Games for Lunch: LEGO Batman: The Videogame

In a nutshell: BAM! POWER THWOCK! LEGO!
12/15/2008 7:16 PM | 1 Comments | Page 3 of 3

0:44 It seems every other LEGO crate I bust open has a health-restoring heart inside it. I don't need most of them. Where's this adaptive difficulty I heard about on the options menu? Stop trying to help me so much, game!

0:45 Some slippery goop sends me off the side of a LEGO platform. This seems to have little to do with LEGO and/or Mr. Freeze.

0:47 Damn, LEGO Robin, why you gotta be so slow when walking up this LEGO snaking pipe thing? I swear...

0:49 Lots of teamwork needed in this section ... one LEGO character has to stand on a LEGO switch while the other goes up some just-created LEGO stairs. I wonder why LEGO Mr. Freeze designed such a complex hideout. What does he do when he's alone?

0:50 Wow ... some semi-difficult platforming on narrow, hovering LEGO discs. My LEGO stud total keeps going down with each fall into the void.

0:51 I jump into a LEGO freeze ray turret, which turns the slippery goop into walkable frozen platforms. It also turns LEGO Robin into a block of LEGO ice. Bwahaha. I mean, er, sorry Robin.

0:53 These puzzles are almost offensively simple, so far... pull a switch and voilà, you're done! I know this game is designed for the kiddies, but jeez.

0:54 In a cut scene, LEGO Riddler trips us up; then LEGO Mr. Freeze and his eskimos ATTACK!

0:55 My LEGO Bat-punch and LEGO batarang seem ineffective against LEGO Mr. Freeze. Meanwhile, Robin is losing tons of studs trying to get to a switch across some radioactive goop. If only there were some way to freeze it...

0:58 OK, I know intellectually that I have to get LEGO Mr. Freeze to freeze this goop, but I have no idea HOW to get him to do that. Aiming for the open LEGO vent below the vat doesn't seem to work. Remember what I said about offensively simple puzzles? I take it back.

1:00 My LEGO stud count is down to zero. ZERO! I'm crying a pool of LEGOs here.

Would I play this game for more than an hour? Yes.

Why? I feel it's one of the rare games my LEGO wife will play with me.

This column is based on a LEGO retail version of the game rented from GameFly.

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