Walkthrough — LittleBigPlanet Wiki Guide
LittleBigPlanet Wiki Guide
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LittleBigPlanet’s story mode will take you on many adventures, this Walkthrough will lead you through the various levels and stages that Sackboy has to conquer.
The Gardens
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- First Steps
- Get a Grip
- Skate to Victory
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The Savannah
- Swinging Safari
- Burning Forest
- The Meerkat Kingdom
The Wedding
- The Wedding Reception
- The Darkness
- Skulldozer
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The Canyons
- Boom Town
- The Mines
- Serpent Shrine
The Metropolis
- Low Rider
- Subway
- The Construction Site
The Islands
- The Endurance Dojo
- Sensei’s Lost Castle
- The Terrible Oni’s Volcano
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The Temples
- The Dancers’ Court
- Elephant Temple
- Great Magician’s Palace
The Wilderness
- The Frozen Tundra
- The Bunker
- The Collector’s Lair
- The Collector
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Online services for several LittleBigPlanet games to be shutdown
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The developers behind the LittleBigPlanet games announced that online services will be taken offline for several older titles.
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The LittleBigPlanet games have been a staple on PlayStation consoles across generations. These platformers are tailored for players of all ages and are usually a delightful experience whether you choose to play alone or with others. However, several of the titles in the franchise will soon be losing their online functionality.
The developers behind the series have announced that online services for LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet 3, and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita will be shutting down soon.
The developers announced the closing of online services for the older LittleBigPlanet games in a post to social media.
We have just launched Game Update 1.27 and brought the LittleBigPlanet server (and all 10,000000+ Community Levels!!) back online for PlayStation 4 users!
Unfortunately, we need to permanently shut down our online services for: LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet 3 (PS3), and LittleBigPlanet PS Vita.
We have no doubt that this news will come as a big disappointment to a lot of you, ultimately this is the best way to protect the LittleBigPlanet community and to help ensure that our online environment remains safe.
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Little Big Planet — frwiki.wiki
For articles of the same name, see Little Big Planet (disambiguation).
Little Big Planet (or LittleBigPlanet by spelling logos, abbreviated as LBP ) is subtracted from the games on platforms created in 2008 by the creation of Media and the sharing of the level and the use of MediaMedia8, which emphasizes the use of the platform also created in 2008. The franchise is licensed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which is the publisher of all games released exclusively for the PlayStation consoles.
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The franchise begins in 2008 with the release of Little Big Planet on the PlayStation 3, developed by Media Molecule. In 2009, the game was ported by SCE Studio Cambridge (in collaboration with Media Molecule) to the PlayStation Portable under the same name.
However, the game offers a different story mode alone and without the original game’s multiplayer ability.
A sequel to the game called Little Big Planet 2, again developed by Media Molecule was released in 2011 for the PlayStation 3. An adaptation of a previous game called Little Big Planet was released in 2012 on the PlayStation Vita. The opus is co-developed by Double Eleven, Tarsier Studios and XDev. Also in the same year, Media Molecule and United Front Games released on the PlayStation 3, the component of Little Big Planet Karting , a karting racing game.
In 2014, Sumo Digital developed Little Big Planet 3 (in collaboration with Media Molecule) which was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a artwork developed exclusively by Sumo Digital and released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
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| On consoles in the living room | Small Big Planet 2 Karting 3 Sackboy Big Adventure |
| On portable consoles | Little big planet (2009) Small big planet (2012) |
| Other | All Star Battle Royale PlayStation |
| Editor / Developer | Media Molecule · SCE Studio Cambridge · Tarsier Studios · United Front Games · Sumo Digital · Psygnosis · Sony Interactive Entertainment |
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Read online «This big little planet» by Alexei Baranov — LitRes
Instead of a preface
These searches will live forever
I can’t comprehend everything in this topic
I want to be like a comet
Rush to the destination …Alexei Korovin some crisis. The crisis of creativity, middle age, the first, fifth and other years of married life. It doesn’t matter which one, but it comes to almost everyone. I was no exception in this story and also had my own long drawn-out crisis. There were two ways out of this situation: the first was to give up, go into depression and end everything sadly, and the second was to write this book. I chose the second option and began day after day and step by step to get out of my dull state. The first thing I had to do was to recognize the fact that yesterday is already over, and it is important only as a lesson, tomorrow has not yet come, and there is only today — the very time when everything is important, and from what you do on this day , the future will depend.
