History VideoGame / LegoAdaptationGame

* PlotTailoredToTheParty: In order to achieve OneHundredPercentCompletion, you have to collect different types of characters and replay the 'Free Mode' to be able to access the areas that only certain characters with certain abilities can gain access to.

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Averted; there are ample opportunities to play as evil characters in almost any of the games.

* MissionPackSequel: One of the major complaints is the similarity of the games aside from the license. TT Games has tried to diversify, especially with abilitites and the addition of the WideOpenSandbox hub worlds.
* MoneyMultiplier: Almost every one of these games, since the introduction of Red Bricks in ''LEGO Star WARS II'', has provided cheats for boosting stud gain (usually X2, X4, X6, X8, and X10), and in every game with more than one, activating all of them at once stacks, so on average you'll get X3840 studs for each you collect.

** The puzzles to find the hidden minikit canisters, Power Bricks, and various other collectibles. [[GuideDangIt You won't know something in the area will make those items appear]] until you've already done it. Finding these items without a guide (or the Minikit/Power Brick detector cheat) can be difficult.

* ArtificialStupidity: Averted... ''for the most part''. Most of the time AI partners can hold their own in a fight and if two levers need to be flipped or two buttons need to be stepped on, they'll automatically head to those levers or buttons.

* ArtificialStupidity: Averted for the most part. Most of the time AI partners can hold their own in a fight and if two levers need to be flipped or two buttons need to be stepped on, they'll automatically head to those levers or buttons.

The real meat of the games is the quest to HundredPercentCompletion; while simply completing the levels are typically a stroll in the park, many collectibles and rooms in every stage are initially inaccessible until the player acquires a character with a specific ability (like super strength or the ability to destroy metal objects). Replaying stages and exploring overworlds with these new characters reward players with more collectibles and playable characters (often numbering in the triple digits per game) until players hit the magical 100%.

** In the bonus levels that involve collecting every stud in the level (such as Wayne Manor/Arkham Asylum in ''LEGO Batman''), death will not cause you to lose studs as it would in normal gameplay, as to avoid an UnintentionallyUnwinnable situation.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Such a combination for a video game was so new that many thought it was a joke when first announced.

* ForcedTutorial: Tutorial animations pop up frequently throughout ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Videogame'' and each cannot be skipped until they play through once. They'll appear even on story replays, and levels for "The Uncrossable Jungle" to "The Unclimbable Mountain" have each ninja learn their Spinjitzu element, which ''all'' share the same hold-button-and-hover-over-target controls.

* ForcedTutorial: Tutorial animations pop up frequently throughout ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Videogame'' and each cannot be skipped until they play through once. And then "The Uncrossable Jungle" has each ninja learn their Spinjitzu element, which ''all'' share the same hold-button-and-hover-over-target controls.

* ForcedTutorial: Tutorial animations pop up frequently throughout ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Videogame'' and each cannot be skipped until they play through once. And then it happens when each ninja learns their Spinjitzu element, which ''all'' share the same hold-button-and-hover-over-target controls.

* ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars''

** ''The Force Awakens (2016)'' (featuring ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' and including new material based on the post-''Return of the Jedi'' TimeSkip)

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* DevelopersForesight: When distance-tagging (the ability to tag to another character without standing next to them) was introduced, you may have thought about using this to tag yourself out of falling to your death. However, if the death has already been registered by the game, you'll lose your studs anyway and you will be left at [[OneHitPointWonder 25% health]] (12.5% in ''LEGO Batman'') as a punishment.

* IdleAnimation: Everyone has their own animation for when left standing a few seconds, and there's actually quite a bit of variation. Characters will scratch their head, point their weapon, or twirl around.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: The main games are short, but getting this can take days. UnintentionallyUnwinnable in some of the DS versions because apparently, some minikits are missing.
* OnceAnEpisode: A disco that plays a dance remix of the theme song.

* PowerUpMagnet: The "Stud Magnet" cheat.

* SillinessSwitch: The games are silly enough already, but some of the unlockable options deliberately take it farther.

* StockFootage: In the adaptation games with voice acting it is generally the stock voice clips from said movie.

* SuddenlyVoiced: After eight years of muteness, characters finally speak in ''LEGO Batman 2''.

* AdaptationalBadass: Most characters that never fought in their source material become capable of kicking some major plastic butt.''VideoGame/LEGOBatman'' games.

* AdorableEvilMinions: Pretty much anything evil automatically becomes this, or at least LaughablyEvil, when turned Lego.

* {{Autosave}}: Every game does this.
* BloodlessCarnage: In full effect - whilst characters ''are'' dismembered, the characters are still plastic Lego pieces.

* BuiltWithLego: You bet it is!

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: You just lose LEGO studs. These aren't meant to be NintendoHard games unless you're trying to get HundredPercentCompletion, which sometimes demands a NoDeathRun.

* DoubleUnlock: How you get virtually everything extra. You have to do something to make the character (or the Red Brick) available to you (in ''Lord of the Rings'' you unlock characters by completing levels; in ''Harry Potter'' you find characters scattered within levels and in Hogwarts) and then you have to use studs to buy them. You have to actually look for the character on the map in Lord of the Rings, as if to make up for the ease of the first unlock. Saruman nearly qualifies as ThatOneSidequest.

* DropInDropOutMultiplayer: Common gameplay feature.

* {{Flanderization}}: Pretty much the point of the games. Many character traits are emphasized for comedy, the games don't take their worlds very seriously.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The games are chock full of these.
* GlobalCurrency: LEGO studs.

