LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Really Does Have Just 7 Playable Characters — and It's Dividing Fan Opinion

In a shake-up for TT Games' LEGO series, the newly-announced LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight features conscionable a fistful of playable heroes, adjacent if galore much DC Comics characters volition look successful the crippled arsenic enemies oregon NPCs — thing that is prompting plentifulness of instrumentality debate.

Typically, TT Games' LEGO adventures see hundreds of characters to unlock and play as, with quality postulation a amusive portion of afloat completing a LEGO game. TT Games' erstwhile task LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga offered 1 of the biggest rosters yet — with astir 400 characters depending connected whether you owned the basal crippled oregon each of its DLC.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is taking a antithetic approach, however, with an authoritative Q&A leafage for the crippled confirming conscionable 7 heroes volition beryllium playable — and nary supervillains.

"LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight volition diagnostic 7 playable characters, including Batman, Jim Gordon, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Catwoman, and Talia al Ghul," reads the game's authoritative Q&A. "Each quality is equipped with unsocial skills, combos, and gadgets — similar Batman's Batclaw, Jim Gordon's foam sprayer, Robin's enactment launcher, and Catwoman's whip."

This makes it dependable similar the game's absorption is connected providing a smaller fig of chiseled characters, alternatively than hundreds of options with galore gameplay similarities. Indeed, speaking to IGN astatine Gamescom, TT Games Head of Production Jonathan Smith said Legacy of the Dark Knight had been designed to absorption much squarely connected the communicative of the "Bat Family."

"This is wholly a Batman crippled to absorption connected that character, to truly bring that character," Smith said. "That means you'll inactive play arsenic and with different playable characters, Jim Gordon, Catwoman, Robin, Batgirl, to circular retired the bat family. But we deliberation we truly request to absorption connected Bruce Wayne and his communicative for that subordinate journey, that subordinate acquisition successful Gotham."

Additionally, for collectathon fans, the game's 7 characters volition person aggregate costumes to unlock. For example, Batman's suit options see his look from 2022's The Batman movie, the animated Batman: The Brave and the Bold series, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, Batman's archetypal Golden Age comics appearance, positive good arsenic his colorful Rainbow Batman suit.

Batman's Suit Options surface includes galore unlockable appearances.

On signifier astatine Gamescom this week, Smith confirmed the quality of aggregate characters from DC Comics wrong the game, including Bat-Mite and Condiment King — though to beryllium clear, these volition not beryllium playable. Bat-Mite sounds apt to popular up arsenic a affable NPC, portion Condiment King feels astir apt to beryllium different non-playable villain.

(As a side-note, Smith besides said that Superman and Peacemaker would not look successful Legacy of the Dark Knight, and gave a "no comment" to Harley Quinn, Bob the Goon, Terry McGinnis, "Nice Coat Guy from Batman Begins," and amusingly, Warner Bros. Discovery brag David Zaslav.)

"If it’s lone 7 successful the full crippled past I’m not buying lol," 1 instrumentality wrote successful a lengthy reddit thread discussing the 7 quality limit. "Honestly shocked by this," wrote another, adding that "part of the amusive of LEGO games is the large rosters."

"Controversial opinion: I similar 7 wholly antithetic characters to play than 200 that lone alteration their appearance," countered different fan.

Said another: "I recognize what made the immense minifig rosters chill and neat but I don't deliberation it made for a amended crippled implicit much refined play patterns that are ace quality circumstantial alternatively of a fistful of interchangeable abilities and tools."

Some fans person said this attack amended fits a much story-led game, though others stay of the sentiment that much LEGO characters should beryllium playable successful the game's open-world mentation of Gotham.

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is acceptable to motorboat connected Nintendo Switch 2, PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

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