There’s an early level that is entirely a pastiche of The Shawshank Redemption, complete with a Morgan Freeman impersonator. Some of these I think might go over many children’s heads, but I spotted several and smiled constantly. LEGO City Undercover is packed with humor, references, and silly gags, as one might expect from the folks at Traveller’s Tales. I mention all these characters by name because they truly make the story work, fun, and engaging, and Frank Honey is just so goofy and dumb as LEGO bricks that you have to love him. However, McCain’s grand return is not welcome news for Natalia Kowalski, Chase’s ex-girlfriend, who was forced into the witness protection program after he inadvertently revealed her as the witness in Fury’s trial. To assist him, Chase is joined by dim-witted rookie Frank Honey and police technician Ellie Phillips. This is a totally original LEGO story, for once not based on any sort of previously established universe and/or characters. Upon McCain’s return to the titular LEGO City, the mayor reveals the city is in the grips of a crime wave, which she suspects to be the work of Rex Fury, a notorious criminal that Chase initially helped to arrest, but who has since escaped from prison. It’s basically a severely toned-down version of Grand Theft Auto, but with more building and people jumping out of the way of a car driving down the sidewalk. Chase can also pilot a number of different vehicles, such as cars and helicopters, and use loose bricks to build various special structures. He can also gain disguises throughout his quest to take down Rex Fury that give him additional abilities, such as a robber disguise that lets him break locks, a miner that can use dynamite, or a firefighter to put out fires and chop down boards on doors. Chase goes on the hunt for criminals, with various moves at his disposal, such as swinging across poles and performing wall jumps. Naturally, LEGO City Undercover takes place in the vast LEGO City, with players controlling an undercover cop appropriately named Chase McCain. But I’m not here to chat about the Batman…instead, let’s get into Chase McCain and his big-city antics. And yes, I’ve technically already played Batman: Arkham Asylum on my PlayStation 3, but this came as part of a two-game bundle, and the price was too good to ignore. Ugh.įor Black Friday this year, I purchased three games digitally for my Xbox One– LEGO City Undercover, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Batman: Arkham City. It’ll likely be a tiny, indie thing, but hey, it still counts.Īlso, while we’re here, let me list a few games that I’d really like to polish off in 2019, and yeah, some of these are repeats from previous day-dream sessions, but I am still determined to get the job done: EarthBound, Suikoden 3, Radiant Historia, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and more than a dozen of games I can’t remember that I got on either Steam, GOG, itch.io, the Twitch app, the Xbox app for Windows, Blizzard’s app (I evidently have a free copy of Destiny 2 in there, just waiting for me to dive deep into it, if it’ll run at all on my laptop), and the Epic Games launcher, which I have not yet installed, but probably will at some point because I truly don’t have enough free games to play. Stay tuned for one tomorrow because I always like to beat something on the first day of the new year. How to Cope with Boredom and LonelinessĪnd with that, I’ll be continuing to write haikus for the games I complete in 2019, but I’m not going to stress about including artwork this time. Packing Up the Rest of Your Stuff on the Last Day at Your Old ApartmentĢ8. Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of MystaraĢ0. Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of AthenaĦ. It’s definitely smaller than previous years, but I’m fine with that.Ģ. I still did manage to keep a list of all the games I finished off, in case you are curious. Heck, I didn’t even continue on with just artless-haikus. I started strong, but by the time I got admitted to the hospital and got diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in July, my focus quickly changed to other projects. My plan for 2018 was to continue with my mega-, ultra-popular format of writing a haiku when I completed a game, but also throwing in some of my original artwork into the mix.
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