The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame Reviews

i lowkey dont care how bad the game is bcs i like the characters

I grew up playing hit Tt titles the majority of my childhood on my parents Nintendo Wii and Xbox One. every game was a complete success!! from the details, to the comedy, to the overall uniqueness each game brought to the table. after just two hours of playing this game, I am left with one of the most bitter and uncomfortable tastes in my mouth. I am very disappointed in the turnout of this game and it makes sense why I never ever saw any news about this game coming out. but I will be giving it a fair review based on my experience, listing pros and cons as they stand out. cons will be listed first as they are what make the game as bad as it is. Cons: (far outweigh the pros): 1. LEGO WORLDS reskin - the entire experience feels like they took lego worlds and tried to add a dlc campaign to it. almost like I am playing lego worlds minus all the fun world bending and building possibilities. like a lego worlds prototype after the release of lego worlds. 2. items - while most of the items/weapons got a new animation or sound effect to them, basically 90% of them are directly taken from lego worlds. there are a few new ones that are from the movie this game is based off of, but thats it. 3. Voice acting - with it feeling like a lego worlds dlc, the narrator is replaced with lucy's voice. Emmet never speaks a word of dialogue and only makes weird motions and actions. lucy voiceovers everything emmet is feeling and doing. only time emmet makes noise is when he does things in game which just sounds exactly like his sound effects from the first game. lucy is really the only person who talks minus super tiny bits from unikitty, metalbeard, batman, and benny. 4. vehicles - with this being a lego worlds reskin, you think they'd just do the cars the same. wrong, they made the vehicles useless. not only are they now as fast as the players running speeds, but they are completely pointless (minus ultrakitty) there is a sidequest where you race around the wasteland in a giant monster truck. it moves about as fast as a walk behind lawnmower. every car in the game is the same speed. the racing quests are faster to complete on foot. 5. entire game feels soulless - with this being a Tt title, it just seems to lack every drop of what makes lego Tt games amazing. overall would not recommend. Pro's: 1. the second most recent Tt Lego game released (as of feb 2025) 2. features an open world environment with lots of mini side quests for player progression 3. weapon sound effects and animations are really well made 4. completely new mechanic of collecting colored bricks from destroyed builds. these can be used in the tools and items you can build to assist you. 5. epic combo finishers when in battle. main characters have signature finishers. 6. The Lego Duplo enemys and bosses bring a really nice alternative animation style to the game. 7. weird but charming loot relic system for acquiring items (takes the hunt out of the game but new feature). 8. well made cutscenes tho they lack the classic Tt magic. also entirely narrated by lucy.

Take the well-known formula of Telltale Lego games and strip it down from every interesting bit, you end up wit the LEGO Movie 2 videogame. An experience that's so mind-bogglingly boring it goes all the way into bad. This is a collectathon where the collectibles are poorly scattered over areas that are somehow both too big and yet have not enough going on. Quests are almost all fetch quests, the slowest races known to man or just going from one area to another. There's no puzzle-solving, thoughtful placement or good parkour, you're just gathering stuff for the sake of gathering stuff. Combat also feels loose in the worst way with hits feeling like they don't register and when an enemy gets you being stunlocked. Which is funny since this might be the first time the series tried to give enemies a bit more variety how to beat them, but I moreso avoid fighting enemies than confront them because of it. And even the gathering of stuff is boring because it's all gacha mechanics. Items, characters, constructions, even the extras are all tied to this lootbox system that makes collecting things annoying. Which also means characters don't come with unique abilities, being all reduced to skins while you only get a toolbelt with pretty useless gadgets in them. There are better Lego games on the market than this, so if you can buy those instead of this one. It's simply not worth your time or effort.