It's kind of sad when all you have to do is mash the attack button over and over, and yet the game still can't read your inputs right. It seems appropriately simple for this style of game and the intended audience, but wonky targeting and criminally unresponsive controls make it a complete chore.
And at its worst, it frustrates, regardless of how young or old you are. But LEGO LOTR makes so many cardinal errors in terms of gameplay that even at its best, it bores. The series has often been quite successful in this endeavor due to both the parity between the colorful source material and the LEGO universe as well as the sturdily designed game mechanics, which while simple enough for young folk to reason out, usually manage to be fun for the parents and older sibling who inevitably get roped into playing. LEGO Lord of the Rings hits that point almost immediately and never redeems itself.įor those late to the party, the LEGO series of games takes popular entertainment franchises like Star Wars or Batmanand attempts to distill them down into charming, LEGO themed puzzle/platformers with a side of action.
I can forgive a lot of mistakes when I see a good game hidden behind them, but there comes a point where even Adagio in D Minor fails to garner my sympathy. Until I sat down to dig into the portable version of LEGO Lord of the Rings, I believed that I could be made to love anything so long as the film's main theme was running in the background. Like many 21st century nerds, I have a deep love for Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Tolkien's seminal fantasy trilogy.
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