It is truly an amazing game...
LBP2 allows you to tweak gameplay enough that you can now make levels of a variety of types of genres. Want to make a side-scroller? Go ahead. An old school Space Invaders type game? It's not only possible, but part of one of the levels in "Cosmos" (in the main storyline) actually features this game mechanic at one point. You can ride on things, manipulate gravity, make set pieces invisible, make your own music... and make it interactive... all without having to know anything about programming.
The Community is coming out with some cool things. I am impressed with some of the things I'm seeing and hope to make some levels, myself, and do an article on the experience at some point in the future.
LittleBigPlanet 2 could really be a "game changer" (pardon the pun). How can a "tweaker" be satisfied with a typical tweaker game when a precedent has been made for a game that lets you make your own whole games with in-game editing tools without downloading anything extra... and all on a console? I won't be surprised to see the next wave of game designers referencing LittleBigPlanet 2 in some future interviews, when asked where they got their start.
There's a lot of creative power in LBP 2, and it's made as accessible as one could possibly hope. The game also allows you to use DLC from LittleBigPlanet. And, to top it all off, it includes Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves on the disc. All these, combined with the fact that I can't see anything wrong with the game at all... and the fact that LBP2 is a major improvement over LittleBigPlanet, which, itself, received a 100% has lead me to award LittleBigPlanet 2 an unprecedented 101%. I don't know if my editor will let that stay, or if it will get 'normalized' down to 100%, but, just in case, I wanted to state, for the record, that LittleBigPlanet 2 is nothing less than stellar and should be a must-buy for anyone with an Internet connection and a PS3 who thinks they might be interested in making games.
