What creeped me out as a kid, was the fact there were no other actual beings like Sackboy, you are completely alone and the closest you can get to seeing other beings in a level were just lifeless cardboard cutouts. Unless you played coop.
I love that aspect of LBP1, having to cobble up your own character or creature instead of just putting in a sackbot that you can style just like your character
Something I found creepy was how the backgrounds of all the levels looked like real places... specifically the gardens. That looks like someone's backyard. And you hear the ambience of planes, birds chirping, there's lawn mowers, gnomes, decorations... all of those things, yet the background is completely devoid of all human life. It's like everyone was raptured, and the only sentient beings left are little knit sack things, running around doing the bidding of toys.
The loneliness that comes from playing the first game today plays a big part in the creep factor for me, it just feels... dead? Now that the online functions are gone, especially create mode, I expect to see my old friends crushing each other or using some custom made uzi/vehicle they copied from somebody else, but now it's just me, alone in a massive box. Another thing about Create mode that creeped me out was the backgrounds. The cave and city ones specifically just felt so weird, you hear the ambience of this massive city, you can hear people talking in the distance, but there is nobody. Just an empty street with dark foggy alleyways, it makes me think of somebody in the fog, ready to jump out at me. The cave is also massive and foggy, with the only ambience being water dripping (Ifrc) and wind, the way the backgrounds would just move rapidly and then load in right in front me freaked me out as well. In the third game there was also the "Burning town" ambience in Create mode, which on its own is out of place, but it also used distorted and broken voicelines from the old Newton VA who passed away during development, it also sounds like it's coming from some kind of speaker far off in the distance, but you can't discern the direction it's coming from.
One thing that is creepy about the construction level is its music. The song is called "Atlas" by Battles, and it contains a building amalgam of strange guttural sounds, and lyrics that say "The people won't be people when they hear this sound" repeated over and over during the chorus along with other nonsense lyrics, ending the song with a long, awkwardly extended period of repetitive noises-- presumably the sounds that will cause people not to be people. Whatever that implies.
I'm kind of surprised that the voices in metro weren't mentioned! In the metropolis background, when you have it on in create mode and just listen to the ambience, you can very clearly hear the sounds of the city that imply there's genuine human life going on just behind what you can see. I see people mention that some of the noises also sound like a woman crying, but I don't really hear it as vividly. LBP is one of my favorite series of all times, but it actually is one of the reasons why I have a strange phobia to out of bounds glitches or things not loading in immediately when they're supposed to due to the fact I wore my disc out good making it load the backgrounds and stuff slow. The backgrounds also in general just freaked me out a lot as a little kid because it always felt so out of place, the rest of the game was a cutesy wool game, like even the default create mode background was fine, but the realistic backgrounds that were snapshots of real world places always weirded me out and honestly I think it got worse for me when LBP2 came out because of how busy they were.
FINALLY someone else agrees on the slight creepiness of Little Big Planet! I only played the first game in INCREDIBLY brief moments at my grandparents' home & always found the game unsettling. I essentially played the beginning over & over because I never felt like progressing through the game itself, lol. I barely remember anything about the game let alone the series, but the knitted character you play as always unnerved me as a child & it still does now. It did leave a mark on me despite how little I played that game, which is honestly impressive Also welcome back! Glad I saw this vid on my YT home page ^-^
I also noticed that it kind of has the “best graphics”? Idk what it is exactly, but it seems that it has some motion blur, more effects (like the bubbles) and somehow I felt it smoother than LBP2 or LBP3
i feel happy it wasnt just me, it felt desolate at times and it lead to suspense, like something was gonna jump out like a creepypasta but it never did
The Savannah Theme always creeped me out as a kid, like it looks lived in but it's completely empty. Don't even get started how depressing it looks when you use the flood tool
LBP was always so comfy to me, that I just kinda... Overlooked anything creepy. It was only as I became a horror fan, and looking back, that I began to see how the game series I grew up with instead of Minecraft, funnily enough, mirrored it in so many ways. Comfortable and nostalgic, user-generated online maps and animations, an incredible base game, and even that odd, lonely, creepy side of the two games that only shines through when you really think about it.
littlebigplanet never scared me but why the FUCK was the bunker so hard. we were straight up banned from playing it for years because it was so unbelievably hard
Fun Fact: in the Beginning credits scene with the humans heads if you are able to use creative mode in the level and go to Nathan’s Face. If you remove the block under him it shows his face again with a bullet hole in it implying something scary which I don’t know about
SOMEBODY MADE A VIDEO ESSAY ON HOW CREEPY THIS GAME WAS!!!! AYYAYAYAYAYAYYA!!!!!! It's always been with the Ambience and the extremely empty feeling of everything. That scared me man. I think this game has a really really fucking liminal feeling. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone else mention this.
