I remember when I went to kindergarten and played with building blocks with other friends, the biggest pleasure for me was not to build tall buildings or create an urban community. I like to have other kids do that, and I play as a monster that razes the whole "city" to the ground and then stands by and laughs out loud and bitter.
I think it's really boring to just build things out of blocks, and only by combining the things you create with the plot story you make up in your own brain will it become really interesting. And this story can be a monster invading and destroying a city, or a terrorist destroying the earth with a bomb – all kinds of imaginations make the original dead bricks come to life, no matter how you play, you will not get tired.
The main menu of the game
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens reminds me of the joy of playing with bricks as a child. Although it doesn't really allow you to freely piece together blocks and create stories in the game, it does build a "Star Wars theme park" for you, allowing you to embark on a wonderful journey with ease and pleasure.
Star Wars-style opening captions
Relive The Force Awakens in a funny and funny way
In the form of Lego, most genres and styles of stories can be deduced, and Harry Potter, The Avengers, The Lord of the Rings, batman all have precedents for working with Lego, and Star Wars is certainly no exception. From this point of view, this work can also be seen as a skin-changing work developed to coincide with the film "The Force Awakens".
All the planets, ships, characters, and props in the game are made of Lego bricks. With the help of computer graphics, not only are the individual characters' action expressions beautiful, but the battle scenes are also hilarious enough – compared to the realistic LEGO bricks that require desperate brains to imagine intense scenes, the advantages of video games are clear.
Cute building block man image
In terms of plot, this work basically belongs to the category of reinterpreting the movie "Force Awakening", but it also greatly adjusts the script style according to Lego's own young age and relaxed orientation. For example, the originally grand life-and-death duel in the movie becomes as noisy and cheerful as "cats and mice love and kill each other" in this game. For example, the originally serious and tragic life and death parting scene, but in the game, there is a hilarious scene of "building blocks splicing the wrong head".
Can you guess which scene in the Star Wars story this is?
The most surprising scene took place on a fierce battlefield. I just built a TV out of blocks, and the Stormtroopers, who had just resisted to death, actually laid down their weapons and rushed to the TV. It turned out that the TV began to play a movie called Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
The battle was fierce, and then the enemy suddenly surrendered because he wanted to watch TV...
Unlike the tone of the movie, in this LEGO game, there is no emotional fluctuation of bitterness and vengeance, nor any heavy sense of mission to save the planet and the universe. What is left for the player is complete relaxation – as if life and death and victory and defeat are really just a game of blocks.
Crush the Storm Soldiers at your feet
Colorful gameplay
This ease also extends to the gameplay level of the game. Like many other LEGO-themed games, LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens has a health marker, but it doesn't have a game over in the traditional sense. Once the blood tank is exhausted and the ground dies, it can be revived in an instant, and only a little block used as a collection material will be lost in the process. As for these collections, they can be easily found in almost any corner of the map. Interestingly, this almost penalized gameplay mechanic didn't break the game's challenging and level design standards.
This brick part is available everywhere in the game
Looking at the entire game flow, you can hardly find a relatively fixed mode of play. Sometimes it's an action-adventure game that lets you control your characters from a third-person perspective to fight, collect, and solve puzzles; sometimes it's a kind of fool-like tps that allows you to shuttle and shoot from bunker to cover, and sometimes it's an interactive movie with gorgeous shots and smooth narratives that let you enjoy the wonderful plot while reacting quickly to qte. Of course, none of these gameplays are particularly deep in design, but this dazzling sensory stimulation is enough to capture the hearts of many people.
This part is a flying shooter
The free-roaming puzzle adventure levels are very cleverly designed. Almost every puzzle is designed to be concise and intuitive, but in practice, you have to use your brain to really solve it. The game can control a large number of Star Wars characters such as Han Solo, Princess Leia, bb-8, etc., and different characters not only have completely different character characteristics and fighting styles, but also are closely related to some specific puzzle elements. For example, Han Solo can grab certain pivots with his hook claws and swing and jump to a designated place. The cute BB-8 robot is able to plug itself into certain electronic devices and then gain control of the corresponding organs.
The characteristics of different characters are often closely related to certain puzzles
Of course, as a Lego game, the puzzles are also full of very obvious building block stitching elements. Many places need to use Lego bricks to temporarily build corresponding facilities to help themselves get through the difficulties, and when this facility is used, it can be broken again and then spliced into other required forms. This design not only perfectly fits LEGO's own unique tastes, but also makes the decryption process more layered – although similar methods are already commonplace in many other LEGO games, making it difficult to find eye-catching gameplay innovations.
Rebuild the blocks on the ground
epilogue
Like most other LEGO-themed games, the main audience for this LEGO Star Wars will definitely be children in the relatively younger age group, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily cold among adult players. In the process of the game, constantly collecting blocks, solving puzzles, and enjoying the fun of the story is common, and its so-called "younger" style can sometimes even play a miraculous effect of arousing children's hearts. In this sense, even if you are an adult who has said goodbye to toys and building blocks for a long time, you can be as carefree as a child.