When you finally open up a few areas, you realize that there's a good reason for the blockades. This would be more acceptable if there were visible roadblocks impeding your progress, but all of the roads and bridges are completely open, so the artificial blockades are sort of a rude surprise. Despite the map indicating that the city is rather large, you're often prohibited from accessing areas before reaching specific points in the story. Part of this has to do with the compartmentalization of the world.
The problem with an open-world game on the 3DS is that it doesn't work that well.
LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER PORTABLE
At face value, it seems that the team has tried its best to translate the core of the LEGO City: Undercover Wii U experience into a more portable format. There's also no shortage of things to collect, and you can build an abundance of vehicle drop-off spots. You can use cars to quickly cover distances or helicopters to warp between parts of the city. For the most part, you can walk wherever you want on the street level, and you can use your acrobatic skills to shimmy along building edges or climb to the top. All of LEGO City is available for you to explore. Instead of creating something completely different for the handheld, the team at TT Fusion tried something that hasn't really been attempted on the 3DS: an open-world title. In short, it barely tries to be funny, and for a LEGO game, a lack of humor doesn't resonate well with players and fans. The jokes are certainly more youth-oriented, though many are predictable and lack any sly undertones. In the 3DS iteration, references are scarce, and only a few characters from the Wii U game make an appearance for tutorials.
LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER LICENSE
The lack of a rigid license meant that anything goes, and it usually did, with references to films like "The Matrix" and "The Shawshank Redemption" as well as caricatures of Harry Callahan, Columbo and Sherlock Holmes. Some elements that made the Wii U game memorable were the bad jokes and references weaved throughout the plot. Again, stuff like this isn't important to the game's target audience, but for some older gamers who enjoy the LEGO games, the lack of story continuity is a little disappointing.Īnother source of disappointment is the humor - or the lack thereof. Deputy Dunby already hates you, and your relationship with Natalia is already volatile. From the first scene, all of the major characters are already set in their ways, and there's no explanation as to how that came to pass.
Though few expect these games to have deep, thought-provoking plots, it feels like this title squandered the opportunity to flesh out the home console version.
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