These puzzles aren’t difficult, and sometimes it seems overly charitable to even call them puzzles. It’s just that there’s a whole lot of item fetching and environment manipulation between those battles. Don’t worry – you’ll still swap steel with more than your share of scurvy dogs before the credits roll. LEGO Pirates has more in common with puzzle-focused entries such as LEGO Harry Potter than it does with the more action-oriented Star Wars games. None of these feel like they add anything to overall formula, aside from the introduction of a few undead pirates who can walk on the ocean floor. Others can blast silver components apart with explosives, drag heavy objects, and double-jump to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Captain Jack Sparrow and other swordsmen can go against common sense and use their blades as levers to open doors and switches. You know the routine by now.Īs with other LEGO games, characters are divided into several classes that define their roles in puzzles. Suffice it to say, all you have to worry about is slashing the bad guys, breaking crates, and collecting piles of valuable LEGO studs. The minifigs’ pantomimes and slapstick routines provide plenty of chuckles and odd references to pigs and carrots, but even they can’t make any sense of the series’ convoluted mythology. If you didn’t fully understand what was going on in the films, don’t expect to gain any insight here. Not surprisingly, the game loosely follows the adventures from the four Pirates of the Caribbean movies. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean doesn’t enhance the LEGO franchise as the Clone Wars game did a few months back, but it offers another well-executed entry. At this point in the LEGO series’ lifespan, you’re either on board with the concept or have already abandoned ship.