LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
TT Games · Warner Bros. Games
“TT Games has been making LEGO Batman games since 2008. This one is the best LEGO Batman game since 2014, which is high praise wearing a slightly worried face.”
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The Review
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is the sixth LEGO Batman game and the first one in years that genuinely tries something. The hook is the open world Gotham that connects every era of the franchise. You can swap between the Adam West Batmobile and the 2022 Pattinson aesthetic mid-mission. Most of the time this works. Some of the time the engine remembers it is still a LEGO game.
TT Games is doing what TT Games does, which is take a beloved IP and bury it in collectibles. The studs are everywhere. The minikits are everywhere. The character roster is over 200 deep and most of them are functionally identical with different capes. The story is told with the same charming silent-comedy LEGO sensibility that has been the franchise's real superpower since the original LEGO Star Wars. The villain rotation hits every era. Cesar Romero's Joker is in the game. Heath Ledger's Joker is in the game by implication and a lot of legal copy.
It is not the reinvention some hoped for after the long quiet period at TT. The combat is still the combat. The puzzles are still color coded. But the open world structure adds enough new texture to justify the existence of yet another LEGO Batman game, and the Bat-Family character work is the best the studio has done. If you have a child in the house, this is going to be the family game of the summer. If you do not, you might still play it and feel oddly fine about it.
What It Nails
- +Open world Gotham is the most ambitious LEGO map TT has built
- +Character work for the Bat-Family is genuinely affectionate
- +Era swapping mechanic is a smart way to navigate 80 years of source material
- +Voice cast leans into the silliness in a way recent LEGO games forgot how to do
- +Solid family co-op experience that does not feel watered down
What It Botches
- -Combat has not evolved in three console generations
- -Roster bloat means most of the 200 plus playable characters are skins
- -Performance hitches on Switch 2 when the open world gets busy
- -Puzzle design still relies on the same three or four mechanics from 2008
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Who It's For
Families. Batman fans of any era. People who want to turn their brain off and collect studs for 30 hours.
Who Should Skip
Anyone hoping LEGO games have evolved since 2014. Hardcore action gamers who need combat depth. Solo players looking for narrative weight.
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