This game is rated ESRB: Everyone for Comic Mischief and Mild Cartoon Violence.
LittleBigPlanet is a platform game developed by Media Molecule, released in 2008 for the PlayStation 3. Players control a customizable character called Sackboy through more than 50 developer-designed levels filled with obstacles, races, and puzzles. As they progress, players earn creative tools and collect hundreds of objects that feed into a robust level-creation system, allowing them to design their own stages complete with custom puzzles, challenges, and enemies. Completed levels can be published online and shared with the broader LittleBigPlanet community, enabling other players to experience user-made content. This loop of playing, building, and sharing sits at the core of the experience, positioning the game as much a creative platform as a traditional side-scroller. The combination of accessible construction tools and community-driven content distribution was a distinguishing feature of the title at the time of its release.
LittleBigPlanet is set in a world full of creations made by Creator Curators. One of the Curators, a rogue Creator called "the Collector", is stealing the other Creators' creations and not sharing them with the world (sharing is one of the core elements of LittleBigPlanet). Play starts at the "Gardens" level, where the player meets the King, one of the Curators; the Queen; Little Xim; Big Zam and Dumpty. The player is taught the basic gameplay at this stage: running, jumping, and grabbing. The next setting is the "Savannah", where the player accidentally breaks one of the ruler's creations. In return for forgiveness the player must investigate what's scaring the ruler's buffalo. Further adventures involve finding Meerkat Mum's son and a Bridegroom (a story arc with a Day of the Dead theme). After the wedding play moves to the "Canyons", where the player must rescue Uncle Jalapeño and defeat the evil Sheriff Zapata. After completing this the player is taken to the "Metropolis" and gets a car for a race scenario. The next adventure takes place on the "Islands", where the player is trained in martial arts and must defeat the Terrible Oni. From there the player goes to the "Temples", to get a flame-throwing cat. Here they meet the Great Magician, who tells them to defeat the Collector in his "Wilderness". After the final battle the Collector is revealed to be a little, lonely man who kidnapped everyone because he did not have any friends. Everyone, including the player, offers to be his friend and he accepts, ending his being evil.
