Eggerland games start with a series of levels that introduce the different elements of the gameplay to you, and let you get a feel for the system, before throwing you into real puzzles later. Yeah, they're not literally named "tutorial", and they don't give you instructions the way more modern games do, but it's still pretty clear that the game is holding your hand and easing you into things, showing you how the game works. It's understandable they do it, due to the complex nature of the games, but once you've played a number of games in the series, you really start wishing they'd allow you to skip the tutorial and get to the real puzzles, since each game's tutorial levels are pretty similiar to the ones in the other games.

Normally these levels are over relatively quickly, but in "Adventures of Lolo 1" they just go on and on and on forever, even though they still teach you the same as the tutorial levels in the other games - the pace is just slower. "Adventures of Lolo 2" does a perfect job introducing the gameplay from the very basics and up, so there's little point in getting the original.

Lolo 1 was challenging enough for my taste. And I never realised that Lolo 2 is much different. It's just more of the same. They were equal. It doesn't really matter if you play Lolo 1 or Lolo 2 or Lolo 3 or the Super Game Boy version or Eggerland. They are just more of the same with ZERO new content, only packs of editor-made-stages and a new music that loops with no end.