LEGO® City Undercover

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Played on PS5 and finished in 40 hours (bigger half of the play time is a Platinum run). 1. Broken scripts for many events. 1.1. Can't reliably put out fire: there's no marker like with painting, with a parallax camera you never see where you splash, and even standing close to fire won't reliably help you -- only pure luck and several seconds of manually hunting for "the right pixel". Every. Single. Time. 1.2. Can't reliably navigate around ledges: character jumps off it, to the side, or even through it (clips). 1.3. Can't reliably jump on the rope: the character just misses it from time to time. 1.4. Can't reliably paint anything: the character misses the shot (by literally shooting 45° to the side instead of straight, despite the object on the straight line stranding closer to the character) or instead hits the item. 2. The person, who decided to forcefully glue character's camera towards "a presumptive point of interest" (including forcefully glueing it towards the direction of movement of the vehicle the moment you hit its gas pedal, no matter what you do with your right "camera movement" stick), is recommended to leave the game industry and don't come back. And that's in a not linear action game, but an open world exploration one. What's overall point in setting so narrow angles of camera's movement in a game of such genre? 3. Time trial runs where the expected runway is shown to you with just 3 glimpses and you have zero ideas where the finish is, I count as a confirmation that LEGO games are still just as not tested before the release, as they were the last time I played them. 4. And the fact that each. Damn. Time. You. Achieve something you forcefully stay still and see the same unskippable animation only strengthens the idea above. Several seconds. Each time. You wait. And this game has a ton of achievements (~500 at least), it's built around them. You collect them a few per minute in free play. 5. Some police chasing events won't supply you with vehicles. And the thief is driving away. And you're on your two. And you can't change the place of your spawn since it's, again, scripted. Everything in this game is scripted, as in most (if not all) LEGO games. 6. I finish a car stealing or car chasing event, and after that game forcefully move the compass to a starting position of the event, for a few seconds, making me unable to see my current surroundings and navigate further. What's the point in this? 7. When you chase someone on your two (say, the 5th member of gang, or an alien), if you happen to reach the target to early, the target will forcefully be pushed away from you to artificially prolong the chase. 8. I'm trying to reach district flag in Pagoda, and seeing that I can't without a flying vehicle. I teleport to a Helipad, and... I can't call a vehicle, it just doesn't work, despite being restored. I quit the game through "you will lose all unsaved progress" notification (only time will tell if I did), get teleported to a Police Station, and only then Helipad started working. What also works is entering and exciting Police Station. This case is self explanatory enough on how reliable scripts in LEGO games are, I don't even have to add anything. 9. Apparently, once you quit and re-enter the game, all your cheats will get turned off. You don't understand what's the point? No idea, me neither. Probably because we're both alive logical people. Considering the state of the game I was actually surprised they didn't get hidden entirely, forcing you to re-enter all the codes again. 10. Once during the police chase the car you get dropped from the helicopter was dragging its ass, like you forgot to release a hand brake. For whatever reason. If course chase failed, and on restart the problem was gone. 11. You think you can at least use a map peacefully? Think twice, because every time you open the map, chick on wherever you want to teleport, and cancel that, the map will close automatically. Why? Just because. 12. In Ice Cream Van time trial event music just stops in the middle. 13. There are not separate audio settings in the game. Police siren will drill your ears throughout entire game. It's not worth the full price. But it is a nice light game if bought with a good discount, with a variety of gameplay events, mechanics, and humor. Or at least it'd be, if not all the irritation it causes, if not the absent gameplay Quality Assurance of it (gameplay, not technical). Absent, assumingly because "kids will eat everything, they're not the ones who pay, so there's no one to write a negative review". But I will, I will write it gladly.