LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, following our flamboyant Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Where can you buy?
- Available on Amazon
- Available on Amazon Luna
- Available on Steam
- Available on Xbox
Pros:
- You can follow the storyline
- Movie sections are split up
- Red Hats have unique abilities
Cons:
- Game crashes
- No voice acting
- Only saves after chapter completion
- Hit boxes are awful
- Studs fall off ledges
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Explanation to Negative Feedback
Game crashes
While playing the game on Steam, it crashed so many times. I’d be in the middle of a chapter thinking everything’s going good, nothing bad’s happened, and suddenly the game will crash. And it crashed at least once for every chapter played, so it was almost like it was programmed to do that.
I mean, it wasn’t I hope, but there was a pattern to me.
Looking in the discussions section led me to a thread of someone fixing the issue by writing something in the game’s Launch Options.
It worked, no more crashes after that, but the fact that we have to mess with something like that ourselves to fix it doesn’t make a good impression on someone wanting to buy and play the game.
No voice acting
Technically, you get some grunts and one-liners from Johnny Depp for his character Captain Jack Sparrow, but it’s not exactly voice acting in the whole sense of the concept.
The characters you play and the scenes that happen have the characters just making these minimal noises so it’s not a completely quiet set with just a soundtrack.
So don’t expect any lines from the movie itself, or the voice actors to fully reveal themselves.
Only saves after chapter completion
This annoyed me so much because of the constant game crashes.
You could get pretty far into a chapter and then suddenly the game will stop and when you jump back in, you’re back at the start of the chapter, when the cutscene plays. And you can’t skip the chapter cutscenes either, you’ll have to sit through them over and over, depending on how many times a crash happens for you.
I wish there were checkpoints in this game, but that’s not the case until you fully complete a chapter.
Hit boxes are awful
Especially with plants.
I don’t know what it is about someone wielding a sword that they just can’t seem to cut down the last remnants of a plant that’s right in front of them.
In fact, there was one moment where there was an enemy directly behind a plant, and no matter how many times I swung, I couldn’t hit the plant or the enemy. After jumping over the plant, I was able to attack the enemy and get rid of the plant.
So yeah. The hitboxes are a little stupid in my opinion.
Studs fall off ledges
There are no invisible walls in this game that I know of, and if you break something apart that’s close to a ledge, the studs are going to fall overboard and you won’t be able to get them.
I mean…I feel like from the few LEGO games I remember playing, this is a thing in all of them, and it sucks, but even if a lot of them fall into an area you can’t reach, you should still be able to get a full completion for the chapter as long as you break everything you can and acquire all the studs you can.
It’s just…knowing you can’t get those that are beyond your reach really hurts.
Explanation to Positive Feedback
You can follow the storyline
It’s been a long time since I watched the movies, and I thought about doing a podcast for this game, but have decided against it. Basically, I can’t remember a lot of what the movies entailed, but I can pick up remnants of it as I play the game which is pretty nice.
I mean, the game gets weird and a little over the top with its humor, but casting all that aside, it does stick to the movies fairly well.
All this to say, if you can’t remember much of the movies–and this game is set up so there are different sections for each film–then your memory will be jostled as you play it.
Movie sections are split up
As I mentioned, the movie sections are split up. Every movie title has different chapters to it that take you through what happened in the films, with some humorous twists to add a bit of fun confetti flavor so it doesn’t feel so…tense, with what’s happening.
Red Hats have unique abilities
One of the collectibles in this game are red hats. When you collect them, the perks they offer can be accessed within the Extras section of the menu.
Now, not all of these red hats are going to offer you useful perks. Some are just funny, while others will help out. One of the funny red hat perks are disguises your characters wear, in the form of mustaches. And one of the more helpful perks would be offering a faster speed to repairing items.
They can definitely be worth collecting.
