By now you’ve all seen the Media Molecule blog entry with the patchwork of screenshots showing off the lighting effects. If not,go look,it’s wonderful.
But let’s take a look at something (warning:large images):
First we have the name “The Sphinx”showing up on a Hi-Score screen. So we can assume that that’s a player’s name.
Then here we have,around the bottom of the bubblemeter,a picture and a number and a player name. And the number is much higher than the current player’s score.
It looks to me like Media Molecule have implemented a score-chasing system similar to that in the new Geometry Wars 2. While running through a level,will we see the next higher score among our friends,taunting us to go the extra mile to find more bubbles or earn bigger multipliers?
You have so much attention to detail. It’s great!
Chances are you met TheSphinx. Tsk tsk you need to dig deeper.
Nice find…I’m too lazy to notice stuff like this. That’s why I check this site all the time
I wonder if it is only for the levels that come on the bluray..
LittleBigPlanet startup video as of PAX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BAH5RznSHw
It looks extremely cool
It could just actually be the high score for that level,which The Sphinx has for another level as shown
I hope it’s the nearest score (or an achievable score) that comes up,not the highest score,because once someone reaches the maximum score for the level it becomes redundant (It becomes impossible to beat!)
@BasketSnake:I know he’s +7k yrs experience,it just didn’t seem relevant to the post.
@Capn P:Awesome,great find!
@dorien,@Gatchaman:It could just be the high score,true,but I too hope it’s the nearest higher score. Of course,with multipliers,there’s less chance of hitting a fixed max-possible score. And in the mini-games,I assume there’s no score ceiling at all.
Good thing is that in LBP it’s quite possible that if it is the high score then upon community requests this could be patched via DLC
good news everyone!
http://kotaku.com/5044845/taito-readies-littlebigplanet-sackboy-plushies
it is probably just for when you are playing an online level…or maybe when you are playing alone…
No THE sphinx is a level name and the big green 72 is an item or sticker theve just got then they show it to you at the end on the hiscore computer screen
that what i think it is
nice 1 though
@ben:Interesting alternative theory. We’ll see who’s right soon enough.