The Lego games were a real, ahem, game-changer for casual gamers when they decided to team up with major movie franchises and recreate the films in a humorous but easy-to-play manner that you aren't really allowed to lose. There is no game over, the puzzles aren't really that difficult, and finishing the game is kind of just the start of the game if you want to achieve 100% completion.
I hadn't played a Lego game in a while and I only picked this one up because it was on some sort of super-sale. While I don't regret buying it, I think I would be upset with myself if i had paid more than a few dollars for it.
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The first Lego game I ever played was the Indiana Jones one and that was just amazing. Later I would play the classic Star Wars one and that was equally as great. I'm pretty sure I played a Harry Potter one but since I wasn't a huge fan of those films I didn't really understand the jokes. You need to be kind of familiar with the source material if you are going to understand much of what is going on there.
I do remember that especially in the early games such as the Indiana Jones one, there wasn't a great deal of spoken dialogue, so that kind of irritated me right off the bat (pun intended) with Batman 3.
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Voice acting can be tricky with a game that involves comic book characters because the fanbois are all going to have their own opinion of what it is that each character should sound like. It is also quite expensive to hire voice actors. For me, I preferred the slapstick stuff that went on in previous installations where it was all just physical humor rather than spoken but then again, this has a lot to do with me not being a fan of cutscenes in a general sense.
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Also, and while this is just me being a bit nitpicky, you play entirely too many characters in this. I realize that the controls aren't exactly rocket science, but there was a number of times in the game where there is one person in your crew of characters that you are currently controlling that has the one and only skill that is going to help you to proceed and it is not at all evident which one of them you are supposed to use.
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There is this one scene in act 3 i think it was where you are boarding this space station after a lengthy shooter battle outdoors that I had no idea what was going on, and I must have run up and down this platform 20 time having destroyed everything and getting increasingly frustrated until I eventually got youtube involved.
That's right! I got YT involved to help me along the way in a friggin Lego game. Maybe I am just that terrible. I dunno. At that point in time I had Flash, Batman, and Cyborg along with me and in order to move up further along the space station you had to be using Cyborg and had to be using the correct suit out of his then 7 available suits and use the correct attack associated with this suit on a series of things that are floating around the space station. Certainly I am not the only person that got stuck here?
That could just be a question of me sucking at video games but for me that was a bit too cryptic for a Lego game. These are supposed to be mindless funny games, not something you run around for half an hour looking for this one tiny thing you have to do with one of your 27 currently available options.
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It's a Batman Lego game but you are going to end up controlling a TON of characters throughout the 5 or so hours of story and while that might appeal to some people, I would have preferred to have just increased the level of abilities that Batman and maybe Robin had rather than jumping around to new characters every scene.
It seems as though the gaming world kind of agrees with me because this is one of the lowest rated Lego games in existence. Maybe that is why I was able to get it for $4.
I can't really recommend this game to anyone because of all the Lego games I have ever played this is honestly the only one that has ever frustrated me with certain elements of it. The extensive voice acting, cutscene after cutscene, and convoluted sequences where it becomes a tedious process just to move to the next section is NOT what people buy Lego games for. Well, at least it isn't what this guy buys them for.
If you've never played a Lego game I highly suggest you do so, but perhaps start with one that comes from a franchise that you are really interested in first - dont' just pick the cheapest one or you might end up in a situation like I did.