Sackboy's Big Adventure - No buzz. No reviews. No way!

[Deleted member 44129]

Is it just me that's looking forward to a new game featuring Sackboy? It's out tomorrow in the US, it's arriving at my house tomorrow (can't play until next week though because I'm in the UK)..... But I've heard no buzz, there are still no reviews, which I hope isn't a bad sign. I'm predicting a nice solid 7 or 8 out of 10. I dont think the thing is going to be a legendary game, but I'm going to love playing it with my boy.

 

[MarsipanRumpan]

I'm sad that it has close to 0 coverage, but it's one of my most anticipated games on the PS5. Honestly cannot wait to get my hands on it.

 

[Strings]

I'm looking forward to it, and think it has looked surprisingly strong every time I've seen it, but am waiting for reviews. I'm not exactly hurting for things to play, and Sony kind of undercut it by including what sounds like a fab platformer in the form of Astro on PS5.

 

[dunkzilla]

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[Patitoloco]

I mean, there are no reviews for Demon's Souls either.

It just means they didn't sent it.

 

[An Army of Bees]

Give it time. Launch is still less than a day away.

 

[Wise]

it'll do fine. 1m+

 

[Jonnax]

It's surprising. Are there evenany Demon's Souls reviews?

Perhaps since the PS5 is supply constrained so people can't just go online and order one, they're trying to keep the coverage focussed on Spider man? Because it looks really next-gen.

 

[henhowc]

The lack of online coop at launch is a bit of bummer.

 

[MrKlaw]

Also looking forward to it but waiting on reviews. This and Dirt 5 are my stretch launch games - money is ready just pending on reviews and impressions

 

[Beer Monkey]

It looks fun. Waiting to hear how fun the single player is but leaning towards getting it.

 

[MykonosFan]

Looking to grab it myself after the online patch hits, but yeah. Definitely been hoping for impressions / coverage that hasn't appeared yet.

 

[Headman Rum]

The 3-4 hour stream from the other day looked good and the music was banging.

I preordered to have a pa5 game to play with my son too and judging by what I saw I think this will tick the right boxes.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

i......kinda want this as my only ps5 game. fuck.

if it reviews well (the irony, no reviews) i might get it. im a huge Sumo fanboy (its Sumo, right?)

 

[Deleted member 44129]

Also looking forward to it but waiting on reviews. This and Dirt 5 are my stretch launch games - money is ready just pending on reviews and impressions

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I was wondering whether to hold off until I saw reviews, but it's in the post already. I'm sure it'll be good, and I'm a sucker for a platformer.

 

[Rosebud]

Demon's Souls and Sackboy were sent late to reviewers I think.

 

[Abdullah]

I mean, there are no reviews for Demon's Souls either.

It just means they didn't sent it.

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They already confirmed reviews for demon souls are dropping today, I assume the same goes for sackboy

 

[NewDust]

I'm super looking forward to it but... I can't justify paying €69,99 for it. More than enough backlog, so it will come later.

 

[Sedated]

I think demons souls reviews are out today. Maybe sackboy too

 

[Poldino]

We had previews and story trailer a couple of weeks ago, it was the first game showed with the new UI and Activities system and we had trailers in every major PS5 event.

Coverage is fine, also reviews are coming in the same timeframe of Demon's Souls

 

[Tora]

Reviews later today

 

[Richter1887]

The weirdest part is that they never released gameplay trailers. Atleast not as much as they should.

 

[FelipeMGM]

Codes for Sackboy came in hot in the last couple of days I believe, and Demon's Souls is only being sent today apparently.

 

[Sidewinder]

It looks very solid to me so far, it'll certainly be a 8/10 game minimum, mmw!

 

[gofreak]

Isn't there another embargo lifting today? Maybe we'll get more reviews then.

 

[CTRON]

Isn't there another embargo lifting today?

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Yup, in around 3.5 hours from now IIRC.

 

[ASleepingMonkey]

Review copies went out a day or two ago for it. Demon's Souls copies go out today or tomorrow, as far as I understand. Wouldn't expect many finalized reviews from either tomorrow.

 

[black070]

Really hoping it does well enough for the series to continue, they've taken it in exactly the direction I'd always wanted.

 

[Osahi]

Codes were sent very late and embargo hasn't lifted yet.

Not sure if you'll see many reviews today, but you should get some impressions.

