History VideoGame / LegoAdaptationGame

* FixedCamera: Most of the gameplay areas have the camera locked to specific angles that only shift when moving past designated spots, with the introduction of camera controls only allowing looking slightly further before snapping back. The only time you can properly move the camera at will to different angles is when in the open-world sandboxes starting from ''LEGO Batman 2''.

* FixedCamera: For the most part. Averted with open worlds starting with ''LEGO Batman 2''.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: Bullets go slow enough to be visible and able to be dodged by player characters.

** ''VideoGame/LegoStarWarsBattles (2021)'' (A mobile spin-off PvP TowerDefense game featuring content from across the films)

* {{Nerf}}: In the earliest games Stud Multipliers costed the multipliers themselves times five hundred thousand, being 1,000,000 for x2, 2,000,000 for x4, etc. This means each multiplier after first two was technically cheaper, as the compounding multipliers were much faster than the cost scaling. As the games went on these costs were constantly revised in an effort to make getting each multiplier as hard as the last, until eventually in ''The Skywalker Saga'' they finally scaled it so the combined multiplier of all previous multipliers makes them each effectively cost a million studs, being priced at 1,000,000, 2,000,000, 8,000,000, 48,000,000 and 364,000,000 for the x2, x4, x6, x8 and x10 multipliers respectively. That game's case is especially justified by the revised extras system allowing you to buy any extra so long as you have a datacard, so that players still have to get the multipliers in order.

* {{Nerf}}: The Stud Multipliers cost the multiplier itself times five hundred thousand, being 1,000,000 for x2, 2,000,000 for x4, etc. This means each multiplier after first two is technically cheaper, as the compounding multipliers are much faster than the cost scaling. ''The Skywalker Saga'' revises the prices, now scaling with the final multiplier of all previous multipliers so that they effectively all cost a million studs, costing 1,000,000, 2,000,000, 8,000,000, 48,000,000 and 364,000,000 for the x2, x4, x6, x8 and x10 multipliers respectively. This is partially justified by the revised extras system allowing you to buy any extra so long as you have a datacard, so that players still have to get the multipliers in order.

* ''LEGO Marvel Super Heroes'' - Like the ''Batman'' games, these feature original stories.

* ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'' - Unlike most other LEGO games, the ''Batman'' titles feature original stories instead of adapting existing ones.
** ''The Video Game (2008)''
** ''2: DC Super Heroes (2012)'' (features ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' characters alongside the Bat-family, and also includes other ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|Of America}}'' members)
** ''3: Beyond Gotham (2014)'' (features the ComicBook/{{Justice League|Of America}}, with a focus on [[TropesInSpace outer space-based]] characters like those from ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'')
** ''VideoGame/LegoDCSuperVillains'' ''(2018)'' ([[VillainProtagonist No, really.]])

* PungeonMaster: Ever since spoken dialogue was introduced, a great deal of what the characters say involves making puns relating to either their character or the current situation, sometimes even basing the puns off a MythologyGag that wouldn't make sense playing the game without prior knowledge of the adapted franchise. Heck, even the early games involving SpeakingSimlish had characters engage in plenty of VisualPun scenarios, both for gags and as references to the spoken dialogue from the source material.

* AdaptationExpansion: ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game'' takes a movie that ran under two hours and adds enough content to pad out at least five hours of gameplay, with an especially notable example being the battle involving Garmadon and Lady Iron Dragon, which takes a scene barely 20 second long and turns it into around 5-10 minutes of gameplay even without the side-content.

* CanonImmigrant: Thanks to ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'' being an AdaptationDistillation of the early ''Ninjago'' years, none of the later storyline characters were included, like the various villains and other Spinjutsu users. But since LEGO games need at least 50 distinct characters to make up a good roster, ''The LEGO Ninjago Video Game'' went ahead and brought in as many characters from the franchise as available (which at the time was the cast introduced up to Season 7 of the show).

* 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 the levels from "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.

