LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean 3DS

The basics of the game remain close to what’s seen on home version, including collecting studs, red bricks, pirate doubloons, and ships in a bottle.  Each character specializes in a certain class with specific abilities, such as the blacksmith who can hammer blue bricks, the dual-sword swashbuckler that can scale vertical wall, and our famous wobbly pirate Jack Sparrow who can detect buried treasure with his trust Compass.

While the environments are taken from the console version, how you progress through them are different on the 3DS.  Puzzles have been tweaked, or changed altogether, giving the portable version a fresh feel.  The cutscenes have also been borrowed from the console version, however some scenes have been cut to fit the smaller storage of the cartridge, and most cinematics have 3D effects that really makes the visuals pop out.

That brings me to the major change with the 3DS version, the 3D visual environments.  Even since the Nintendo 3DS was introduced I was looking for a game that is actually more playable with the 3D effects, and I’ve finally found it.  One of the dreadful aspects of previous LEGO games has been the platforming sections which often leads to unintentional deaths due to miscalculating the distance between platforms… Read More [via futureshop]