bricked

[chronovore]

My son has totally been sucked in by Lego Star Wars, so we're doing that. I've been sick this week (possibly related?), so I've been going to bed early. My gaming week has been LSW only. Seriously, Traveler's Tales can make a good game, the Finding Nemo game was great for its day. Then they hit Lego-era and appear to have quit trying. 

The first LSW was novel. The sequel LSW, Lego Batman, and Lego Indiana Jones, they're all THE SAME GAME. For a toy which inspires such incredible creativity, the videogame version of it has been coasting since the first entry. Even the save/load flow appears to be holdout from the PS2 era. 

At least I hear they've fixed the camera for Lego Harry Potter. Playing LSW with my son, I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be cast off from a platform because he's exploring something else. When he moves, the camera moves, and it will "shove" my character around to keep him in the shot,sometimes frequently causing him to fall to his death. The Harry Potter version no features an as-needed splitscreen, which merges once characters return to the same region. 

The best "plastic brick" game out there is Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. That's what a Lego game should have been.

Comments

[jjgalahad.livejournal.com]

The Lego games drive me fucking nuts and I cannot understand how everyone else gets so damn hypnotized by them. I had three friends try to force me to enjoy Lego Star Wars and I soon learned I'd rather eat a gun.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Playing with a six-year-old is its own kind of excitement, lemme tell ya. Tonight we played earlier than our normal pre-bed-time slot, and he is definitely improving. Now, if I could just get him to stay clear of the bounty hunters' thermal detonators, I would be ahead of the curve.