Having to construct a fire escape so that four robots could travel down to safety, I was given pre-fabricated flights of stairs that were just horrible to move. This compounded some of the most annoying puzzles in the game. Whenever there’s larger construction parts that you can move around, it just becomes so aggravatingly unresponsive for seconds at a time until the object can catch up, leading to movement overshoots and frustration. It’s when building with complex scenes that the frame rate and lag can become almost unbearable. In contained areas it’s nice and smooth, but with busier environments it feels choppier, though it’s still perfectly playable. Sadly, the performance on Switch isn’t great. This can be a little more intuitive than the button and stick controls at times, though I’ll admit I only really dabbled with the touch screen play, and that’s for a very good (and no doubt familiar sounding) reason.
This game is a really natural fit for the Nintendo Switch and handheld play, and ClockStone has put in the effort to feature touchscreen controls so that you can drag and tap to make your creations. You can revisit any puzzle in the game and modify your designs, and this mode will let you really flex your creative muscles later down the line. These come in a variety of different colours and also draw from different themes you’ve unlocked at Boo’s shop. You soon earn the ability to enter into a Sandbox mode in these creative puzzles, which breaks down the restrictions on bricks and parts and lets you pick from defined sets of bricks. The D-pad lets you snap to different height levels, which is a particularly useful tool. It’s not perfect, and there will be countless times when the item you’re holding will snap to either side of where you want it, but this is generally just a minor inconvenience once you learn its quirks. The controls are appreciatively intuitive, and the game does a good job of figuring out your intent, when trying to place and connect bricks in a 3D space. Considering ClockStone’s pedigree with Bridge Constructor, there’s similar physics-based tests, though nowhere near as strict as in those games. So long as you meet certain requirements, stay within bounds, ensure that everything is connected properly and then manage to survive a test, you’re fine. Even when simply creating a bridge, I’m sure there will be subtle differences in your design. Some puzzles are prescribed, like copying a statue, but outside of those, every puzzle teases creativity out of you by giving you a studded canvas and a careful selection of bricks and pieces. This really leans into the latent creativity of building with Lego. The people that you meet will throw a variety of tasks and missions at you, invariably leading to some kind of construction puzzle to complete. You’ll quickly notice how the game gates collectibles behind these mysterious world items that are clearly for future abilities, and when you want to find all 20 of each species of animal or find chests with a local currency to spend on unlocking costumes and bricks in Boo’s shops, then you know you’ll be back tracking through each diorama to find every secret.
Each of the fives biomes will add to Rusty’s skill set, starting off with a ground pound that will smash nearby objects, adding an inter-dimensional scanner and more.
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