I’m going to begin this review of Lego The Incredibles with the most important piece of advice you can get. Don’t play the game if you haven’t watched the movie. Lego The Incredibles’ plot follows the story of the second movie so be prepared to run into spoilers if you haven’t watched The Incredibles 2 yet. I didn’t. Horrible experience sia.
As the story missions in Lego The Incredibles follows the movie, there is only so much content that can be fit into the game. I roughly took about two hours to complete the story missions related to the second movie. Thankfully, the game doesn’t just stop there. Lego The Incredibles adds in the story of the first movie as well, so be prepared to go through the first movie after finishing the second movie’s campaign story.
The gameplay of Lego The Incredibles is fairly straight forward. You run around smashing things on the map as various heroes. After smashing enough things to reveal building blocks, you then create more stuff to unlock the next area to proceed with the story. Rinse and repeat. Of course there’s a certain satisfaction at smashing things along with the scattered battles that take place throughout the map. No doubt Lego The Incredibles would be vastly entertaining to children as they smash everything in sight and pit their brains against the various puzzles that hinder their progress. After all, which kid doesn’t want to be a super hero?
If you get bored of the story missions, there is an open world option for you to sink your time into. Heng sia, or else I think I would go crazy doing only story missions. They are all pretty basic side missions that you can typically find in video games, having to destroy certain items or save a certain number of citizens. But don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that there’s a break from the repetitive story missions that crop up. Furthermore, there’s familiar faces from other Pixar movies. For example, one of the first story missions allow you to construct a coral reef out of Lego that reveals Dory from Finding Nemo. No doubt a great easter egg for children who love Pixar films.
Leading up to this is one of the problems I had with the game. Maneuvering around the city while doing side missions was terrible. Driving felt clunky as a small nudge of the thumb-stick would send my car turning wildly. Macam like crazy mad man as I rammed my way down the roads in the city sia. I think I easily ran over more than twenty people and cars during my playthrough.
Lego The Incredibles isn’t going to be game of the year. But it’s a fun side game for kids, especially for those who love Pixar films and The Incredibles. Would I buy it for my metaphorical kid instead of Dark Souls? Sure. But after that I’m slotting in Dark Souls so that he/she can git gud.
Lego The Incredibles is currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch.
