Little Big Planet....I Think I Love You...

Is it possible to love a game? I mean, like, REALLY love it?!? Well, probably not, especially if you've only played it for but a short while, but my current feelings on LBP are somewhere along that ballpark. Not to the levels I have w/ Galaxy (which I'll hopefully be renting again sometime this coming weekend), but for a game I've only played about a 10th of as much as said Galaxy, the love quotient's pretty high. Now how exactly was I able to play this marvelous game while lacking a PS3 you ask? Welp folks, that's what friends are for. A good buddy of mines that I hadn't seen in a while, welp, showed up unexpectantly. We casually jetted (like that even fucking exists) to his crib and lo and behold, he's pretty much got the HD entertainment hub in full effect. That 42-inch HDtv couldn't have come at a better time, plus now he's officially playing PS3 the way Sony would have him if it were stated in hard law....well, almost. The only things he's really missing now are a surround sound digital audio speaker system (Dolby Digital 5.1 please!!), a table for snacks 'n' shit, and a vibrating chair. Other than that the bases are covered.

Well anyways, there we are getting our Smash Bros. Brawl and CvsSNK2 feasts on (surely we could've worked GGXX Accent Core in there as well, but shit just slipped my mind) and, well perhaps a bit exhausted on our melee smackfests, decided to turn the ol' platforming route and play some LBP. He's obviously had it for a while and I obviously had yet to play it up to that point, just hoping it would live up to the hype. Suffice it to say-and even though we only played on about 5-6 stages (including the tutorial stage....speaking of tutorial stages, WHY do they still tell needless "information" like "Use the left analog stick to move your character!"? Honestly?!? I mean sure there are the NEW new gamers who probably see tips like that like gold, but this is the PS3 here,....I'm pretty sure about 95% of it's owners know what a controller is by now and how it functions, and for the 5% that don't....dear Mary I don't EVER wanna hafta meet them in person; that'll be a smashfest of endless joking)-the game's left a pretty sweet taste in my mouth. Sure sure, the jumps are a little "floaty" and the plane-switching mechanic's a bit odd at first (a lot of people say the game auto-handles it for you; during my brief play time I was controlling it manually since it felt more natural that way and I always trust my own instincts and brains over the game's AI any day in regards to me getting my own ass around;), but soon enough the throwback-yet-foward-thinking gameplay (seriously, the physics possibitlies are VERY interesting and I can't wait to start building my own levels once I get the game), charming visuals and atmosphere and pretty fucking good music kick in, you'll likely forgive these few issues, much like I have already. And it's not like there's a game that's immune to minor deficencies out there anyway; you gotta just look past the tiny flaws and accept the amazing experience on the whole, and LBP seems like a very amazing experience, one that could become quite moreso whenever I get deeper into the game.

So there you go everyone; my quick thoughts on a quick play session w/ Little Big Planet. The game is just oodles of fun, and my favorite levels so far personally being this one roller coaster-esque stage, a Dead Space parody stage (my favorite one thus far), and another stage from the actual story game stages (I think) where you have to ride a lighted beaver/groundhog pinata through a relatively dark stage. As said before, I really can't quite wait until I get my hands on the game sooner, and at this moment it seems like either the Wii or PS3 will be the first of the nextgen systems I get (saying this mainly b/c I've actually PLAYED games on these systems whereas I haven't been as lucky to get any serious time w/ a 360, therefore I don't have any hands-on tests to gauge how much I'd enjoy the system though I must say it seems to have the largest abundance in a few genre games I like, particularly racers and fighters, and a healthy assortment of action/adventure 3rd person games as well like Gears an' shit. So for that alone it could be the first, but I swear if I get a RROD within the first few months of ownership, I will personally march up to Redmond, Washington with a baseball bat and knock Microsoft's game division fatcats' heads' off to the Artic Ocean to swim with the fishes and live in the mouths of the polar bears). So until next time everyone, later and g'day.