To begin with, I left the house and walked along the street to a nearby lake, looking at trees, bushes and people hurrying about their business along the way. One evening, returning home, I raised my head up, looked at the sky and realized that, carried away by work, career and my status in the consumer society, I had not looked at the stars for many years, and now I stared greedily at the sky and remembered the names of the constellations, with whom he was well acquainted. After acquiring a bicycle, trips began to a neighboring park and to a nearby lake, and then my route continued to a neighboring forest, where many hours of gatherings were held in a beloved clearing to look at the stirring of leaves, listen to the sound of the wind and observe the beauty of nature surrounding me from all sides. .
At that time the book was being written. Page after page, and, in my opinion, came out well. At first, it contained short stories about the miracles that people encounter every day, and the magic that we ourselves can create when we stretch out our hands towards our own fairy tale.
Then the book was supplemented with stories about mountain hikes in the Ukrainian Carpathians, which had already become native to me. Later, stories about distant countries, high-altitude ascents and unexplored places of our large and at the same time very small world appeared. How many stories I still have time to write in my book, I do not know, but one thing I can say for sure — they will not be boring!
I would like to wish all the people reading these lines to write their own book. Even if not on paper, but simply create your book of life. Take a look around. See the miracle happening around every second, touch it with your hands and start writing your book of miracles and adventures. And to everyone who reads mine, enjoy reading!
Chasing the Northern Lights
Tromso. 69°38′56′′ North, 18°57′18′′ East. Arctic night. It’s raining. Hawaiian tunes are heard in the street. We stand, smoke and joke: “If Bob Marley comes around the corner now, then everything will become more or less clear.
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In general, we imagined the Arctic a little differently. When we were just getting ready to travel, we had permafrost, snowstorms and frozen deer in front of our eyes, and certainly not continental autumn.
Tromso is located in the northern part of Norway above the Arctic Circle, but the current of the Gulf Stream makes the climate very mild and quite warm. My wife Yulia and I went here in the small hope of seeing the northern lights, although we knew that in this region the sky is almost always covered with clouds, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to see this miracle of the planet. In winter, the sun here, in general, does not rise above the horizon, and only for three or four hours it becomes light (something like early dawn or twilight). Surprisingly, but you quickly get used to it and do not even react to the fact that there is practically no day.
We liked the city very much. He met our family with his picturesque streets, cozy cafes and bars. Well, what about in the Arctic, and without alcohol? Bars in Tromso are a different story.
Tourists and locals occupy them every evening and sit very hard all night with beer or more serious alcoholic drinks, and in the morning silently in silence disperse to their homes. During the night, the city is covered with ice, and tipsy people glide through the streets, periodically meeting the fifth point with the sidewalk. And this despite the fact that sober residents of Tromsø manage to ride bicycles on ice without any problems!
Yulia and I were no exception, and we also glided about here every evening to visit one of the colorful establishments in the Norwegian Arctic. Despite the remoteness of these places, a very stylish rock cafe was found in Tromso, and an ice restaurant discovered a little later with walls, chairs, tables, a bar counter, many sculptures and even cups made of ice created pictures in our imagination as if we were in a fairy tale about the snow queen. Inside this realm of ice, it was, of course, a bit cold, but it was simply impossible not to come here and not treat yourself to a couple of cocktails.
