LEGO® Builder's Journey

It brings back memories of "Thomas Was Alone". And tells a beautiful story without a single word. Calm and short puzzles. Some parts may be a bit tedious. But overall it is worth it.

I can't personally recommend this game. It's certainly a unique experience and is overall a good-looking game. Unfortunately, at $20, it's way too expensive. Even if you're terrible at puzzles like me, you'll still only get 4 hours out of this game. There's just not enough content at full price. However, even if you can get it for $5, I still don't recommend it. The controls are infuriating and it makes placing every single brick an extreme challenge. The camera angles are also annoying because if you attempt to adjust it to get a better look (which you're allowed to do), the game will just force you back to their perspective a few seconds later repeatedly. The gameplay is also insanely repetitive, tedious, and mind-numbing. There are times you do the same "puzzle" like 6 times in a row [spoiler] You have to build a bridge to cross water multiple times in a row, which I found very tedious [/spoiler]. Sometimes there are cutscenes that you don't know are cutscenes and actual gameplay when you think it's a cutscene. It's very difficult to know what to do at times because there are no instructions or guides or help or anything. Overall, if you can deal with the janky controls and ir…

I wanted to like it, but the controls are awful with no way to rebind.

Cute but finnicky controls and kind of opaque puzzles make for a not very cathartic game.

So I originally went into this thinking this was a simple puzzle game revolving around Lego and building. However, what I did not expect was a weirdly touching, nonverbal story told through plastic bricks? The tale of a son and his father, separated by the real world, trying to find their way back to one another through the help of the boy's faithful robot companion had me oddly emotional throughout the whole thing. The puzzles themselves were hit or miss though, with some being intuitive and others having me ask myself "what the hell am I supposed to do here?" I think this sentiment stems from the whole vibe of the game- the minimalist, no words, cozy RTX graphics all definitely add to the warm feel of the game, but at moments it can leave you a bit lost. Overall, I thought it was a nice and chill experience. The Robot's Adventure DLC, however, was a lot more fun IMO. I thought the puzzles where much more intuitive and made more sense in my head. By the end, I was disappointed that the experience was so short and it left me wanting more puzzles. The story was short and sweet, chronicling the robot's perspective of the whole main story, while ending on a beautiful new beginning.

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