I was always terrified of the backgrounds. I hated how small I felt every time, I’ve never been able to make a level that has anything other than a blank background. Every time I fell out of bounds (this is in other games too) I would panic and restart the level. I also hate the textures loading in when you switch backgrounds, and you’re stuck in this giant grey/black space. I think 3 has the scariest backgrounds, but all of the games are like this
As someone who played this game for i think 12 years, id say you did a wonderful job talking about the subtle creepyness of this game :) while i never found it that scary the first game does give off a unique feeling of emptiness and somewhat oddity that the other games cant really give off but i mean we are all different, but i guess i do understand how specifically lbp 1 can be creepy :) its nice seeing this game from someone elses perspective :D the scariest thing to me in the first game which still freaks me out to this day somewhat is the pause ambience if you pause while creating a level in lbp 1, the fact you are stuck in a basically giant void box and you have this bizzare soundtrack playing in the background that feels like you did something wrong..i cant find audio for it but like, if you know you know, just boot up lbp1 and try it, maybe youll understand, also spectacular video! 10/10 and subbed :D
Fun fact: when i first played the original LBP, i probably never played the story (largely because i was to young to know what a story was), but this story. Has a weird familiarity to it that i cannot describe, maybe its just the uncanny realism, but i feel like ive gone through it even tho i dont think have although, i do remember the kind dide destinktly, because he was regferenced outside of LBP1, inside of several levels which i could play in lbp2-3. i havent played any of these games in over 6 years, but i do remember hating lbp1 the most because it was discomforting in so many ways. Especially the strangly realistic objects all over the place, and sensors/emmers having faces didn't help. 9:48 this gave me nightmares when i was a young kid. The fact that it makes those sounds when you walk by it, and the general style ot has, every time i went through the create menu i would specifically avoid it.
The meat level may be the one that's like Willy Wonka in the beginning but with a fast food/Mc donalds motif, I can't remember the name but it was something along the lines of The Burger Factory
The scary levels made, especially in the second game are where some of my most fond childhood memories were made. Shame they're no longer accessible officially with the servers gone. Also good video 👍
I have only ever beaten Boom Town once... Man I wish I could actually beat LBP1. Such a classic. 14:11, you fucked me up with that. I was playing LBP the same time I was playing Pokemon Pearl, so that coincidence REALLY hits home for me. As for the creepiness, I always felt a bit of weirdness to it. I didn't know the word back then, but it has an air of liminality to it, like the backgrounds are so empty, you load in any story level background in the editor and it's so dead and creepy. The blur and grain to the screen, the strange sound effects, like idk what it is, the create mode flying sounds always stuck out as out of place to me. They still do. I always kinda chocked it up to me being a coward though. I've always been really easy to spook in games. Aside from horror, funny enough. But like I always have this deep feeling that I'm gonna turn a corner and see something, or that I'm gonna accidentally find something I was never intended to see. It's a lot less common in my adult life, but as a kid I was always prepared for the worst.
If you think the curly decals and other liminal stuff in lbp are scary, then just look at the early versions of LBP Like milestone 5. Those builds are chock full of that liminal feeling.
I would love to watch an LBP video to remind me of my childhood’s best game, and I’m probably thinking LittleBigPlanet 1 is the first LBP game I played before I moved on to LittleBigPlanet 2 which is the game I played the most, and sometimes the 3rd being LBP Karting, it’s terribly sad that Sony is just treating the fandom like it’s just a rumble of problems, bad bugs, glitches, and bad exploits that keep on thrashing the game before the LBP 3 servers shut down as it used to stay alive until today, to me to be honest, I’m just gonna blame the rushed game (LBP 3) on Sony because they are the ones to rush Sumo Digital on the game because of darn holidays and maybe other stuff, the good thing is you can still buy the DLCs and play other story levels out there, the only difference is that the servers are just permanently shut down. LittleBigPlanet deserves more than just be thrown away… it deserves to be recognized, more attention, more respect, and raise up, even though LittleBigPlanet 3 is old, and I don’t even care about that, I just hope that Sony won’t do anything stupid like forcing the developers to rush on something, that’s not how art goes.
My love for these games is insurmountable. My first system was the ps2, but lbp was the first game I ever played that I truly loved. I would definitely say that 90 percent of the game for me as a kid, and even now, was all good vibes. But I know exactly what you mean by feeling slightly uneasy during some levels, in lbp 1 especially. Like in create mode, when you do the little pause function that freezes the entire level, that droning sound ALWAYS freaked me out. Not only that, but the bare ambience of The Wedding when turned to night is very creepy to me. Even though most of the horror levels I remember were from the second game (which is my favorite), I do remember one specific horror level from lbp 1. I think it was called THE TENANT, and it was actually a really depressing feeling, psychological horror level, if I remember correctly. Reminded me of that game Neverending Nightmares (if you remember what that is). Anyways, I’ve made this way too long, I’m so sorry to make you read all this. 😭 I always love when someone talks about little big planet because it’s probably my favorite game series of all time. (Great video though, your content seems kewl)
This video speaks to me on a spiritual level. Seriously though its so cool to see a video on what might be considered a niche topic nowadays. LBP1's aesthetic was definitely a bit more eerie than the sequals, I even remember some community levels creeping ne out like The Lonely Village, Cant Sleep or Clowms will eat me, and House of Hell. Was a joy to watch and hope to see more
Oh geez, I'd completely forgotten about the creepy fairy tale king and his horrible little flappy valve mouth. I don't know if it was just the accompanying "talking" sound, or the fact that he's the first character we see, but he always unsettled me the most.
You're not alone, I always thought the first little big planet game was a little eerie or creepy, especially when you look back on it. Just the way the eyes are on the characters is weird and creepy and everything else is just eerie.
