Mr.Movie
Since: Feb, 2014
06/10/2014 00:00:00
Interesting on how it's the first to be based on a single film.
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The LEGO Movie Game review
The LEGO Movie game is the first LEGO game to be based entirely on a single movie. There is a very good reason they never did that before. Working with several movies or an entire comic book universe gave them access to a wide variety of memorable characters for you to fight against. The LEGO Movie is a good movie, but it only has two memorable villains. Because of this, a good portion of the game involves walking through a level, solving the occasional puzzle, and then the level just kind of stops. If you get lucky, the game might just throw in a couple dozen of the same robot for you to beat up.
In the movie, Emmett seems to be completely useless in the first half of the movie. In the game however, Emmett is vital to progressing. Because the game uses the movie's footage in between levels, it makes all the characters around him come off as complete jerks to him. They do add a couple new abilities to the game, but unfortunately they all end up being boring and forgettable.
If you want to watch The LEGO Movie, go buy the DVD. If you want to play a LEGO game, save a couple bucks and buy one of the earlier ones. All in all, the whole manages to be less than the sum of its parts. 4/10