Writing this review as I actively continue to play the game to reach 100% completion.
This is the worst LEGO game I have ever played, it is very buggy at the most annoying times, leading me to getting soft-locked in awkward places meaning I have to restart the level all over again, the detector red bricks are inaccurate, it often just shows where the red bricks or other things it detects, will spawn instead of what you must do or interact with like other games do. And the game does a very poor job at showing you around the place.
In total there are 4 main areas, Bricksburg, The Old West, Cloud Cuckoo Land and Octan Tower. You'd think that would make this game massive right? Wrong. think of it as LEGO Batman 1's Batcave but 4 times and instead of having the levels in an easy to spot area? How about we just have the entrances to levels be shining circles that glow and toss them around the map.
Things are way too cheap in this game. You can't tell me to get the x4 multiplier it's about 250,000 studs, when maybe 8 of the 20 red bricks *ALL* cost 100,000 studs each. It's too similar. There are so many sections in this game that are just painfully repetitive like Benny's hacking sections are a slog and sometimes you have to deal with annoying pathfinding from the AI that just block where you need to go, Emmets Masterbuilding section is a long slog especially if you are redoing levels due to soft-locks or for freeplay.
Remember the message of this movie? About how LEGO is meant to be played with and to use your imagination to create whatever you want? (Hell it's literally the plot of one of the levels) This game literally can't be further from that. The amount of invisible walls I have encountered while playing, especially while in freeplay makes me feel like I'm in a mirror maze, why is there a block around every corner, Freeplay is just play the game in story mode but you can sometimes play as some funky characters!
Did you like the song 'Everything is Awesome'? Well I hope you'll enjoy hearing it around 20+ times here! Every "Special" (getting enough studs in the level, like True Jedi) has a snippet of the song when you achieve it and at the end of the level, there are dance segments containing the song, the outro has the song, hell if you *DON'T* get the Special in a level it just plays a slightly sadder version of 'Everything is Awesome' and dies off quicker. They really tried to milk every penny with the rights of that song and it shows.
Now I should talk about something good that this game has, because it can't all be awful. The movement of the characters are just like in the movie, it is a very immersive experience because it features many many moments from the actual movie like *directly* from the movie so that's always fun to not just have cutscenes made for the game.
Overall, this game felt like it was a quickly tossed together poor attempt at making a cash grab mobile-like game to appease children because it's from the movie. Yes I understand I am an adult playing a LEGO game but LEGO games were the heart of my childhood and I still enjoy them in my early to mid twenties, I feel like I do and should have a voice that is valid in this scenario.
Also note that this game hasn't been updated since 2014 so if you run into game-breaking bugs or glitches, good luck :)
Now for performance, this game ran flawlessly at 1080p high settings across the board at 13w (Silent Mode) on my ROG Ally X at a brilliant 120fps and that ran for around 3 hours until needing to be charged.
For a score I'd have to give this game a 3/10, it is not a fun LEGO game, you're just playing a more boring version of the movie.
Everything isn't always awesome.
