History VideoGame / LittleBigPlanet

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Try explaining this to someone who hasn't really played it. The first game is a platformer, but encourages you to build whatever kind of level you want, whether it be an actual level in the vein of Mario or just a music or set-piece showcase. The second game, however, looks to embrace this wholeheartedly, as it was marketed as a platform for games rather than a platform game. The main game showcases some unique gameplay styles, including a side-scrolling shooter that looks like a retro arcade game. The overall effect is a mashup of [[VideoGame/GarrysMod Gmod for consoles]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], winks and nods toward Creator/MontyPython-style humor, and [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation sinister weaponized cuteness]].

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: A lot of songs in the soundtrack are mixtures of {{Classical|Music}} and {{Disco}}/{{Funk}}: "A Fifth of Beethoven", "Disco Divertimento", and the remix of "Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra".

* MalevolentArchitecture: The [[FanNickname Wheel of Death]] in "[[ThatOneLevel The Bunker]]" level.

* OneWomanWail: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJUTxuj5yM "Cries in the Wind"]].
* {{Oni}}: The Terrible Oni, the man villain of the Islands.

* InsistentTerminology: The Boost/Dash Boots. Pinky Bufflooms and the Sackpocket call them the Boost Boots, but the sticker is called the Dash Boots.

''[=LittleBigPlanet=]'' is a video game series created by Creator/MediaMolecule originally for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, and supposed to be one of its {{killer app}}s. It's based on the basic idea of customizable, [[LevelEditor user-created]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funhouse funhouse]] levels (of which there are [[SerialEscalation over 10 million]] since February 2017), supplemented by pre-built story levels. The players control a small, [[PunkPunk Stitchpunk]] Sackperson, who's [[VirtualPaperDoll customizable]] using in-game costumes and decorations. It also includes narration by Creator/StephenFry. That's right, ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is now your Guide to ''this'' galaxy.

The first game was released in 2008. Critics loved it (for example, it received a perfect 10 in ''Magazine/{{Edge}}''), but initial sales were disappointing ([[VindicatedByHistory they got better]]). This is possibly because it was one of the greatest 2D (okay, TwoAndAHalfD) {{platform|Game}}ers ever made... at a time when 2D platformers were about as relevant to Western gaming culture as {{vaudeville}} is to Broadway theater.

In 2009, Creator/GuerrillaCambridge released a spin-off game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable with entirely different levels but the same gameplay and features. In 2010 came the [=PlayStation=] Move-based TechDemoGame SpinOff, ''Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves''. Then came the [=PS3=] sequel in 2011, ''[=LittleBigPlanet 2=]'', which dramatically improved the editing tools available for the players. Did we tell you that there's also a sequel for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Vita}}? And a... [[MascotRacer racing game?]]

Now, we have ''[=LittleBigPlanet 3=]'', which was announced at E3 2014 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and was released on November 2014. Which not only does more to improve the editing tools available for the players, it introduces 3 additional Sack Beings to play with!

* The dog-like '''[=OddSock=]''' who runs the fastest and can WallRun and WallJump.
* The size-changing '''Toggle''', who can weigh down/push heavy platforms and pressure sensitive plates, but is pretty slow, and can't jump very high as a result of his heavy weight. However, he can shrink into '''Little Toggle''' who jumps higher, and runs faster. He's much lighter, which allows him to walk on the surface of water and his tiny size lets him enter small spaces the others can't access.
* The bird-like '''Swoop''', who can fly freely around levels and can pick up other light characters and objects.

In addition, there's an EndlessRunningGame called ''Run Sackboy! Run!'' for mobile devices and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita.

In the midst of this string of sequels, Sackboy was made a playable fighter in ''VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' in 2012, with the Sackgirl as a PreOrderBonus.

On June 11, 2020, a 3D spinoff, titled ''Sackboy: A Big Adventure'', was announced for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5.

