LEGO® Bricktales

This is a very fun game. There are just three things you need to know before starting:
- First, this is kinda Metroid, where there are many many things you can't do without getting new powers. But unlike Metroid, it is not at all worth going back to do things as you get new powers till you are completely done with the game. Just play the main quest and don't worry about anything else till you're done. Then go back and do everything!
- Second, every build you do is going to impose restrictions the first time, sometimes very severe restrictions. You can't just build at will. Once you've beat it once with the restrictions, then you can do it in sandbox mode and build anything at all you want to (assuming it meets the goals).
- Third, it's kind of hard to do real full 3D building in 2D, so the controls can be kind of annoying. You just really have to learn the LB letting you override everything in moving bricks up, down, left, and right. This is apparently really awesome and easy with a VR setup, but I just played it with an XBox controller. And I thought it was pretty fair, you just have to really get to know every shoulder button.
Any complaining you see about your creativity being smothered is only for the first build, and then people unable to figure out that first build whine about it. Once you beat the constraints of the first build you unlock sandbox mode and can build anything you want. There are hundreds of hours of building here if you want it.
And the writing is pretty fun - it's all Dad Jokes and I never choked laughing, but I did LOL a few times and the good natured Dad Jokes had me smirking most of the time. Apple - $3.19. Peach - $4.20. Cherry - $5.15. These are the Pie-rates of the Caribbean! I would 100% recommend this game to play with some kids.

Surprisingly good. A relatively short game, especially if you ignore the collectibles and focus on the story, but very fun and worth the price.
PS: my hours listed for this game are NOT accurate. I accidentally left the game on overnight either once or twice, so keep that in mind if game length is important to you.

Lego Bricktales isn’t what you usually would expect from a Lego game. Instead of an Action-Adventure style fighting game, Bricktales is a very creative puzzle game, which allows you to play with Legos, and build your own solutions to the puzzles it challenges you with.

Story
The Story is very basic and mostly there to connect the different worlds, but nothing more. But it is really wholesome and suits the game.
You’re helping your grandpa build an amusement park and the way you do it, is to travel to different areas, help people solve their problems, to collect a happiness crystal in the end, which enables you to power a new attraction.
Gameplay
The game follows the same basic idea for each world, which is by no means a bad thing, it is a lot of fun! You enter a new world, talk to npcs to move the story along and eventually you are tasked to build something for them. And here is what makes Bricktales special. You enter a building mode, where you got a limited amount of bricks and a marked area to build in, and then it is just like playing with Legos. You can build however you like, and once you solved the puzzle, your build will show up in the world, exactly like you constructed it, which just feels amazing, building your own world, within limitations of course, but if gives you a nice feeling that you helped to make this world complete. There is also a creative mode you unlock later where you can revisit your builds and go all out however you like.
Beside this, you explore the words, which are contained in itself like a diorama. You can find animals to collect, treasure chests and a special currency per level, which whom you can unlock new skins for your character, or bricks for the creative mode. Per level you unlock one new ability, like destroying blocks , or cleaning up piles of dirt to reveal new things. The game functions a bit like a metroidvania style game there, since you wont be able to explore everything until you obtained every ability.

Graphic/Audio/Tech
This game is beautiful, every aspect of the world, even water is constructed from Lego bricks, you could literally build any level 1:1 irl if you had the bricks.
The audio design is also fantastic, it sounds like you would expect Legos to sound, and the background music gives each level its own vibe.
On the tech side of things, the only gameplay mechanic I can complain about, is that the controls in the construction menu can be a bit annoying and clunky at times, they take awhile to get used to, but they work well once you got the hang of them.

Final Thoughts
Lego Bricktales is a very unique and creative puzzle game, with a lot of humor, lovely graphics and creative ideas. Whilst the controls are clunky, they don’t diminish any of the fun. No matter the age, if you like Legos, this game is for you.

Lego Brick Tales is kind of the Dragon Quest Builders of the Lego universe - it's for people who aren't averse to building stuff, but who crave things like story and motivation, and don't just want to be plonked down in a sandbox.
It's a fun little adventure with lots of different building challenges in a variety of types of areas - some of the structures toward the end are legitimately difficult. Everything looks great, the writing is surprisingly witty, and I generally had a lot of fun.
They did a good job of translating the building controls to gamepads, but it can still be pretty fiddly - I can imagine that it's a much more natural-feeling experience with a mouse.
If the first paragraph describes you, you would probably enjoy Lego Brick Tales.

This game's got a lot in a small package, if you're looking for building-based puzzle gameplay. The puzzles are simple, but increase in difficulty and complexity as you play through so you're always challenged a little. Sometimes if you don't want to build a clever solution, a brute force solution works just the same. And if it's ugly, well, once you've solved it you can go back into it with sandbox mode and make it look better!
The story's cute and fairly linear, with some classic all-ages lego humor and logic. The game itself is beautiful, everything is made of lego, even the water and the explosion particles. As you go through the game and unlock new abilities it leaves you feeling accomplished and there's a pretty fun post-game of going back through old levels and picking up all the collectibles you missed because you didn't have that ability unlocked yet. I'm almost 22, and I found this game just as engaging as puzzle games meant for more mature audiences like The Room. It's an easy game to pick up, play for ten minutes, and put back down- a quality that's hard to find in a lot of games. Your goal is always listed in your pause screen, and it autosaves constantly so you can just close the game wherever you're at. I'd say it's a good mental break game, to do between chores or during a lunch break, so you're still entertained but not checking out completely from using your actual brain. My one wish is that there were more customization options for your little minifig avatar, but I understand why there's probably a limited selection as that's not really the main focus of the game. I also like how the special event levels are a permanent part of the game, not limited like they might be for other games- and they don't take up the entire game, they're just their own special little area. Overall I highly recommend this game if you're looking for something lighthearted and fun.

To me, this is the perfect LEGO game.

I loved playing with LEGO as a kid, but I was always bummed out by the Lego games back then because they were never really about creating and building.
The gist of LEGO Bricktales is simple: characters from different settings need something built, and you build it for them. Instead of focusing on exploration or story it centers around building.

If you enjoy building in games, I definitely recommend picking this up!

Very cool Lego game! Cool storyline that guides you through the different areas, with interesting puzzles, both building in the build interface and non building rooms, to go through! It's also pretty long game as I'm nearly 16 hours into the game and only got through the storyline of 2 full areas (and 3 small bonus areas) or so and I'd guess there's probably 4 more areas, but I like that it's long because there's so much to explore as you unlock abilities and areas!