A kart racer that should be more fun than it is.
Sadly LBP Karting while not awful is just...boring. It's hard to say what went wrong but let's see.
Well part of it is, this game was already made but called Modnation Racers but while it still has the fun creation tool, a lot of the things that made Modnation stick out like upgradeable items and building up a shield are gone.
There's a story in this. This time the greedy grabby horde invaded Craftworld and Sackboy must take to his car and set off to stop them. You go through a storymode playing through races and battle challenges trying to get 3rd or higher to move on. The real problem comes is that instead of just focusing on racing type challenges, it throws in weird mini games, first and person racing challenges. There is the desire to go back to level to collect all the goodies for the creation tools of course.
The creation part is the thing that will decide if LBP Karting is for you. But once again if you already have Modnation Racers why bother? But there is a nice level editor and the charm of the world of LBP is still in tact. Though I don't see why costumes and items from the 2 LBP games couldn't have been carried over to this in some way.
Levels themselves honestly feel really bland. They literally took stages from past LBP games and rearranged them in 3D kart tracks. It tries to have it's own personality like using the grappling hook to swing over pits and using the creatornator to gain items but honestly it was hard to get any sort of adranaline rush from the races.
Now I'll admit that it didn't help that the same time I got this I also got Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed and when you put LBP Karting up against that one, it really seems dull and uninspired.
Sony fans, I'm sorry. If you want a good kart racer to play, you have better options. If you want a creation tool, Modnation does it better and if you want a good answer to MK, Sonic's got better ones.
Better luck next time Sackboy.