Playthrough was done in co-op mode at all times with my then girlfriend, so how the game accomodates to two-player gameplay is practically how I experienced it this time.
After LEGO Star Wars set a base on what a LEGO game would be for the next decade or so, my guess is that Traveller's Tales whilst working on LEGO Batman still had the Lucasfilm properties available to them for free use when making adaptations and, well, besides Star Wars, Lucasfilm never really had anything else that was really outstanding or as popular, except for one little trilogy of movies with a fourth one coming in the same year this game was released. Yes, I'm speaking of the smug ladykiller whip-cracking Nazi-punching starring-in-a-movie-with-glaring-racist-undertones archeologist Indiana god damn Jones.
All of this is just to show you how odd it was for Traveller's Tales to actually grab this franchise and create a game out of it, of course the final result doesn't like to show any religious, violent or nazi imagery as it is aimed towards kids over all, but watching the movies and then watching the adaptations of those movies in here is pretty much just night and day compared to what LEGO Star Wars did to compensate for its source material.
And of course, since this game doesn't feature anyone who has supernatural powers, stuff like the Force or anything like that, they had to make amends with just average people with average skills that can wield things like firearms or different tools, which is something LEGO Indy gets right, and that's the constant scourging of new objects that stay with your character and help you complete stages in the levels. From grabbing a banana from a rack and giving it to a monkey for it to give you a wrench, to opening a garage with a bunch of RPGs in it to blow up a silver fence, this game makes sure to use this ability to the max compensating for the lack of actual abilities the characters have, which is cool and innovative.
Sadly, this makes for the character roster to be boring as all hell. Everyone pretty much does the same thing besides the three or four characters that don't because they already come with the tool in question, and it's mainly filled with background and not so important characters from the movies that really never had any other characters to begin with, so I guess I cannot blame them at all for it.
In the good part though, this game made sure to actually introduce puzzles that make you actually use your brain for a couple of minutes, fun for co-op play too, compared to LEGO Star Wars which had some of the most bare bones, easy and lifeless stages ever because there was just no point besides moving a couple of things.
So and so, I think they did fine with this game and with what they could, it isn't so painstakingly long like The Complete Saga as there aren't many other modes to actually play besides a few bonus levels, but that's fine when it's short and sweet unlike its predecessor.
After LEGO Star Wars set a base on what a LEGO game would be for the next decade or so, my guess is that Traveller's Tales whilst working on LEGO Batman still had the Lucasfilm properties available to them for free use when making adaptations and, well, besides Star Wars, Lucasfilm never really had anything else that was really outstanding or as popular, except for one little trilogy of movies with a fourth one coming in the same year this game was released. Yes, I'm speaking of the smug ladykiller whip-cracking Nazi-punching starring-in-a-movie-with-glaring-racist-undertones archeologist Indiana god damn Jones.
All of this is just to show you how odd it was for Traveller's Tales to actually grab this franchise and create a game out of it, of course the final result doesn't like to show any religious, violent or nazi imagery as it is aimed towards kids over all, but watching the movies and then watching the adaptations of those movies in here is pretty much just night and day compared to what LEGO Star Wars did to compensate for its source material.
And of course, since this game doesn't feature anyone who has supernatural powers, stuff like the Force or anything like that, they had to make amends with just average people with average skills that can wield things like firearms or different tools, which is something LEGO Indy gets right, and that's the constant scourging of new objects that stay with your character and help you complete stages in the levels. From grabbing a banana from a rack and giving it to a monkey for it to give you a wrench, to opening a garage with a bunch of RPGs in it to blow up a silver fence, this game makes sure to use this ability to the max compensating for the lack of actual abilities the characters have, which is cool and innovative.
Sadly, this makes for the character roster to be boring as all hell. Everyone pretty much does the same thing besides the three or four characters that don't because they already come with the tool in question, and it's mainly filled with background and not so important characters from the movies that really never had any other characters to begin with, so I guess I cannot blame them at all for it.
In the good part though, this game made sure to actually introduce puzzles that make you actually use your brain for a couple of minutes, fun for co-op play too, compared to LEGO Star Wars which had some of the most bare bones, easy and lifeless stages ever because there was just no point besides moving a couple of things.
So and so, I think they did fine with this game and with what they could, it isn't so painstakingly long like The Complete Saga as there aren't many other modes to actually play besides a few bonus levels, but that's fine when it's short and sweet unlike its predecessor.