{"id":160,"date":"2012-07-06T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-07-19T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T17:23:53","slug":"lego-batman-2-ps-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/lego-batman-2-ps-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Batman 2 – Ps Vita"},"content":{"rendered":"

So basically I managed to get my hands on a copy of Lego Batman 2 for the PS Vita, Thank you lovefilm. Anyway I’ve always been a big fan of the\u00a0Lego\u00a0games and have found them to have really good\u00a0replay-ability\u00a0and especially fun to play with friends. I spent many hours\u00a0furiously\u00a0playing through the Xbox version of Lego Indiana Jones with one of my close friends till the early hours of the morning\u00a0accumulating\u00a0every achievement possible, although the achievements are a bit buggy It’s not quite as frustrating as you may think as it was incredibly fun to play. \u00a0Anyway so there’s a bit of my background played\u00a0Lego\u00a0games in the past very much enjoyed them including of course the\u00a0original\u00a0batman\u00a0Lego\u00a0game on 360 although not quite as good as Indy in my opinion but nether the less a good edition.<\/p>\n

Now moving onto Lego Batman 2, This is a game I had herd very little about and hadn’t really done much research into it. I saw it on Lovefilm and thought to myself YES something awesome to play on the vita because to be honest there\u00a0aren’t\u00a0that many good titles yet, or well many titles\u00a0available\u00a0at all. So\u00a0yeah\u00a0though awesome something\u00a0interesting\u00a0to play on the vita.<\/p>\n

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When I played it though it though it was actually a bit of a let down, As soon as the first\u00a0cut scene I was\u00a0horrified to see the quality of the video to be\u00a0absolutely\u00a0horrific, so I was like OK somethings gone wrong here obviously due to\u00a0downscale\u00a0and compression or something, first thoughts really were it should have been flagged during play testing but OK maybe I can live with it if the\u00a0game play\u00a0is OK.\u00a0\u00a0Now as far as the\u00a0game play\u00a0is\u00a0concerned\u00a0you play as both\u00a0characters\u00a0batman and robin with the ability to switch between characters to be able to preform character specific\u00a0abilities\u00a0needed in order to progress as seen in previous lego games, but as well as that they actually have various other costumes they can switch into that give them different abilities basically. As far as this concerned Its fairly fun although very straight forward it does increase the puzzle elements in the game.<\/p>\n

As far as the story is concerned I found it very dull, not very compelling really. Its very much feels like the story is off the top of someones head not much thought has gone into it.<\/p>\n

Right so anyway after having played it for a bit done a few missions, had a swim round the bat cave and everything. My brother said some things mentioning he was getting it for xbox because it had free roam and everything and I was a little bit\u00a0confused\u00a0because\u00a0there’s\u00a0no free roam on the vita. I thought hmm right lets have a look online to see what other people are thinking and why the\u00a0cut scenes\u00a0are so bad and why things are missing. And It actually turns out the PS Vita version of Lego Batman 2 is nothings more than a DS port of the game and absolute outrage if I may say so. So obviously the reason the\u00a0cut-scenes\u00a0were so bad is because they were\u00a0up-scaled\u00a0from the ds which is absoulutly\u00a0ridiculous. I mean its not really to a professional standard, it probably means this video has been scaled and compressed multiple times which everybody knows is a bad idea. The thing that\u00a0annoyed\u00a0me the most is how little effort they have obviously gone to with this port. Its not just a port is a half arsed port they\u00a0haven’t\u00a0even attempted to bring some elements up to a satisfactory level of quality. \u00a0They have quite obviously decided to port it to the PS Vita just to get some extra money on the side. I probably would’t have cared so much if they had done a proper job when they were porting the assets.\u00a0Down scaling\u00a0from the console versions.<\/p>\n

So the obvious big\u00a0annoyance\u00a0is the lack of the free roam, According to what I herd its due to the consoles being unable to support these features. I’m not entirely certain of the PS Vitas\u00a0capabilities\u00a0to be honest but I believe it could be possible. And I’m sure the reason there is no free roam on the vita is because the ds couldn’t support it, so I suspect they didn’t even look into adding the feature on the vita and have no\u00a0interest\u00a0at all. Which is a shame because many people seem very\u00a0disappointed\u00a0by this including myself.<\/p>\n

I’m sure the Xbox, PS3 and PC versions of the game are better so please don ‘t let me\u00a0discourage\u00a0you from buying the game. And although the PS Vita versions has some issues its still good fun to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So basically I managed to get my hands on a copy of Lego Batman 2 for the PS Vita, Thank you lovefilm. Anyway I’ve always been a big fan of the\u00a0Lego\u00a0games and have found them to have really good\u00a0replay-ability\u00a0and especially fun to play with friends. I spent many hours\u00a0furiously\u00a0playing through the Xbox version of Lego […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxgamestudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}