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100% Complete! Just 61 hours! Phew! I’m not really sure why there’s a big lock symbol in the middle of the bottom row, though. It’s supposed to show I’ve completed all of the Free Run challenges (which I have done), but sometimes it comes up with a lock and sometimes it doesn’t. I suspect it’s a bug.
Anyway. What an utterly fantastic game. So much so I’ve plugged another five hours in since completing it!
This is progress. All red bricks got, 400/450 gold bricks got, and 8 of the 15 main “levels” 100%ed. Almost 52 hours on the clock.
The important question is, even though there’s no story left and I’m basically just wandering round looking for things, is it still fun? Hell yes. It doesn’t get dull or repetitive. There are still loads of funny things, like conversations I stumbled across and places I hadn’t been. There’s just so much to see and do – every corner of the game has something to discover.
The story is done! The day has been saved! There’s still many, many hours of game left as I’m only about 35% finished!
I won’t say much about the ending, because, well, spoilers. What I must say, however, is that it was actually genuinely properly epic. Like nothing before from any other Lego game. For a short time, there’s some of the usual funny silly stuff, then a fight between you in a giant robot suit and Rex Fury riding a robot dinosaur, but after that there’s a bit of dramatic from-space skyfalling which is absolutely fantastic. The music, the Earth below you, and the countdown timer all combine to bring something to a Lego game that no other Lego game has even approached.
It outdoes Halo and Gears of War and Dead Space. No, really.
And that was it! Now to begin the post-game mop-up.
And finally, all the puzzles are solved. Phew!
According to the stats, I played it for over 21 hours, which is about 5 hours longer than its predecessor. Which is pretty much what I expected.
And, erm, that’s it. It’s great Picross game, just like the first one only bigger. In terms of value for money, £7 for over 20 hours play is pretty good going. It’s a shame there are no bigger puzzles as 15×15 is a bit small, but still – minor complaint.
I think I’m getting close to the end of the story now. Sure, I’m still “only” 23-ish hours in and 34-ish percent done, but the story missions are coming to a climax. Not least that I think there are 15 of them and I’ve done 13 or 14.
The game is still amazing fun, and still keeps giving new stuff even this late in the plot. Only a couple of game hours ago I got the final “character” ability (the construction worker), but today I got a jetpack – which has opened up a load more areas I can reach. And still I can’t pull open those things with the glowing orange handle so I know there’s more to come.
The construction worker level was fantastic, and the foreman on the building site was hilarious. He’s clearly Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he sounds just like him. Oh yes, and he keeps coming out with Arnie catchphrases and shoe-horns Arnie film titles into every conversation. It’s very silly.
After that I had to steal a huge telescope, and infiltrate a secret base, where it went a bit Goldeneye and I got a UFO. Yes, a UFO.