A Sign of Greatness

This morning, I heard a perfect distillation of with LittleBIGPlanet may be a game for the ages. I heard a phrase emanating from the basement/multimedia grotto, repeated over and over with overwhelming joy. It was its own source of excitement and a perfect balm to the kind of frustration that usually requires emptying the grotto of all youthful life and hosing down of the furnishings.

The phrase: “Wait! I have an idea!!” It shall save us all.

PS-Second most frequent phrase: “Quit slapping me!!” That may be indicative of something else, but I choose to ignore it for now.

A New Kind of Warning

All games carry a mandatory seizure warning for epileptics. LittleBIGPlant has driven home to me the need for a new warning for a much more common problem: An OCD Alert. “Warning: this game may prove fatal for anyone suffuring from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.”

Not that it would have dissuaded me from buying it, but at least I’d have had a fighting chance. I’ve always been a bit susceptible to collection games, but this one seems to tap directly into whatever fold in my brain compels me to play the same level repeatedly to get that one last sticker. Doomed.