** Any character with a melee weapon can do this.
** This is required by bigfigs or super-strong characters to break floor-mounted cracked walls.
* GuideDangIt: While the levels themselves are pretty easy to beat, finding all of the minikits and hidden bricks can get to this point.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Characters have weapons that grow into its size when taken out and shrink when put away. When walking when either button is pressed, the weapon grows to size or shrinks away in the character's hand.

* IdleAnimation: Everyone has them, and there's actually quite a bit of variation. Characters will scratch their head, point their weapon, or twirl around.
* IndyEscape: At ''least'' once per game.

* MindScrew: Heck, look at any of the games with all the visual cheats turned on.
* MissionControl: Introduced at the same time as the minifigs' ability to talk, from ''LEGO Batman 2'' onward.

* PlayableEpilogue: In the games based on other franchises, this is key to 100% completion. Unless you search every shrub and every room like some sort of criminal investigator, you will miss 90% of the stuff you need to find.

* MoneyMultiplier: And can stack in some of the games.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Red and black objects can't be manipulated by most characters and are reserved only for those with evil powers.
* RespawningEnemies: A common mechanism in all of the games to pad things out a bit while the player is solving puzzles. Every fifteen seconds, like clockwork.

* RuleOfFunny: The cutscenes in general.

* TheUnintelligible / SpeakingSimlish: The earliest games used a small voice cast speaking Simlish in the cutscenes, and relied on the players to have seen the movies and know how the story goes already. Later games used dialogue samples from the movie being adapted, voice actors performing new dialogue, or a combination.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: Special powers such as magic and telekinesis glow purple when they're used. Some bricks are purple to begin with, meaning those powers are required to manipulate them.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Actually one of the goals in the games is to get every character.

* MovesetClone: Inevitably, considering [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the amount of characters]] within each game, there will be ''a lot'' of them that have familiar, identical, or otherwise the exact same attacks or body language.

* ToylessToylineCharacter: The rosters contain LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, so this trope is inevitable. Some characters did eventually get physical figures, though it is usually sometime after the game, sometimes with major differences.

* ContinuityLockout: In the earlier games, the cutscenes are only occasional, usually [[HeroicMime pantomimed]], and PlayedForLaughs. So good luck understanding what's going on without watching the movies first. Avoided in later games, which have intelligible dialogue.

* TitleTheAdaptation: ''The Lego Movie Videogame'' and ''The Lego Movie 2 Videogame''.

* AdaptationalBadass:
** Most characters that never fought in their source material become capable of kicking some major plastic butt.
** A rather hilarious example is ComicBook/{{Batman}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' video game. Unlike the movie itself, this Batman is as capable in gameplay as his counterpart from the ''VideoGame/LEGOBatman'' games.

** ''The LEGO Movie'' completely omits several of the licensed characters that make appearances in the film itself, such as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Milhouse]], [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Michelangelo]] and [[Film/HarryPotter Dumbledore]]. Furthermore, [[spoiler:the cameo by Millennium Falcon and its crew]] is omitted despite its relevance to the plot, and one of the major plot points is completely glossed over - [[spoiler:TheReveal that the entire story is really just a boy playing with his Lego is kept, but the subsequent reveal that Lord Business and his plot to freeze everything is based on his father's desire to stop his son from messing up his Lego kits is cut out of the story, removing all context for Lord Business' HeelFaceTurn]].

* AndYourRewardIsClothes:
** There are many "characters" in the games that aren't really anything but alternate outfits for the characters. Some, however, do have slightly different properties. Later games, including ''Marvel Super Heroes'' and ''Jurassic World'', give each distinct character only one slot in the selection grid, which rotates through the available outfits for that character, so that the overall size of the grid gives a more accurate idea of how many actual characters there are.
** In all the levels of ''The LEGO Movie'' instead of Citizens in Peril or some other relevant item, you find... pants!

* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: Being made of LEGO bricks is a sign that it can be destroyed or interacted with.
** ''The LEGO Movie Video Game'' is an exception, since ''everything'' is made out of LEGO bricks. Most games have a bonus level of some sort that's built the same way. The patches are a bit less conspicuous in these instances.

* DisabilitySuperpower: In the game version of ''The LEGO Movie'' Vitruvius is blind (and seemingly unaffected by it gameplay-wise). Since he can't see how far down it is, he has no fear of heights and is the only one who can cross narrow beams. The other characters snark that he may be being sarcastic when he pretends to not know how high up he is.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the actual movies.

* ProductPlacement: All the games have been based on pre-existing building sets, naturally. More than that, most games are timed to tie in with a related movie release.
** ''The Lego Movie'' came out about the same time its namesake movie did. Same with the game based on its sequel.

** ''The Hobbit'' ''(2014)''(featuring ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' and ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug Desolation of Smaug]]'', but '''not''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies Battle of the Five Armies]]'' [[note]]it was planned for a DLC update but was scrapped[[/note]])

[[caption-width-right:350:So a [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]], an [[Franchise/IndianaJones archaeologist]], a [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} superhero]], a [[VideoGame/RockBand rockstar]], a [[Franchise/HarryPotter wizard]], and a [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean pirate]] walk into a toy store...[[note]]...and those who forgot to go to said toy store include [[Film/TheAvengers2012 a team of Marvel superheroes]], [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings a Hobbit]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie The Special One]], [[Franchise/JurassicPark a Tyrannosaurus Rex]], [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles and a family of superheroes]].[[/note]]]]