LittleBigPlanet brings back the fun of Legos in your pocket. But the creation editor is very buggy and quite punishing.
*LittleBigPlanet comes to the PSP is a very fun port. Captures the feel of the PS3 successfully.
*Several new levels, and the ability share your cool stuff with friends.
*A great way to get people into the bigger PS3 version.
The Bad:
*No Multiplayer yet.
*The Creation Editor is unstable and not user friendly for complex builds.
*Physics bugs can destroy everything you create in the blink of an eye.
*The Undo option is worthless.
*Long Load Times.
---------------------------------
I've always wanted to play LittleBigPlanet, but I've never had a PS3. This finally allowed me to get my feet wet in the lovable world of LBP, a place where no one can do any wrong. It's fun and light hearted, and certainly brings the life of its bigger brother on the PS3 to the PSP. Despite the hardware limitations, they managed to do a good job in the core game.
The real issue of course is what I've spent most of my time playing with, the editor. Each successful build allows me to get more complex than the last, but what bothers me is how the game is missing some key functions that would save time. Sadly, the editor is extremely time consuming because there is no easy way to do anything.
A successful build is having your objects, complex or not, to able to be put into your personal Goody Bag. This will allow you to take your creations anywhere, and share them with friends online. But most of the time, there are dozens upon dozens of rules which restrict you from creating a 'successful build' that aren't listed in any tutorial. So you will have to learn the hard way on how to not build correctly.
If you have a flair for making something really complicated, this game will punish you in several ways. You can't copy and paste parts so you can quickly through together new objects. Though they give you the option to do this, it will not work as you might think. If you copy and paste a part and add it to something new you are making, that object will be useless. You will not be able to copy and past the new device, because it consists of parts already copied and pasted.
So in order to make something new, even if its just slightly different than what you just made, you must completely rebuild it all over again from scratch! It's very tiresome, and can suck away hours upon hours of your life. Furthermore, most of the time when you are near building your objects. The physic engine will start to get confused and bug up. Many times your objects will just outright explode and breaks into a million pieces springing all over the level. For no reason at all.
So you have to save often, religiously in fact, and reload the level constantly. Not to mention restart and reboot your PSP in order to smooth out any glitches before putting on a few more parts. The game's PSP limits are harsh, and often boggling on how such off features manages to make it out into release. Such as the selection tool.
Lord forbid if you're working on those small things, like switches and sounds, on your device. They are so small, when you try to select them to tweak them in a very complex build - you'll end up selecting something else. The selection tool has a wide radios, and you will no longer be able to select anything tiny if it's on the same UV line of another object. The selection tool won't see it ever again.
These little limitations make building small, complicated devices extremely tedious. Thus why I will not give this game a perfect score. It's a great game, but the key about it is to build and expand the game. But the building tool is a real pain in the butt, and that is really going to hurt this title. I praise them for doing a really great job with the editor though. It's like playing with a limitless amount of Legos.
But you will have to take notes and read a lot of people's suggests on how to build something, because the editor is so complex to handle it's will take a professional to get something out of it. A quick build on the buss ride home this aint. It'll take you a month to build a really great level, just because you may have to build that level a few times after it fell apart on you for no reason two times before.