Fans of Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham series have been waiting 11 years for a proper follow-up to 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight. Because of that, expectations were high for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight; from its very first trailer, Batfans were comparing it to Rocksteady’s Arkham games. After a preview event in April, Polygon remarked developer TT Games built a whole dang Arkham game out of Lego bricks.
Reviews for Legacy of the Dark Knight are now in, and all indications (bat)signal that the latest Lego Batman lives up to those Arkham-sized expectations. As of this writing, it sits at an 84 on Metacritic and 85 on Opencritic. Though not quite as high as the 92 Metascore of Batman: Arkham Asylum or even the 87 of the divisive Batman: Arkham Knight, Legacy of the Dark Knight still ranks in the top 25 of the highest-rated games of the year so far.
VGC’s Jordan Middler favorably compared Lego Batman to the Arkham series in his 4/5 review. “Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is a new Arkham game in all but name. It combines the combat of the Rocksteady series, the open world of Arkham Knight, and a shedload of TT Games humour to create a game that Batman fans will likely love,” his review begins.
In a 4/5 review for Eurogamer, Christian Donlan enjoyed the “Arkham-light combat” and noted that its combat lends itself to good stealth mechanics as well. While not as deep as the Arkham games’ stealth sections, “it still has a surprising number of moments where you can work your way through a space, taking out security cameras, inserting yourself into patrol routes, bonking people on the head before they’ve seen you and zipping back into the shadows again.”
Like those Arkham games, Lego Batman also features a robust open world, which Game Informer’s Charles Harte called “one of the game’s most successful features” in his 8.75/10 review. “There’s plenty to discover just by driving the city’s roads, but it’s also built with Batman’s verticality in mind, with puzzles and collectibles scattered across the skyline. There’s no shortage of things to do here, with hundreds of puzzles and short sidequests appearing on the map as you progress through the campaign. It will take me hours and hours to scour the city in the quest to reach 100-percent completion, and I plan to enjoy every second of it,” he wrote.
But Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight isn’t just capturing and honoring the legacy of the Arkham games. VGC’s review described it as a “love letter to not just Batman, but the history of Batman media,” and that sentiment is shared in other reviews as well. IGN’s Simon Cardy described Legacy of the Dark Knight as “a fantastic plastic parody of the Caped Crusader’s greatest hits” in his 8/10 review. “Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is a lovingly made, often hilarious take on both Batman’s movie and video game history alike. It remixes classic moments from almost every film, with deeper cuts from the Caped Crusader’s comic book beginnings, too,” he wrote.
All in all, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight sounds like a blast, and joins Forza Horizon 6 and Mixtape among the best games of the month.
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