BlooMoon's review of LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game.

Dylan's Games Finished 2025 9. The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game (Switch) Play Time: 9 hours Start Date: Late 2017 Finish Date: 3/29/2025 Back in 2017 when I didn’t have 300 Switch games and was looking for something new to play, I thought maybe it was time to revisit LEGO games since I hadn’t played one since I was a kid. Also, I loved the Ninjago show and the recent movie was decent too so I figured this would be a shoe-in. But uh, boy this game is lame. I’d say it’s mostly just being an adult playing a LEGO game for children, but even among LEGO games this one feels lackluster. The biggest shakeup from other LEGO games is that this one emphasizes combat and has a cool skill tree, which is definitely the right move for your ninja game. But general level progression is boring at best and confusingly obtuse at worst. Also, the series’ iconic “spinjitzu” is not really implemented here, as it takes the form of a lame projectile attack and does not at all resemble the spinny tornado of death from the series. This unforgivable blunder takes a generally mid game and damns it to a score of 0/10. It also suffers from terrible load times, weirdly implemented cutscenes from the movie, and it looks kinda ugly and runs pretty bad. Like the final cutscene, which is the emotional climax of the movie, was missing the dialogue track? The score and sound effects were there, but the voice acting was gone? So that’s fun. Looking up footage of the game on PlayStation, the game looks a lot better and it’s clear that they had to scale it down to run on launch Switch. Which is understandable, but it is a humorous paradox. LEGO games are developed for all platforms in order to reach the largest audience, however most of the kids who want to play them are on Switch, meaning a majority of the target audience is getting worse performance. Anyway, I was disappointed by this purchase, and felt guilty that I paid for this 7 hour long game that I would never finish. Fast forward 8 years and I figured I’d boot it up to see how much farther I had to go. Apparently I was on the last level? I was convinced I had more than half of this game to go, but I literally had to beat one level and watch the final cutscene to roll credits. I guess at some point between first playing it in 2017 and now, I picked it up and plowed through 90% of the game but didn’t remember any of it. And I think that sums up this game pretty well.