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Lego Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey (VITA) Status: Finished playing I started playing this game on Tuesday 9 July, 2024 // I stopped playing this game on: Thursday 1 August, 2024
Current opinion of this game
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July 22, 2024 11:49:37 AM
Finished! I would love it if someone wrote something about the Lego games - especially the ones that are essentially variations on the same theme (gameplay-wise) because I have the feeling that they have little differences and innovations that go unnoticed. Or perhaps the changes are just improvements over the years? Either way I'm curious and would love for someone to do the analysis and publish it somewhere. As for the game's ending itself? There wasn't anything out of the ordinary - there's a boss fight, some cut scenes I didn't pay too much attention to and...well, I didn't really want to go back to replay levels and such. However, I am curious because I didn't unlock all the abilities over the course of the game - there's a "crawl through small spaces" ability (I'm pretty sure) that is used in some places I could interact with. Maybe I should go back just to see?
July 15, 2024 04:00:49 PM
I started this YEARS ago. Never got too far, but started it up again a few days ago. Of course I don't remember anything related to the story, and it took me a little bit of time to figure out what I was supposed to be doing next - but, it's a Lego game with all the common patterns and gameplay that pretty much all the other games in the series have. So, once you've figured out what the special moves are, where to activate them and so on, it's pretty straightforward. I'm not familiar with the "chima" universe or whatever it is, but this game seems to skew a bit higher than the rest in terms of difficulty (not from combat, but the puzzles seem a bit more sophisticated)? I'm not saying it's hard - just that it's a little bit harder. There's some puzzles that have multiple steps - nothing too complicated, and it's also easier to get lost (less linear) in the sense of not knowing where to go next. I've played enough of it at this point that I might just finish it to see what the few character types' powers are? But then again, perhaps not. I haven't decided yet.

Lego Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey (VITA)