It’s oddly cute. If you like expressionless blocks instead of animated faces it might be for you. The blocky characters are difficult to move with any accuracy. The physics of the block people is strange and it feels really off. The jumping is inaccurate. The double jump sort of flings the character into the air like a belly flop to no where.
I find it hard to forgive that the whole thing looks so strange. Some of it is 3D ish. But then there are the geometric Legos all strewn around in what might be meant to look like realistic scenery. The mish mash of art styles didn’t work for me. The graphics would get a bad score for being unfocused and not accomplishing a look to that’s associated with either a kiddie game or an adult game. The game looks to me like it suffers from having a departmentalized art staff with very different ideas about what the game should have looked like.
In it you reenact scenes from the first three Indiana Jones movies. Lego Indiana Jones is primarily a puzzle-solving platformer. It has a bit of ungainly light combat. It plays like a pair of toddlers who just learned to walk. The majority of the game is spent looking for keys and parts to figure out how to open locked doors and gates.
There are few humorous touches that a too sparse to improve the experience much. There are character-specific traits such as Indiana has his whip, to swing across cliffs that encourage you to try the various Lego people out. There are scholars who can decrypt hieroglyphics, smaller-sized characters who you need to go through holes, and a variety of workers with wrenches or a shovels.
You’ll need more resources than what you can get by going only once through the game so to finish it you’ll have to go through it again. The artificial intelligence is bad. The fighting is repetitive. The many flaws doesn’t destroy the enjoyment, for Indiana Jones or Lego enthusiasts. From a review stand point it’s disappointing to have the sloppy mechanics to deal with.
I give Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure 6 lost artifacts out of 10.
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