What occurs when a few Legobricks resolve to chase their desires of exploring area? You’ll discover the reply in Lego Voyagers, the subsequent brick-based journey from the gifted group at Mild Brick Studio.
Mild Brick has all the time been impressed by the Lego brick and the limitless methods it connects us – via storytelling, creativity, and the easy pleasure of constructing. Their debut title, Lego Builder’s Journey, invited gamers to create with bricks. With Lego Voyagers, they’re taking issues one step additional: this time, you don’t simply construct with the bricks, you turn out to be one.
Two Bricks are Higher than One
In Lego Voyagers, you’ll tumble, leap and snap collectively as you discover a playful universe – and since bricks are all the time stronger when linked, the complete expertise has been designed as a cooperative journey. Whether or not on-line or facet by facet in sofa co-op, you and a buddy will remedy difficult puzzles collectively, combining numerous pondering and the magic of teamwork to progress.
As a result of Lego Voyagers is absolutely cooperative, the group strived to make it as simple as doable to share. That’s why the sport features a Buddy’s Go – permitting you to ask a buddy without cost. For Mild Brick, it’s a easy extension of their perception that play is greatest skilled collectively.
A Dwelling, Buildable Universe
The world of Lego Voyagers is constructed from the identical number of Lego bricks you’d discover in actual life (1,694,756 to be actual – the devs counted) – that means each construction you see may, in idea, be recreated with precise bodily Lego bricks. This brick-built universe encourages curiosity and creativity with each tumble and snap. There’s not often only one resolution to a puzzle, as an alternative gamers are inspired to assume exterior of the field, experiment with totally different approaches, and uncover shocking new outcomes. Moderately than discovering one straight reply, it’s extra about having fun with the sort of open-ended play that the world of the Lego model naturally evokes.
Storytelling With out Phrases
One of the crucial distinctive points of Lego Voyagers is the way it communicates. The sport tells its story solely with out dialogue (human dialogue, that’s). As an alternative, the story depends closely on visible cues, evocative music and environmental storytelling to information gamers. In Lego Voyagers, Mild Brick makes a degree of visually establishing concepts earlier than they’re wanted, in order that when gamers encounter a puzzle or narrative beat, it feels acquainted and truthful. This cautious layering retains the expertise comprehensible with out phrases whereas nonetheless leaving loads of room for interpretation.
Composer Henrik Lindstrand – who additionally scored the critically acclaimed Lego Builder’s Journey – returns as soon as once more with a handcrafted soundtrack. This time, he expands his devices to incorporate his childhood Casio keyboard, giving the music a nostalgic coming-of-age really feel. In Lego Voyagers, Lindstand works with recurring themes or leitmotifs that observe the characters and occasions, giving gamers a way of familiarity and helps them join emotionally with the story.
Lego Voyagers invitations gamers to mirror, experiment, and type their very own understanding of the story. The sport asks open questions on friendship, connection, and the way we navigate challenges collectively. Mild Brick hopes these feedback spark conversations lengthy after the controller is ready down. What does it imply to remain linked? How will we assist one another when the trail forward isn’t all the time clear? The group doesn’t need to dictate the solutions – and the sport encourages gamers to search out their very own.
Trying Forward
Lego Voyagers is playful, heartfelt, and true to the Lego model. It’s a sport about friendship, creativity and most of all – connection – constructed on a model that has been inspiring gamers for generations. Lego Voyagers is out now! We are able to’t await gamers on the Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox One to set out on this journey collectively. Seize a buddy, deliver your curiosity and see what occurs when a few bricks attain for the celebrities.
LEGO® Voyagers
Annapurna Interactive
From the makers of LEGO® Builder’s Journey comes a brand new 2-player co-op journey about friendship and play. When two buddies make it their mission to rescue an deserted spaceship, they embark on a journey past their wildest desires, in the end studying the worth of being linked.
● Expertise what it feels prefer to be a LEGO brick. Tumble, leap, snap collectively, and construct your manner via wealthy brick worlds.
● Unravel a poetic, non verbal narrative, set in stunning brick constructed environments, supported by an atmospheric soundtrack.
● Cooperatively remedy the sport’s many challenges and uncover how two bricks are higher than one. Play regionally on the identical display screen, or on-line.
● Invite a buddy to hitch your journey without cost with the Buddy’s Go. So long as one in every of you owns LEGO Voyagers, you may each play the total co-op expertise collectively.
LEGO Voyagers asks open questions on constructing friendships, sharing desires, and giving area.
It reminds us that whereas enjoying and being inventive is for all sizes and shapes, it’s all the time higher whenever you share it with a buddy.
