Your personal views on story mode

[Apple2012]

It doesn't have to be level by level, but it can be world by world (Da Vinci's Hideout, Avalonia etc.) You can tell us what you think about each part of story mode judging by theme, difficulty, plot, and other interesting details.

[lemurboy12]

How I see story mode:
Intro with stuff we can't use cutscene PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES dialogue boss PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES final boss the end

[Ironface]

Progressively gets more and more difficult, as all good games should, immensely detailed worlds - appropriate sound effects and themed levels with good colour correction and such. Those level designers must've pulled an all-nighter, with pizza. I can't even pick a favourite world, they're all just fantastic.

[L1N3R1D3R]

Like Ironface said, progressively gets more difficult, except for Avalonia. I kinda discard the Avalonia levels when talking about the LBP2 story mode. So easy... My favorite non-boss main path level is Currant Affairs, my favorite side path level is Tower of Whoop, and my favorite boss battle is the Negativitron.

[Kalawishis]

If you compare the story levels to some of the best community levels, they don't look too impressive. Although, it must have been hard to create so many levels with such consistent quality, and that is admirable. They are still very good, although there are parts in the story mode where I was rather confused to Mm's motives. I remember at the end of the Hamstertron segment of the first Avalon level, where all you did was just bash through walls and get prizes. There was no platforming whatsoever. Also, I think there should have been another segment with the MechaPup. But that's just me.

The greatest wow moment in the story mode was by far the boss of Victoria's laboratory. It was pretty darn amazing to say the least, but it was still quite easy. All the bosses were easy, really.

[jPaolo]

I think that Factory of Better Tomorrow should be more "communism-ish". I don't feel "Neon Propaganda" in levels. To see origin of this theme you have to see concept arts and stickers like "RoboLenin".

[Nick930930]

DaVinci: A lot of fun to play, mind blowing the first time around seeing all those in/out movers and crazy contraptions. I was about to just not even start creating because it looked like LBP got waaaay too complex.

Victorias Labs: Easily the best chapter in the entire game. Such great visuals coupled with just fun levels. The use of the train trick from LBP1 was done so well in the first Victoria level and it was great to see the communities own inspiration influenced the turnout of the sequel.

Factory of a better tomorrow: Really wierd theme. I loved the levels with the sackbots. Lots of fun. The level with the bombs was crazy hard though, especially since it was a double part level.

Avalonia: Least favorite of the themes. It was a really boring stage. I see what they were going for, but there was just barely any decoration and it focused mainly on silly vehicles that made no sense.

Eve's Asylum: I was excited to see a nature theme, but I didn't like the boxy feel of everything. It kinda grew on me, but idk. Then the stage took a totally different direction towards the end when you go inside Higgenbottom.

Negativitron: I can't even remember this stage... it wasn't that much fun. At this point I was just tired of the story.

Toy Story: I looooved the color and theme in these levels. And so many fun inventive obstacles. I loved the gravity one and the little block you shoot from the creatinator

Move Pack: The best theme yet. So artistic and different from anything we've seen before. Plus using the move controller was a blast! I loved the creepy atmosphere, such a great idea.

Muppets Pack: It was ok, but felt kinda unfocused. The space level was kinda boring. The one with the beakers was funny. The worst part about these levels was the annoying cutscenes that you can't skip. They are SO LONG! And when you're trying to ace these levels, those cutscenes get really annoying!

[Timekeeper]

I think the LBP2 levels are way better visual-wise, (Eve's/Victoria's is my favorite) but they aren't as good as LBP1 at being an intro to the creation tools. Maybe it's just that I grew as a creator, but I loved being able to watch the LBP1 levels and see how they work, to make them work for me.

In LBP2, you don't see much of the functioning logic as you play. It makes me wish there was a "see logic/switches" option to play them...

[Apple2012]

I have to say that the Gardens levels are more noobishly made compared to Da Vinci's hideout. Even somebody made a copy of "First Steps" from the community levels and made it look a little different. But Da Vinci's Hideout is so well-done that I couldn't even make the boss.

