Yeah I played another Lego game! I’ll keep this short.

I have always liked TT Fusion’s takes on the Lego games, for handhelds. They’re so charming and they still scratch that collectathon itch for me, plus I love seeing how they handle the same subject matter in a different way.

I picked this up because my friends in Rare fandom are talking about Pirates right now thanks to a crossover in Sea of Thieves (a game I don’t care for, but that’s neither here nor there). Plus I’m still interested in mermaid/undersea type games, and movie 4 of course has a prominent mermaid character. Imagine my disappointment when she’s not playable, and barely even present!

Compared to the console version which covered the movies in five levels each, this one does it in four. As a result, the plot has been truncated even further than usual, making it nigh-incomprehensible even if you have seen the movies. Syrena seems to have been a victim of these cuts (in fact, for some reason the whole fourth movie, save the intro and outro, is told through in-engine cutscenes rather than the usual crunched FMVs sourced from the main game… it’s odd).

So no mermaid for me, boo. As consolation, I suppose, they threw in loads of random Dutchman fishman crew members. They’re kind of like merfolk?? I spent most of my time playing as Blackbeard though, for his range of useful abilities. The abilities have been reshuffled a bit compared to the console game; the big thing here is sword levers, different types, they’re everywhere! And that’s all I have to say.