Gotham’s “Man of the Year” award is being presented to Bruce Wayne with Lex Luthor being runner-up. All is well until a group of Batman’s villains (Penguin, Riddler, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, and Joker) show up. Bruce Wayne steps out and changes into the Batsuit and becomes Batman. Along with Robin, Batman confronts and defeats all of the villains, but Joker escapes. After an extended chase, Batman captures Joker and he is thrown into Arkham Asylum. Sometime later, Lex Luthor arrives at the asylum and breaks the Joker out using a weapon called “The Deconstructor” (which deconstructs unbreakable black objects, and is powered only by kryptonite). The Joker then uses the weapon to release all of the inmates from

Arkham.

The Gameplay is a lot like the first Lego Batman but is set in an open world. In the open world are classic DC villains such as Hush, Bane, Zod, Sinestro, and Captain Boomerang, which after you defeat you can buy thus allowing you to play as them. There is also gold bricks acquired by solving puzzles, red bricks that when unlocked give you bonuses like score times 10, and invincibility, and character unlock gates that are built once you accumulate enough gold bricks. They did a pretty good job of filling in the world and using characters but they could have utilized way more then they did. The puzzles in the open world are really good but a lot of the gold brick puzzles repeat themselves but I acknowledge that designing 200 different puzzles would have probably taken a lot of time and effort.

Navigating the open world can be difficult. Its easy if you need to get to Wayne Tower because its a giant tower, but its hard to be in a group of buildings looking for ssomething exact especially because you can zoom in on the map. I blame most of the problems on navigation due to the mini map, it isn’t really even a map its just a straight line that will tell you the general direction something is. really the whole mmapping system is pretty bad, I guess its usable but there is a lot of room for improvements. The voice acting is actually good, I say it like thay because i was genuinely surprised by that I just didn’t think it would work in a Lego game but it does.

The Lego games have always had good puzzles and that’s true for Lego Batman 2. In this game they have added new suits for Batman and Robin as well as the edition of using lasers to melt gold and green lanterns ability to assemble green Lego to create things to help clear blockage. I know its Lego Batman but I really enjoyed the edition of DC characters and wish that they were involved in the story more they don’t really come into play until the end of the game and I wish they were in iy longer and more used.

If you’ve enjoyed Lego games in the past you’ll like Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes but if you didn’t like them this probably won’t sway you. -Frankie