LittleBigPlanet PS Vita (2012)

Little Big Planet on Vita is the best one in the series and the definitive LBP experience overall. I haven't really enjoyed the games made by Media Molecule. Very original and creative stylistically they just weren't fun to play for me. While MM were busy with making Tearaway, other studios picked up their ideas and made a game with much tighter, exciting and varied gameplay. From start to finish I wasn't bored for a minute and closer to the end LBP Vita even became fairly challenging in a few sections. Soundtrack is fantastic, and addition of unlockable minigames and real voice acting instead of murmuring are much appreciated.

In my opinion, Vita has way too few strong exclusives like this to justify the purchase of the console, so I can't really call this a killer app, but if you happen to be an unlucky owner of the system or if you're as lucky as me to have a friend with a Vita to borrow it from, I'd say you shouldn't miss LBP Vita. The game's super fun.

I finished off LBP Vita and did really enjoy it, but I still really miss that feeling of the very first game. I think a lot of what played into that was getting people excited to play it with me... excited to check out a new PS3 game on my HDTV... just excited to do the silly stuff in the game.

It's inherently less fun by myself and trying to get my son to play LBP3 with me was a fail...

I don't think any Little Big Planet game will ever capture the magic of the first for me. Everything just fell into place with my first ever HD TV, the killer visuals and at the time amazing textures, and unbelievable charm.

That said, the first few levels of this one, something I've been meaning to try, are quite a bit of fun and they do use the Vita well. I think I'm going to enjoy playing through the story mode.