The first LBP game definitely has an eerie vibe to it I'll agree, it could be a mix of the lifeless cutouts or just warped nostalgia but I always avoided it when I was younger due to the weird creepy feeling it gives off
Love this so much. It was a really relaxing recap of my favorite story in the LBP trilogy. I think it's a mix of the nostalgia and charm but also the fact it explores different parts of the world. Started an interest in geography for me
Man finding this video gave me big nostalgia. I remember years ago my cousin and I would play this game on his Playstation when we were kids. Biggest highlight were the custom horror levels that we found, trying to scare each other while playing it. Peak childhood memories right there. Glad to have found your channel!
ÑîŃȚEŃÐŒ… (I love this video! LittleBigPlanet 1 was also obviously not intended for kids, it’s mature enough for adults, but it really did have kid nature. For a kids game, it had some interesting stuff in it, but it’s sad to see the franchise go.) Bonus: 12:56💀…
it’s really hard to pinpoint what makes the atmosphere so bizarre in the first game, but it’s like something none of the other games capture graphically at all. I think for me it really does come from those late nights with friends over the phone playing the weirdest and most bizarre levels we could find.
In elementary school my teacher brought a playstation magazine to class one day, my friends and I flipped through and found a few pages dedicated to the new game little big planet. Even seeing those pictures in the book, something about it creeped me out. Something about it... it felt uncanny and even sackboy himself reminded me of a voodoo doll or something. One picture I remember of sackboy dying in the spikes really scared me. I actually thought the game was a horror game lmao but regardless I went home that day and asked my dad for lbp. When I first played it I wont lie there were some pretty creepy moments but overall the game was really fun and it ended up being one of my favorite games of all time! I'm so grateful to little big planet for shaping who I am to this day and I hope we will get an lbp4 in the future
lmfao, i never realized how violent and dark this game was for a kids game, when i was little and played this, i always had those weird thoughts that made no sense, like with the mayor and lizard face you had, really nice and funny video, crazy how well this game holds up after so many years
A fun fact I guess is that the mummified skeleton item that laughs doesn’t actually have a sound effect maker attached to it so it just does that somehow.
As someone who’s never played LBP, I can see it being creepy the same way a puppet can be creepy. These amalgamations of moving parts to simulate living beings feels very Uncanny Valley to me. Sure, the tone is pretty whimsical, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are things all around you that look juuuust enough to seem alive.
i used to be so petrified of the ghosts in Skate to Victory to the point where i had to go upstairs and have my parents play it ... i had a hard time in the Wedding lmao
Yea, as a like young kid i remember certain things in the game creeping me out too, i think it was the weird like mix of styles and stuff, some of the characters where kinda creepy looking even if their wherent intended to be, i only remembered me being a little creeped out by it recently with this video, the game was a little odd with the odd blends of realism and cartoonyness, it didnt deturn me but you know, just something that was kinda just there
Agreed that the first lbp spooked me out as a kid from time to time, just some of the weirder objects and just unsettling uncanny moments just… felt odd for a kids game. Looking back I love how they don’t hold back on the subtle bits of adult humour, I think the first game is the best aesthetically Amazing vid defo subscribing 💜💜
One thing that always unsettled me about LBP were always the template levels when creating, they are full levels, but it's lacking of anything, no characters, no music, most of the obstacles are impossible, there is nothing moving. And yes, while I get that those factors are what it's supposed to be so you can make your own levels with them, those factors would really creep me out when messing with the templates, it always felt like there had to be another presence in those soulless environments, watching.
I think all the things you said were creepy are why I like the first game so much and actually more than the others. Also Song 2 and the wedding theme music go hard.
i was just having some nostalgic memories of this game and looked it up. i’m surprised to see such a recent video about this game. lbp was my childhood and i have so many vivid memories of this game. i wonder where my old sack friends r at now
I saw some concept art for LBP PS Vita in some video a while ago (I think it was for a character called Mrs Sunshine?) and OH MY GOD IT WAS HIDEOUS, IT WAS MELTING. ITS FACE WAS MELTING. 😭
26:52 I swear, I haven't had a side splitting laughing fit like that in a long while. Nothing could've prepared me for the Collector edited over the dang guy from SAW...
The icon for the Canyons on the map also has, presumably blood coming out of Uncle Jalapenos eyes. Its obviusly just a sticker but the implications are kinda creepy
Amazing video!!!😁 This game was so eerie for me as kid, I feel like it had to do with the fact there was no other SackBoy models making it feel so liminal in a way. OH DONT GET ME STARTED ON THOSE BIG SHOES
80% of this video is not about how lbp is creepy but instead just an interesting recap of the story, which is fine regardless. But yeah I agree lbp does have a slight eerie atmosphere to it, especially the vita version oh man... I also learned some new stuff even though I've played this game for over a decade, I like how you Analysed the story as if it was a serous plot instead of just putting it off as a kids story and your voice is very pleasant to listen to so you got a new sub lol. Finally a new big video about this amazing game.
Also? I have to disagree, the blue dancing women who twist up into contorted shapes that you have to walk on like platforms despite having oddly realistic human limbs always creeped me out as a kid lol, super uncanny
LBP had the most fascinating levels in the community ever!! Jeff the killer, killer whale survival, bomb run, shark survival.. even the Inflatable Clown was my most hearted level i played years ago. Issac was the main guy we play as, and his friend, Reggie, was so wholesome! I’m surprised after years, i still even remember the two’s names!! (I mean well, i watched Dlive back in 2023 summer! So.. ofc I’d remember them..)
