LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

If you are familiar with tales of Lego games developer trip "before, you might think you know what Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is like before you've played - and you'd be partly right. In this game, as in Lego Star Wars and its class, which (perhaps with a friend on the same console) experience a witty wordless interpretation of a famous story, replaced with your favorite Lego re-creations. However, the central elements of the previous games, such as combating simplistic and floating platforms, were given a secondary role in the story of Harry. Now the focus is squarely on the collection of all the countless pieces of Lego to fly almost anywhere with all spells you cast. You are in constant rain of money as you solve puzzles and manipulate light almost every object you see with your versatile wand.

It must still fight with some persistent series of questions (useless AI, slippery surfaces), and some small new (attribution uncertain, random bug). But scattered around the deficiencies are not likely to dampen the joy Harry Potter Lego game, especially if you're a fan of the original material.

Of course, you get the most out of Lego Harry Potter Dobby if you can tell from the Dursleys. And if you're a fan, the game often comes down with laughter. As clearly indicated by its title, this adventure spans the first four novels in the series by JK Rowling, Harry Potter, and does so with the same slope humor that characterizes the whole Lego games developer. If it is a cry of Little Whinging Lego Hagrid on his bicycle or the beautiful young ladies cavorting in Hogwarts Beauxbatons, animations, sound effects and exaggerated all the beautiful scene of a total joy. Lego Harry Potter has most of its benchmarks at the movies instead of books, movies, musical "sound reminiscent of great effect. The game takes some liberties with the story for comic effect, but these values ​​are charming in the spirit of the series and is likely to result in constant laughter.

These action sequences are rare in Lego Harry Potter, but there are still sections of the light combat and fighting against bosses. You defeat the Dementors cast Patronus Charm, Aragog fight by throwing at him the spiders with Wingardium Leviosa, and even take the one who should not be appointed. Most of the time, but if you run through the environment looking for ways to use your repertoire of more and more spells. You can easily switch between spells and take the one you prefer and in some cases, such use Lumos to make the vines wither, select the lot manually. However, most spells are contextual and can not be thrown by holding a button and the cursor leaves floating on the object you want to handle. Just be sure to connect a controller or two, the keyboard controls are not fiddly so friendly for children and adults.

Between levels, you can head to Diagon Alley to spend points are new characters, costumes, charms and other trinkets to open. But the goal of all spellcasting is not only to collect the money, is to solve the environmental problems of the puzzle to the next chapter. The puzzles are not difficult, you can resolve almost all of these complexes is written from only the cursor passes over all things are possible. But it's funny, because there is so much variety, how to react to different environmental elements of manipulation. Sconce lights and large fireworks for you. Puddles clean rags, brooms and sweep the dusty square. The inhabitants of Hogwarts portraits of life 'launch trinkets important to you, or give access to new areas, if you have the right to monitor members of the house. If you have control of Ron, boggart appear spiders, and makes them Riddikulus thrown awkwardly dancing around on roller skates for a while '.

The missions of the history, you can explore Hogwarts and other optional areas, such as Gringotts Bank. You could end up with a quick game in six hours if you're only interested in seeing the story, but Lego Harry Potter is the kind of game again and again to discover its secrets and various collectibles. You will not be able to enter certain areas and make a kind of first time through, so to see everything the game has to offer, you must return to the levels of free play with different characters. Even if you think you are being deepened by the first room, you sort of approach the end of 50 percent. If this is your first time or through your fifth, you should take another kind of assistance to you. Although there is no online co-op (again), another player can drop in any time and take control of one of his fellow AI.

AI is not the only persistent failure to move to the latest Lego game, but look, while the other is, fortunately, marginalized to the point that you hardly notice. Slippery edges and odd camera angles to avoid a couple of platforming sequences, but there is little to say that will not be too bothered. Similarly, there are some parts of the fight, are very light, and some of them have respawn enemies that contaminated the Lego games in recent years. In reality, become a happy change of pace, including many more puzzles. We did find some flaws, though. The game is often hiccups between scenes, and in many systems, the main menu, choose to stop causing the game to hang, forcing us to close the process in Windows Task Manager. This is a game of honor, that these problems are so easily dismissed in light of all the fun and variety that are so cleverly veils.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is easily the best Harry Potter game to date, but it sounds like an unexpected compliment, consider this: it is one of the finest adventures of Lego to date as well, which is not for the faint praise . Minimizing repetitive combat and platforming inconsistent, disappointments Tales passenger is also minimized, which makes this a pleasant trip to Hogwarts for the whole family. Minor flaws, the old and new in the same way to keep the Lego Harry Potter coming from a family-friendly classics, but it is a charming, funny and, above all, fun. And what kind of magic is all too rare, even in the world of Harry.

The only freedom that does not work so well is a final action sequence bolted to the end of the Prisoner of Azkaban, which is great fun to play, but does not make sense in the context of the original story.

And even with a controller, the attack can be a bit dubious, sometimes a halo indicating an interactive object does not appear when it seems it should, and is easier to target something that is not - as suspected students. But this is a problem for the smallest. Most of you will break anything and everything that is reconstituted smashable reconstruction, picking up the pieces that scatter as a reward for the charms and cast.

(If the control of Harry, these appear as boggarts the Dementors.) You release Scabbers or Crookshanks entering confined spaces, and beer Polyjuice potions when needed to appear as another student. Lots to do, all the time, and while none of these tasks are difficult, the diversity makes it a pleasure.

Not only have a friend that made for a better time, but will require the friendly AI, which is not always helpful when it comes to puzzle of cooperation problems. Fortunately, IA failures are much less common today than in previous games, puzzles and co-op are rare, so these imperfections a minor dispute.