I want LEGO Harry Potter 2 (yeah, yeah, laugh it up)
Heheheh.... Well. I actually enjoyed that Lego Star Wars, though. Are the Harry Potter games similar?
Yes and no... it's hard to say the difference. The core gameplay is the same, but the setting is quite different. Let's see.
LHP1 has a
huge hub world, unlike LSW1 or LSW2. The hub world has tons of things to do, unlike LSW3. (I didn't like the LSW3 hubs.)
There's a lot less enemies and a lot more puzzle solving. Enemies mostly don't shoot at you, they hurt you on contact.
There's a bunch of abilities to use (i.e. spells), but you end up just using the Blast spell and the Levitate spell most the time, and using the others on special occasions.
There's nothing like LSW3's (utterly brilliant) RTS levels or spaceflight levels.
The cutscenes are
even longer than LSW3's, and unskippable. They try to tell the story, but it just doesn't work. If you don't know the books, you'll be confused and bored by the minifigs grunting at each other. There were times I literally walked away from the computer for a few minutes because I'd already seen a cutscene.
Overall, I enjoyed LSW1 enough that I 100% completed it, but I wouldn't play through it again. Maybe in a few years.
There's a demo if you want to check it out.
Lego Anything is made of pure win. I routinely pass the toy department at work and drool at the freaking awesome Legos kids get nowadays.
Funny, I look at all of the new artsy pieces and I think 'why don't they still make the simple 2x4 blocks anymore?'