By Sam Coles:
After all the releases
of the really serious games such as Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed it’s nice
to sit down and play a game that doesn’t take itself seriously which is also
charming, funny and light hearted.
Little Big Planet 3
opens with the familiar and soothing tones of Stephen Fry’s voice coupled with
Hugh Laurie who plays the dim witted light bulb headed Newton which suits
Hugh’s abilities to play a character who is well.... stupid. The story takes
place in a world called Bunkum and you are first introduced to Newton as a
friendly moron who wants to help, but he then gets taken control by the titans
of Bunkum and wants to rule all creativity.
You as Sackboy or girl
must awaken the three heroes’ of Bunkum you have Oddsock who is a dog like
creature who can wall jump and scale walls, Toggle who speaks by his name he
can toggle from small to big and Swoop who has flying abilities from gliding to
well... flying.
The graphics and the
presentation are what you would expect from a Little Big Planet game they’re
absolutely beautiful with the varied levels and locales which can be from the
swamps to Arctic. It’s not your standard side scrolling platformer this time it
has added depth where you can travel into the background and yeah this isn’t
anything new to the genre, but with the added depth of field effects it
emphasises the distance with sack boy with the background and foreground.
The gameplay is more or
less the same when it comes to the standard Little Big Planet tropes where you
move through a level collecting orbs for points and stickers and outfits to
customise your sack person. I still have a problem with the way Sackboy
controls because he still feels really floaty and it can be especially annoying
when you are doing very precise platforming. The other characters have tighter
controls and it’s a shame that you don’t get to use them that much in the main
single player campaign, the Oddsock segments are the best because it is fast
and tight to control and you really feel the momentum of the character. The
gameplay doesn’t completely suck me out of it; it’s just the fact that they
still haven’t change the way Sackboy feels maybe did it on purpose who knows?
Yet again you can
customise your home hub where you select levels with stickers that you’ve
collected throughout your travels and also you can be as ostentatious as you
like with your Sackperson looks or you can make him or her look like an idiot.
Music and sound design
is top notch as always with some great music that suits the environments and
sometimes keeps up with the speed of platforming. One of the best parts of the
game is where you have a Marlon Brando cameo called Marlon Random because he is
a method actor. Its set in a 1950’s setting with songs such as “Sandman”
playing in the background.
The problems I’ve had
with this game are glitches, the main glitch that I’ve encountered throughout
my adventures are points in the levels where Sackboy would suddenly fall
through the level geometry into an abyss, but this has been ironed out with a
patch. I had horrendous frame rate problems at the start of the game it was
jittering in the tutorial and it was unplayable in some bits in the high teens
with FPS.
Besides those problems
Little Big Planet 3 is a fun game if you’re looking something that is less
serious and is light hearted this game would make a great gift for an adult or
a child this Christmas.
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