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Lego Horizon Adventures is a perfect match - a breezy, light-hearted approach the series has perhaps always needed


While chatting with Guerilla's narrative director James Windeler shortly after my time with Lego Horizon Adventures, I …

In the main Guerilla games that can at times leave them feeling just the tiniest bit shallow, almost masking the lack of major invention to its fairly typical light-touch, blockbuster RPG staples. The Switch, Windeler continued, "is absolutely there to help us bring in and get that younger audience and we're so excited about that - but the game itself does also appeal to Horizon fans who expect a certain amount of tactical combat experience, so that's in there as well." As you sneak through long grass, click your Focus to highlight robo-weak-spots for picking off with your bow, rappel down ziplines, scrabble up yellow ledges towards chests, and build out your little hub towns for a range of fun little customisation options for villagers and player characters alike - and above all, lob some good old explosive barrels at hapless cultists - it all starts to become brilliantly clear.

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