Lego Pirates is charming, has a great soundtrack, captures the feeling of the movies just about perfectly, and none of that would have mattered one bit if it hadn’t also completely nailed the character of Jack Sparrow. They’re quick little snippets that break up the bash-and-build gameplay wonderfully, staying just long enough to make you miss them when they’re gone. In other sections, you’ll use a spyglass to find a particular person (or crab!) of interest and track them until they do something significant. Every so often, you’ll get to switch to first person view to aim and fire a cannon at another ship or targets. The game throws in a few new gameplay elements that are particularly piratey: cannons and spyglasses. After all, who doesn’t like an old fashioned treasure hunt?
All of the Lego games have hidden bricks, but the compass is an engaging twist on the mechanic. Track them all down and you’ll earn yourself a gold brick, which can be used back in port to unlock new locations or Red Hats that give you boosts like double treasure or extra fast digging. Each level has eight items for Jack to find using his magic compass, some necessary for finishing the level, others just silly extras. Jack Sparrow has a unique attribute that’s also one of the game’s many unlockables. The skills repeat across several characters, but are used in a varied enough mix to prevent levels from feeling too identical, even when they’re comprised of similar elements.
Female characters can double jump, for example, while characters with big guns can destroy silvery objects, those with hammers can assemble red glowing things, and so on.
Though each level has specific characters associated with it, different characters have different skills. You work your way through levels based on the plot of the movies, breaking things, assembling other things, and collecting studs, the game’s currency.
For the most part, Lego Pirates is standard Lego fare.
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