LEGO Lord of the Rings; Helm's Deep

Third posting about LEGO Lord of the Rings. This posting is mostly since fight in the Helm's Deep looked so awesome. Of course it is lego game still but I think they got something right in the atmosphere but still I it was easy to pass. So great summer game when you do not want to anger yourself with failures.

Worg riders were hunting us. 

Aren't these elves simply cute?

Armies of the orcs are marching.

You were once again playing three heroes.. Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas. It was fun to watch how these three had gained friendship. Even when fighting they had some humour and they worked together helping each other. Just the way it should happen if you ask from me. I Kind of like using Gimli as much as possible since he is grumpy he has so much humour in his words. And yeah swinging lego orcs with an axe is good sport!

Helm's Deep is good stronghold.

Poor Gimli can't see everything.

Orcs with white hands.

Pushing ladders down was important job.

It is funny  how you begin to tolerate weaknesses of the game when the story is interesting enough. I believe I wouldn't ever be this fascinated about LEGO Batman since Middle-Earth has special place in my heart. Actually first PC game I ever bought was J. R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol I. It was a treasure since I even had to collect money for the game by picking berries and selling them at the age of 11 or 12. 

The orcs has plans.

The wall is exploded.

Trying to buy time for evacuation.

Time to ride with King Theoden.

Are of the Helm's Deep was darl but still it was amde so that it felt that there was a big army attacking endlessly. And it seemed desperate moment when we had to withdraw from the battle. But yet the morning arrived and sunlight brought new hope to us.

Gandalf the White arrives!

The orcs are fleeing.

Victory!

Fight in the Helm's Deep was actually rather short but it looked so cool so I decided to make special posting about it. I might make only one or two postings about this game anymore but trying to summarize it when I have played the story through at least and been testing those quests then. But yes.. still this game isn't for serious gamers. It is fun and lego game. You will be disappointed if expecting something epic. 

Minecraft minigames: Build battle!

Lately I have found myself playing Minecraft again but instead of building my own world I played some minigames again. Now I just tried Hypixels games. If you want to try them out log into multiplayer server. The address is mc.hypixel.net.

Amazing dragon was greeting me when logged in for the first time!

There are several games in Hypixel but first I decided to try  minigame called Build Battle. There you will build from blogs something what is like theme informs. And you have only five minutes time to finish your work. Then each participant will evaluate others work and vote about them.

Basketball was hard theme for me.

My version about the guitar.

I was 4th but here you can see winner version about guitar.

It is hard to build fast something. I also noticed that I have some lag problems since my character freezed for short moment. You can add special miniblogs, voices, weather and climate to your work so that you can make it nighttime if you prefer that over the daylight. But it takes some time to learn to use blogs and stuff fast. At least it was hard to me since I am get used to build slowly. So this is good practice.

My desert was a bit lame.

Nicer desert I think.

Build battle is nice since it won't take much time but still it has challenge. Even it really depends with who you're playing that how your rating can be. I noticed that some of the participants always voted  things being bad no matter how well they were made. Perhaps I am disappointed a little as well since when you try your best, it would be nice to get positive feedback instead of lols. But since you  can't choose with who you're playing.. it will always be that way. At times you have nice team in game and best work wins. And at times there are friends who votes each other to win, Depends on your luck, truly.

This superhero was awesome and winner!

My super hero was more bulky but got second place for once.

Build battle is for those who loves to build in Minecraft. Lack of time gives extra challenge but it is nice way to work your building skills better. At least I tend to think so since you have to be creative when themes can be everything from sharks to sports. But if you wanna give it a shot it will be easy to try.

LEGO Lord of the rings part II

Somehow Summer becomes always busy. I do tend to play more but found myself travelling to see relatives, friends and working. Well luckily my holiday is still in front of me so perhaps I will have more time to play. As a rainy day like today it was good time to continue story of the Lego game anyways. If you haven't read the books nor watched the films.. these screenshots from the game might give you hints about the story.

Final battle against Balrog.

Boys are a bit lost

Sam climbs to catch fishes to Gollum.

Dead Marshes isn't the nicesst place to spend time.

I am glad that story of the game still follows rather well the movies and the books. But The Lord of the Rings movies were following books better than the Hobbit films followed the original book. So when I try to play Lego Hobbit I might growl in pain when I really liked the book! This game is made for whole family and it would be nice to play even with little ones. Characters has their special skills like Sam knows how to use elven rope for climbing and Frodo can use elven cloak to hide himself. So when you do play alone.. it is common to switch from one character to other. If there would be two players playing they could team up and and help each other but when you do play on your own, use all of the characters which remains in the group at that moment. 

Mighty Oliphants!