 

[MadMike]

Random dude streaming it yesterday on PS4 sold it for me. Looks like a proper fun little platformer.

 

[EternalDarko]

To be honest, it only looks alright to me, and I just can't justify the cost.
Have a huge backlog across both XBO and PS4 that I'm moving over to next gen, and several of those are getting upgrades, so def prioritising those games first, whilst playing Miles and then Cyberpunk whenever that comes out.

But I will put it on the backlog when it goes down in price.

 

[vaxick]

Very excited for this one and it's one of the games I'm looking forward to playing on the PS5, especially as I'm a huge fan of platformers, but I will admit I'm going to wait for a price drop.

 

[Deleted member 44129]

I'm super looking forward to it but... I can't justify paying €69,99 for it. More than enough backlog, so it will come later.

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Yeah, the price is a concern.

 

[Dizzy Ukulele]

All's well that ends well if the embargo lifts today but until then I will always press X to doubt.

 

[Father Kratos]

I am really looking forward to it. Just like how I was looking forward to (& loved) Puppeteer on PS3.

 

[FelipeMGM]

They already confirmed reviews for demon souls are dropping today, I assume the same goes for sackboy

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who confirmed it? My understanding is that codes for that will be sent today

 

[Wollan]

I think online not being available day 1 (but later this year) might give it a bit lower score in some cases. It has 10 trophies that can't be obtained currently before online is added.

But I mean, it's a simple straight up isometric-ish platformer with the usual moveset, seems like there's no big surprises here for better or worse.

 

[Deleted member 23158]

Sackboy never interested me to be honest. Astrobot stole it's lunch.

 

[Tiny Chihuahueño]

It may end up being a great game, but at least for me it's the kind of franchise I know it's there but don't really care, to the point of not even considering getting the game in a very scarce launch period.

 

[joffocakes]

Looks great to me, reminds me a lot of 3D World. I'll wait until I have a second DualSense before buying it though, likely Christmas.

 

[Launchpad]

There's no coverage because it's under embargo I'm pretty sure. There's no coverage for Demon's Souls either but nobody is worried about that one. Embargo I assume lifts today so we should see the rest of coverage coming fast.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

PS5 won't be out in Europe until next week, is sold out errywhere, and focus is on DeSo and Niche-Man, so it's not too hard to see why it's kinda flying under the radar.

 

[PapaJustify]

I have really high hopes for this one. But it might be that Astro is the better Sackboy. Man, they could rival the likes of Super Mario with a fully fledged Astro Bot game.

 

[andresmoros]

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This made me laugh out loud 😂

 

[MeltedDreams]

Game looks rather simplistic, without any challenge and probably won't have replay value either. I wil snag it on PS Plus next year.

 

[Acquiescence]

I'm really excited for it and sincerely hope it ends up being a good game. I need a return to form after LBP3 ended up being a dud.

But the price where I'm at is ridiculous. Amazon are asking £59.99 for it, and that's not just the PS5 version but the PS4 version too. As a comparison, Ratchet & Clank 2016 was about £35 when it came out.

 

[Desmond]

I would've jumped on this if it was budgeted at 40 or so quid like Sony have done in the past with Ratchet and Sly, can't see it having much success at 70 which is sad as it's a lovely IP and Sumo are good devs.

 

[PaulLFC]

It's the game I'll get second for the PS5 after Miles Morales.

 

[DangerMouse]

Really hoping it does well enough for the series to continue, they've taken it in exactly the direction I'd always wanted.

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Same. The trailer looked nice and it looked cool in the UI demo. I really hope it came out well and does well since it's pretty exciting to see how they did going fully on this part of the game for this installment, while Dreams takes care of being an amazing create/play game. I pre-ordered after never getting around to the last LBP, even though it looks like I did manage to grab it when it was eventually on plus, so I've had a nice break between games this time.

 

[Wouwie]

Probably the game i would have been most interested in if i had managed to pre-order a PS5. At least visually, it looks gorgeous and imaginative. Gameplay seems very family friendly, co-op orientated and easy though. Depending on reviews, how much content is co-op only and performance on base PS4, i might pick it up on PS4 as my last game.

The marketing from Sony on this one was lacking. Then again, Sackboy and platformers in general just aren't very popular anymore.

Anyhow, very curious to see the reviews on this game. Fingers crossed it's a solid game.