Slow down Sony, you'll give yourself a headache. Hot on the heels of providing more details on Destruction AllStars, the platform holder has revealed a little more on another of its first party PS5 launch titles, Sackboy: A Big Adventure.
Most of the new info is handily summarised in the new video above, which features some new gameplay to boot. It's looking pretty promising. It's dropping the creation aspect and doubling down on being a big, lighthearted 3D platformer to play alone or with friends.
Over on the PlayStation Blog, there are further details about the game's various editions. If you pre-order the game in any form, you'll get a digital comic called 'The Gathering Storm', detailing some of the lore leading into this new adventure. Alongside the bog standard release will be a digital deluxe edition on PS Store, and a physical retail version called the special edition. This was leaked a while back, but it comes with a cute Sackboy plush toy dressed in a tiger costume.
The digital deluxe and special editions both give you access to some brilliant extra costumes for Sackboy, too: you can dress him up like Connor from Detroit: Become Human, Deacon from Days Gone, Jin from Ghost of Tsushima, and Sam Bridges from Death Stranding. There's also a digital art book and soundtrack thrown in for good measure.
You can pre-order the digital versions of the PS4 game now. Will you be joining Sackboy on his big adventure? Pop into the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
Comments 34
So it’s flat Astro Bot. Could be fun.
Those costumes are great.
Not too sure how much the PS5 is benefiting this game when it's also on PS4, but I can't wait to play it regardless.
Awesome! Great when sick of killing in Valhalla.
Crash 4, Sackboy and have Ratchet and Clank in waiting. Good times.
If I get the physical special edition with the toy am I eligible for a free digital upgrade?
@sabaki08 Yes
Seems like it’s running smoother than past trailers, must be coming along nicely.
It looks like a fun platformer.
Looks good! More like the first, less so the 3rd. A shame not to include some options for creativity, but the gameplay itself looks immensely better and more focused than the last
I’ve been playing games long enough to know I’ll like this game quite a bit and enjoy playing it with the wife.
So, all I need to know, will both of us be able to complete trophy challenges independently and both earn them?
Local multiplayer has been a problem for the PSN trophy system from day one.
With Sumo Digital on board again this should be great. I really appreciated their LBP 3 campaign mode so an even more expanded fully fledged game from them could be something special indeed.
I prefer pseudo-3D platformers to classic 2D ones, and have felt the LBP games do a lot of things better and more imaginatively than a lot of recent Mario titles. I'm actually pretty interested in this.
This game is flying under the radar but could be something special. Sumo made LBP Vita, which is the best game in the series to date
My Bundle Ps5 is coming with this!Really excited!
Something about this game isn't really clicking with me in comparison to the main LBP games
I think the switch to 3D platforming from the layered 2D platforming in the other games takes a bit of the charm of what made LBP stand out compared to other platforming franchises, both 2D and 3D
But it could just be me. I still think I might get this one down the line if I hear good things about it because Sumo did also make Little Big Planet PS Vita, which is basically the best game in the entire series
@Agramonte and Nintendolife are claiming 3d platformers are a niche genre
@Quintumply That's great. Has it been confirmed anywhere?
This looks like fantastic fun! Absolutely love the costumes.
THAT SACKBOY FETUS IN THE DEATH STRANDING COSTUME. GENIUS!
@Sub-Xero Right, perhaps my question was confusing. I'm getting a PS5DE, but want this special edition. It appears that, in this case, I won't be able to upgrade, since for the physical edition of the game you need the PS5 with a disc drive.
Special edition isn't available in the UK. 😭😭😭
Getting the Special Edition on PS4
I always hated the LBP games, I found them very boring and the jumping was also awful (first time I wished Sony would copy and paste Mario's jump). That being said this actually looks very fun and looks like it's full of life. I'm a big fan of Sumo, I still play all their Sonic racing games. I will get it on PS4 and support these awesome devs.
Looks fun preordered physical
Seems lovely!
Hmmm are they seriously talking about the game like it was made for PS5...didn't they announce it is on PS4 too?
@sabaki08 Yes you will need a disk drive to play discs.
@Juanalf I enjoyed the LBP games, but yeah they did have very weird jumping physics.
@Rob_230 So glad to hear someone else praise the Vita game. By far the best in the series. I was let down by LBP3. It started great and then....just stopped.
I loved LBP1, but I always felt that the game was best as a great platformer and MM always cut short the platformer and instead used it as a demo for some silly creation game nobody cared about. Seeing a proper platformer in the series is what I've wanted since PS3.
"we're going to be sharing more about the game in the coming months.." I mean, it's out in a month and a half.. WTF?! maybe do more 'previews' after it's released?! And you want us to preorder at the new higher prices after a three minute video? Yeah.. Not gonna' happen...
Looks like my sort of game
Well, I did want the special edition, but at the bottom of the blog post:
"**Special Edition is not available in the following countries: UK, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Serbia, Switzerland, Norway, LATAM, Mexico"
So what will be the differences between the PS5 edition and the PS4 version running on a Pro?
Looks good, but at €70, I'm definitely waiting for a price drop. I expected this to be €40.
I am seriously tempted to buy the Special Edition...but I'll prob wait for the base game to be dirt cheap and hope the physical doll is sold separately at some point.
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