Lego StarWars
My friend Doug showed me the Lego StarWars video game for the PS2 yesterday. On the plus side, it’s really cute…it really looks exactly like the Lego toys, and controlling the characters is like suddenly being able to play Irregular Webcomic
Also the controls are fairly easy to get used to, though I miss the ability to rotate the camera so I can see what I’m doing better. And the way the opponents fall apart into their little constituent lego blocks when you carve them up with your light-saber is a hoot.
On the minus side, it faithfully follows the movies, episode by episode, and I can’t think of anything I’d less like to spend time doing than being reminded point-by-point of the horror of The Phantom Menace, which is when I swore off the movies absolutely. Among other things, you have to pod-race. I left the theater to read in the lobby during the last umpty-seven laps of the pod-race (I’m told there were four total, each one seemed like a dozen), so I’m not the target audience for this. As my friend Paul says of me “The disdain is strong within this one.” Not even the ability to carve up Jar-Jar Binks when you first meet him (yes, Doug assures me that you can) is a strong enough lure.
Sunday, June 12th, 2005