Look: Like a lot of you, I’ve suffered from Lego fatigue. No matter how a lot I would care about Avengers or Lord of the Rings or Indiana Jones or any of the opposite properties Lego has tailored over time, there have been so many Lego video games, every of them with a lot to do. It was unattainable to maintain up or maintain my curiosity.But Lego franchise video games appear to have turned a nook now, as Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was a properly refreshed tackle the complete sequence, even because it retained the core Lego sport collectathon loop. Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight appears to be like to be an excellent better departure, standing firmly on a love of Batman throughout all his media incarnations.
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At first, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight appears to be like to be an anthology of varied Lego-ized Batman motion pictures much like Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, however even that is not fairly proper. It could be extra correct to name it a fusion of Batman motion pictures, alongside different influences and tales, to construct one thing new and authentic from all of its numerous components. In that manner, it is completely Lego.For instance, the story mission I performed at Gamescom occurred in Axis Chemicals, which followers of the 1989 Michael Keaton film will instantly acknowledge because the birthplace of the Joker. But as an alternative of gangster sociopath Jack Napier being dispatched to destroy incriminating proof within the chemical plant (however with the state of affairs turning into a setup to kill him for sleeping with the boss’ moll), it is Red Hood #1, chief of the Red Hood Gang, as we have seen function the Joker origin story in some comedian iterations. Red Hood is utilizing the manufacturing unit to fabricate an odd new compound that makes its victims chuckle uncontrollably till they die. Under the hood is an unmistakable (and really satisfactory) Jack Nicholson impression, so the character shouldn’t be not the Batman ’89 Joker, however he is been blended with different tales.Likewise, the Batman who confronts him, not less than on this demo, was the Robert Pattinson iteration of the character, accompanied by a Jim Gordon who appears to be like very very like a Lego Jeffrey Wright, every of them from the 2022 movie The Batman.This mixing and matching of varied nice moments from Batman cinematic historical past is core to the spirit of Legacy of the Dark Knight, which units the formidable goal of weaving parts of the entire Batman motion pictures with different media right into a single coherent story. When requested what which means for recurring characters performed by totally different actors just like the Joker, TT Games’ Jonathan Smith instructed GameSpot that maybe some horrible issues will occur to the Joker that can make him much more sinister and–presumably, however left unsaid–more like Heath Ledger’s incarnation in The Dark Knight.That similar sense of playfulness extends to the Easter eggs, which have at all times been a Lego staple however really feel extra centered right here. Rather than gathering 100 doodads to unlock 200 totally different however mechanically equivalent characters, you are unlocking deep-cut types for Batman and Commissioner Gordon. Those embody some you’d anticipate, like iconic film appearances, alongside some you won’t. Batman appeared particularly nice in his Brave and the Bold costume modeled after the 2008 cartoon present.Both Batman and Gordon have appears to be like based mostly on their very first comedian appearances, together with Bats’ dopey large cowl ears and Gordon’s white swimsuit and wispy mustache. The most shocking was Batman’s Rainbow Suit, a totally rendered Lego model of a basic and very goofy Silver Age comedian e book that has acquired iconic camp standing.But not content material to borrow solely from nice Batman motion pictures, Legacy of the Dark Knight additionally borrows from nice Batman video games. The fight is clearly impressed by the Arkham sequence, as Batman can carry out stealth takedowns of unsuspecting Lego enemies or soar into the center of a brawl with timing-based fight. This is simplified in some ways–the timing home windows are wider and the visible indicators are greater than within the Arkham video games, and also you solely have two devices to make use of in fights. But it appears like an affectionate homage to mechanics which have change into as central to the character as any film, within the minds of Arkham followers. Legacy of the Dark Knight additionally introduces problem ranges, letting youthful or less-experienced gamers THWACK and POW like Batman, whereas giving extra skilled Arkham followers extra and harder enemies to combat and, for the primary time I keep in mind, a restricted pool of lives to spend on encounters.And just like the later Arkham video games, the hub world is a wide-open Gotham City that may be explored freely. You can cease crimes, discover Bat caches, smash collectibles like Penguin rubber duckies, and skulk alongside the rooftops or gracefully glide between them. You can zip-line your manner as much as acquire velocity after which float, and for those who’ve constructed up sufficient vitality from beating down thugs, you’ll be able to launch even greater into the air to get a birds-eye view of town. If going ground-level is extra your fashion, you’ll be able to summon a Batmobile wherever within the open world. I solely noticed the Robert Pattinson muscle automobile iteration from The Batman in my demo, however TT Games has already teased many extra Batmobiles to come back, and they are often freely geared up like Batman and Gordon’s costumes.I did not actually know what to anticipate subsequent out of TT Games after The Skywalker Saga, however Legacy of the Dark Knight is such a nice shock. When you are completed constructing a Lego set, you may take it aside and see what else you can also make from all of the items. TT Games appears to be like to be doing that with the Batman mythos, and I am unable to wait to see what they construct out of it.