Fun fact: if you use the sticker tool to remove the stickers from the moving hand object, you’ll find that they literally used images of fingers to texture it. Pretty gross
The creepy feeling felt from this game always felt like what a kid had put together, what the child sees is what they truly wanted. A fur ball with eye and a nose, obviously it’s a dog to the kid, to anyone else with out the suspension of disbelief this is a weird cobbled thing meant to look like a dog. This entire game emphasizes the fact that this game is a cobbled together wonder from dreams and imagination, so it’s not going to look pretty to anyone who isn’t viewing the world in the children’s eyes. Cause of that creepy nature I ended up loving this rough style and almost nonsensical clash of characters. But got to be honest about the fact the crypt is just super creepy and one of the authors bonus levels that have you become an egg and enter this artistic world the author dreamt of creating.(can’t remember it’s name)
Lol loved the video and I’d never thought I’d see a video of LBP do a Breaking Bad Reference 😂 Also the scariest level for me would be the Magicians Palace. The dark environment with the song is what made it creepy, which might be my own problem considering the majority of the community loves it and finds it relaxing, but I always found it disturbing. Especially at the end when the magician just flies down and dissolves everything with the tip of his finger to transform the Temples to the Wilderness. It always made me feel uneasy. There is footage in the beta of LBP The Dancers Court, of a dancer with its head on fire. 😐 Great video nonetheless!!👍✌️🔥🔥😎 22:11 YESS I FOUND THAT CREEPY TOO ASIDE THE COLLECTORS LAIR AND WEDDINGS SONG 2:05 S E X Y :|
i started watching this channel literally a day ago only to find that there hadn't been an upload in a year, was a bit disappointed. what are the chances of this happening? Just finished the video and I completely agree, I've felt similarly about this game for a long time without really being able to describe it. It's definitely a feeling only present in the first game and not at all in the other two, but imo there's a slightly similar atmosphere in the first new super mario bros game too, while maybe not to the same extent. It always just felt darker than the others for some reason
HYEAHHHH, LBP MENTIONED. Honestly, a fun watch, man. I always did feel a sense of unease when I was younger, so I suppose I'm part of the problem too lol. This was a fun watch, I've never seen anyone use the chun-li costume ever lol. Also, the plot hole you describe in 15:44 is actually not true, at the end of the segment, the collector does drop him iirc? Idk i could be wrong and we're both complaining about the story of a 16 year old kids game lol. Fun watch, great job
21:55 cries in the wind sounds like walkin by denzel curry. song 2 is fire. the battle on the ice fucking epic bible song. the wedding is spooky ill give you that. party ghouls sound like a pirate song.
It was pretty creepy they did actually end up using the dead voice actor of newton voice lines in the burning town audio I think something like that but I oddly kinda liked the creepy part of it
💁♂️1st off id like to say this video took me back in time to a great time experiencing LBP the 1st time & I'd absolutely love if you did a video or at least your thoughts on Unraveled its really deep & dark & and beautiful all around
Was the horror community level Sack Eater or something? I remember one called that and it felt very oppressive, trapped in like a rusty factory, I don't remember meat though so maybe not.
What creeped me out as a kid, was the fact there were no other actual beings like Sackboy, you are completely alone and the closest you can get to seeing other beings in a level were just lifeless cardboard cutouts. Unless you played coop.
I love that aspect of LBP1, having to cobble up your own character or creature instead of just putting in a sackbot that you can style just like your character
@@enozlliks7794 I mean it helps with the creativity a bit, but it also makes you feel very isolated.
Something I found creepy was how the backgrounds of all the levels looked like real places... specifically the gardens. That looks like someone's backyard. And you hear the ambience of planes, birds chirping, there's lawn mowers, gnomes, decorations... all of those things, yet the background is completely devoid of all human life. It's like everyone was raptured, and the only sentient beings left are little knit sack things, running around doing the bidding of toys.
NO ACTUALLY it felt so eerie seeing that there wasn’t exactly no one around but you 😭
@@OvahllsLike the movie 9
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LBP MENTIONED!!!!!!
..wait for real? it was mentioned? (i wish this game still had popularity)
The loneliness that comes from playing the first game today plays a big part in the creep factor for me, it just feels... dead? Now that the online functions are gone, especially create mode, I expect to see my old friends crushing each other or using some custom made uzi/vehicle they copied from somebody else, but now it's just me, alone in a massive box.
Another thing about Create mode that creeped me out was the backgrounds. The cave and city ones specifically just felt so weird, you hear the ambience of this massive city, you can hear people talking in the distance, but there is nobody. Just an empty street with dark foggy alleyways, it makes me think of somebody in the fog, ready to jump out at me. The cave is also massive and foggy, with the only ambience being water dripping (Ifrc) and wind, the way the backgrounds would just move rapidly and then load in right in front me freaked me out as well.
In the third game there was also the "Burning town" ambience in Create mode, which on its own is out of place, but it also used distorted and broken voicelines from the old Newton VA who passed away during development, it also sounds like it's coming from some kind of speaker far off in the distance, but you can't discern the direction it's coming from.
