Lately, I've had a lot more free time (Yes, the song reviews are coming back, shut up.) So I've been entertaining my inner child and playing a few LEGO games. And I know I don't usually write about videogames but I've been consistently seeing mean-spirited, fucked up shit in this one game; Lego DC Supervillains.
Like in one mission you have to help this henchman do acrobatics so he can bust out of jail. And after five minutes of walking tightropes, jumping off platformer and fighting cops you've bonded with this dude. And then this shit happens. (Watch it with the audio turned off. It makes it way more fucked up.)
Like in one mission you have to help this henchman do acrobatics so he can bust out of jail. And after five minutes of walking tightropes, jumping off platformer and fighting cops you've bonded with this dude. And then this shit happens. (Watch it with the audio turned off. It makes it way more fucked up.)
Yeah, that guy gets killed and the game doesn't even acknowledge it. Usually when you beat someone up in this game they lie on the ground with cartoon stars circling around their head. The game tries to emphasize that they aren't dead, and you're not a murderer. I jumped down there and didn't see anything. That guy just blew up and died. Fuck him, I guess.
Before that, there's another guy dressed up like Evel Knievel who's going to motorcycle ramp into the prison. As you fix up his bike you find out it's because he's trying to break out his friend. And so you fix up the bike and the guy chickens out. So you ride the cycle over the ramp yourself. Take a look at what happens.
What the fuck? That guy would have died! Imagine this happening on a kids tv show. The villain smashes into a tree and dies while trying to jailbreak his friend. What the fuck is wrong with this game?
And I wouldn't be writing this post if inappropriately morbid shit like this didn't happen constantly in this game.
Some really fucked up highlights are having to solve a puzzle that genetically merges two guys into an alien, while they scream bloody murder and having to kill a bunch of old ladies to "test their combat abilities."
You can probably already tell with most of these things it's the implications that are messed up. A dumb kid wouldn't notice any of this. Which in my book makes it all the more messed up. Because someone wrote this stuff into a kid's game.
And now for the main attraction. All throughout the game you see posters for a movie called 'It Came From Krypton." It's clearly a parody of 50's science fiction movies except with Doomsday as the monster.
It's plastered everywhere and the NPC's even talk about it. It's a Joe Biden would say ,"A big fucking deal."
During one mission you have to hack into a locker and you need a six-digit code to open it. If you look to your right you happen to see this poster -
It's an 'It Came From Krypton' movie poster with a release date under it that opens up the locker.
But wait did you see that date? It says '28-01-86'. (January 28, 1986 for my fellow non-Europeans.)
Some really fucked up highlights are having to solve a puzzle that genetically merges two guys into an alien, while they scream bloody murder and having to kill a bunch of old ladies to "test their combat abilities."
You can probably already tell with most of these things it's the implications that are messed up. A dumb kid wouldn't notice any of this. Which in my book makes it all the more messed up. Because someone wrote this stuff into a kid's game.
And now for the main attraction. All throughout the game you see posters for a movie called 'It Came From Krypton." It's clearly a parody of 50's science fiction movies except with Doomsday as the monster.
It's plastered everywhere and the NPC's even talk about it. It's a Joe Biden would say ,"A big fucking deal."
During one mission you have to hack into a locker and you need a six-digit code to open it. If you look to your right you happen to see this poster -
It's an 'It Came From Krypton' movie poster with a release date under it that opens up the locker.
But wait did you see that date? It says '28-01-86'. (January 28, 1986 for my fellow non-Europeans.)
That date on its own doesn't really stand out. But try asking Google Now (or whatever personal assistant you have.) what happened on January 28, 1986.
What the fuck???
Are we sure these guys should be making kids' games?
Edit: I am now aware that the date clearly says 29-01-86. Which was the day after
the Challenger explosion. (Which has some weird implications in itself.
Is this game trying to say Doomsday was responsible for the Challenger
explosion?) I am indeed tempted to say that this is just a coincidence,
but given all the weird shit I showed you above, and the fact that no one passes up a chance to make these kind of references; nah. Also, there's the fact that this game is clearly not set in the fucking 80's.
That specific date was selected for a reason. I just don't know why.
Hell, maybe the designer's favorite character debuted on that day. Who
knows? Am I overthinking this throwaway side-quest in a videogame for ten-year-old kids? Yes. Am I onto something? Probably...
All Lego DC Supervillains Images and Footage are © 2019 Warner Brothers, Interactive.
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