We’ve had a lot of Batman stories over the past century or so, whether it be in comic books, theatrical serials, TV shows, movies, video games, or any other method people use to tell stories. It doesn’t matter the form–Batman has been all over it. So when Jonathan Smith, head of production at TT Games, said that Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will feature the “definitive Batman story,” my ears definitely perked up a little bit.
Smith made that comment at the start of a press event in Los Angeles for the newest Lego Batman game, where those of us in attendance had the chance to play Legacy of the Dark Knight for about two hours. We sampled several main story missions, including one that came straight from the big screen–Robin’s origin story from Batman & Robin–and also had some time to explore the open world of Gotham City. It seems as though this game will be enormous, because it’s drawing on so many different things from the sprawling source material.
But this kind of thing isn’t new for the folks at TT Games, which has been making Lego games for two decades, going all the way back to the original Lego Star Wars in 2005. Their most recent big game, for example, was Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which included nine movies’ worth of plot. Even so, Batman has way more material than that to wade through, since the character’s nine feature-length theatrical movies are just the tip of the iceberg–Batman’s also got years of comics and piles of other notable adaptations to draw from.