I even joked that we would take drinks only without ice, so as not to accidentally swallow the heart of the enchanted Kai. The atmosphere of both local cafes, bars and restaurants, as well as the city itself, felt such ease and fun that, leaving the ice restaurant outside, I danced tango with Yulia with delight right on the streets of Tromso preparing for the holiday.
And suddenly, as if by magic, one evening, festive lanterns lit up everywhere, and the Christmas tree decorated with garlands and balls shone in the central square just at the moment when we were passing by. We could not even imagine why so many people gathered in the city center, and what kind of concert is going on here at the end of November. It turned out that it was the people of Tromso who decided to dilute the long polar winter with fun and began to celebrate the onset of Christmas almost a month before its calendar date.
If the question ever arises whether it is worth spending a lot of time and effort to get to such distances, then my answer is definitely yes! What is this sky worth, when pink-violet-blue and some other, it is reflected in the waters of the fjord of the Arctic Ocean!
We hoped to see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) here, but we clearly realized that this might not happen.
Every night the sky was overcast with heavy low clouds, and a dank arctic rain fell until morning. It is noteworthy that during the day it was always dry, and in half an hour or an hour after dawn the city completely thawed, and the streets again became suitable for safe walking.
Leaving the meeting with the radiance to chance, the next morning after arrival, my wife and I set sail on a huge catamaran along the fjord to participate in a whale safari. Dressed in everything warm and windproof, the people who went with us to meet the whales felt like members of some mysterious Arctic expedition and proudly posed for cameras on the deck against the backdrop of ice floes visible in the distance. Our ship with the no less heroic name «Explorer of the North» walked along the fjord for a long time, and then went out into the open Arctic Ocean. At this time, tourists walked with expressions on the faces of «sea wolves» and peered into the endless harsh water distances.
Soon, killer whales appeared next to our catamaran, which patrolled the fjord in coordinated flocks and did not pay the slightest attention to the noisy ships.
My wife and I almost jumped with delight — for the first time in our lives, to see a killer whale in the wild up close! And a little later, gray whales pleased with their appearance. The majestic and unhurried giants periodically showed huge backs from the water and delighted tourists with the spectacle of their dive, during which they threw out a huge wide tail from the water, smoothly leaving after its owner into the depths of the ocean.
Having seen enough of the whales with killer whales and admiring the view of the endless ocean plains, the adventurers left the deck one by one and moved to the hold closer to hot tea and warmth and warmed up after meeting with the Arctic Ocean. No matter how warm the clothes of the “conquerors of the North” are, the Arctic is the Arctic. A cold, knocking wind mixed with no less cold splashes of waves brought travelers back to reality and reminded people that they were not adapted to a long stay in harsh Arctic conditions.
It was already dark, which is not surprising for a four-hour daylight hours, immediately after returning to the port, we went to the nearest restaurant to have dinner and go to bed early.
The next day we had a dog sled ride across the arctic tundra!
I have never seen so much delight in my wife before. Her eyes simply shone with happiness as she led a pack of nimble, incessantly barking dogs. The only downside was that of the views surrounding us while driving through the tundra, in the end, the dogs’ butts and the wagging of the tails of our noisy dogs were the most memorable. But to drive across the Arctic on a sled is really an unforgettable pleasure with a lot of impressions and positive emotions. Julia at first did not want to manage the dogs and sat in the sleigh. But as soon as she tried to stand on the back skids, pull on the leashes and send our shaggy friends on the march, she no longer let them out of her hands until the very end of the journey. I philosophically sat down under the blanket, took out a thermos and slowly sipped coffee, taking advantage of the fact that now the whole trip depends on the wife and the agility of the dogs. And all around lay the boundless tundra and the low arctic sky.
Well, like it or not, but I had to admire the dog’s backsides that flashed before my eyes for an hour and a half.
