LEGO® The Hobbit™ Reviews

playing as a hobbit makes me feel tall

I was a LEGO hobbit.👍

i will never not recommend a LEGO game

great game

Love this game, just pure fun the entire time!

Deeply disappointing. I LOVED the lego LotR Trilogy and had high hopes for this game. But much like the movies they are based off they are a mess. Up to laketown I was having a good time. Then we got to smaugs lair. And then the game ended. No black arrow. No 5 armies. Like the end of the book and the last movie in the trilogy (that didn't need to be one) completely ignored. And then I learned it will NEVER be finished. I feel robbed to be honest

I'm not gonna lie, the ending of this game highkey pissed me off. I would put a spoiler warning here, but I don't have enough respect for either the Hobbit film trilogy or this game to be bothered to do so. The game ends halfway through the battle with Smaug. The game ends where the Disappointment of Smaug movie ends. I'm simultaneously impressed and malding over the fact I got punked twice by this god forsaken adaptation of this story. Aside from the abhorrent cliffhanger the game ends on, the levels are (generally speaking) a bit mediocre. There's a few good ones, like the Dol Guldur level with Gandalf and Radagast, but the levels will typically range from just boring to inoffensive. That being said, it is still a Lego game, so of course there's still fun to be had, but I would still recommend picking a different Lego game if you're in the market (can't go wrong with lego lotr, just sayin'). This is all coming from someone who really likes the Hobbit by the way (not the movies though, those are still terrible).

I hate the Hobbit trilogy movies, but this game is alright. LEGO The Hobbit maintains E-rated humor and stays close enough to the real story of the book that I don't mind. I like the crafting system in the game, and I like being able to smith my own mithril tools and keep ingredients for other things as well.

Of all the Lego games I've played, this one has been my least cared for. It's a "finished" game, even though it's technically unfinished since it only covers the first two films, and they never released the DLC which would have covered the third one. I wish I knew this before purchasing it. It makes me mad. Not only that, but the game felt unpolished. I kept running into numerous glitches and bugs. And every time I loaded up the game, I had to switch on VSYNC because the game refused to ever remember it. And in general, early game felt like the level creators struggled to decided what would make a good level. I just can't recomment this game since the they absolutely decided to ever "finish" it. It's not worth wasting your money or your time.

My experience with this game was REALLY weird, I was really on the fence about whether to recommend this game or not, let me tell a story. I bought this game on the tail end of 100%ing LEGO LotR for the first time in 12 years. Great nostalgia trip, I wanted more though. I picked up this game and progressed through it blind, having only the knowledge of the three Hobbit movies. So I was really shocked to find that [b]this game only features TWO movies.[/b] Only the stories for [i]An Unexpected Journey[/i] and [i]Desolation of Smaug[/i] were present, [i]Battle of the Five Armies[/i] is totally absent. Turns out the third film was supposed to be a free DLC but was scrapped?? So the story just kinda ends on Smaug being released upon Lake-town, a very anti-climactic ending. So after I finished the story, I thought, "Oh, well, now I kinda don't care for this game anymore, but I'll begrudgingly 100% it just because I'm a completionist like that," and then something happened: The post-game [i]saved[/i] it for me. I had SO much fun with the post-game that I almost forgot how unfinished the story was. I 100%'d the game just last night, and I genuinely want to 100% it AGAIN. I didn't feel the same way about LEGO LotR because all the quests were the same: Find treasure item, get mithril brick. Forge mithril item, get red brick; all the NPCs felt really samey and the quests repetitive. But here in LEGO Hobbit, the quests are all different, there are even [i]questlines[/i] where one or two quests would open more quests. Boss fights, escort missions, puzzles, parkour, dressing up certain ways, building, finding materials... Sure there is still some "find treasure item, get mithril brick; forge mithril item, get red brick," but now that a lot of the red bricks are at the end of these little questlines, they feel refreshing to work to unlock. tl;dr: Disappointed by the incomplete story, reluctantly stayed for the post-game questing and had a BLAST with it. 6/10, new guilty pleasure game.