LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition

About

LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition is a platform-puzzle game built around exploration and creativity. You control a squishy character navigating whimsical worlds filled with physics-based challenges, from ziplining through floating gardens to outwitting cartoonish villains. The campaign follows a loose narrative about recovering stolen art, but the real focus is on experimenting with tools, solving environmental puzzles, and mastering level editor basics. Up to four players can team up locally or online to tackle custom challenges, with co-op mechanics requiring precise timing and teamwork. This edition bundles the base game with 18 new levels, extra costumes, and themed creation kits like the Metal Gear Solid pack. Over a million user-made levels have been shared since launch, driven by a toolset that lets you tweak physics, animations, and logic gates. With over 80 awards won and a legacy of community-driven content, it remains a standout for its blend of polished gameplay and boundless customization. The Collector’s redemption arc and surreal art style add charm, but the lasting appeal is building and sharing your own wacky contraptions.

Storyline

LittleBigPlanet is set in a world full of creations made by Creator Curators. One of the Curators, a rogue Creator called "the Collector", is stealing the other Creators' creations and not sharing them with the world (sharing is one of the core elements of LittleBigPlanet). Play starts at the "Gardens" level, where the player meets the King, one of the Curators; the Queen; Little Xim; Big Zam and Dumpty. The player is taught the basic gameplay at this stage: running, jumping, and grabbing. The next setting is the "Savannah", where the player accidentally breaks one of the ruler's creations. In return for forgiveness the player must investigate what's scaring the ruler's buffalo. Further adventures involve finding Meerkat Mum's son and a Bridegroom (a story arc with a Day of the Dead theme). After the wedding play moves to the "Canyons", where the player must rescue Uncle Jalapeño and defeat the evil Sheriff Zapata. After completing this the player is taken to the "Metropolis" and gets a car for a race scenario. The next adventure takes place on the "Islands", where the player is trained in martial arts and must defeat the Terrible Oni. From there the player goes to the "Temples", to get a flame-throwing cat. Here they meet the Great Magician, who tells them to defeat the Collector in his "Wilderness". After the final battle the Collector is revealed to be a little, lonely man who kidnapped everyone because he did not have any friends. Everyone, including the player, offers to be his friend and he accepts, ending his being evil.