As with its PS3 cousin, LittleBigPlanet PSP is a kaleidoscope of delight.

The play is fun and simple: run, jump, grab. It’s accompanied by a bright, poppy soundtrack and Stephen Fry as a friendly narrator.

While it seems like this handheld version is just a port of the original console version, the levels designed by Cambridge are completely new and the developers there wisely opted for only two levels of depth to the play, foreground and background, as opposed to the three of the PS3 edition.

The only thing I found lacking is that while the PSP and PSPgo screens are bright and crisp, they are small, so you can’t really see the details and expressions that make Sackgirls and Sackboys so cute and charming. They are rendered mere objects as a result.

LittleBigPlanet PSP (Sony; PSP; rated everyone)

Cross-posted at the Georgia Straight