168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Arkham City is hailed as the best Batman game of all time. Hell, some fanatics even call it the number one superhero game. Wrong. You’re all wrong. The award goes to Lego Marvel Superheroes or Batman Begins, and probably the latter. I don’t make the rules. Christian Bale with his tight plastic-looking suit, pushing goons up against the wall, throatily gargling, “WHO DO YOU WORK FOR” before throwing them down a flight of stairs tops anything from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rocksteady.
Will we get that with Pattinson’s Batman? No. We won’t. Movie tie-ins are dead outside of the inevitable Fortnite skins, but they don’t count. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:They’re like digital action f🧔igures. Boo. Boring. I want a game where I get to play as Robert Pattinson, twinkling away while I bite the neck of C🐼olin Farrell. No, Fortnite isn’t the closest. Lego is.
While movie tie-ins died an unceremonious death after the PS3 era, Lego kept the red, orange and yellow studs glowing with Jurassic Park, Avengers, Lord of the Rings, The Incredibles, and even its own films. Making movie tie-ins of your own movies? The balls on TT Games. Hell, my introduction to the ‘80s Batman theme was in Lego, not Tim Burton’s classic, and my first foray into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars was, again, with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the games. That’ll upset someone - it is Star Wars - but now I have fond memories of Dexter’s Diner, Qui-Gon’s X eyes, and the a🅘bsolute cursed Jar Jar gameplay where you can jump three blocks high.
There’s something special about movie tie-ins that I can’t quite put my finger on. A lot of the time, they’re a load of shit, but that’s the charm. I love a bad slasher that I can watch for 90 minutes and I🐼 will rate them absurdly high because of how fun they are. I think movie tie-in🌄 games scratch that same itch. They’re not ‘so bad they’re good’ but ‘so dumb they’re fun.’ Not everything has to be a masterclass in storytelling and gameplay mechanics. Sometimes I do want Hannah Montana on the DS, singing away with Bizzaro artwork that makes her look like she’s crawled out of the Polar Express’ wreckage.
Or there’s Dora: The Journey into the Purple Planet, Lilo and Stitch, The Incredibles, The Matrix, Scooby-Doo - the list goes on. So much of my childhood was built on these titles that often took great platformers or action games and riffed on them, never being as good but always being memorable. That’s enough for me. I don’t really remember much about Arkham Asylum. A gruff Batman went around beating up criminals and Joker cropped up at some point. Sound, that’s every bloody Batman story. But Bale’s horrendous chest infection sticks with me to this day and not because of the fil🥃ms.
Lego is very similar. The stories are never great. They’re often ju🦋st watered-down versions of the films with the most slapstick, childish humour jammed into them. Obi-Wan whipping out a walkie-talkie instead of a lightsaber when he meets Luke is ingrained into my memory so much that when I watch A New Hope, it takes me a few seconds before I realize why the scene is missing. Ah yeah, it’s from the fucking Lego game. They’re not as good as o💦ther platformers and they’re churned out like there’s no tomorrow, but they’re dumb, fun, and memorable. Sounds a lot like movie tie-in games if you ask me.
So while the latter have died out, there’s at least Lego to keep ‘em going. We have Star Wars up next - all nine films - and I can’t wait to see Kylo and Rey’s awkward, unearned, horrifying kiss brought to life in Lego. What gag will TT Games come up with? I’m ecstatic with anticipation. After that, who knows what’ll be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in store for Lego. I’ll happily play its version of Twilight, Back to the Future, or even the bloody Godfather. We’re overdue for the return of movie tie-ins, especially as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:movies keep adapting games, but at least we have Lego.