** The final world mixes in aspects from several of the worlds preceding it. Several setpieces come back, such as all three powerups; The Soaring Summit's moving platforms with faces (now on cycles instead of player-sensing) and yetis; The Colossal Canopy's tides, sticky Gloop, rotating platforms, and timed fire panels; The Kingdom of Crablantis's Glowsquids and bubbles; and The Interstellar Junction's touchscreens, Velociporters, teleportation panels and lasers. Several levels combine these aspects together in different ways not showcased in the prior worlds.
** Multitask Force, the last co-op level, borrows from several of the co-op levels before it, using their setpieces in short, trial-like rooms to get Keys for a door. The bottom-left door uses the snow globe, tightropes and player-sensing moving platforms from The Soaring Summit which were a focus of the co-op level "Snowman Left Behind"; the bottom-right door uses the heavy animal and weighted crate platforms from The Colossal Canopy's "Weight For Me!" and the timed dropping platforms from the world in general; the top-right door uses the carryable Glowsquid from The Kingdom of Crablantis and the concept of having one player use it to create platforms for another, which was a mechanic of "Squid Goals"; and the top-left door uses the floating bubbles and the electric eels that debuted in The Kingdom of Crablantis, as well as the timed tongue platforms one player can activate for another, which were among the puzzle elements used in The Interstellar Junction's co-op stage "Lead The Weigh".
** The very last stage of the game incorporates multiple things from prior levels, including (in no particular order) tightropes, Sixaxis-controlled moving platforms, spike rollers, timed tongue platforms, bubbles, the "flytrap" platforms that bite Sackboy if he lingers, batteries, turrets, and Glowsquids.

* TheGoomba: Grunties, small red, blue, and green creatures who waddle around and approach Sackboy when he's in range, attempting to headbutt him. They go down in a single slap or stomp, and moves like the Roll take only one hit to stun them. In later worlds, they gain strength in numbers by [[LeaningTowerOfMooks stacking on top of each other]], but they're still weak individually.

*** Each players' individual powerup, as well as its functions (such as the Clawstring's tether, or the Plasma Pumps energy projectiles and landing indicators).

* ContinuityNod: Signs in The Interstellar Junction namecheck past games' locations: Craftworld, Carnivalia and Bunkum.

* EmoteAnimation: New to this game are Emotes, which replace the emotions when you aren't in Acting mode. Each d-pad button can have an animation and emotion assigned to it, and pressing that button in gameplay will have them do whatever you put on it. These range from simple poses, to dances, to things that require two players to pull off.

* MickeyMousing: Each world except the last has a level where setpieces, platforms, enemies, and other things are synced up to a song, such as "Treble in Paradise" in The Soaring Summit, which syncs with "[[Music/BrunoMars Uptown Funk]]". Similarly to in ''VideoGame/{{SSX}} 3'', the song will delay parts until you reach certain sections.

* ScoreMultiplier: There's a collectible 2x Score Bubble which appears in most levels. When grabbed, it temporarily turns bubbles and score numbers from white to pink, and doubles the points received from anything that gives them.

* SticksToTheBack: When not in use, the Whirltool clings to Sackboy's back, even if he's in the default outfit and has nowhere it could attach. Even when he rolls.

%%* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Flash Bang is a [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] version of this Trope.

* SelfPlagiarism: ''Karting'' is often accused of being redundant as it intrudes on a niche already filled by ''VideoGame/ModnationRacers''. As a matter of fact, the developers of ''Modnation Racers'' co-developed this game.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the point of it playing more like ''VideoGame/ModNationRacers'' than ''[=LittleBigPlanet=]'' itself. Justified as the developers of Modnation Racers did co-develop this game.

* BonusDungeon: [[spoiler:The Wonderplane, a bonus world with 5 stages, unlocked after defeating Vex and saving Craftworld. The [[PlotCoupon Uproar barriers]] here are much higher than the ones for merely progressing through the story, and each of the three powerups comes BackForTheFinale, having their own individual stages which each must be beaten to unlock the final level.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:The Negativitron mixes this with TomatoInTheMirror, revealing that he IS the protagonists... or at least their vices, anyway. It has the intended effect of sending them into a HeroicBSoD.]]

