Reviews LEGO Movie - Wii U Comfortabel voor mijn kind Leuk dat je in verschillende werelden kunt spelen. Gekocht voor me zoontje van 6.Hij is er helemaal weg van Nintendo Wii U console + controller(s). Werkt niet op een Nintendo Wii of Wii Mini! Dit product kan alleen ongeopend geretourneerd worden Je vindt dit artikel in Bekijk en vergelijk alle verkopers Voordeelbundel met oplader + controller Bundelvoordeel 20% op de accessoires Ontvang 20% korting op een oplader Ontvang 20% korting op een controller LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes LEGO Jurassic World - Wii U LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Wii U Super Mario 3D World - Nintendo Selects - ... LEGO Hobbit - Wii U Warner Bros interactive entertainment LEGO Marvel Super Heroes - Wii UThere was a time when people used to argue about who was the best Batman. There was Michael Keaton, Christian Bale and Ben Affleck (not that anyone argued for him, other than maybe Matt Damon).
I think the argument is done. Will Arnett is the greatest Batman ever, and “The LEGO Batman Movie” may be the greatest Batman movie ever. Somehow, this animated delight manages to lovingly capture the ridiculousness of the Caped Crusader, in all his incarnations. It’s a giant, hilarious love letter to Batman that is stunning in how well it works. The film follows “The LEGO Movie,” a surprise hit with critics and moviegoers alike. Batman was a character in that film, but I doubted building a new LEGO movie around him would work. So my expectations were low. And I was so wonderfully wrong. I laughed more in the first 10 minutes of “The LEGO Batman Movie” than I’ve laughed at a movie in years. And it just got better from there. As the film starts, the heroic Batman has Gotham City in the palm of his hand, and he knows it. He’s been doing the incredible for so long, he’s as confidant as Michael Jordan with a basketball in his hand. But after another amazing episode in which the city is saved, we see the very human Batman coming home to his incredible Bat Cave to eat leftovers from the microwave.
Batman may be a superhero, but he’s lonely. He says that’s the way he likes it. The tortured soul routine has been a part of Batman lore since the character’s creation nearly 80 years ago. The LEGO version plays the angle up hilariously. Eventually, our hero has to accept that he needs others, both personally and professionally. And he needs others to need him. For instance, there’s The Joker, (played by Zach Galifianakis), who is just as troubled as Batman and absolutely obsessed with being the Caped Crusader’s No. 1 enemy. He’s like a spurned ex-girlfriend who won’t go away until Batman acknowledges that, yes, he’s important. Together, they are suffering through personality crises, and their ongoing troubles are hilarious. And, yes, Batman hates Superman. That was the premise of an entire movie last year, but the LEGO version captures the conflict much better. Director Chris McKay and his animators do everything they can to push the visual boundaries, and the result is borderline sensory overload.
But even the effects are secondary to the relationships — yes, relationships. We get a new commissioner Gordon, as in Barbara (Rosario Dawson), who becomes every bit the crime fighter that Batman is. And then there’s Robin (Michael Cera), an attention-starved orphan who accidentally gets adopted by Batman and gives his character some much needed humanity. But this movie, for all the strong supporting characters its provides, belongs to Arnett’s gravelly voiced portrayal of one of our all-time favorite superheroes. He manages to exploit all the Batman stereotypes we’ve gotten to know over the years, while very much playing the Caped Crusader as a fleshed-out person rather than a caricature in a spoof. Yes, as this “LEGO” movie makes clear, the very idea of Batman is kind of silly. Which is one reason why we love him so much. Three and a half stars Rating: PG (some rude humor and intense action) Cast: Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Ralph Fiennes
Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutesEditor’s Note: This review is based off of the Starter Pack and the Portal 2 Level Pack. Said packs were bought out of pocket Unlike most lovers of the Skylanders or Disney Infinity series, I was always skeptical of the toys-to-life style of game. When companies utilize overpriced DLC or putting exploitive freemium elements in fully priced experiences, the idea of also tying plastic figures into the mix always felt uncomfortable both financially and game design-wise. But Traveler’s Tales finally got my attention with Lego Dimensions. As a kid I loved making things with Lego blocks, I even share Benny from The Lego Movie’s love of making spaceships, and mixing together special toysets with the reliable formula the Lego games have perfected at this point seems to be a winning combination. But does it justify such a large upfront investment? The plot is similar to the world-hopping Lego Movie. Some all-powerful entity, Lord Vortech, is invading and attacking the various worlds in the Lego multiverse.
