Eurogamer has published their review of LittleBigPlanet tonight, awarding it a solid 9/10, stating that the create side of things is just not fun or easy enough to warrant them awarding full marks.
The promise that anyone could create something simple and fun and personal with LittleBigPlanet hasn’t come true. In a way, it’s the opposite of Spore, which makes it easy and fun for every single player to have creative input, but doesn’t let any of them change the fabric of the game. LittleBigPlanet lets them run wild, with unprecedented results, but it locks the majority out of the creative process, because it’s time-consuming and simply not very enjoyable.
We hoped it could do both those things. That it doesn’t isn’t the let-down it might have been, thanks to the untamed community of brilliant nutjobs that’s already out there, appending their DIY masterpieces to this beautiful, mildly flawed, magnificently multiplayer platform game. We salute them, we salute Media Molecule for making it possible for them, and we salute Sony for its total commitment to this brave, hare-brained project.
I’m not sure if I totally agree with them on this point, but then again perhaps I’m in the minority of players who so far has enjoyed the creating part of the game way more than the rest, spending three long evenings glued to the screen, building, testing and perfecting my levels. However it is clear that to anyone not quite as inspired by or dedicated to such a feature, it would become laborious… Plus sitting through all the tutorials can get quite frustrating for the faster learners amongst us, who have already put two and two together and worked out exactly how the next type of bolt works thank you very much.
Overall though Eurogamer enjoyed the game, as the 9/10 clearly shows of course!
But mostly, we’re just happy to see a flagship game for a modern system that’s about running from left to right and jumping over things. New ideas are great, great old ideas are better, and LittleBigPlanet has both: it’s the future and the past of videogames, rolled into one.
Good news for Sony, Mm and LBP. Expect more reviews to start appearing this week!
