Little Big Planet is the video game that has it all – inventive gameplay, a truly great soundtrack, costumes, Stephen Fry narration and of course the ability to make your own games. LBP2 looks set to build on that even more, but the trouble is I haven’t finished #1 yet! (Back up your game progress folks, lest you end up like me having start all over again after a Red Screen of Death)
Almost all the music from Little Big Planet is available, from The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra original score, to existing music like Jim Noir’s ‘My Patch’. Almost all, apart from the one that I really wanted, the Gardens theme by Mat Clark. There’s something unashamedly cheery and irrepressible about it.
Thankfully Matt Laskowski of Plastic Shards Blog, has recorded the music directly from the game, and is offering the Garden Theme as a high quality mp3 from. Yay!
(A comprehensive guide to the various LBP tunes is available here.)
This fascinating timeline of Nintendo’s handheld gaming device shows the progression from early single game units, through Game Boy to the DSi today. I was particularly interested in the ‘Game & Watch’ from 1982 – a design that was resurrected as the DS.
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