It’s during these intrusions into their worlds that Batman, Gandalf The Grey, and the master builder Wyldstyle are snapped up and brought to the Vorton, a nexus hub of the entire universe . It’s here where our heroes decide to hop from Lego world to Lego world in order stop Vortech’s plans for universal domination one step at a time. Make no mistake, both Traveler’s Tales and Warner Bros. take full advantage of this idea, cramming more than a dozen intellectual properties together from Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who to The Wizard of Oz and Back to the Future into the story. It’s almost a miracle that such diverse worlds and characters not only coalesce together into a perfect representation of a kid getting creative with his toy box, but that not one gets too much special treatment. But before you can properly play Lego Dimensions you have to put together the starter set. True, you can cheat and just use the stands and portal sections, but you’d miss out on part of the game’s charm: putting something together in real life then seeing it recreated on screen.
This also happens with the vehicles you make in the game, since there are some mild RPG elements where you can eventually put the vehicle in a new mode, which includes a new set of directions for taking apart and remaking the actual toy to match the new look. It sounds tedious and annoying, yet that has always been the charm of the Lego brand, the simple act of layering brick upon brick until it slowly becomes something unique. Of course, Lego Dimensions is still a video game and its gameplay is simple but reliably entertaining. After you’ve placed the figures and vehicles you want to use on the portal, each level is a very standard pattern of mild puzzle-solving, finding hidden collectibles, and of course beating down and smashing enemies and objects to pieces. Every character or vehicle has some unique power or ability to help negotiate tricky areas like Wyldstyle having a double jump and being acrobatic, Gandalf using his magic to illuminate a dark room, or Batman being able to turn invisible, which is used in various challenges and boss fights.
In short, if you have played any other Lego game recently, you’ll feel right at home. All very standard fare, that is until the game starts taking advantage of its gateway peripheral and the creative possibilities worldhopping provides. Things start off simple enough like dealing with the Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz or getting caught up in Cybermen and Daleks with The Doctor, but eventually Lego Dimensions starts crossing the streams, leading to some pretty fantastic sequences that will not be spoiled here. Complimenting this is how the physical portal and figures actually factor into gameplay. Some of the more involved puzzles and creative boss fights actually have you switch around your physical figures on different highlighted sections of the portal, which can involve giving your characters temporary elemental powers or even teleport them to different areas. It can lead to hectic moments where you’re scrambling to put figures where they need to go, but it shows that Traveler’s Tales didn’t just get saddled with the toy and portal gimmick;
they integrated it into their level design. It’s understandable then that the overworld elements are lacking. Everytime you connect a character from a different world, you unlock access to that world via the Vorton hub and can travel to a mini-sandbox. There are hidden collectibles and challenges hidden that fit with the theme like searching for the missing letters to the Old West sign in the The Lego Movie’s hub or helping Gollum dispose of the One Ring in Middle Earth. However, these areas run into the problem of not being able to go into too much detail or scale, to say nothing of entire locations walled off unless you have the right character. Which does lead to one other issue I do have with Lego Dimensions’ model: it doesn’t seem possible to 100% complete the levels you have with the starting material. Taking out of account the areas you just can’t access like Scooby-Doo or Midway Arcade World, the barebones version has areas in levels that blatantly need another character.
This design decision made sense before since you could unlock those characters through play, but with a toys-to-life model it changes things a bit. It’s not a completely bad decision, you want incentive to pick up more characters afterall, but for everyone’s inner completionist it is very very annoying. The game looks alright, juggling the many different worlds’ tones and aesthetic designs and making them work in Lego form. Loading screens, while not the shortest, are few and far inbetween, and lighting and environmentally speaking everything works. One thing that can be said about the voice-cast is that they are definitely high-profile. The talents of Will Farrell, Ellen McLain, Will Arnett, Dan Castellaneta, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Capaldi, Chris Pratt, and many many more are all accounted for, contributing their iconic voicework to the gameand they equip themselves admirably. Personal highlight though has to go to Gary Oldman as the deliciously hammy Lord Vortech. All things considered, Lego Dimensions is a very solid game that manages to bring some novelty to the toys-to-life concept, but are you willing to put so much cash down on it?
It has the biggest pricetag out of any other series in the subgenre, to say nothing about the additional sets currently out. But the core game is a respectable ten or so hours long and the content is decent for what you get out of these packs, adding at least two extra hours each, but it seems that the extra money is because of the Legos themselves rather than quality. Obviously there will be something in Lego Dimensions that appeals to you, but unless the franchise in question already has a standalone Lego game, there won’t be much to recommend here. The old saying, “if you try to please everyone you will end up pleasing no one,” comes to mind when it comes to the content on display for all of these packages by themselves, but if the novelty of having Scooby-Doo team up with Bad Cop to fight The Joker sounds enticing you might be able to overlook it. If you enjoy playing with Legos and enjoy playing the Lego games, then Lego Dimensions will be a done deal for you. Grab a starter pack, maybe a few packs of stuff you personally like, and get to building.