MAGIC ACTION

LEGO BATMAN RELEASE IS A LOVE LETTER TO THE CAPED CRUSADER

- CHERYL MULLIN

BLOCK PARTY: Get immersed in the quirky LEGO world

IT’S been a while since I've had to force myself to switch off the XBOX and go to bed.

But as I neared Arctic World for a showdown with Penguin, I knew that if I didn’t stop now I'd be a tired bunny at work.

There has been huge excitement for this game ever since it was officially announced last year.

Developer Traveller's Tales (TT Games) is no stranger to the world of Batman or LEGO, having already produced 23 LEGO titles, three of which were Batman games.

But with Legacy of the Dark Knight, the studio has surpassed itself.

Players take a journey through Bruce Wayne's life. From young Bruce witnessing his parents’ murders, to his training under the League of Shadows in Nanda Parbat, and from his first steps as a rookie crimefighter in Gotham to a grizzled vigilante leading the Bat Family, virtually no moment of his story is omitted.

But rather than being a series of ‘greatest hits’ vignettes mashed together, TT Games has remixed some of the Bat’s most iconic moments into a single narrative that actually flows really well.

The game's opening chapters take moments from Tim Burton's 1989 Batman and Jack Nicholson’s emergence as the Joker, welding them together with the Iceberg Lounge infiltration from Matt Reeves’ 2022 The Batman - and it works perfectly.