One thing that is creepy about the construction level is its music. The song is called "Atlas" by Battles, and it contains a building amalgam of strange guttural sounds, and lyrics that say "The people won't be people when they hear this sound" repeated over and over during the chorus along with other nonsense lyrics, ending the song with a long, awkwardly extended period of repetitive noises-- presumably the sounds that will cause people not to be people. Whatever that implies.
the "cries in the wind" song from the soundtrack used to freak 7/8 year old me out 😭
It's a great song though
I'm kind of surprised that the voices in metro weren't mentioned! In the metropolis background, when you have it on in create mode and just listen to the ambience, you can very clearly hear the sounds of the city that imply there's genuine human life going on just behind what you can see. I see people mention that some of the noises also sound like a woman crying, but I don't really hear it as vividly.
LBP is one of my favorite series of all times, but it actually is one of the reasons why I have a strange phobia to out of bounds glitches or things not loading in immediately when they're supposed to due to the fact I wore my disc out good making it load the backgrounds and stuff slow. The backgrounds also in general just freaked me out a lot as a little kid because it always felt so out of place, the rest of the game was a cutesy wool game, like even the default create mode background was fine, but the realistic backgrounds that were snapshots of real world places always weirded me out and honestly I think it got worse for me when LBP2 came out because of how busy they were.
FINALLY someone else agrees on the slight creepiness of Little Big Planet! I only played the first game in INCREDIBLY brief moments at my grandparents' home & always found the game unsettling. I essentially played the beginning over & over because I never felt like progressing through the game itself, lol. I barely remember anything about the game let alone the series, but the knitted character you play as always unnerved me as a child & it still does now. It did leave a mark on me despite how little I played that game, which is honestly impressive
Also welcome back! Glad I saw this vid on my YT home page ^-^
i KNOW im suprised ive never really seen anyone else talk about it
I also noticed that it kind of has the “best graphics”? Idk what it is exactly, but it seems that it has some motion blur, more effects (like the bubbles) and somehow I felt it smoother than LBP2 or LBP3
@@edreds2145Yeah lbp2 and 3 use a different engine, Lbp1 does have a different feel to it.
@@toyo8460 didn’t know that
i feel happy it wasnt just me, it felt desolate at times and it lead to suspense, like something was gonna jump out like a creepypasta but it never did
The Savannah Theme always creeped me out as a kid, like it looks lived in but it's completely empty.
Don't even get started how depressing it looks when you use the flood tool
"Deadly expandinator" That just sounds like a Deviantart creation
16:05 - This music she is referring to is Atlas - Battles. It's probably my favorite song in the first game.
Real, I remember playing tons of horror levels back when I played which, whilst not scary, had pretty creepy atmospheres
LBP was always so comfy to me, that I just kinda... Overlooked anything creepy. It was only as I became a horror fan, and looking back, that I began to see how the game series I grew up with instead of Minecraft, funnily enough, mirrored it in so many ways. Comfortable and nostalgic, user-generated online maps and animations, an incredible base game, and even that odd, lonely, creepy side of the two games that only shines through when you really think about it.
littlebigplanet never scared me but why the FUCK was the bunker so hard. we were straight up banned from playing it for years because it was so unbelievably hard
Fun Fact: in the Beginning credits scene with the humans heads if you are able to use creative mode in the level and go to Nathan’s Face. If you remove the block under him it shows his face again with a bullet hole in it implying something scary which I don’t know about
SOMEBODY MADE A VIDEO ESSAY ON HOW CREEPY THIS GAME WAS!!!! AYYAYAYAYAYAYYA!!!!!!
It's always been with the Ambience and the extremely empty feeling of everything. That scared me man. I think this game has a really really fucking liminal feeling. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone else mention this.
I thought it was just me being a scaredy cat as a kid but I’m glad to see others also found something about this game eerie 😭
You’re so right though
I was always terrified of the backgrounds. I hated how small I felt every time, I’ve never been able to make a level that has anything other than a blank background. Every time I fell out of bounds (this is in other games too) I would panic and restart the level. I also hate the textures loading in when you switch backgrounds, and you’re stuck in this giant grey/black space. I think 3 has the scariest backgrounds, but all of the games are like this
As someone who played this game for i think 12 years, id say you did a wonderful job talking about the subtle creepyness of this game :) while i never found it that scary the first game does give off a unique feeling of emptiness and somewhat oddity that the other games cant really give off but i mean we are all different, but i guess i do understand how specifically lbp 1 can be creepy :) its nice seeing this game from someone elses perspective :D
the scariest thing to me in the first game which still freaks me out to this day somewhat is the pause ambience if you pause while creating a level in lbp 1,
the fact you are stuck in a basically giant void box and you have this bizzare soundtrack playing in the background that feels like you did something wrong..i cant find audio for it but like, if you know you know, just boot up lbp1 and try it, maybe youll understand, also spectacular video! 10/10 and subbed :D
Fun fact: when i first played the original LBP, i probably never played the story (largely because i was to young to know what a story was), but this story. Has a weird familiarity to it that i cannot describe, maybe its just the uncanny realism, but i feel like ive gone through it even tho i dont think have although, i do remember the kind dide destinktly, because he was regferenced outside of LBP1, inside of several levels which i could play in lbp2-3. i havent played any of these games in over 6 years, but i do remember hating lbp1 the most because it was discomforting in so many ways. Especially the strangly realistic objects all over the place, and sensors/emmers having faces didn't help.
9:48 this gave me nightmares when i was a young kid. The fact that it makes those sounds when you walk by it, and the general style ot has, every time i went through the create menu i would specifically avoid it.
