Review: Little Big Planet

Game: Little Big Planet
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: 3D Platformer
Release Date: October 27th, 2008

Creating has never been so much fun. If you like having your own dream world on your television screen, this is the perfect game for you! Little Big Planet has a lot of offer inside such a small game. Let’s start out with the story. I will admit that the story isn’t the greatest, it’s short and the ending was just completely pointless. Putting the story this game has to offer aside, the story mode levels are quite fun to play. Ranging from a peaceful garden setting, to an action packed canyon. Each area in the story offers mini games with some relation to the theme in the area.

Sackboy/girl, my new favourite lovable video game character, being allowed to fully customize your Sackperson is a very fun feature this game offers. Dressing him/her up as a dinosaur, a flower, lion, a ghostbuster, a TV, and the list goes on. Your sack person can look like anything you want. You can change your sack person’s material, hair style, eyes, clothing (both torso and legs) shoes, objects for them to carry. I’ve never had so much fun changing my character regularly.

Level creating, the main thing that attracted me to this game. After watching all these videos on people and the masterpieces they have created during the Little Big Planet Beta, the things people could do to make a level come to life just simply amazed me. I’ve never seen such a feature in a game before. I’m not the greatest at the level creating, but I did have lots of fun working through my levels, seeing what worked normally and what didn’t. What to do to fix my errors, and ways to improve my levels. The level creator offers many gadgets for you to play around with, from basic shapes to explosives to story mode characters. They pretty much have anything and everything you would need to create your dream level, and with future downloadable packages, they can extend your dream to perfection!

Another thing that brought me to this excellent game, the user created content. You can play any level you want, created by anybody. There are many, and I mean MANY excellent user created levels that are even better and more enjoyable than a story mode level. Usually the most popular levels of the week (I think that’s how it goes by) will be on the front page when you go into the user created planet.

Your friends can join you whenever you please! Another great thing about this game, you can have your friend(s) join you whenever in a level (assuming this level doesn’t have the “no one can enter” post near the beginning). Whether you’re playing through the story with your friends, playing the story minigames, or venturing through the user created levels, you’re surely going to have a blast and have a lot of laughs.

Now for my negative thoughts about Little Big Planet. The camera is odd when in a 4 player game, and can get frustrating when someone is either too slow, or going way too fast in the level. The camera will either follow them thus making you unable to see what you’re doing and possibly kill you. Another thing that bothers me is the massive lag this game gets. Some times the lag can get so bad that it’s nearly impossible to complete a level if you’re surprising not kicked from the party. The story is rather short as I said earlier in the review.

Aside those negatives, I would recommend buying this game. It’s fun, creative, artistic, addicting and overall, will give you a good play every time you pick up the controller. I give this game a 9.5/10 and should definitely be added into your gaming collections!


Happy gaming!

-Wafflejaw