Light Brick Studio comes with Lego Voyagers to win the award for best cooperative game of the year.
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Games exclusively for two players have arrived to stay. What was once a crazy idea in development plans has been consolidated with games like A Way Out and It Takes Two, and other games whose mechanics require the participation and coordination of two people.
In this context, a game appeared at the Summer Games Fest that left many of us with a question mark on our heads: Lego Voyagers, a delivery from Light Brick Studio and Annapurna Interactive. For the Danish brick brand, cooperative games are nothing new; those who have already enjoyed the brand’s titles with the Traveler’s Tales development seal know that split-screen and cooperative play are a traditional way to approach games in different franchise titles such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Batman, Marvel, or Harry Potter, among others; however, the case of Voyagers is different.
Cooperation stops being optional to become mandatory and the brand gets rid of any other intellectual property to focus on an adventure of two small brick pieces, those 1×1 ones, one blue and one red, the colors of the always giant San Lorenzo de Almagro.
This beautiful adventure from several points of view invites us to travel a journey that combines constant puzzle resolution, platforms, and ingenuity in a very natural way and makes the production feel extremely pleasant for the people who play it, mainly if you enjoy it with someone special, as it was in my case.
Today I ask you to join me on a journey through brick lands that may seem very small, but become giants with each minute of play.
Technical Section
In the title of the analysis, I gave myself the task of throwing a small spoiler when I used the adjective “beautiful” to describe the game, it’s true, but I think it’s the description that does the most justice to this production, especially from the graphics. Each of the scenarios looks truly beautiful, and what makes it so pretty, besides the colors shown, is that the bricks seen on the screen seem like an exact copy of the real construction sets, so it could be said that they can be built in reality simply with the correct pieces.
The music, on the other hand, is perfect for the title: it relaxes and accompanies the rhythm of the game with truly enviable precision. It manages to go unnoticed on occasion and stand out when it needs to highlight beautiful moments in the story of the two traveling pieces that serve as protagonists.
The text in the game is almost non-existent, but even so, the title is completely localized in our language, and even the smallest ones will have no difficulty following the on-screen instructions, although there aren’t many, neither at the beginning nor at the end.
During the analysis on my Xbox Series S, I didn’t notice any kind of bug throughout my entire playtime, which was extensive, so the release should be a success in that aspect.
Gameplay
Lego Voyagers doesn’t pretend to be a mystery for the controls. The controls are simple and to the point. One button will make the piece you command sing, or talk, or produce a sound, let’s say. The curious thing is that this vocal expression changes in different occasions, which is an interesting detail to appreciate and very fun depending on the context. The idea of this action is to get the attention of the other person playing, in case you can’t do it through the mic in online mode, for example.
A fact worth mentioning is that, as has happened with other games, Lego Voyagers includes the so-called Friend Pass, which means that only one of the two people playing needs to have purchased the game, the other only needs to install a copy of it.
Other commands that make up the characters’ actions include a jump option and a coupling option, which allows you to couple with other Lego bricks that are around the scenarios. The idea is to create structures with these pieces to overcome obstacles, reach different heights, or build bridges that lead to other sectors of the scenarios. Throughout the episodes, it will also be necessary to operate some machines that manufacture pieces, create catapults so that the other piece can advance and then open paths, operate vehicles with divided commands by person (which sounds as difficult as it is fun and it is) and find special pieces that give energy to some structures.
A constant in Lego games that is also maintained in this delivery is the absence of “death”. In case of falling into an abyss, the pieces reappear almost in the same place where they were, which makes the game ideal for a moment of relaxation and enjoyment rather than a constant skill challenge. The difficulty lies more in the creativity that the player expresses to correctly resolve some puzzles and thus be able to advance.
Coordination is also fundamental for certain things to work, one piece will have to catapult the other at the exact moment, activate a switch so that a door is activated or launch a rocket while the other person releases some gates.
Lego Voyagers will draw a smile on your face in every game
Duration
Finishing this proposal can take around 10 hours, always depending on the level of speed in resolving puzzles, the coordination between the people playing, and the amount of laughter that makes you unable to finish a part because you’ve gotten hooked without wanting to, bumped into each other, or who knows what. The truth is that I assure you that laughter will not be missing, and what’s nicer than that when playing with someone else?
Conclusion
I think that so far this year, Lego Voyagers is the option to go for if you’re looking for a very original cooperative game and, above all, fun, a detail that is often overlooked in this new era in favor of other qualities that are much less representative.
Lego Voyagers will make you laugh, think, work together with another person and when you realize it, you’ll see that several hours have passed in which you were in command of a tiny Lego piece being happy. I think there’s no better recommendation than that to tell you that if you like cooperative games, you don’t have to hesitate for a second to get this one. You won’t regret it for a second.
The magic formula is here: laughter, ingenuity, and entertainment to the max
Translator and video game localiser with a passion for retro titles and simulators. He has never let go of a controller since he was given an Atari 2600. He collaborates with different developers in the localisation of their titles into Spanish through Camelot Translations.
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