Has some decent ideas! The bird and dog characters are cool additions that feel fun to control. That's about the only nice thing I can say about this game.

I don't really blame it for "killing the series", in my eyes it was already on its last legs when Media Molecule passed it off to another company to develop. It could've turned out fine given more time maybe, but things rarely turn out that way. Not really a surprise but still a big disappointment.

It really sucks that this is the only way to play community levels from 1 and 2.

The first game is really good but this game completely obliterates it. It's probably the best example ever of a sequel that transcends its predecessor. Every aspect of the original is improved, and any complaints you could make were addressed.

I'm not ashamed to say that this was basically the only game I played for years when it came out. I wish it still existed in its entirety, but with the servers being down it's hardly the same thing anymore. Still very much worth returning to though, even if its just for the campaign or to fiddle around in the level editor.

It's impossible for me to rate this objectively since the series was so integral to my childhood.

I don't care about being objective though. This shit goes hard. The aesthetic is wholly unique and endlessly charming, the customization options are endless, the level creation and sharing were revolutionary, and the soundtrack goes so hard. It has 4 player multiplayer! Any flaws that the game has are completely outshone by everything it does right.

However with the online servers dead, this is a shadow of its former self. You can't publish any levels you make, and while levels that were already published are available in the PS4 version of LBP3, they often run poorly and look slightly off.

It's hard to recommend anyone to go back to it or any other entries in the series because of what it's lacking in modern times. People certainly aren't wrong to complain about the floaty controls. I'm personally not a fan of the lives system considering the difficulty spike it introduces when playing with multiple players. The difficulty of the story mode is a bit too high considering the game's tone and intended audience. I would still easily recommend this to anyone that is interested in this era of gaming, but in the end it's part of a series that is conceptually and (mostly) literally stuck on the PS3.