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Somehow I got in the mood to play some lego games before and after Xmas. So I streamed Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and then got back to scouring the world of Lego City Undercover. 

I discovered that I really can collect space ships in Lego SWSS and fly them around, which was the thing I was most looking forward to doing in this game. It's still sort of limited, but you can do space missions with any collected ship around any planet. There are a lot of ships too, and I delight in repeating their names and trying to remember where they appeared in the movies. With that discovery, I decided to start its download. 

Oh hello, Twi-lek. Goin' my way?

While it was downloading I decided to return to Lego City Undercover and continue my attempt to collect everything. The world, with it's three islands connected by bridges, and your ability to climb buildings and glide from building to building, made me think of Crackdown many times. Lego CU isn't as completely free-roam as Crackdown (you can't just climb a building any way you want, you need something there to grapple to or grab) but it's free enough. 

                                        When you get a stretch limo, you gotta jump it. 

 

Collectibles can be tricky to find, but you have a scanning device that lets you see places where there are hints and shows the location of gold bricks. Of course, knowing the location is not all you need. sometimes they are high up on a building and you have to figure out how to get up there. The most annoying task to do is painting things. You have to find paint kiosks to change your color and they are sometimes tricky to find and then remember where they were. They will show up on the scanner however, you just need to be somewhat near them. I was often finding a paintable object, then trying to remember where the dispensary was, and then returning to the object. Kind of pain but I'm hoping a red brick might unlock a paint gun with all the colors, whenever I find it.

I'm pretty much locked in to finishing Lego City Undercover and trying to find everything even given some of the driving and platforming quirks. Controls in lego games aren't always perfect, but this game is one of the better ones. so I can put up with it.