To add another layer of complication, each character has an inventory, and if you forget which is carrying the bow, you need to cycle through until you find your needed item. Effort was made to differentiate each dwarf, but depending on your familiarity with each’s arsenal, you’ll be stuck figuring out which one of your party carries the necessary bow, or which has the power to smash large rocks, etc. Still, this is the most unnecessarily complex Lego game yet, and even co-op suffers for it.įorcing in The Hobbit’s large cast of 13 dwarves, a hobbit, and a human doesn’t lend itself to interesting gameplay. It’s tough to properly evaluate “good” co-op, since having fun with friends has a way of glossing over a game’s flaws. Unfortunately, this is a bit of mixed bag. You’ll care whether it’s a good co-op experience. Of course, while you beat up hundreds of Orcs with your friends, you won’t care about ludonarrative dissonance. But while the art, sound, and music all support the themes of the films, the mechanics of play are focused on destruction. The Hobbit films are as much a story about greed, power, and forgiveness as they are about setting on a perilous adventure. Lord of the Rings, as far as licensed film properties go, is different from the others licensed to Lego. While they are running out of ideas, the story they need to fit their formulaic gameplay into is more self serious and tragic than ever. TT Games’ artists have crafted this beautiful, breathtaking rendition of Middle Earth, while its gameplay designers are still thrashing about in the kiddie pool, trying to find ways to make smashing things more engaging. After chuckling to myself at the irony of this, I realized there is an important criticism here, both of this game and, to a lesser degree, the Lego games in general. Bilbo has such a beautiful garden,” And promptly began to destroy his Lego flowers.
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I paused a moment, thought to myself, “Wow.
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Playing as Frodo and Samwise, I took a nice stroll through the Shire, taking in its prestine beauty as I approached old Bilbo Baggins’ house, the largest and most impressive house in the Shire.
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I had a great moment of dissonance while playing Lego Lord of the Rings.