Unfortunately, the repetitive world generation goes hand-in-hand with a sheer lack of variety in quests. Points of interest like castles, beanstalks, and towns don't do enough for any world to forgive all of the shortcomings of its procedural generation. I never felt that feeling of awe that you get when you load into a fresh Minecraft save and discover a really radical cliff face that no one else has likely seen before. The lay of the land always felt familiar to me, no matter how many worlds I visited. Points of interest like castles, beanstalks, and towns don't do enough for any world to forgive all of the shortcomings of its procedural generation.Įven if you can live with the early absence of generation options, it's worth noting that the procedural generation overall is really sub-par. Even after you unlock Medium worlds, spawning one from the Random World Generation button is entirely a matter of luck. Heck, you're stuck with exploring single-biome small-sized worlds until you amass 25 bricks. There are no world generation options to speak of until you collect 100 Gold Bricks. You'll need 3 to get off the island, 10 to get out of the tutorial, and 100 in total to unlock all world types and permanent equipment available. To fix it up, the game requires you to hunt down an elusive treasure called Gold Bricks. The game begins with your spaceship falling apart and crash landing into the nearest blocky mass of bricks, making a rather nice-sized crater.
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From here, just mix in a never-ending supply of bricks, alongside some semblance of progression, and you essentially have LEGO Worlds. Now imagine if neither you nor your family had to go through countless hours of set-up to pull it off. And you can build or rebuild with the bricks however you like. Imagine a game of dollhouse where you play as a Master Builder on a pre-made little world of LEGOs. Now, I could prattle on about how disorienting all of these mixed feelings are, or I could let the gameplay speak for itself. I believe this game could go far if the developers continue to iron out its issues and work towards fully fleshing out its existing content. While it saddens me to see it released in such an unpolished state, the potential is definitely here.
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Beyond a vast array of technical issues that I ran into during my playtime on the PS4, I felt that a little more TLC could have been put into the world generation and overall pacing of the game, among other things. With that out of the way, however, LEGO Worlds feels like it should still be in Early Access.