The Video Game Revue

Little Big Planet - Day 4

Only now is LBP starting to lose some of its awe and wonder on me, and what's left is still a very worthwhile game--particularly as a creative outlet or a party experience. Sunny has finally warmed up to online play and asked me to set up a keyboard for the PS3 (it's not much of a setup, really: plug in pretty much any USB keyboard and it'll work auto-magically).

An important detail that I forgot to mention about the God of War level in my last post is that it involves some gratuitous violence. At one point a prisoner begs you not to kill him, but you can't progress past that point in the level until you've dragged his cage over to an open, flaming pit and dropped him to a gorey doom. This gruesome endeavor is made all the more absurd by the cutesy general atmosphere of LBP, which does not let up even in such situations.

The viral nature of LBP became clear to me when Sunny grouped up with a random goof online this evening, and they proceeded to share entries from each other's "Hearted" (favorites) lists of online levels. Sure enough, Sunny had the other player running through the God of War themed level with her.

In other news, I was playing WoW last night, trying to get the Anti-Undead armor sets for the Scourge Invasion event. All in all I took out six rare mobs and, being alone, collected all six drops of the pants. Two of them were plate, two were leather, and two were mail. Needless to say, as a Priest, I was frustrated by this turn of events. I want that gear for grinding Argent Dawn rep in Stratholme and Scholomance.

posted by Parappa @ 11:28 PM