![]() Thankfully, if you haven’t tired of the Lego formula or Marvel universe excesses yet, there is still plenty of fun to be had here, but all of the usual glitches and repetition apply. Toss in an endless stream of lame jokes and you’ve got a game that varies dramatically in quality from a storytelling standpoint. Old cowboy heroes and forgotten sidenote characters pop up alongside icons in ways that are supposed to feel exciting yet often just feel confusing and desperate. With all of the obvious heroes and plot beats from the core Marvel history covered in the last game, this sequel gets pretty desperate in an attempt to dig up new characters and concepts. It can be frustrating, yet the style over substance suits the excesses of the Marvel Superhero sequel rather well. At times the game feels way too frantic since the designers are clearly desperate to find ways to make Lego games feel interesting again. It’s repetitive as hell, but undeniably fun in short bursts (which will make it a solid Switch title, given that the full experience plays effortlessly on-the-go, without any of the graphic or gameplay sacrifices necessary on previous portable Lego game ports). TT Games haven’t changed the formula-you know what you’re getting, for better or worse. You smash stuff and build out of the Lego remains to solve puzzles, different characters have different puzzle-solving skills, all enemies and bosses are beaten by button mashing, and deaths are meaningless. That’s a plus because, beat-for-beat, the missions in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 play just like every other Lego Marvel game ever. ![]() Obviously, the multi-dimension concept means that missions can vary dramatically in style and locale. This is quite possibly the most fun and diverse hub world of a Lego game to date, sprawling yet distinct enough to never feel repetitive. There’s so much to discover that it’ll suck up hours and hours for anyone who dares to attempt to find all the collectables and unlock all the characters. Just flying around the place as the hero of your choice and diving in and out of various comic book subgenres and landscapes is an absolute blast. It’s an amazing hub world filled with gorgeous details and hidden crannies. There’s an Old West town, a few alien landscapes, a desert populated with pyramids, a giant volcano, and even a film noir cityscape that sucks the colours out of the characters who tread there. It’s just slightly larger than the gorgeous Manhattan from the original Lego Marvel, only now due to Kang’s dastardly plot, New York shares an island with a variety of Marvel worlds from a variety of dimensions. The centrepiece of Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is an amazing open hub world. Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 (Nintendo Switch) – gameplay image via Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. The good news is that there’s still lots of fun to be found here. Sure Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is likely the least original game that you’ll get your hands on this holiday season, but you would have already been able to work that out from the title. Thankfully, there’s just enough new stuff here to make it interesting and so much content crammed into the title to make it worthwhile. What I got back was indeed plenty of the Lego and Marvel fun that I craved as well as the irritatingly simple and repetitive gameplay that I feared. So when the sequel rolled around, I couldn’t help but approach it with curiosity and hope. However, Lego Marvel Super Heroes just might have been the peak of the genre back in 2013. ![]() ![]() That makes the release of every Lego game slightly less exciting than the one before. TT Games’ juggernaut of a pop culture-hopping franchise found a formula at some point in the PS2 era and essentially haven’t changed it since. They say Lego games are all the same-and they’re right.
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