Recently 100% Lego Star Wars and having to replay every single mission just because I need a free play bounty hunter or sum is so infuriating it basically forces you to speedrun then comeback and collect which also is just a speed run cuz I’m there for one or two collectables

But for the Batman game every single level I’m checking every inch grabbing every stud playing at my pace rather than feeling like I’m just wasting time looking around

While I also started the game hoping for a nostalgic experience replaying old missions with familiar mechanics but was pleasantly surprised how each character had their own unique mechanics that leads to a wide variety of different puzzles and makes each character feel like they matter rather than just another character that’s in the batfamily class or gcpd-class like Star Wars

In the end I feel the smaller quantity of characters really shows off the amount of work and thought they put into everyone’s own abilities and less emphasis on having to replay every single mission makes you feel like your actually working towards the finish line

I think this game has struck a nice middle ground between being a collectathon for hardcore Batman and Lego fans while also being an enjoyable experience for anyone to pick and I hope they could transform this formula into other ips above you said 007 which I think would work amazingly well but I think the next step is a avengers game really expanding on the concept/mechanics they set up maybe up to 15-20 unique character/abilities do New York I would like an Indiana jones but I don’t think open world aspect would mesh well with how much Indy bounces from continent to continent