you just assumed it was a fad, aren't you contradicting yourself in the same paragraph?
Regardless, you might be right that people relate to storylines of interesting characters, but I don't think that is necessary for a mascot. Because a mascot is mainly a tool to bring in new people, and they wouldn't know the story anyway.
I would suggest however that there are games that have been successful with no or next to no story. If you truly look at it, what kind of a story did the original Mario games have? I think that most people played the game because it was fun, and not because they direly needed to see what happened in the story.
Also, could you atleast compare LBP's fadness to something that's actually out and was seen to be a fad, just saying it's a fad like another Sony enterprise that you think will be a fad doesn't prove anything.
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