** Two game breaking glitches were discovered that break the game in similar manners to the Wheel of Death glitch from the first game. The first was titled "Spawn-Pop Cancer." Sometimes, when the player does the Lethal Sackboy Glitch that lethalizes Sackboy and allows him to touch objects of the same lethality without dying, they may become lethal to themselves. Meaning that they would die every time they spawn, repeatedly. If this happens, you'll need to import an old save. Hope you made a backup! Or not, because the glitch was fixed like the Wheel of Death glitch and bugged saves were also retroactively fixed.
** The other glitch was called "New Era" which was caused by levels with a bugged checkpoint or spawn point. The glitch prevented Sackpeople from affected profiles from spawning in levels in Play Mode, and also glitched out some elements of Create Mode causing them to no longer appear in the Popit [=GUI=]. This glitch was actually exploited by a few users in an attempt to wring in the excessive amount of copied and published levels, by attempting to affect saves in a way that causes the New Era glitch to "infect" levels they edit later and then publish, thus infecting other players as well. Fortunately this glitch was also fixed and bugged saves were retroactively fixed in the update that fixed the New Era.

* GameBreakingBug:

* GameBreakingBug: The clunky [=PSP=] game is not free from game breaking glitches.

** Also known is a bug while in create mode where Sackboy will get stuck and start twitching wildly until you delete the glitched object. However, if you quit and restart the game, Sackboy will get stuck in the pipe of the Pod and make the game unplayable until you load a backup or delete the save data.

* GameBreakingBug: A glitch can cause saves to become corrupted in a way that causes the [=PSP=] to crash and shut down when playing levels. Sometimes it can be fixed if a level can be edited in Create Mode and then exited, though the corruption is not guarenteed to be fixed in this way and the game may also crash when entering Create Mode to edit levels.

* {{Snowlem}}: Appears as a mini-boss guarding one of the balloons in, "Peak Preformance." It throws snowballs and spawns little snowman grunts.

* GameBreakingBug: "Spawn-Pop Cancer." Sometimes, when the player does the Lethal Sackboy Glitch that lethalizes Sackboy and allows him to touch objects of the same lethality without dying, they may become lethal to themselves. Meaning that they would die every time they spawn, repeatedly. If this happens, you'll need to import an old save. Hope you made a backup!

** Many players encountered a bug that, when making a large grab-able material spin extremely fast in the level editor and grabbing on, they would no longer be able to respawn, stuck on some sort of infinite pseudo-death loop. Returning to the pod (main menu, basically) continued this, and this persisted ''even upon resetting the game,'' rendering the game completely unplayable for those affected. The only way to undo this was to delete the entire save data.

* AscendedGlitch: There was a bug which allowed players to put objects in the background and foreground. Players used this glitch to create full 3D games of all kinds. This later became a feature in [=LBP3=].

* SelfPlagiarism: Those who played Tarsier Studio's DC Comics level pack were likely underwhelmed by [=OddSock=] and Swoop because they reuse abilities introduced in said DLC. Specifically, [=OddSock=]'s wall jumping ability was already done with the Wall Jump Material and Tweaker, whilst Swoop's move of the same name was introduced via the Hero Cape.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You've defeated Vex for the third time in the final world of the game, Scarlet's ready to congratulate you on a job well done, and... [[spoiler:once you hit the world map, Vex's voice comes from nowhere, telling you that getting rid of him won't be ''that'' easy, and the giant wall behind the "final" stage disappears to reveal two more level badges; the first is a normal stage, which when completed unlocks the ''real'' FinalBoss level]].

* VictoryFakeout: After being chased through the final level of the Factory of a Better Tomorrow by Copernicus the Guard Turkey, the turkey breaks and falls through the floor, and Clive and the Sackbots go over and wait by a Scoreboard... [[GlamourFailure though the screen's X-Ray material and lack of high scores being shown should clue you in that it's not what it seems]]. Once you stand in front of the "Scoreboard" with the group, Copernicus comes out of the ground and resumes chasing everyone.