The meat level may be the one that's like Willy Wonka in the beginning but with a fast food/Mc donalds motif, I can't remember the name but it was something along the lines of The Burger Factory
The scary levels made, especially in the second game are where some of my most fond childhood memories were made. Shame they're no longer accessible officially with the servers gone. Also good video 👍
I have only ever beaten Boom Town once... Man I wish I could actually beat LBP1. Such a classic.
14:11, you fucked me up with that. I was playing LBP the same time I was playing Pokemon Pearl, so that coincidence REALLY hits home for me.
As for the creepiness, I always felt a bit of weirdness to it. I didn't know the word back then, but it has an air of liminality to it, like the backgrounds are so empty, you load in any story level background in the editor and it's so dead and creepy. The blur and grain to the screen, the strange sound effects, like idk what it is, the create mode flying sounds always stuck out as out of place to me. They still do.
I always kinda chocked it up to me being a coward though. I've always been really easy to spook in games. Aside from horror, funny enough. But like I always have this deep feeling that I'm gonna turn a corner and see something, or that I'm gonna accidentally find something I was never intended to see. It's a lot less common in my adult life, but as a kid I was always prepared for the worst.
If you think the curly decals and other liminal stuff in lbp are scary, then just look at the early versions of LBP Like milestone 5. Those builds are chock full of that liminal feeling.
I would love to watch an LBP video to remind me of my childhood’s best game, and I’m probably thinking LittleBigPlanet 1 is the first LBP game I played before I moved on to LittleBigPlanet 2 which is the game I played the most, and sometimes the 3rd being LBP Karting, it’s terribly sad that Sony is just treating the fandom like it’s just a rumble of problems, bad bugs, glitches, and bad exploits that keep on thrashing the game before the LBP 3 servers shut down as it used to stay alive until today, to me to be honest, I’m just gonna blame the rushed game (LBP 3) on Sony because they are the ones to rush Sumo Digital on the game because of darn holidays and maybe other stuff, the good thing is you can still buy the DLCs and play other story levels out there, the only difference is that the servers are just permanently shut down.
LittleBigPlanet deserves more than just be thrown away… it deserves to be recognized, more attention, more respect, and raise up, even though LittleBigPlanet 3 is old, and I don’t even care about that, I just hope that Sony won’t do anything stupid like forcing the developers to rush on something, that’s not how art goes.
My love for these games is insurmountable. My first system was the ps2, but lbp was the first game I ever played that I truly loved. I would definitely say that 90 percent of the game for me as a kid, and even now, was all good vibes. But I know exactly what you mean by feeling slightly uneasy during some levels, in lbp 1 especially. Like in create mode, when you do the little pause function that freezes the entire level, that droning sound ALWAYS freaked me out. Not only that, but the bare ambience of The Wedding when turned to night is very creepy to me. Even though most of the horror levels I remember were from the second game (which is my favorite), I do remember one specific horror level from lbp 1. I think it was called THE TENANT, and it was actually a really depressing feeling, psychological horror level, if I remember correctly. Reminded me of that game Neverending Nightmares (if you remember what that is).
Anyways, I’ve made this way too long, I’m so sorry to make you read all this. 😭 I always love when someone talks about little big planet because it’s probably my favorite game series of all time. (Great video though, your content seems kewl)
The dog getting kidnapped brought me in tears as a kid 😭
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This video speaks to me on a spiritual level.
Seriously though its so cool to see a video on what might be considered a niche topic nowadays. LBP1's aesthetic was definitely a bit more eerie than the sequals, I even remember some community levels creeping ne out like The Lonely Village, Cant Sleep or Clowms will eat me, and House of Hell.
Was a joy to watch and hope to see more
That's a game I haven't heard the name of in a while. Great video!
Oh geez, I'd completely forgotten about the creepy fairy tale king and his horrible little flappy valve mouth.
I don't know if it was just the accompanying "talking" sound, or the fact that he's the first character we see, but he always unsettled me the most.
You're not alone, I always thought the first little big planet game was a little eerie or creepy, especially when you look back on it. Just the way the eyes are on the characters is weird and creepy and everything else is just eerie.
The first LBP game definitely has an eerie vibe to it I'll agree, it could be a mix of the lifeless cutouts or just warped nostalgia but I always avoided it when I was younger due to the weird creepy feeling it gives off
LBP2 was always my favorite its a masterpiece
Love this so much. It was a really relaxing recap of my favorite story in the LBP trilogy. I think it's a mix of the nostalgia and charm but also the fact it explores different parts of the world. Started an interest in geography for me
Man finding this video gave me big nostalgia. I remember years ago my cousin and I would play this game on his Playstation when we were kids. Biggest highlight were the custom horror levels that we found, trying to scare each other while playing it. Peak childhood memories right there. Glad to have found your channel!
