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buggy sometimes 6/10

the Jonkler is quite goofy

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i love playing lego games ever since i can remember

Another great Lego game and the best of the Batman trilogy. This one is more on par with the quality of dc super villains and marvel super heroes 1.

Even besides the game itself being weaker than the previous 2 Lego batman games, I encountered numerous soft locks where i'd have to restart a level or encounter things which make the game crash. This would result in having to find absurd fixes just to progress.

One of the worst examples of this was in "Space Suits you, sir!" where you'd have to use a vehicle to get the Space Suit for batman, Robin would get stuck in the vehicle because it wouldn't go to its exit point, the fix was to press the windows key numerous times which would for some reason nudge the vehicle out of the place it was stuck in. Funnily enough in that exact same section sometimes the batsuit wouldn't even spawn after meeting its requirements.

All this is made even more annoying by the fact levels are just so long or extremely short, some levels just feel like they never end and finishing them feels more like a chore than anything.

The PC port is clearly just not optimised in the slightest, even the "Virtual Challenge" sections will fail to work correctly but for some reason do if you put a second player in.
Flying is also broken for some reason, sometimes you will just shoot off in a direction after cancelling the flight making certain sections an absolute pain to tolerate.

The amount of busy work they added just purely for padding also becomes a chore. The arbitrary "tours" of each of the lantern planets come to mind, there is never anything to even tour because the planets are so poorly designed and only there to keep you busy. All of them run on the same boring and tedious formula.

The only lantern planet that changes from the formula is OA, but instead of being created to actually resemble the planet from literally any of the source material its filled with boring races and even more boring gold brick "puzzles" which only ever consist of changing to a relevant character and destroying a gimick item or interacting with it. Even the design of the planet is a let down, essentially looks like the moon (which is in the game and offers absolutely no exploration value) with random green lantern statues scattered around.

Other hub worlds like the Batcave are good but often still feel barebones after the bulk of the more interesting content has been completed, the rest feels like padding.

The only thing i found myself enjoying was the character roster, so many DC characters managed to make the cut, however unless you're playing for fun most will not be used apart from the initial "oh that guys here? cool!" due to characters like cyborg being able to access a majority of the games "puzzles" and gimmicks.

And even then the DLC is dreadful, levels are awfully designed and there's no in-sentive to trying out the levels and characters unless you want every achievement in which many are gatekept in the DLC.

Long story short, just play Lego Batman 2.