When we returned to the base, a delicious lunch was already waiting for us in a warm heated house. I had never met venison before this day, and the local hot stew after a frosty walk came in handy. Well, okay, I didn’t try deer, there were two girls from India sitting nearby, who, in general, didn’t eat meat for religious reasons. In the dark, the cooks accidentally mixed up the cauldrons for vegetarians and meat-eaters and treated everyone to venison soup. The girls were not so lucky anyway — they flew half the planet to see the northern lights, but because of the clouds they could not enjoy this spectacle, and then there was meat. They ate a spoonful each, asked in horror if they had mixed up the dishes, and then simply burst into tears. I had to console them and tell them that nothing terrible happened, and they did not swallow the deer, but only tried it.
A local Norwegian guide, seeing this turn of events, jumped into the conversation and offered to take them to nearby Finnish Lapland, where the skies are clearer and they can see the aurora. As a result, everyone calmed down, and the girls even got a little better. Who knows? Maybe if they had not accidentally received bowls of venison, the guide would not have approached them, and then they would not have got a chance to go to a neighboring country towards their cherished goal?
After dinner we went outside from the warm house, but we were not destined to freeze. Team drivers led tourists to get acquainted with puppies of huskies. Entire enclosures were filled with dogs barking, squealing and trying to reach people. And I imagined with horror that if they were released, then such a crowd of dogs in a fit of puppy happiness could accidentally tear people apart. Before my thought had time to take shape in a sentence, the drivers opened the enclosures, and the juveniles attacked the tourists in a crowd.
They licked their hands, jumped on their backs and without fail tried to bite at least someone. Yulia had several puppies hanging from her hair, and it took a lot of effort to tear them away from such an interesting activity as eating my wife’s hair. I love dogs by nature, but when there are fifty of them, and even cubs trying to play, it’s even too much for me. In the end, the tourists did not play with the puppies, and they, in turn, played enough with the people, and we together brought the dogs into the enclosures.
Our acquaintance with the tundra did not end with the sledding. The guide took the group to a nearby camp, where we changed into snowshoes and wandered along a relatively easy route through the snowy Norwegian fields. The only problem with this hike was probably the heavy traffic in the polar tundra. The same teams of tourists wandered around, and when we met, we let each other through, sometimes spending several minutes on it. And sometimes the teams were carried out from behind the hill at a decent speed, and we had to run out of the way so as not to be trampled by nimble dogs.
But all the same, the participants of this campaign received incredible pleasure and few people got tired. Only two very elderly tourists from China were a little behind along the way, and in general, the whole team moved exactly along the chain. Julia, in general, got used to the role of the conquerors of the Arctic and now walked forward with her head held high.
Of course, the conditions of the North Pole cannot be compared with the warm Norwegian Arctic warmed by the Gulf Stream, but it is human nature to dream. Why not? We will consider ourselves «parapolar» heading to the «parapole». Whatever it was, but we walked across the Arctic in snowshoes, and our happiness from the realization of this moment knew no bounds!
Finally it’s time to hunt for the Northern Lights. At the dog station, two friends from India told us that clouds had been hiding the sky for more than two weeks! Yulia and I tried to somehow cheer ourselves up, repeating to each other that here, besides the radiance, there are many interesting things, and in general, the mere fact of being in the Arctic was worth it to go a long way and fly from Ukraine to the north of Norway.
But everyone was well aware that, despite access to the open Arctic Ocean, whales with killer whales, dog sledding and walking on the tundra, the main goal of the trip remained such a desired and now unlikely radiance. In the depths of their hearts, everyone hoped that some kind of magic would happen, the Norwegian weather would take mercy on travelers and give us the opportunity to see with our own eyes such an amazing miracle of the planet.
We left quite early that night because we had to get to the most remote observation station in Norwegian Lapland. After driving for about three hours, the bus arrived at one of the points scattered throughout the island. A group of tourists who had gathered to try their luck today were met by a local guide — a girl who lived in Spitsbergen in the summer and worked part-time in Tromso in the winter, conducting tours of the “hunt for the northern lights”. She said that for the past few weeks it had not been visible because of dense clouds, but we would wait, and if there was any tiny window in the clouds, at least a small section of Aurora could be seen.