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ÑîŃȚEŃÐŒ… (I love this video! LittleBigPlanet 1 was also obviously not intended for kids, it’s mature enough for adults, but it really did have kid nature. For a kids game, it had some interesting stuff in it, but it’s sad to see the franchise go.) Bonus: 12:56💀…
it’s really hard to pinpoint what makes the atmosphere so bizarre in the first game, but it’s like something none of the other games capture graphically at all. I think for me it really does come from those late nights with friends over the phone playing the weirdest and most bizarre levels we could find.
lbp1 had a lot of things that creeped me out as a kid haha but eventually I grew out of the scaredy cat phase when lbp2 came out
In elementary school my teacher brought a playstation magazine to class one day, my friends and I flipped through and found a few pages dedicated to the new game little big planet. Even seeing those pictures in the book, something about it creeped me out. Something about it... it felt uncanny and even sackboy himself reminded me of a voodoo doll or something. One picture I remember of sackboy dying in the spikes really scared me. I actually thought the game was a horror game lmao but regardless I went home that day and asked my dad for lbp. When I first played it I wont lie there were some pretty creepy moments but overall the game was really fun and it ended up being one of my favorite games of all time! I'm so grateful to little big planet for shaping who I am to this day and I hope we will get an lbp4 in the future
lmfao, i never realized how violent and dark this game was for a kids game, when i was little and played this, i always had those weird thoughts that made no sense, like with the mayor and lizard face you had, really nice and funny video, crazy how well this game holds up after so many years
A fun fact I guess is that the mummified skeleton item that laughs doesn’t actually have a sound effect maker attached to it so it just does that somehow.
diva... miss girl... you cant make a whole video talking abt how creepy the game is then 3:30 happens and you just dont say it?
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As someone who’s never played LBP, I can see it being creepy the same way a puppet can be creepy. These amalgamations of moving parts to simulate living beings feels very Uncanny Valley to me. Sure, the tone is pretty whimsical, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are things all around you that look juuuust enough to seem alive.
your video video brought back a lot of great spooky lbp memories and great laughs! thank you so much! RIP LBP
i used to be so petrified of the ghosts in Skate to Victory to the point where i had to go upstairs and have my parents play it
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i had a hard time in the Wedding lmao
Yea, as a like young kid i remember certain things in the game creeping me out too, i think it was the weird like mix of styles and stuff, some of the characters where kinda creepy looking even if their wherent intended to be, i only remembered me being a little creeped out by it recently with this video, the game was a little odd with the odd blends of realism and cartoonyness, it didnt deturn me but you know, just something that was kinda just there
i remember LBP1 having a SAW level who was quite creepy for my age, and also the dead space one was quite creepy
Yeah i remember both of those. Lbp2 and 3 have the truly legitimately terrifying horror levels though.
Agreed that the first lbp spooked me out as a kid from time to time, just some of the weirder objects and just unsettling uncanny moments just… felt odd for a kids game. Looking back I love how they don’t hold back on the subtle bits of adult humour, I think the first game is the best aesthetically
Amazing vid defo subscribing 💜💜
One thing that always unsettled me about LBP were always the template levels when creating, they are full levels, but it's lacking of anything, no characters, no music, most of the obstacles are impossible, there is nothing moving. And yes, while I get that those factors are what it's supposed to be so you can make your own levels with them, those factors would really creep me out when messing with the templates, it always felt like there had to be another presence in those soulless environments, watching.
I think all the things you said were creepy are why I like the first game so much and actually more than the others. Also Song 2 and the wedding theme music go hard.
i was just having some nostalgic memories of this game and looked it up. i’m surprised to see such a recent video about this game. lbp was my childhood and i have so many vivid memories of this game. i wonder where my old sack friends r at now
I saw some concept art for LBP PS Vita in some video a while ago (I think it was for a character called Mrs Sunshine?) and OH MY GOD IT WAS HIDEOUS, IT WAS MELTING. ITS FACE WAS MELTING. 😭
26:52 I swear, I haven't had a side splitting laughing fit like that in a long while. Nothing could've prepared me for the Collector edited over the dang guy from SAW...
the artstyle is very unique and always creeped me out really bad as a kid
Dang, this was genuinely a great video! I surprisingly stuck to the end but otherwise idk what else to say besides good video 👍👍
1:11 I have this EXACT Sackboy plush LOL
Love this game sm bro i sobbed both times it shutdown
The icon for the Canyons on the map also has, presumably blood coming out of Uncle Jalapenos eyes. Its obviusly just a sticker but the implications are kinda creepy
Amazing video!!!😁 This game was so eerie for me as kid, I feel like it had to do with the fact there was no other SackBoy models making it feel so liminal in a way. OH DONT GET ME STARTED ON THOSE BIG SHOES
80% of this video is not about how lbp is creepy but instead just an interesting recap of the story, which is fine regardless. But yeah I agree lbp does have a slight eerie atmosphere to it, especially the vita version oh man... I also learned some new stuff even though I've played this game for over a decade, I like how you Analysed the story as if it was a serous plot instead of just putting it off as a kids story and your voice is very pleasant to listen to so you got a new sub lol. Finally a new big video about this amazing game.
yeah lol i kinda realized halfway through making it that it was going a little off the rails
Also? I have to disagree, the blue dancing women who twist up into contorted shapes that you have to walk on like platforms despite having oddly realistic human limbs always creeped me out as a kid lol, super uncanny
LBP had the most fascinating levels in the community ever!! Jeff the killer, killer whale survival, bomb run, shark survival.. even the Inflatable Clown was my most hearted level i played years ago. Issac was the main guy we play as, and his friend, Reggie, was so wholesome! I’m surprised after years, i still even remember the two’s names!! (I mean well, i watched Dlive back in 2023 summer! So.. ofc I’d remember them..)
