Adorable and Awesome in the same Context

My Playstation 3 is a valuable piece of digital entertainment of mine. I've gotten myself a good bakers dozen of disc games, and almost another dozen of downloaded games for the PS3 and a couple PSOne classics.

The PS3 has some awesome Exclusives as well. Infamous and Resistance 2 are some good ones. Infamous using a take on Superhero powers and putting it in a Sandbox format, and Morality to affect how the game plays. Resistance 2 is a very fun take on alternate history where Aliens invade not long after the Tunguska event.

LAIR is another exclusive, but one I'm not particularly favoured to. It's a flight sim using dragons. The main problem with it is the controls are awkward, even when you turn off the Six-Axis Control system (Where you have to tilt the actual controller to adjust your dragons direction).

Ratchet and Clank is my favourite Playstation Exclusive. You're a dude running around with an impressive variety of Weapons and Gadgets so you can solve puzzles and disrupt your enemies attacks. You can use the Groovitron to stop your enemies from attacking and start bustin' down while you continue to hammer them with your Razor Claws and Mr Zurkon continues to float over your shoulder shooting someone else who's been caught by your Mag-Net launcher. If you get through the game enough, you could just get lazy and obliterate whatever is in front of you with the RYNO (Rip Ya a New One).

And all your enemies are Fish in Robot Suits!

But sometimes you can't go past a platformer, the title given to games where your character runs across a series of platforms to beat a timer, or just search until they've found something important. Scattered about are collectable items that give you extra lives for when you fall into a dangerous hazard, or maybe a special boost to get you through a level quicker, or maybe affect something at a different section of the level.

Playstations Exclusive to this is Little Big Planet. It is the most adorable game you may ever play. The levels are what you would see if you made an obstacle course out of some cardboard boxes, some colourful nikko markers, streamers, boggle eyes, felt, pipe cleaners, paper clips, cotton wool, a smoke machine, wool stuffing, tacky material, LEDs, and a whole bunch of stickers.

Now make your own level. You can get a blank level and make the obstacle course you were probably think of just now, and add a little more imagination to it as you work with the system. And when you're done, you can upload it to the net for others to play on it and say “Wow, this is awesome”.

Then make your character out of a Hessian sack, given him a big head and a pair of beady eyes. And then when you get bored with him, add accessories such as a Zebra tail, a pink lifering, glasses, a beard and a winters hat. Maybe give him a pair of gumboots too. Oh, and change from a Hessian sack to a blue and black graphics card design. Something like out of Tron if you will.

Or you could design him to be as a favourite character of yours, such as a Sonic the Hedgehog, a character from Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid, or Kratos from God of War; dress yourself for the Chinese New Year; Put a TV on your head; Get eaten by a vicious pot plant; maybe even a zombie bride.

The possibilities and combinations are phenomenal.

And now they're making a sequel.

I'm excited. This looks freakin awesome.