You can't help but crack a smile or snigger at the slapstick comedy, and although it rarely descends into full on belly laughs, the game's humour's one of its most appealing points. Shame about the Ikea "build your own" thing, though.Įverything's dosed in the trademark LEGO humour, which is bound to raise a smile amongst adults and children alike. LEGO staircases tend to be a bit more colourful than real life ones. And you will, because you'll have so much fun doing it. It's all about switching between characters, and making the most of their abilities - and, because certain parts of the level are inaccessible on your first play through, you'll need to come back when you've unlocked more characters or spells, and replay them all, if you want to finish the game 100%. In any one level, you may need to get your friend to lift up a platform, which you jump onto as Hagrid, to pull a huge chains that moves heavy objects, before switching to Fang to dig a hole, and uncover some hidden LEGO bricks, which you'll then magic together with Harry to reach a previously inaccessible area.Įach of the levels are incredibly heavy on exploration, puzzling, and teamwork - and through trial and error, and working with your friend, you'll uncover the game's secrets. Each character has a different set of abilities, and you'll need to switch between the characters you're given to finish a level - or at least, to finish it well. Whether you're trying to put bricks together, Tetris style, to form a LEGO staircase, searching an area to find the ingredients for a polyjuice potion, or trying to figure out how to get the illusive red bricks, which are hidden in every level, there's always something for you to be looking for. The levels themselves are a great mix of platforming and puzzle solving, and again, everything benefits from the star power tag team of magic and LEGO. Hogwarts has been faithfully recreated - only this time, there's a lot more plastic. As you may imagine, with so many secrets to be found and passages to be uncovered, there's plenty to do - and that's without taking into account the proper levels, which take you through the story of the books - from the Quidditch matches, to battling Voldemort, solving Tom Riddle's diary, and taking on the Triwizard tournament. Where other LEGO games limited you to going from level to level, in LEGO Harry Potter, you're practically free to roam Hogwarts and the surrounding area as you see fit, going to lessons to learn new spells, exploring the famous school to find hidden areas (and the game's many collectibles), or strolling down Diagon Alley to buy new spells, and characters for you to play with. Over the past few instalments, the LEGO games have polished their gameplay to perfection, but while LEGO Harry Potter follows the formula of the other games, this time, things are a bit different.įamily friendly gaming with an emphasis on fun, teamwork and problem solving, in LEGO Harry Potter, you and a friend can take control of Harry, Hermione, Ron, or any one of over 100 other characters (including Hagrid's dog Fang, and Hermione's cat, Crookshanks!), inside the magical, if slightly more plasticy world of Hogwarts, as you follow the story from the first book, all the way up to the Goblet of Fire.
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