My past few weeks summarized (first time playing TSS, Marvel Collection, DC Super Villains)
This is my first time playing these games, or Lego games in general (except LMSH) and I have really enjoyed my time playing them and I wanna give my thoughts on them in the order of when I played them.
Bought the Skywalker Saga back in 2022 and I’ve put the game down multiple times until now, because the missions are just pacing around from one point to another and do something. The characters were alright but some were just copies of each other and the skill trees were really just optional. However, I really loved the areas such as Coruscant and Bespin where you can just appreciate the view, but what really surprised me was the capital ships and that became my favorite thing to collect after finishing the episodes. Can’t really miss with the iconic characters, especially the prequels with the voice actors being from the Clone Wars. Good game, but needed a year or two.
LMSH is my favorite out of all so far because it’s like a love letter to Marvel. I have played the first few levels a few years ago and it’s my only initial experience with if. It felt bit slow to me at first but once I catched up to what I have played back then is when it finally clicked. The levels were pretty good and the character roster was the best out of all the Lego Marvel games. The roster is really deep and I like that they are all very unique. The bar this game set was so high that the following Lego Marvel games unfortunately didn’t live up to for me.
Lego Avengers to me is kinda eh. Because it’s basically a retelling of the MCU up until Age of Ultron. The use of voice lines from the movies itself are good during cutscenes, but its limitations show during gameplay where the lines became repetitive. But I still like the open world because it’s the same New York City, but I liked the addition of the movie hub areas from the other movies, which to me makes its open world slightly on par with LMSH. The DLC characters were good and I really like Quicksilver in this.
It’s unfortunate that LMSH2 was really dissapointing. What I really like about this game is the character roster, but what I don’t like about it is the lack of speedsters and that Iron Man was barely utilized in this game. Chronopolis is an ambitious idea for an open world but the execution is lacking. The idea of multiple locations in one open world is good, but the scale of it is still so small that in my experience, Manhattan of the previous games were probably bigger. The levels were also pretty mid where by the 2nd half of the game the levels felt rushed and just put bosses in every level that felt repetitive and not as well as LMSH did, especially the Kang boss battle. Very dissapointing indeed.
Lego DC Super Villains is the one game I haven’t finished as I just started playing it earlier and finished the first level, fresh off finishing LMSH2. Off the bat, the character customization was really unique and it took me over twenty minutes to go over the features and it’s a good thing, and I like that the character is probably a major part of the story. Off the bat, what surprised me is the cast of characters and the fact that Mark Hami and Kevin Conroy are in this! Made me smile. Speaking of smile, when I was playing LMSH, I was kinda rushing to catch up to what I have played years ago, so I wasn’t enjoying it at first but I eventually loved it. But here, in the first cutscene alone, I was smiling the whole time, and the gameplay was really fun and the fact that I can listen to a really strong cast of voice actors. Based on the first level alone, I’m enjoying my time, and I’m excited to what the game has in store, and it can potentially be my favorite game above LMSH based on my first impressions.