I have always said that fate favors madmen. Before the girl had time to finish her speech, a small, very small window appeared in the sky, in which, shimmering with a bright white and yellow color, the magical northern lights sparkled! The tourists put aside their freshly made tea and coffee, put out their smoked cigarettes, broke off the benches prepared for a long wait and ran with cameras to the shore of a nearby lake. Here, away from the light of the tents of the station, they began to photograph this luminous piece of miracle that flickered in a tiny gap in the clouds.
And then the real magic began! In a matter of minutes, the clouds parted and opened the entire sky. Shimmering with white, yellow, green and red colors, the fabulous Northern Lights began to play from edge to edge of the sky! It fell down in waves, gathered in various shapes and bizarre lines, then spread out to the sides and gathered again, forming continuously dancing multi-colored patterns above our heads.
I tried to photograph this heavenly miracle, but I did not want to be distracted by the camera, so I stood spellbound and could not take my eyes off the radiance. Julia, in general, fell to her knees, lifted her head up and did not move. She hit the lens of a camera installed with a shutter speed of 30 seconds, and later it turned out that her picture came out clear and not blurry — the wife managed not to move even once in half a minute.
Words, most likely, will not even be able to convey this beauty. Therefore, if you still doubt whether it is worth flying far, far away in the Arctic to see the radiance with your own eyes, cast aside doubts, pack your things and hit the road! This is a real miracle that you can touch! One has only to want and take a step towards the magic of the North!
Visiting the Carpathian Mountains
The Ukrainian Carpathians amaze with their diversity. There are both completely forested peaks and absolutely «bald» mountains, gentle hills and pointed peaks.
In addition, the same Carpathians look completely different at different times of the year. I happened to be in the same places in all four seasons, and each time I was surprised at how much the mountains change and how different they are. I cannot say that I have a favorite time of the year to visit the Carpathians. I love all seasons and I love every route in my own way.
In spring, as soon as the snow melts a little, crocuses appear. They cover the mountains with a dense carpet, and you get the impression that you are in a fairy tale. You can go and admire these first purple heralds of spring, breaking through from under the snow, and filling all the slopes from horizon to horizon.
Specially for the sake of crocuses, I came to Dragobrat in spring. To save time and catch the dawn at the top, I drove to the start of the ascent by car (local «loaves», Niva and or UAZ cars — others will not get there on uneven stone roads). In the dark, with a flashlight, I went uphill and caught the sunrise on the top of the mountain.
At this time of the year, the grass here is still withered from last year, and in the rays of the rising sun all the slopes are painted in yellow-orange light, and the traveler in the mountains is also tinted by the rising sun. It is such a special feeling when you walk between the remnants of snow, meadows of crocuses and at the same time you are absolutely alone in the vast expanses of the Svidovitsky ridge — just the place that I call the “bald Carpathians”, because there are no trees between the peaks and you can stop at any moment , drink coffee and look at the mountains that go far, far beyond the horizon.
At the end of spring the skiers are no longer on the slopes and there are no tourists yet. A man looks just a curiosity in these places, and curious crows circle right overhead, looking with interest at a tourist who has wandered here, and sometimes they can fly so close that they catch with their black sweeping wing the shoulder of a person enchanted by the beauty of the mountains, as if awakening him and pushing him not to stagnate on the spot, and continue your journey further — into the depths of the fairy tale of the Carpathians waking up after a long winter.
Mountains turn green in summer. It rains, and from the slopes thousands of streams of water flow down, which forms mountain rivers. This is the time of mushrooms, blueberries and strawberries, the time of flowering of rhododendron (the so-called red rue).
From June to August we went to the highest mountain in Ukraine — Hoverla, climbed Petros, traveled along the Marmaros Range, popularly called the Ukrainian Alps, which, by the way, is not so far from the truth. Indeed, the Marmaros Range in places is very similar to the Alps. This is the place of the Carpathians, where the mountains have sharp peaks and rather steep cliffs.
