LittleBigPlanet on the PSP.
Been scratching my head over this one. As far as I can tell, it should be impossible. This is LittleBigPlanet, on the PSP. Think about that for a second - it's LittleBigPlanet, on the
PSP.
Not a game starring Sackboy on the PSP. Not an LBP themed platformer on the PSP. It's the whole shebang - all the gameplay, the level editor, stickers, costumes, all the community uploading/downloading, physics-based insanity, criminally inventive story levels, supercool music, fantastic art-design, bouncy fun. All on a handheld.
I've been pondering this. And I can only conclude that it's all powered by Witchcraft - Sony Cambridge should be applauded for their forward thinking use of black magic in the field of programing.
There are a few concessions. Multi-player went right out - apparently just having it there adds 30%+ to the processor overheads, and the psp simply couldn't cope. There are 2planes of depth rather than 3. The cutout tool only works on shaped painted using the grid tool (not as restrictive as it sounds once you figure out how to work with it), and the global level lighting seems to be gone.
But apart from that, it's all there - it's even improved on a few aspects, with slightly tighter controls and some simple but how-did-I-live-without-this-before tweaks to the editor. But the look, the feel, the physics, all the switches, levers,connectors, brains, mouths, camera-anglers and so on. All there. 30 completely new story levels BTW. They're great too - really feel
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stuff. It's, well, LittleBigPlanet, on a
PSP.
Anyway, the fact that they've got this working on a PSP is frankly unbelievable. Easily the best handheld game ever made by a massive margin, and then some. Frankly, if I had to chose my game of the year at this point, it'd be really hard pushed to choose between Uncharted 2 and LBP-PSP. It's
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. If you've not got a PS3 to play the original blu-ray, I'd go as far as to say that for the right people it's genuinely worth buying a PSP just for this.
EDIT - worth bearing in mind when reading this that I think that the original LBP is one of the 3 best games ever made. If you're one of those people who lacks the patience, imagination or whatever else to get to grips with making your own fun in games, you'll just be getting an (admittedly great) platfomer with potentially unlimited fan-made levels.