This is definitely a game you don't want to try to break, as that will happen enough on its own. Those checkpoints are just one of things that seem to have been implemented with more haste than polish. And the levels themselves are long enough to need save and quit checkpoints. Often it's the one character you need, who decided to stop walking forward a 100 feet back. Meanwhile, endless skeletron robots will be firing at all of the heroes, making character switching somewhat tedious. Getting over a small wall can often require the powers of four different characters, and just as often one character has to take a lengthy detour to open things up for the others. Emmet, the title character, can't build and has a sad jump compared with the WildStyle/Lucy character.Īfter a few levels and with more allies, Emmet's powers grow, but traversing the levels can still feel silly. While this is standard for the series, this time around the powers can feel extremely limiting at the beginning. For one thing, the game draws on the multitude of character powers of other titles along with some new ones. This linear design may throw some fans, but it isn't exactly 2006 era either. Instead the game is more of a throwback to earlier titles, with levels set around four hub worlds. Working within the framework of the movie (and a tighter deadline for a secondary team no doubt), the game drops most any attempt at an open world structure. On the flipside though, despite sticking so close to the 100 minute movie, I'm not sure the story is discernible for those that haven't seen the movie. Like the movie, there are some of those characters such as Superman and Gandalf, but outside of the comical Lego Batman, these characters presence amounts to little more than cameos. The Lego games can typical draw on the affinity of characters and franchises that at least span multiple movies. It released day and date with the movie, shares the same story as the movie, and is even punctuated by cutscenes lifted frame-by-frame (though hardly complete) from the movie. While quite rare these days, 'The Lego Movie Videogame' is a movie tie-in game. And yet, 'The Lego Movie Videogame' faces some special challenges. Though it sometime can seem like each new 'Lego' is a different skin of the original 'Lego Star Wars' product, the series has seen some recent major additions and iterations such as full voice acting, original stories, a massive single-player Wii U title, open world design, and even more extensive lengths required for completionists.
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