Legos and Hobbits

I'm quite the gamer. I spend most of my free time playing video games on my Xbox One or Nintendo 3DS. It's my favorite form of media, and some of my closest friends I've made through playing video games. I love all kinds of games, including the Lego games. So when I got the opportunity to play Lego Lord of the Rings for class, I was totally set.

That is, until I got a few hours into the game. The first few hours was all well and good. It was a pretty typical Lego game. My time was spent breaking everything in the game that was made of Legos and fighting Lego character enemies. Until it hit me that I wasn't really enjoying the game as much as I had with other Lego games. It took me a while to realize exactly why that was. I was already used to the repetitive levels and how you needed specific characters to get all the parts of the level done. Something else was off. After thinking about it, the problem was that I already knew the story. Lord of the Rings is a story almost everyone knows, and playing the game, especially in Lego form, was a tall order and this wasn't quite up to the standards I would expect from something with the words Lord of the Rings on it.

That being said, I'm honestly so glad this binge is over. I couldn't wait to get back to my Xbox and play Destiny with my friends. On top of that, I learned that gaming is just so much more fun when you're not required to do it.