Ben Lindbergh

And it's anticipated because Batman and also because Lego and Lego Batman.

You put those two things together.

People tend to like them.

And this is not the first Lego game.

Far from it.

This is not the first Lego Batman game.

It is the fourth, depending on how you define it.

But you mentioned the Arkham comp.

Yeah.

And that's a weighty comp to drop on a game because the Arkham games are some of the best regarded video games of all time.

Certainly the best regarded superhero games, highly influential combat wise.

And so that raised an eyebrow, obviously made me intrigued.

But anytime you're going to say that this is a little bit like Arkham, well...

well, that makes sense because it's a Batman game, but maybe it makes a little less sense because it's a Lego game.

And we tend to think of something a little more simplistic and kid-friendly and family-friendly and just not quite as complex as the combat system in Arkham.

So what did you see here that seemed to owe a debt to those games?

Yeah, you could say when you've played one Lego game, you've played a lot of Lego games, right?

There's a template, there's a format, there's a tried and true formula.

And I think plenty of people are not tired of playing Lego games like this, but you might worry at a certain point, will this start to seem stale?

Will the humor seem a little less charming, seem like something we've seen before?