A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged lego
Lego Batman (360)
Sep 27th
It feels cheap as hell, deathwise, and you’re constantly falling off ledges due to depth perception issues or your partner running to the edge of the screen, coop characters don’t do what they’re meant to unless you coax them just right, there are some infuriating boss battles (Mr Freeze can go fuck himself) and the vehicle handling is appalling. It’s way too hard, yet incredibly easy and it just feels like a deeply weird piece of game design.
And yet it’s brilliant, brilliant fun, in both single-player and when playing it with my wife.
Just like all the other Lego games, then, basically.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Nov 29th
Made a start on The Last Crusade today, doing the first two or three levels, which were excellent.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Nov 28th
Temple of Doom completed! Willie got somewhere she shouldn’t on the last level and the game went mad, vibrating the controller to an insane extent, but it sorted itself out after my wife dropped out and came back in.
I don’t care what people say, this is great fun. If annoying at times.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Nov 22nd
This is thoroughly enjoyable stuff with a co-op partner. Even when the game glitches and you have to restart a level.
Today my wife and I did the first couple of levels of the Temple of Doom. It was all as enjoyably bashy as the Lego games are meant to be.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Oct 9th
Finished off Raiders of the Lost Ark with the wife last night. It’s very good fun, but the perspective makes some jumps hard in co-op mode, where the camera can’t move around to the best angle for you.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Oct 7th
Just one level last night. At some point my wife and I switched characters and couldn’t work out how to change back. I’m Indy, she’s Marion, that’s how it is. Except last night. Tch.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Oct 6th
Goodness, but the levels are long in this game. My wife and I played co-op for over two hours and only managed to do the first four levels. It’s good fun, though, if sometimes a bit fiddly when it comes to jumping and aiming.
I’d also like to work out why my wife got some of the Achievements for finishing levels, but not all of them. She was signed in the whole time we were playing together.
Strange.
Lego Batman (DS)
Sep 28th
It’s very, very good. Not much different from the other recent Lego games, but that’s no bad thing.
I played through the first Hero story and only stopped because I was physically unable to play any more.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (DS)
Nov 19th
As well as the 360 version, I also played some of the DS version. Unlike last year’s terrible effort, this one works properly and is very playable. A huge amount of stuff seems to have been fitted into the DS cart. The levels are massive, the graphics are great and it sounds just like it should.
Very, very impressive indeed.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (360)
Nov 19th
Another game that’s great for co-op gaming with the wife. Like Mario, it looks lovely – but not as polished. Like Mario, it sounds great – but it’s using the movie’s sounds. Unlike Mario, it feels slightly clunky to control and deaths often seem random. That’s not a problem, though. The joy of the game doesn’t come from the base gameplay, from the Star Warsy Legoness of it all.
This is two great pieces of Star Wars merchandise polished up and put into one package. It’s fantastic value for fans of the Star Wars universe. A good game in great clothes.
And you can give Darth Maul a giant afro.
