Sackboy™: A Big Adventure

fun and challenging in later levels especially if you want to 0-death it with gold, in coop, which we ended up doing, 100%-ing the game, recommend! (story and dialog are childish and bad)

Decent overall if you're looking for something kid friendly that has coop, but not really worth it for other audiences due to lack of gameplay depth and variety. Good visuals and music, but that wasn't enough to warrant a reccomendation.

As far as "My wife isn't a gamer really" Co-op games, this one is top 4 in my opinion in the last 5 years playable on steam (No shout outs sorry but they are obvious to me). She is good now, but every game comes with a learning curve kinda thing. We use 2 Xbox wireless one model controllers dongled to our PC laptops. With an ariel third person view it gives a decent sense of perspective when falling. It's always gonna be hard, but stick to that shadow. The split screen option is fine, if you have one device, but we preferred just "invite friend" from our guys at Steam here, then you have the option to pretty much effortlessly drop into multiplayer. You can actually use there Steam overlay with the controller and a mouse, so to invite a friend, you don't have to get up and accept friend request with keyboard. This is amazing to me! The game saves off the host, so that second player is a helper, who collects her own wardrobe and can be customized and saved though. There are difficulty ratings for things like time trials, that we skip most of the hard ones, and that was fine, you can still proceed through the game and have no FOMO. When your character dies, you can respawn every 5 minutes or so, not losing too much ground. The biggest thing is I didn't spend a ton of time with the "okay just let me do it", mentality. She immensely enjoyed this as did I, with there being parts that were hard for me too. There are some pop culture songs overlaying the gameplay and the music beats drop in tandem with the movements of in game obstacles. Very cool. These were the coolest levels, replay ability on these was awesome. You have a shared max life pool of 5, refreshed by grabbing spheres, but when you die you only lose single level progress. My wife likes games where she can die, lol. Understandable, especially when she is venturing into our field here. Your avatar can change his/her/they's outfit upon collecting different orbs, and some super mega looking orbs that are just "if you get all of these, your awesome" deal. All and all, the ability to die and not lose too much progress without boring me with simplicity is captured. This keeps my wife entertained without her being stressed out, and on her phone while I am getting past tough parts. This creates less tension between us, who never ever argue... ever... and a more relaxed vibe while playing. Easy to pick up where you left off the next day. 10/10 so good, you have to try. For 60 bucks this is one of the few games that is worth NOT waiting for a sale. Especially if you couch co-op with your wife like us! We have 92 loving hours together, ew that's gross, I know :) V&AV

Fun game for local coop. Never tried online coop.

Very fun platformer with satisfying movement. I love rolling around in a little ball like sonc teh hedg and also diving in mid-air. The game runs extremely well and every interaction just feels so good imo. Sound design is great with the satisfying popping of bubbles to the smacking sounds when you smack enemies (or your co-op partner!) Part of my love for this game might be nostalgia influenced as I loved LBP back in the PS3 days, but I think even if this is your first sack-based experience, it's super fun, especially in co-op. I also had the "Epic games issue" like a lot of people, but what I recommend is just X-ing out the prompt to connect your Epic games account when the game starts up so that you can play co-op with people who don't have an Epic account. If you connected your Epic account, it's pretty easy to go to their account settings page and disconnect the app though, nbd. Epic is not a hard requirement like a lot of people seem to be under the impression of, but I don't blame them for thinking that because the game is not transparent about that at all.

100%'d this on PS4 when it first came out. Negative points for required Epic Games Launcher. I'm what people in the business would refer to as an afficionado for Little Big Planet. This was a pretty big disappointment all things considered. You could get on my ass for it not being named that to begin with, but the poster boy is still in the main lead, what was I supposed to think? Dull and painfully slow platforming, poor licensed music selection, very clear creative drought. They're trying to keep the style of level and enemy reminiscent of LBP in that they all look cobbled together from a level building tool but it falls completely flat. Everything to do with UGC is gone, so levels end up barren and without collectables, since nearly all of them have been rendered useless. You see the same enemies throughout the entire game without any semblance of a visual switch-up. Side content is even more barren and dull. This game reminds me of an old criticism brought up when Fallout 4 released: Giving your player character an actual voice between games is a horrible idea. I thought people were getting angry for the sake of being angry until I actually played Fallout 4. It was beyond disengaging, your character stops feeling like you, and I think that rings true here. Thankfully you can turn it off, at the very least. Though as a girl myself and, beyond that, a genderqueer individual, I can't help but be the tiniest bit hurt by the very firm gendering of Sackboy. LBP3 also screwed the pooch on this. For a game that's pretty deeply rooted in, not just community creation, but individualistic expression, it feels bizarre to do such a thing. Some of the costumes are alright, but that may be my singular positive here. It's a very middling experience altogether. Get it on sale, at the very least.

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