Just finished Lego Batman: Legacy of The Dark Knight
This game is absolutely fantastic. As a huge fan of Batman, Lego games, and the Arkham games, this was by far the greatest love letter to fans of all 3 of those things and everything in between.
The story is such a beautiful journey through Batman’s legacy, told through the collaboration of every live action movie.
Each chapter feels so distinct in the movie it’s following, the exceptions being the chapter that’s (as far as my knowledge of it goes) more about the animated series, and the final mission starting you off playing the intro to Arkham Asylum which leads into the Dark Knight movies.
I thought that each time they were introducing a new member of The Bat Family, was really well done. I like that for the first few chapters it’s one new character per chapter, and then by chapter 4 you get Nightwing by the end, and Talia right at the start of 5.
My one issue with the character unlocking, is with Nightwing specifically we got like no time with him until Talia was introduced, we got 2 half missions with him and then the final mission he was at least one of the focuses.
I absolutely love the way we transition between chapters, seeing glimpses of Batman through his time as the caped crusader, not only honing his skills but seeing more members of his rogues gallery.
The gameplay is fantastic, the open world is probably one of the best LEGO open worlds we’ve gotten, and it’s certainly a great Gotham City. I think the Batcave is so much fun to explore and customize, and seeing how much it evolves with each chapter was great, and especially the display for the vehicles.
I think that the red bricks being reduced to reskins is kinda lame, especially since for me personally there’s only like 2 good reskins and it depends on which suit you’re using it on. I think it would be cool if we got to fully customize the colors of the batsuits and make them more our own, but that’s a very minor issue since the suits on their own are great.
There’s just so much love and detail put into the game, T.T games really went hard on this one and pretty much fixed everything that I found The Skywalker Saga did in a way that left a lot to be desired. This was clearly made by people who love Batman, and understand how much many others love the character and all his media too, just a true celebration of the character and I for one, already am excited to replay the story.
Edit: 2 minor things I meant to mention, are how I kinda with there was a bit more variation between character team ups, I don’t at all mind what we got I think this game and the missions were fantastic, but it would’ve been cool to get some more missions maybe without Batman, and another character. The other thing is I kinda would like the ability to switch off of Batman in the free play out in Gotham, if playing in co op then I would like to be able to have the choice to switch characters instead of being stuck as Batman and only the secondary character gets to switch. Like I said, minor complaints, but some things that I think would be nice