Story missions are broken up by hub levels, and within these hubs you can discover hidden bonus stages. You can bring in other players, but they'll simply take on a copy of the specific character that level is based around (albeit with their own chosen costume pieces to help differentiate them). You can equip one of these power-ups at any time that you're playing as Sackboy, and while they aren't game-changing in the way the new characters are, they certainly helped keep a third time playing as Sony's affable sackcloth hero from getting boring.Īll of the mainline story missions stick to one character. Sackboy is now equipped with a 'Sackpocket,' which carries a variety of power-ups, such as a helmet that allows him to latch onto wires and a jetpack offering short boosts through the air.

The rest of the main-path levels stick you with Sackboy.įor whatever it's worth, Sumo Digital has put in the effort to make Sackboy more interesting in light of his new companions. Each new character gets one stage and one boss fight to themselves in the main story, as well as a final stage where you jump between each of the characters for different segments. I didn't even have the full crew together until directly before the final stage. While neither of those adds quite as much as Oddsock's tight controls, their mechanics feel fully developed and fun in and of themselves.īut the new additions to LittleBigPlanet 3's characters are criminally underused in the game's brief story mode. Toggle adds physics-based shenanigans, while Swoop carries the power of flight and hovering. And he feels great! The difference between performing a precarious jump as Sackboy and doing the same as Oddsock is night and day. He can run up walls, jump off of them and generally land exactly where you want him every time. For example, Oddsock brings the high-precision jumping that the series has always lacked. More importantly, each of these characters adds to the variety of platforming gameplay available in LittleBigPlanet. but hey, there's only so much you can do with a bird. Each of these characters proves as charming and instantly memorable as Sackboy, save maybe for Swoop. You may have guessed by now that those heroes are the three new playable characters advertised for LittleBigPlanet 3 - Oddsock, a speedy dog Swoop, a bird and Toggle, a bigger, heavier sackperson who also has the ability to shrink themself down. In order to thwart Newton and the evil titans he's unleashed, Sackboy has to hunt down three legendary heroes to ask for their help. LittleBigPlanet 3 begins as Sackboy's world is thrown into chaos thanks to the scheming of Newton, an invention-obsessed egomaniac given a delightful voiceover by Hugh Laurie.

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