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6/10
Replaying this game again was honestly disappointing I don't think this game is bad but just didn't live up to what the previous game was a Batman game.
I'll start with what I liked about this game, for starters the voice acting I think every actor fit greatly into the character they played the grunting had its charm but im fine with voice acting since it allows for better story telling and entertaining dialogue. Gotham looks is amazing, cloudy rainy and dark the way the buildings look, look like they're taken straight from the animated show the aesthetics of this game are spot on for a Batman game. The Cut-scenes are good I think its the best part of this game character interactions between Batman, Robin, and superman are my personal favorite moments. The gameplay is pretty much the same aside from adding some new abilities due adding more characters which is where my problems with the game begin.
For starters the story is just straight up bad boring and rushed, The story puts joker and Lex Luthor as the spotlight villains shoving every other batman villain out of the story, the whole way through you're chasing the joker and lex luthor because batman refuses superman's help until eventually batman turns around and then the entire Justice league appears at the last mission to beat joker and lex luthor. The pacing is just so terrible the JL felt like they were just shoved in at the last minute just to add more characters to the roster barely adding any unique powers to the game and majority of those unique powers aren't even used enough in the story and open world to justify their appearance in the game because they show up in the end.
This makes it even worse for the open world, as nice as it is to look at most of your time will be solving puzzles with batman superman and and robin, practically never making use of the villain character's abilities or the JL character abilities.
As for the rest of the new and old villains in this game they all get shoved out of the story for some reason and instead get turned into boring open world collectibles even the new heroes added become collectibles all requiring you to unlock gold bricks, supergirl being the absolute worst as she cost 250 gold bricks but provides nothing unique I just dont see a point in adding so many characters in this game and doing nothing with them
The main missions get halved so you only get 15 missions but they're double the length so you kinda do get 30 levels however I feel like this is just such a downgrade not because the missions suck but more couldve been done if missions stayed short allowing more space for other characters develop into the story or even adding the villains side of the story like they did in the first game.
Overrall I just think this game could've been better if it wasn't DC super heroes and instead a batman story with a superman team up Batman already has plenty of villains to work off of, mix that with a supes villain like luthor and its a set up for a great story and game. The more that I think about it this game might as well just been Lego DC justice league from the start and should've fully leaned into the Justice league story considering the 3rd game is pretty much that but for some reason they title it as Lego batman 3 anyways id recommend it despite all its flaws its an okay experience not the worst but certainly not the best lego game out there id rather recommend Lego marvel superheroes which did an absolutely better job of including many comic book heroes and validating their existence within the story.