LittleBigPlanet (2008)

LittleBigPlanet, commonly abbreviated LBP, is a platform video game, based on user-generated content, for the PlayStation 3 first announced on 7 March 2007, by Phil Harrison at the 2007 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California. It was developed under the title The Next Big Thing by Media Molecule and was published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Many saw the game as an important title for Sony's PlayStation 3.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) LittleBigPlanet's gameplay is unique in which it mixes 2D platforming with 3D graphics and gameplay with realistic physics. The player controls Sackboy who is able to interact with various features in the environment and can quickly switch between 3 layers (background, middle and foreground).
 * 2) Great graphics, with a unique art style. Mixing real-life with some crafting/scrapbook themes with a slight cartoonish twist.
 * 3) The game has a lighthearted story with a cast of charming characters including the narrator himself.
 * 4) One huge feature that Littlebigplanet stands out most from other platformers is it's focus on using actual physics on it's levels and seeing how contraptions and environment actually operate in which the levels mostly show the inner bits: bolts, pistons and magnetic switches visible for players to see giving the sense of how things work and the atmosphere enchanced. Sackboy can also interact with the environment in which they can grab certain materials, be launched from moving objects or slide on ice.
 * 5) Enjoyable story with multiple fun levels and extra bonus levels, and a challenging difficulty curve.
 * 6) Tons of character customization. Not only you have a variety of clothing and costumes, but your Sackperson can be customised from applying stickers or decorations onto them!
 * 7) You can create your own levels with Create mode, and play other's levels. The game's trademark feature is the large assets the level editor gives you, allowing you to make exact duplicates of the story levels. There are also lots of gadgets that the popit allows you to create your contraptions from thrusters, emitters to hazardous materials and its very simplistic on how you want to design them.
 * 8) Plenty of objects and stickers to collect within the levels. There are also lots more challenges that encourage collecting prizes such as Acing levels which involve completing them all in one life, or collecting all prize bubbles in that level.
 * 9) *Not only you'll get content in the main game but in Community severs as well. Players are also able to share not only their own levels but their own inventions as well!
 * 10) Great soundtrack and sound design. Unlike most games using mostly original soundtracks, they occasionally use stock or licenced tracks that are able to fit the theme brilliantly. Some of the music can be customised to your liking in which you can mute or play certain instruments in that track. The sound design is wonderful with clever usage of stock-like sounds mixing well with the theme of the game.
 * 11) Even though Sackboy can't talk, you can use a Microphone to talk to people, and to add a nice touch, Sackboy moves his mouth as you talk in Real Time.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The multiplayer is frustrating. Since players share the same lives in a checkpoint, careless deaths can cause it to waste them, you also have to make sure that no Sackperson is off camera or they automically die.
 * 2) The load times can take a while.
 * 3) A major glitch can occur if you create levels for too long, where the time resolution of pistons, winches, bolts, is reduced and causes pistons with the setting of 0.1 time to malfunction and not move.
 * 4) Some levels are absolutely frustrating and are brutally difficult to ace, like The Bunker, Boom Town, The Construction Site, Serpent Shrine and The Terrible Oni's Volcano.
 * 5) * The Bunker is easily the worst offender of this, as the level is infamous because of it's difficulty and the notorious 'Spinning Wheel Of Death', which players must avoid electricity obstacles in a spinning wheel, and you must try to avoid the electricity and get out of the wheel alive. This lead to many death threats were sent to the developers because of this level.
 * 6) On September 13 2021, the developers announced that LBP's servers on PS3 are shutting down definitively. This means that you can no longer download, post levels on official servers or play with your friends online. See here for more details.