LittleBigPlanet
2008
- platform
- fantasy
- comedy
- sandbox
- kids
- single player
- multiplayer
- co-operative
The story
Welcome to LittleBigPlanet – a world of infinite possibilities, where imagination becomes reality and the powers of creation are firmly in your hands. If you can think of it, you can create it if you can create it, you can share it if you can share it, you can play it – and watch our colorful LittleBigPlanet grow and diversify! It’s a new kind of game that unleashes the creativity in everyone. Design your own character and play over 50 awesome developer levels packed with dangers to navigate, races to win and puzzles to solve. As you play you will learn the skills to build a world of your own by earning creative tools and collecting hundreds of items. Use these items and tools to shape amazing levels of your own, featuring puzzles, challenges, and enemies of your own design. When you are ready, go online to access the LBP community and Share your creations for everyone to play. LittleBigPlanet is a world with no limits – a world that’s yours to shape, build and explore.
What it’s like
Warm, handmade and tactile: burlap, felt, yarn and cardboard worlds lit by soft golden stage lights, with stitched seams, button eyes and paper-cut backdrops that look like a child's craft project brought to life. Its sound is bouncy and playful, a jaunty orchestral score that shifts with each stage's mood, punctuated by squeaks, clunks and the chirp of stickers being placed. The vibe is cheerful and imaginative with a hint of mischief, and it moves at a brisk platformer pace, hopping, grappling and swinging through side-scrolling levels that flip between whimsical and clever. Its intensity is gentle: danger comes from pits, spikes and wind-up enemies that reset you with a cheerful fizzle, with no gore, cruelty or frightening content. Playing alone or with a friend on the couch, it suits a lazy weekend afternoon, a family session, or a creative evening spent tinkering with its level editor. It is for people who want a sweet, low-stakes, wonderfully crafted playground, and for anyone who enjoys building their own little worlds as much as exploring them.
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