I like the first half of the Story Mode more than the second half. My least favorite theme/series of levels from the first half is Victoria's Laboratory. It's better than the second half, but I liked the music in Da Vinci's Hideout more as the objects in The Factory of a Better Tomorrow are better than any other object. This includes stickers, decorations, and materials.

No level in the second half is better than any level in the first half. I preferred the Cosmos over Avalonia and Eve's Asylum. Eve's Asylum is my least favorite series of levels because it's a jungle theme. When I first got to that section, I got bored quickly.

Acing the Negativitron was hard, but I saw worse (in any video game in general). At least I aced him and all of Story Mode.

To be fair, the story mode is my strongest field out of all the fields. I'm not very popular as creator, I don't really rate or heart levels, and I hardly play community levels.

[DreadRandal]

While I enjoyed playing most every level ... and even though it was visually above and beyond LBP1, I have to agree with the person who said (with the exception of Larry DaVinci's levels, which met and exceeded my expectations) playing LBP1 felt more fun for me than LBP2. But that only goes for story mode. LBP create mode can't compare to LBP2 create mode, which more than compensates for the minor let down of story mode in the sequel.

[Gavin]

While I enjoyed playing most every level ... and even though it was visually above and beyond LBP1, I have to agree with the person who said (with the exception of Larry DaVinci's levels, which met and exceeded my expectations) playing LBP1 felt more fun for me than LBP2. But that only goes for story mode. LBP create mode can't compare to LBP2 create mode, which more than compensates for the minor let down of story mode in the sequel.

This- I didn't enjoy LBP2 story mode as much as I did LBP1.

[Lbphart3]

I loved the story mode but it i think it was to short really i would have loved for it to be longer.But thats just me.

[Deurklink1]

In my opinion, every community level that looks and plays like it could fit in the story mode is a good level. I take a lot of my inspiration from story levels in LBP1 and LBP2, they're all so awesome and well-decorated.

[DP694377]

Welp, my views are as follows:

Da Vinci's Hideout:

It was a very nice change of scenery when you first start the game; certainly a different and more stylised presentation to the tutorials than LittleBigPlanet. Let's be honest, the whole style of the world was supposed to be somewhat 'classy', and this was something I enjoyed.


Victoria's Laboratory:

Certainly the most unique and exquisite world in the entire game. The whole concept was absurd; but it was a good kind of absurd--using cakes to grind rails? MediaMolecule sure have an imagination! And the enemies were sure unique, also.


The Factory of a Better Tomorrow:

This world had somewhat a very interesting theme going on; and was essentially supposed to be somewhat depressing. But what truly made this section of the story worth playing and enjoy were the segments with the sackbots--fun was surely had there...


Avalonia

This place was a nice change of pace as you get further into the story; at the half-way point. I guess the whole idea about Avalonia was to learn about Controlinators and such--and it succeeded greatly. It also was able to differentiate from the rest of the levels due to this. The tutorials were welcomed with open arms.


Eve's Asylum

Even though this world is my most disliked out of the entire story, it has its good parts afterall. The use of water and creatinators were indeed a nice touch, and made this series of level its own. And them MEANIES... They were a pain at times. But it was all fun indeed.


The Cosmos

Certainly the final frontier. You definitely got a sense of the importance these levels had and were supposed to represent. If anything, trying to ace these levels were the biggest pain of this game--not completing them; just trying to them. And as for the final boss? One of my favourites. And certainly a fitting finish to such a pleasant story.


... And that's my view on the vanilla story; without DLC.

[anarchowolf]

Honestly the story mode was lacking in general, it was way to short. We got a mess of new toys in Little Big Planet 2, but just not enough play-through to use them. However, some of the DLC makes up for that. The Muppet's Pack was genius, especial The Great Gonzo, it was slightly mad, and nothing less makes sense for this game. The toy story one was kind of cute and it was fun but again just a tad too short. The move pack however was absolutely wonderful from beginning to end. It still wasn't super long but it sure feels like it has some good meat to it.

I haven't gotten any other DLC packs yet though.