Between the ares you can run freely and pick some extra quests to do later.

Meeting the Rohirrim.

The creepy Fangorn

Lego games are full of humour. Since I do know the original story well it was fun to laugh sometimes to Gimli when he was grumbling about Fangorn or complaining about something else. Of course there are also frustrating moments when your char isn't an exact point and you try to jump only falling to your death. That happens a lot since you can move in every direction but game is always shown from one angle. Even I have played several Lego games I still do not like this system at all!

Treebeard is suspicious.

Treebeard just stomps everything.

Meeting old friends again.

The story has continued and hopefully on the next update I can tell how did the fight of the Helm's deep went. It might be interesting to see how they have created that big battle and how much you can move from your fighting spot to  look through stronghold. Yeah and since I still play the basic story I haven't tried those extra quests so far so new things to try still.

Lego Lord of the Rings, first part

I like to play silly games at times where you do not have to think and you just play them through. No tough choices or situations. You just either point and click through the game or jump, kill and move forward. After celebrating Midnight summer it was good to time to begin one of these kind of games what are playable even for kids. So I decided to play Lego Lord of the Rings. 

You hav to gather all kind of goodies from the areas.

The game won't look scary.

Shire is pretty and lovely looking.

If you have played any from the licensed games by lego you will know how they work. You play as lego-look-a-like-characters and jump, kill and go forward. And of course you smash many things and gather lego coins and other specialities like chests etc. No blood or anything else what would game look more dangerous. And unfortunately the story follows the movies, at least so far  what I have been playing. So I was missing good old Tom Bombadil when Old Forest was skipped. What a disappointment. 

Wandering around the Rivendell.

The Guardian of the entrance to Moria isn't a nice guy.

You better not to fall in Moria.

Of course the plot of the game is more straightforward then in the books or movies. But it works since at least I do know the basic story well enough not needing all the information. But I am not sure from those who haven't seen the movies nor read the books. Would they do like the story? That I can't answer. And I know some of the fans would be annoyed when some of the scenes are made to be funny ones or childish.  But yes, better remind again that this game is made for kids.

Meeting Galadriel.

Leaving Lothlórien.

There are also extra quests in the areas.

When I finished first part from I wasnät superexcited. The game is still nice for the days when you're tired to think after work but at the same time I am slightly annoyed that I can't recieve 100% played game unless I want to play same scenes through multiple times. There is always hidden places and areas what you can't look through immediately since on  the first gaming time you can't pick all the playable characters what you will need to finish the area. Plus there is also extra quests what you can finish in the areas. Those I haven't tried so far but I will make later second posting about this game where I also introduce those quests since those were new to me (I used to play Lego Star Wars and there wasn't any quests). 

Seduce Me The Otome

I haven't played many storytelling games which are based to have a roman. Few years ago I tried Katawa Shoujo  where I was  playing a guy who tried to seduce one of the five girls. The girls were special ones since each of them had some sort of disability. After that I had a long pause with storybased games until I found The Wolf Among Us which was completely different kind of experience than that Katawa Shoujo.

You play young girl called Mika.

She actually have few friends at school.

The life takes new direction when one of her relatives dies.

Now I found new game from Steam and it was free to download and play. The name of the game was Seduce Me The Otome. When I launched the game it reminded me of the Katawa Shoujo in many ways. You were playing a lonely character with few friends and it was once again every booklike experience to play game through since there weren't often any options to make. 

With who you would like to have romance?

Days won't be boring with guys and friends.

At times you can lead teh story by making decisions.

I played the game through about in 3,5 hours since it took me some time to read the options through. But yes.. Like I always do.. I took wrong options and game ended the way I didn't like. So Frustrating indeed. To see another kind of ending I had to click whole game through again since some of the important choices I had to do quite early in the game. But I made it throught to better end even endless clicking was frustrating since most of tehe conversations were same ones. 

Of course there are some hidden secrects among family.

I got the kiss from the cute guy! Feeling like a winner.

How I felt about the game? I have to say that if you like romances you could play the game through definetely. Otherwise this game isn't for you. I enjoyed to play the game even at times conversations were a bit too long. Especially when my character decided to think a lot and all the thoughts were written out. Perhaps I would like to think some of the options as a player also and have more choices to make than just watch what character "played" by me ends up to do. But if you do not mind watching long dialogues  game is worthf of playing. Especially if you like the idea of the handsome incubi! So I would say this game is light, fun and perfect game for Summer nights if you do not have compani for some reason or another.

So you can find game from Steam and if you get frustrated to find happy endings, you can always search for the walkthroughs. At least I found few what seemed to lead to some of the possible romantic endings. <3