Posted on: August 13, 2025
DystopianDreamer
Verified ownerGames: 680 Reviews: 22
Don't worry about Sauron
The biggest threat to Middle-Earth isn't Sauron, it's the staggering number of bugs you'll encounter in this game. I know that the LEGO games are on the high side of jank programing, but this one is the worst I've played. I've had to restart levels so many times because glitches happened where characters got stuck in walls, bosses glitched out and became unkillable, or the item I was just holding disappeared from my inventory and now I can't open that lock that I need to open to progress the level. And what's worse is that there are some bugs that don't just affect the level, but will lock you out of ever getting some collectables and 100% the game. For example, in Amon-Hen, it somehow double counted one of the treasures I got, and I finished the level with 4/3 treasures. This caused some overflow error, so I didn't get the mithril brick for finding all the treasures in that level, which means I couldn't forge all the items at the blacksmith, which means I can't unlock the blacksmith as a character, and that also stops me from unlocking the last character for getting all the other characters. To fix this I would have needed to start not just the level over, but the entire game. A large part of the allure of LEGO games is collecting all the collectables, and well, they broke that. There are also a ton of other smaller problems with the game. The controls on the block moving puzzles for Gandalf are atrocious, the camera is terrible, and the animations that your characters do for special actions are cute maybe the first few times you do them, but feel real drawn out after the 20th time you dug a hole or lit a fire in a level. Now I'm not saying there's no fun to be had in this game, but at several points it went from fun to drudgery trying to get through this thing. Maybe if you're only interested in the story, but then why not just watch the movie?
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