Someone looks at a picture, makes a funny facial expression and lets out a comical noise, and you’re left scratching your head as you try to recount the events of the movies that you might not have seen in years. The first film has the easiest plot to follow, but after that the voice and text-less cutscenes can’t convey the complicated plot well enough. Storytelling in the LEGO games is, to put it nicely, quite loose, and that usually works well when combined with a smart sense of humour, but here it’s easy to get completely baffled by what’s going on.
Other characters, such as Elizabeth Swan and Will Turner, are well animated and convey excellent emotion given their brick appearance, but they’re nowhere near as fun or stylish as Jack. The studio has done an excellent job, with Jack’s swagger coming through perfectly and his mannerisms in cutscenes being spot-on. Pirates of the Caribbean features one of the most iconic characters of modern cinema in Captain Jack Sparrow, so it was essential Traveller’s Tales nailed his movement and personality. The result is a typically tongue-in-cheek adventure for all the family to enjoy, but there’s little here that we haven’t seen in numerous other LEGO titles and a bit more frustration than I’d have liked.
The latest LEGO video game, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, takes the now tried and tested formula of basic combat and platforming mixed in with simple puzzle solving, and lays it over the top of the four films starring Johnny Depp (including the yet to be released On Stranger Tides).
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