PlayStation 5 Critic Reviews

It's got a bit of challenge without ever feeling overwhelming, and the frequent checkpoints keep the frustration to a minimum. It's all the fun of being Batman without any of the anxiety. [2-Hour Hands-On Impressions]

Having jumped around Legacy of the Dark Knight, I’ll be curious if it can all coalesce or if the end result feels more episodic — an open-world but thin game sitting on top of random platforming side quests. That’s the worst case scenario that I would be as shocked to see as I was the map because TT Games has perfected this formula. Not only is it a victory lap for the Batman character, who has been iterated on in design and story for so long that simply basking in his history feels like a multiversal roller coaster, but for a studio that knows exactly how to deliver but still sees room for ambition. Legacy of the Dark Knight is the definition of a big swing. [2-Hour Hands-On Impressions]

By glueing together plastic recreations of the Dark Knight’s big-screen outings and re-telling them in a gorgeous open world, TT Games has created what appears to be a wonderful, joyful, and significant evolution of what Lego IP games have always been – movie tie-ins that let our inner seven-year-olds (or, indeed, our actual seven-year-olds) re-live the cinematic magic. [2.5-Hour Hands-On Impressions]

I've thought about playing Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight literally every day since coming home from my preview event. I'm excited to explore the world and chip away at the skill tree, but I'm mainly curious to see how they tie all the Batman stories together. Lego games work for me because they're designed by genuine fans of the stories they adapt, and this is, so far, one of the best examples yet. As a fan myself, it's nice to not only see one of my favorite characters lovingly adapted but to feel seen in the way the developers choose to depict him. When Legacy of the Dark Knight drops later this month, I plan to be first in line. [2-Hour Hands-On Impressions]

I came into Legacy of the Dark Knight with my walls up against its typical Lego humor, only to find that it functions as a rebuttal to my proclivity for self-serious Batman games. Not only is it tremendously satisfying to play, but by making its linear scenarios so rich and absorbing, it also grants Batman the freedom to be as comically endearing as he is ruthless. Batman doesn’t have to be any one thing, Legacy of the Dark Knight reminds us, and Batman games don’t, either. [Hands-On Impressions]

It's every bit a Batman game made by fans for fans. [3-Hour Hands-On Impressions]

The new direction has also resulted in tweaks that prioritize depth over width. [Hands-On Impressions]

This is almost certainly going to be the biggest Lego game TT has ever made, hence it taking so much longer to make than any Lego game to have come before it. Bigger isn’t always necessarily better, but after getting hands-on with it, I’m starting to think there’s a strong chance Legacy of the Dark Knight isn’t just going to be the biggest Lego game ever made, but also the best. [Hands-On Impressions]