Before we begin, I just want to say that you should NEVER BUY "LEGO STAR WARS 2" FOR THE DS. It's a broken, incomplete mess that I feel sorry for anyone who bought it. The only good thing about it was the character creator. Now that that rant's over, lets talk about this successful port.
StoryIt's all the "Star Wars" movies so if you've seen the movies, you know the plot to it. The game is an abriged version of the six movies although most of the plot is told through text scrolls at the beginning of each level. I would say that final boss is simple but very good.
GameplayThe game is a puzzle-platformer where you control two to eight characters to solve puzzles and fight enemies. There are, in my opinion, three classes: blaster, light-saber and droid, which are also divided into sub-classes : blaster has normal, bounty hunter and short, Light-saber has Jedi ad Sith and droids have C3-PO and R2-D2. The Bounty hunter and Sith are better than the others of their class as the Sith can use any force object and open storm trooper doors and bounty hunters can use explosives and can open BH doors, although you still need the droids to open their doors.
You get all the classes you need during the story but you can collect studs to buy more characters ad even some special extras like multipliers and bigger weapons, but you need to find the red bricks that unlock them first.This along with competing levels, collecting everything gives you gold bricks which do absolutely nothing but add to 100%.
As for the vechile levels, I really like them. They're top-down shooting sections and with one exception, because it's a decent race, that are simple but let you go at your own pace as you go left and right and even turn around and go backwards. There are a few other sections where you constantly go forward which don't last too long.
You can also buy some mini-games that use the touch screen, you unlock from the red bricks which you can get gold bricks by getting a very high score or getting to the end. These include:
Deflection:A pretty challenging mini game where you use a light-saber to deflect lasers. It's so challenging it's the only one with a practice mode.
Focus: Very simple game of keeping everything in a circle. Forgettable
Kamino: a touch the buttons in order game. I'm not a big fan of these games as they keep adding more to the sequence than I can remember, but I was able to mange it.
Evasion: A fun little game where you dodge asteroids and collect points. I like it.
Levitation: A good game where you move C3-PO through a tunnel avoiding storm-troopers and collecting yoda's to stay in the game. It does get harder but it's gradually so it's good.
Grevious: A straight forward game where you go through a course to collect points. Also pretty forgettable.
Pit-stop: A series of smaller games where you have to complete them as fast as possible. I'm a bit mixed as I like it but I dislike the first game as the matching parts game can really eat your time.
Activation: A collection of the four door mini-games which are touch falling blocks in order, match the pairs, touch all the same blocks in order and match a circle of blocks in order. You're bound to get some practis at this during free-play.
There's also a character creator but i rarely play as my character.
PresentionThe sounds and music are all from star wars so if you like them there, you'll might like them here. the graphics are not the best but there servicesable as I can tell each detail on the LEGO models. The cut-scenes have suffered a bit for being on the DS as they're mainly animated with stills. They are well done and are better than them using the ingame models(Believe me, I know) but most of the humor the LEGO games are known for are lost.
Verdict
This is a well done remake port ad more than makes up for disaterous previous DS version.
8/10
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