Matthew McSweeney's Blog

  Prequel Trilogy Here's how I'd fix the Prequels (Remove the challenges too and have 10 minikits instead)  The Phantom Menace   1. Negotiations - Make it an actual level instead of a hub event. Have it be kinda like Complete Saga but a bit longer and have the end basically be the Invasion on Naboo bit from Complete Saga as well. Basically this level would be the first Complete Sagas levels revamped and I think it would be a way better start than just a massive strech of hub events that will confuse new players.  Pre Level - Gungan City   2. Escape From Naboo - As for the actual first level in Skywalker Saga, have it be the opening section of this level and maybe design it better because it is one of the lamest LEGO levels of all time. However most of this level should revolve around you rescuing The Queen and Panaka like in Complete Saga, instead of it just being a freaking pre-level for the thousandth time.  Pre Level - Watto's Junkshop   3. Mos ...

  Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is the worst Lego DC game, but it’s not a bad game. How could you fix it and make it a better game? Here are some of my ideas on how to fix it: Don’t give Joker & Lex Luthor suits while giving Cyborg just his Giant & Stealth suits, both of which returned in Lego DC Super Villains. This is because the suits they’re given are copied and pasted from other characters. Get rid of the Suit Wheel where you can select any suit at any time. In place of it, include suit changers and build them, much like the first two Lego Batman games which made more sense. That way,  you wouldn’t abuse the suits and use them whenever or wherever you wanted. Don’t include the tech minigames since they would make more sense in any other Lego video game. Allow you to mute Conan O’Brien as the game’s guide. Make Batman playable in every level which would make more sense for a game with his name in the title. This is because he is not playable in four levels out of th...

There should’ve been a option to have everything built before starting the game, just like with the portal and the characters. The story is a bit of a mess with a original tale that’s only a thin excuse to have different Lego worlds interact such as the placing that the main characters visit being so random with a jumbled narrative which feels kind of shallow with the worlds that can range from confusing to really fun. He considered the best one to be the Doctor Who World, due to there being a bunch of little fun things that fans could enjoy, along with the storyline for that world making sense for the craziness of Doctor Who. He considered The Simpsons World to be the worst, due to only archival audio being used, causing the levels to be one random place after another with no sense of why you’re actually going to any of the where you’re going. He considered The Simpsons House at the beginning to be good before it got worse. He found the middle of the road levels like Ninjago to bad si...