Ngl I'm surprised you never brought up the Cyclops from the LBP demo
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Hey, maybe Ze Dude was actually one of the Collector's allies
ngl everytime i play little big planet on the moon alone and nothings happening, it feels really creepy
Idk, the faint uncanny-ness of some of the game's aspects feels like what ties it together for me. It makes it so painfully 2010's
Fun fact: if you use the sticker tool to remove the stickers from the moving hand object, you’ll find that they literally used images of fingers to texture it.
Pretty gross
Im so glad i was not the only one 😭 thank you for making this video
Lbp 1 had a lot of good community horror levels. I too like Lbp 1's more realistic artstyle. Lbp vita also has some creepy moments like the Hollows.
omg in littlebigplanet 2 there were these community made sack it’s that would grab u and fly u up to the top of the map and it used to scare me so bad
Lbp 3 is the goat of the creepy games
I was flabbergasted when i found out that there's a 3d horror game in there💀
The creepy feeling felt from this game always felt like what a kid had put together, what the child sees is what they truly wanted. A fur ball with eye and a nose, obviously it’s a dog to the kid, to anyone else with out the suspension of disbelief this is a weird cobbled thing meant to look like a dog. This entire game emphasizes the fact that this game is a cobbled together wonder from dreams and imagination, so it’s not going to look pretty to anyone who isn’t viewing the world in the children’s eyes. Cause of that creepy nature I ended up loving this rough style and almost nonsensical clash of characters. But got to be honest about the fact the crypt is just super creepy and one of the authors bonus levels that have you become an egg and enter this artistic world the author dreamt of creating.(can’t remember it’s name)
i was scared of the skull dozer as a kid and the sounds it made and the red smoke coming from it
Lol loved the video and I’d never thought I’d see a video of LBP do a Breaking Bad Reference 😂
Also the scariest level for me would be the Magicians Palace. The dark environment with the song is what made it creepy, which might be my own problem considering the majority of the community loves it and finds it relaxing, but I always found it disturbing. Especially at the end when the magician just flies down and dissolves everything with the tip of his finger to transform the Temples to the Wilderness. It always made me feel uneasy. There is footage in the beta of LBP The Dancers Court, of a dancer with its head on fire. 😐
Great video nonetheless!!👍✌️🔥🔥😎
22:11 YESS I FOUND THAT CREEPY TOO ASIDE THE COLLECTORS LAIR AND WEDDINGS SONG
2:05 S E X Y :|
i started watching this channel literally a day ago only to find that there hadn't been an upload in a year, was a bit disappointed. what are the chances of this happening?
Just finished the video and I completely agree, I've felt similarly about this game for a long time without really being able to describe it. It's definitely a feeling only present in the first game and not at all in the other two, but imo there's a slightly similar atmosphere in the first new super mario bros game too, while maybe not to the same extent. It always just felt darker than the others for some reason
only watched the intro but i can tell that this is gonna be a great video
I found all those scary levels fascinating as a kid, I always wanted to know why
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dude the halloween cart ride in the story mode scared the HELLLLL out of me also all the jeff the killer levels were too
Little big planet had a both magical and creepy vibe to me.
3:01 lol the story makes no sense and the music got so loud got me laughing
There were many spoopy communiy levels. I really liked that museum of oddities seires of levels.
HYEAHHHH, LBP MENTIONED. Honestly, a fun watch, man. I always did feel a sense of unease when I was younger, so I suppose I'm part of the problem too lol. This was a fun watch, I've never seen anyone use the chun-li costume ever lol. Also, the plot hole you describe in 15:44 is actually not true, at the end of the segment, the collector does drop him iirc? Idk i could be wrong and we're both complaining about the story of a 16 year old kids game lol. Fun watch, great job
The plot hole you mentioned I found years ago. I'm so glad someone else has noticed it to
Thank God u uploaded again
21:55 cries in the wind sounds like walkin by denzel curry. song 2 is fire. the battle on the ice fucking epic bible song. the wedding is spooky ill give you that. party ghouls sound like a pirate song.
I clicked off for a couple hours, unpaused to hear "I don't really feel guilty when I crack a eggs skull open" terrifying sentence, but you right 🍳😔
"Hey you you're finally awake"
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Great video, here since 3k
12:29 12:55 this girl is freaky asf ☹️☹️☹️
Me when 30 minute video about game I played when I was a kid
It was pretty creepy they did actually end up using the dead voice actor of newton voice lines in the burning town audio I think something like that but I oddly kinda liked the creepy part of it
Dude I 100% agree. (I absolutely love lbp tho) I was TERRIFIED of that ghost level as a kid..
💁♂️1st off id like to say this video took me back in time to a great time experiencing LBP the 1st time & I'd absolutely love if you did a video or at least your thoughts on Unraveled its really deep & dark & and beautiful all around
The psp game has the same vibe
Anyone else feel like there was a strong fruitger metro theme in LBP?
17:56 small detail but it's a chinese dragon :p
Them ghost scared 4 year old me and i was even kinda scared of lbp2 and there being a giant human
Was the horror community level Sack Eater or something? I remember one called that and it felt very oppressive, trapped in like a rusty factory, I don't remember meat though so maybe not.
25:04 is that Pac-Man World 2 music I hear
i miss lbp and can only hope us as a community will force them to make a new game!
It’s all ash ad dust now
I think the talking you hear on the moon is supposed to be like the radio from an astronaut :)