Lego Lord Of The Rings Review and Platinum Trophy Tips #Playstation Vita

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

So I have just completed my first ever Lego game! (insert impressed clap here)

I had always been under the impression that Lego games were just for kids, with easy game play and puzzles that could be figured out by a goldfish. I was pleasantly suprised.

I got Lego Lord of the Rings as a free game on Playstation Plus a while ago and never bothered to download it. Instead it was left to rot within the foul depths of my download list which is full of great games that have never had the pleasure of being played on my consoles.

However due to sickness, and low cash I decided to download it and give it a go. My first impression was that this was going to be a quick play through and I'd leave it at that. This quickly changed as I was drawn in to the Lego world. Without noticing I'd done a few hours of game play and I wanted more. 

The game as the name says is a replica of the 3 Lord of the Rings movies all bundled into a fun little package. The cut scenes are awesome with the Lego men voiced by sound grabs from the movies, with a touch of humor. The story mode puts you in the shoes of the main characters from the films, all with their own unique abilities. As you play through you will notice certain points that you can not access or do not have the ability or weapons to complete. These are usually where the character tokens or treasures are hidden and you will need to replay the area once you have completed the game. 

It took me roughly 6 hours to complete the game and unlock the characters needed to go back and find all the character tokens and treasures. This is where the trophy hunt began. A little bit of grinding was needed to complete all the challenges and find everything needed. 

I didn't read any walkthroughs or hints on the game and in hindsight this would of made the Platinum a lot quicker to achieve.

So here are a few tips to get a nice shiny Platinum Trophy quickly once you have completed the game.

Collect as many studs as you can on each level.

This may seem like a no brainer but each level has a certain ammount of blocks needed to gain true achiever. You will need to gain this on each level to get the True Achiever Trophy. The Battle for Helms Deep was the only level I needed to replay to get this.

Use your mini map.

The mini map allows you to quick travel the lands of Middle Earth with out the need to travel from town to town searching for levels to replay.

Try not to spend any studs until you have collected everything.

This was my downfall. I bought the characters I unlocked on the way as you need to unlock them all to complete the game 100%. This left me to grind away at the end to unlock the extras and big ticket characters. There is a simple way to unlock everything at the end with little need to replay levels. 

Buy the multipliers.

Once you have collected all the treasures and returned them to the NPC's in the towns go to the store. In the extras tab you will see stud multipliers. Buy these as a first priority over anything else. These multipliers actually multiply by each other as well. For example, if you have a x2 and a x4 multiplier all studs collected will give you 8x their value. If you have all of the multipliers each stud collected will be worth 3,840 times its value. This allows you to replay 1 or 2 levels and have enough studs to buy everything else in the store. For the multipliers to work you will need to activate them. This is a simple, just pause the game and click on the extras tab. There you will see all the extras you have bought and its just a matter of clicking them to YES.

And away he goes, Precious! Trophy.

Use Smeagol to defeat Gollum when Gollum is the buddy. 

This trophy had me stumped for a bit. It has nothing to do with any of the levels that you fight Gollum. All you need to do is have your 2 players as Smeagol and Gollum and then beat Gollum up till he dies. This can be done anywhere.

Hidden Trophy (The Last Laugh)

This one I did research online. To unlock this you will need to have your 2 players as Tom Bombadil and Sauron. All you will need to do is stand next to Sauron as Tom and press the O. This will make Tom laugh at Sauron and there's your trophy.

Well there it is. If you have a few spare hours to muck around in the Lego world then I highly recommend this game. An easy Platinum for for the trophy hunters and a fun game all round.

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Thorncliff