Little Big Planet and World of Goo

Posted by pookzilla on October 28, 2008

I skipped out at lunch yesterday to fetch my copy from EB Games.  Staying at work was incredibly difficult, but made easier due to the fact that we had a PS3 in the basement which I sampled the game on.   After work both Lexy and I raced home to play it and did so until we managed to pry it from our hands so that we might go to sleep.  I write this now under great duress – the time I spend typing here means time I’m not playing Little Big Planet.

It’s not perfect.  In fact, as a platformer, it suffers from some pretty serious flaws (jumping distance, skittishness, difficult Z axis maneuvering for starters).  Despite these flaws it’s an absolute blast to play. It’s gorgeous – better looking than any other console game I can think of – and fresh.  So very fresh.   Guh.  I want to gush.  But if I do, that’ll take too much time away from LBP.

I feel like I should also mention World of Goo.  We picked this up over the weekend and it really is an excellent game.  I should say more about it… but I can’t.  The timing is so wrong.  I’ll need to revisit it in a month or so.  Maybe.