LEGO Horizon Adventures hands-on preview [SGF] – The heart of LEGO Horizon Adventures is a golden brick!

If you’ve followed my work on GamingTrend for long you know I’m a huge LEGO fan. I personally do LEGO builds and have played with LEGO since I was a kid. Along with that, I also streamed Horizon: Forbidden West on the GamingTrend Twitch channel for a very long time. Well, Sony and PlayStation announced what? LEGO Horizon Adventures.

I got to have a wonderful sit-down with LEGO Horizon Adventures and it’s a blast, literally. The team has done a fabulous job rendering all of the assets of both LEGO and Horizon into a wonderful combination of humor and robot mayhem.

You’ll play as Aloy from the Horizon series as she searches for secrets of her past. If you’ve played the games, you’ll know the basics of what to expect, but for those who haven’t had the chance to play through them yet, you’re in for the funniest way of learning this amazing story.
I played through a quick tutorial to understand the lay of the land. As Aloy, your main weapon will be a LEGO bow shooting arrows at your enemies or using the arrows to clear our areas of weeds with fire. I’m sure the further along you go, the more abilities you’ll attain. The controls are simple and will be easy for families to play together as after the opening area, you’ll have access to couch co-op.

With the same screen couch co-op, they put a focus on quick action, keeping it to two players only. We also get a return to the second player transporting to the first player if they get too far away. This allows for the players to enjoy how beautiful everything on screen looks and tries not to make things get too small during action sequences.

From a combat perspective, it’s a carnage of LEGO bricks and bright colors in every aspect. I played a level with the developer leading me through the game and we had a blast fighting the Broadheads and Thunderjaws we came across. The combat can sometimes be overwhelming if you lose track of your character, but it’s quick and easy to revive fallen comrades.

The thing I loved the most was the attention to detail with the LEGO bricks and character models. Each brick looks and sounds like the bricks you’d put together at home and the movement feels more like playing with LEGO as a kid versus some other LEGO games in the past. They’ve really separated themselves in a unique way to make this a stand-alone experience. You can also use whatever costumes you unlock in cutscenes, making for some funny interactions if you unlock certain funny skins.

I love how each brick, each object, each character appears in this game. It looks like stop motion animated versions of these characters closer to the LEGO movie animation than past LEGO style games. Aloy even has glare from the plastic with the lighting that really makes things have that, “playing with LEGO with your friends” elements to it. It’s such a nice touch and really separates itself as a game from anything else connected to gaming with LEGO.

Finally, there are light RPG elements allowing you to upgrade your characters weapons, change the look of the NPC’s in town, and change what building additions are where and what buildings look like in general. I really love the decoration elements of games, and with LEGO it’s even easier to make things your way.

LEGO Horizon Adventures is going to be a blast if the entire game is as fun as the missions I played during my preview. The team’s attention to detail on every aspect of translating Horizon to the comedic LEGO style has me ready for another adventure in their world.

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