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LittleBigPlanet on first glance seems so much like a cuddly game for 3-year olds. You control a cute puppet through a puzzle platform. If I had stopped describing the game here, you would have browsed somewhere else and forgot about it. But read on!

You can invite friends into the game and play cooperatively. Solve puzzles by standing on each others shoulders to be taller, lift friends up to where you are. Stand on a springboard and at the top you fling your friend upwards so he can reach a string which he toss down to you.

The game is fully physics based, so most all puzzles you encounter will base themselves on interacting with the environment. Turn a hedgewheel here, grab on and be lifted to the top. Grab onto a string and pull down a wooden board it is connected to so you can walk up your newly created stair.

But there is so much more. You can also create objects! This will be necessary to complete some tasks, but you can also create an entire level if you want. Share the level online and let others try it out too.

You can control the puppets arms with the left and right analog stick. The puppets mouths are supposedly lip synched to what you are saying through the headset!

You know what... Just watch the video, it will show you a lot of what the game is about.