The costume prices announced for the US are kindy rapey.
$1 a costume for generics, $2 a costume for recognizable characters.
Meanwhile Japan gets the Ape Escape outfit free.
Oh and the US isn't getting the Halloween outfit until AFTER Halloween even though Japan has it right now.

When the servers went back up I played some more online levels and SP. I think the game is more of a party game than anything. Especially since you need 2+ players to get 100% on most levels. Playing with other people is a blast. Playing by yourself is generally pretty good in the disc levels, ok to meh in most user levels.
I'm fine with the core mechanics, my only tech complaint is really the blur is really overdone. It's hard to see what's going on sometimes in motion. Probably the worst use of blur in a game. Which is too bad because when there's just that little bit of blur when the camera is close up after you beat a level the blur makes it look like CG. It's just during sections with a lot going on it hurts the eyes. Maybe they can patch in a blur bar in the options?
Oh and I played some user level (the batman one) that almost killed my PS3. DON'T LOAD YOUR LEVELS WITH TOO MUCH STUFF. It really screws up your jumps when the PS3 goes CLUNK and stutters when you are trying to make tight jumps.