LEGO® Indiana Jones™ 2: The Adventure Continues

The problem with all LEGO games is that if you've played one, you've played them all, and cutscenes can be watched in video walkthroughs. LEGO games aren't meant to be played on the couch—well, maybe not if it's your first LEGO game—but rather like Steam Deck games while you're commuting to or from work.

This is an unnecessary sequel and structural remake of the levels from the first game but there is fun to be had. You can tell they didn't really care or knew how to adapt the crystal skull and essentially copy over but also remake the other 3 films. The levels range from being very short to drawn out with waves of enemies and some puzzles that would no way be solved by 99% of kids. The best aspects are the slightly new combat that is blended with some physics driven animation that gives the melee combat more satisfying weight, though the whip is pretty bad in combat because indy just spins it above his head like a lasso and it becomes nearly impossible to hit enemies. And the other positive is the hub worlds. They feel like enlarged versions of isometric lego builds and seamlessly connect areas from each movie in a single environment. It's fun enough to explore and campaign areas change after you finish them. Overall it's still fun because it is just a remixed version of the first game with an additional movie, though crystal skull has very short levels and big chunks of the movie were left out, granted there wasn't as much action in it as the first 3. Given lego's complete formula change it's nice to go back to their older games to get a fresh but classic experience. I remember being excited for the game but never got it. It also feels like a nice basis for them to develop a definitive indy game where they can have all 5 movies, some young indy levels (those arent in this game but it's just an idea) and expand on the hub areas to maybe create open worlds within each movie since it would need to be structured differently than the skywalker saga as I doubt they'd make an open world earth but maybe they would.