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Friday, February 20, 2015

LittleBigPlanet 3 Is Our Reminder That Games Should Be Fun Before All Else


Hey, 2014… What’s your deal? Do you like disappointing us? You know, it wasn’t long ago that it seemed like every past year was the new “Best Year Ever for Gaming,” full of AAA hits and genre-defining titles.

Way to drop the ball, 2014. That was… Man, that was rough.

I'll admit that I enjoyed Assassin's Creed Unity more than the average player, though that had a lot to do with the fact that my copy was one of the few that wasn't infested with glitches and bugs. Far Cry 4 isn't bad, but really it's more of the same. I loved Destiny for like, seven minutes before realizing the amount of grinding and backtracking the game expected from me. Watchdogs? Didn't even even bother with it.

By the time LittleBigPlanet 3 released in November, I just didn’t have it in me to expect anything more than mediocrity. Nonetheless I made the trek up to GameStop on release day to pick up my preordered copy, if only because it came with a Sackboy plushy, and you best believe I wanted my damn plushy. When it came to the actual game, though, my expectations were so low that I didn’t even bother to pop the disc into the console until last week.

Who would’ve thought that I’d be here, halfway through February 2015, making a case for LittleBigPlanet 3 as my game of the year for 2014? Granted, my tempered expectations certainly helped, but make no mistake, this game is really really fun.