* PersonOfMassConstruction:
** Every character, with the exception of [[JokeCharacter Joke Characters]], can rapidly create complex structures, assuming a pile of interactive LEGO Bricks are around. This especially goes for characters with {{Telekinesis}} (ex: the Jedi, Wizards, Green Lanterns), who can manipulate LEGO Bricks from a distance.
** Following on from how in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'' Lloyd's element of "green" represents life and how it "connects" everything, Lloyd achieving inner balance grants him the powers of a Master Builder from ''VideoGame/TheLEGOMovieVideogame'' to take collections of three extra-large masses of bricks, break them down, and "connect" them together into something usable.

* SillySimian: The "Uncrossable Jungle" level of ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game'' features a recurring monkey that gets up to plenty of goofy situations while Nya constantly coos at it.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman:
** Each playable character has their own gimmick, and in story mode, every character you are given ''will'' have their gimmicks be mandatory to use in order to progress. The only exceptions are times when a second character is included just for the sake of multiplayer mode.
** During the "Dark Ravine" level of ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game'', you have the caged Garmadon as an "ally", but thanks to said cage he's practically useless for fighting and normal puzzle-solving, and since he can't climb ladders or run up walls the level acts as an EscortMission to get him around. But that same cage is also so heavy that it's necessary for activating super-weighted pressure pads, so level progress ''requires'' that the ninjas help him past obstacles. The ninjas {{lampshade|Hanging}} this contrived necessary ability by noting if they brought something heavy like a sandbag they could simply leave Garmadon behind, something he feels insulted by.

* UtilityMagic: In ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game'', while the Spinjutsu abilities ''can'' be used for combat, they're so slow to charge and unwieldy to aim that you'll only really be using them for their primary puzzle-solving purpose.
* UtilityWeapon:
** Plenty of the games have weapons be necessary for puzzle-solving alongside combat, such as shooting targets or cutting through hard objects.
** In ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game'', each and every weapon-type has a specific extra puzzle-solving use, such as large swords (like Lloyd's) cutting through heavy vines, hammers (like Cole's) pounding stakes, and staffs (like Master Wu's) turning socketable levers.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie Videogame'' ''(2017)''

** Following on from how in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'' Lloyd's element of "green" represents life and how it "connects" people, Lloyd achieving inner balance grants him the powers of a Master Builder from ''VideoGame/TheLEGOMovieVideogame'' to take collections of three extra-large masses of bricks, break them down, and "connect" them together into something usable.

* PersonOfMassConstruction: Every character, with the exception of [[JokeCharacter Joke Characters]], can rapidly create complex structures, assuming a pile of interactive LEGO Bricks are around. This especially goes for characters with {{Telekinesis}} (ex: the Jedi, Wizards, Green Lanterns), who can manipulate LEGO Bricks from a distance.

** During the "Dark Ravine" level of ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game'', you have the caged Garmadon as an "ally", but thanks to said cage he's practically useless for fighting and normal puzzle-solving, and since he can't climb ladders or run up walls the level acts as an EscortMission to get him around. But that same cage is also so heavy that it's necessary for activating super-weighted pressure pads, so level progress ''requires'' that the ninjas help him past obstacles.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Each playable character has their own gimmick, and in story mode, every character you are given ''will'' have their gimmicks be mandatory to use in order to progress. The only exceptions are times when a second character is included just for the sake of multiplayer mode.

* CanonImmigrant: Thanks to WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie being an AdaptationDistillation of the early ''Ninjago'' years, none of the later storyline characters were included, like the various villains and other Spinjutsu users. But since LEGO games need at least 50 distinct characters to make up a good roster, ''The LEGO Ninjago Video Game'' went ahead and brought in as many characters from the franchise as available (which at the time was the cast introduced up to Season 7 of the show).

* AffectionateParody: Any serious moments from the series they were taken from are changed to light-hearted comedy.

* BottomlessMagazines: ''Everyone'' that fights with a gun follows this, with the sole exception of non-default weapons in ''Indiana Jones''.