LittleBigPlanet offers one of the coziest aesthetics in all of gaming, with adorable knitted Sackboys running around as Stephen Fry encourages you to to embrace the creative spirit that binds humanity together. It might come as some surprise, then, to learn that the game's original creative director, Mark Healey, finds the modern cozy gaming trend pretty dull.
"There's a lot of people that like cozy games – I think they became really popular during COVID, actually – but I find them incredibly boring," Healey explained in an interview with The Game Business. "I can understand the appeal of them, but I'm like, it's so much nicer if you just mix in a bit of extreme violence as well, just to sort of balance it out a little bit."
