Little Big Planet on LSD

I love 2D jump-and-runs. And I love crazy stuff. So are games like Super Mario, Sonic and Donkey Kong Country just memories of my childhood and youth as Tim Burton films "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride". (Does anyone remember at the PS1 game "Skull Monkeys"?). Thus was "The Puppeteer" for several months already on my must play list after me had also LittleBigPlanet thrilled.
So I was finally able to dive into the moon kingdom and rise up with Kutaro, the evil Moon Bear King to snatch the stolen souls of children again.

And what shall I say? I am blown away! From the production at least. Not quite the playful. So you can play the course, not heave on a par with top dogs like Mario. For control via analog stick is often too vague (as with LBP) and sometimes you wish for the precision of the Digi-Cross. Also you often through the wacky design of the game feel not really be Lord of things and often feels relegated to spectator. So you will be killed just for bosses from the bombast of the effects and thinks often "how? Where? What?". But hey, at least we are sitting in a theater.

So, enough bitching. Finally, do you think still, the game was not worth the (low) price. That's it! Oh yeah! I think I've really never seen such a funny and stylish simultaneously staged game! And I am already beyond the magical 30. Since themselves LBP has a back seat. And because we're talking about magic: Even before the game starts at all, you asks the narrator with best storyteller voice, to start the game but, and you feel inevitably in his childhood back to when you listened to the fascinating stories of tapes or records that transported you to another world.

Of course, there are no levels in the game. As befits a theater, we are witness to 7 documents a 3 scenes. And each of these scenes exudes a dermaßende creativity and love that you really sometimes must wonder where the developers take their ideas. So often the scenery and the "Inventory Level" changes every second rotated slips away or disappear in the background. That's very cool, but sometimes can be a bit exhausting and confusing. Logo sit people in the audience, clapping enthusiastically at achievements, cry surprised at Secrets found or laugh out loud at jokes the narrator. What I did not particularly like: The curtain often wags when, for example wind or explode bombs. That's just a small detail, but the theater atmosphere come by over even better and you will always be wondering what presents itself one when the curtain rises again.

As a long-term motivation can collect different heads, which then transmits the protagonist in the game. This act playfully does not rule out to activate Secrets in the levels are for reference only. Certain areas of the areas are accessible only with specific skills learned in the course of his adventure, the Kutaro. So he throws bombs sometime, get a grappling hook or can ram things. Thus, a new visit already played sections is essential. In addition, picture books can be unlocked, may be where browsed diligently. If you like it .....

So you can "The Puppeteer" as Little Big Planet meets Tim Burton called with a pinch of psychedelic drug intoxication, which can not hold a candle playful genre greats, but it all strikes scenically by far. Well, now quiet please. The play goes on.