I admit, when LEGO Horizon Adventures was announced earlier this year, I wasn’t sure where it was coming from or who it was for. The franchise didn’t strike me as the sort of lighthearted, “blockbuster movie” fare that most LEGO games draw from. The kooky tone of the original trailer looked so far removed from the vision I’d gleaned from a distance. Sure, there was that one LEGO set, but what else did these two things have to do with each other?
Since that announcement, we’ve heard how much the team at Guerilla Games adores LEGO (even prototyping the earliest pre-production robots out of Duplo), and now, having actually put this unlikely spin-off through its paces, I get it.
LEGO Horizon Adventures reimagines Horizon Zero Dawn in full, glorious toy form. Players follow the legendary hunter Aloy from her humble origins, her story recounted in the LEGO games’ “slightly bending the fourth wall” style; Teersa, Varl, and... Read more