RULES:
There is no need to talk about sales numbers in this thread.
So the big news: Little Big Planet goes gold and reviewers have been sent copies. The official game is still under embargo, but there are alot of cool things to note:
1. The latest impressions from reviewers have comparisons to Mario:
From neogaf:
"Playing the review code right now, the game is sooo awesome. With all the "build stuff yourself" hoopla, I've almost forgot that the game is a really, really good and superbly drugged out inventive platformer.
There's a Motorstorm: Pacific Rift level online already and some others from Sony devs."
and
"Couple of hours of two player coop under my belt. Game is fucking TIGHT. No problems whatsoever online. You can see everyone on your friends list on the LittleMoon in your pod complete with their PSN avatars and you see who is playing LBP. The latter you can invite or join their pod and off you go. Smooth as fuck.
Got through the first three chapters and as a person who thinks Super Mario World is the finest platform game ever, some of the sequenes in LBP top that game and really show what can be done in 2d/3d platforming. The two player "puzzles" are fun too and some of the just had us laughing out loud as we kept fucking up. Most of the puzzles requiring two players give you harder to get items. The levels have big 2X signs telling you that this way for two players. I wonder if if it says 3X if you got three players.
I've written a lot about the game and I almost forgot that its really a brilliant platformer at heart. Sure, the physics oriented jumping can get a bit tricky, but there's lots of checkpoints etc so it's cool.
A game that really brings a smile to one's face."
2. For those who preorder, the first week will have exclusive DLC skins:
3. Social Networking features. Alex from Media Molecule:
"You'll have feeds of photos of you -- levels that you've been in, photos people have taken of you. Then we take it even further, like Facebook. In any photos we know what kind of Sackboys were in it, who they were logged in as, so we put a box around their face which you can click and go and see that person. So if there's a cool level with a guy wearing an awesome costume, you just D-pad up to him and hit X, and now you can see his levels, his favorites."
Console Agnostic since 2001.
