LittleBigPlanet lead working on OG Fable boss Peter Molyneux's new god game finds cozy games "incredibly boring," and they're so much "nicer" with a dash of "extreme violence"

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Masters of Albion aims to be "cozy by day and chaos by night"

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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."

"Just that, wanting to try and accentuate that contrast," he said. "Let's get people into a nice sense of coziness during the day – they're building their products. And then at night, rip them to pieces – zombies."

We'll see how Masters of Albion ultimately delivers on that aim when it hits early access on April 22. Molyneux developed a reputation for overpromising and underdelivering going back to Black and White and Fable, but most of his games remained good enough to develop big followings regardless. The same can't be said of his modern projects – but hopefully the cozy chaos of Masters of Albion can put things back on track.

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
Staff Writer

Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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