Lego Horizon Adventures review: Sony’s mash-up is an odd but charming fit
Lego Horizon Adventures MSRP $60.00 Score Details Pros
- Horizon world looks great as bricks
- Infectious energy
- Combat is easy to pick up and play
- Fun Lego collectibles
- Some eye-rolling humor
- Very repetitive missions
- Not so well designed for co-op
As I bashed bricks and groaned at goofy puns in Lego Horizon Adventures, I began to wonder if Sony has been targeting the wrong audience all this time.
Recommended VideosWhen the Horizon series debuted in 2017, it was pushed as another cinematic single-player adventure targeting more mature audiences. Looking back atHorizon Zero Dawn now through a Legofied interpretation, the series is much more kid friendly than I remember. At its core, the postapocalyptic open-world game tells a coming-of-age story about a woman searching for her mother. That’s a story custom built for young adults growing up alongside their games. And that’s before even considering that the main enemies in the series are robot dinosaurs. It’s a 12-year-old’s vision of a cool game. After nearly seven years, maybe a Horizon game built for kids is exactly what the series was built for.
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Lego Horizon Adventures is a short but sweet charmer made for families. It convincingly turns Aloy’s world into a playground, even if it takes a lot of creative liberties to snap the pieces together. It’s held back by a very limited scope that leans on repetitive missions and thin combat, but that makes for a frictionless gateway into Horizon’s world that’ll be easy for even young players to cross over.
Reconstructing Horizon
Everything you need to know about Lego Horizon Adventures is in its title. Like other Lego games, it’s a playful parody of Sony’s Horizon series filled with light-hearted humor, collectible bricks, and lots of robots to smash. It plays out as a retelling of
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