Summer is the best time for hiking. If you are not lucky, you can get wet in the rain, but mountains are mountains — it is almost impossible to guess the weather here. And even if it rains, you will not spoil the impression of the trip, as the Carpathians are very hospitable mountains. A couple of hours will pass and the sun will come out, the traveler will dry up and will be able to calmly continue his journey.
On tourist routes, it will be possible to buy fresh milk and cheese from local shepherds inexpensively, which in urban conditions will most likely cost fabulous money. And then «graze» in a clearing covered with ripe blueberries. The trails are trodden and marked. Even if the marks are lost from sight and the person has lost his way, you can always ask the tourists passing by for directions, and there are a lot of them here at this time of the year, so it is simply impossible to get lost in the mountains in summer.
In autumn, the Carpathians are filled with colors, and you can see all possible colors — yellow, orange, red, green, and it’s even hard to say what other shades of nature leaving for the winter sleep can be found in the mountains at this time of the year. The trees are juicy, poured. The forests are mixed and each tree has its own special color, so everything around is intertwined with each other, forming an intricate interweaving of patterns. In all my life I have never seen such a riot of colors anywhere as in the autumn Carpathians.
In the highlands, frosts are already passing at night, and if you go out into the mountains early at dawn, you will find frozen puddles at the top, and in some places islands of snow. It is cool and fresh in the forest in autumn, so you need to dress warmly, take a thermos of coffee and slowly enjoy the silence in the mountains.
The Carpathians are harsh in winter. Now we are not talking about skiers or snowboarders — they have their own charm, but about hiking and climbing. One winter I very self-confidently arrived in Vorokhta, stayed at my favorite hotel and the next morning I got ready to climb Hoverla. I was more accustomed to walking alone in the mountains, and the familiar owner of the hotel began to persuade me not to go on my own, but to join some group, which at first surprised me greatly, since I had already climbed Hoverla many times in spring, summer and autumn, and I knew practically every stone on the route. Well, thank God, I’m not very stubborn, and I always listen to the advice of local people.
On this day, the guides led a mixed group of hikers up the mountain, and I went on the climb with them. As soon as the bus arrived at the starting point of the ascent, there was no limit to my surprise — the forest and the mountain completely changed, all the marks were swept up and buried under a 1.5–2 meter layer of snow. The landscape has changed beyond recognition and I would never have been able to find my way here on my own.
Winter weather is harsh and very changeable. When a person walks along a route familiar from summer in winter, he can get into fog, snowfall and hurricane winds. If we put the horror stories aside and simply state the fact, then in winter one person in the mountains has nothing to do.
At that time, I had the good fortune to have a very interesting new experience. I am a loner by nature and do not like to walk around the Carpathians with anyone, but in winter I had to join a group of tourists and continue climbing with them.
Completely unfamiliar people went upstairs together, got tired together, got up together, shared supplies in their backpacks (someone had tea, some had coffee, chocolates, lollipops and cookies).
At the very top, I took out a huge round Megrelian khachapuri from my backpack, which I always bake myself at home before a hike, and our team of climbers ate it with great pleasure. From the outside, it looked very symbolic when six tired tourists at the top come up to one round loaf, divide it into equal parts and have a meal together.
Winter trips in the Carpathians bring people together very, very much. And the hike itself is incredibly interesting — during it, travelers are surrounded on all sides by winter landscapes, directly associated with a fairy tale about 12 months, with white caps of pines, snow-covered glades and traces of forest inhabitants intersecting in the snow.
It is worth going to the Carpathians at any time of the year. The only thing that must always be remembered: the mountains do not conquer, they go to visit, and go with great respect. And they, in turn, let you in or don’t let you in. And the more respect a person has for the mountains, the more likely it is that this time they will let you in and see you off with all the hospitality with which welcome guests are greeted.
