I couldn't tell you how much money I've spent on LEGO, including their games, and enjoyed every moment.
But this one is absolutely the worst LEGO game I've played. Including LEGO Worlds.

- The opening is awful. You start on the Milano, and you're basically just left to your devices. If you don't know the comic versions of the characters, you don't know the abilities you have at your disposal, and even playing with a friend it took us 10-15 minutes to work out what we were supposed to be doing.
- Everything is a boss fight -- boss fights that are artificially extended by randomly and lazily locking out the health bar instead of giving an actual excuse for the bosses to leave the fight.
- Every level seems to have a completely useless character. She-Hulk comes to mind, being packed into levels with Ms Marvel who has all her abilities and more, despite there being plenty of characters for every player to use anyway.
- The game randomly decides to run terribly sometimes. Solid 60fps in 1440p 90% of the time but occasionally I'll boot it up and it runs at 15-20 instead.
- While I understand that getting all the MCU voice actors in would be prohibitively expensive, every Groot line (not the baby, baby Groot sounds fine) sounds so awful. How is it that hard to get "I am Groot" said in a way that doesn't constantly sound tired or disappointed?
- Only a minor point but the TT Games intro which usually is quite impressive, is very dull. It's just the Guardians opening but with the TT logo pasted over it. You've got decades of comics to reference, and they couldn't find a way to integrate an interesting opening cutscene like they did in TFA or Jurassic World?
- Oh dear god, the webslinging. It's so nauseating and impossible to control, especially when really early on in the game you're tasked with chasing some dude as Spidey and Gwen. Flight isn't great compared to the first game either, but that at least doesn't give me a headache.
- The Time manipulation ability. Expect to sit there twiddling a thumbstick for like 5 minutes with no feedback that anything is, or should be, happening. Then you turn it the other way and get no feedback at all. Turn it back the first way, and oh, suddenly it's working and there's a new stage to it.
- All the extras start pre-unlocked. Why? Red bricks has always been a good and rewarding system.
- The character unlock animation length. Bloody hell. You don't need 15 seconds of shuddering and shaking before you show us a character, especially when you're unlocking 5-6 each time and you end up waiting over a minute waiting to find out what that one character is that you didn't recognise.

On the other hand:
- It's pretty. Plenty of really nice details on the character models (like the LEGO logo under the arms I hadn't even noticed was on real minifigs until now).
- The Season Pass actually seems to include all the DLC, which is a huge step up from the other recent games that haven't included everything.
- The hero customisation is pretty solid. I made a fairly convincing Elsa to go with the multiple Frozen references this game seems to make.

I couldn't tell you how much money I've spent on LEGO, including their games, and enjoyed every moment. But this one is absolutely the worst LEGO game I've played. Including LEGO Worlds. - The opening is awful. You start on the Milano, and you're basically just left to your devices. If you don't know the comic versions of the characters, you don't know the abilities you have at your disposal, and even playing with a friend it took us 10-15 minutes to work out what we were supposed to be doing. - Everything is a boss fight -- boss fights that are artificially extended by randomly and lazily locking out the health bar instead of giving an actual excuse for the bosses to leave the fight. - Every level seems to have a completely useless character. She-Hulk comes to mind, being packed into levels with Ms Marvel who has all her abilities and more, despite there being plenty of characters for every player to use anyway. - The game randomly decides to run terribly sometimes. Solid 60fps in 1440p 90% of the time but occasionally I'll boot it up and it runs at 15-20 instead. - While I understand that getting all the MCU voice actors in would be prohibitively expensive, every Groot line (not the baby, baby Groot sounds fine) sounds so awful. How is it that hard to get "I am Groot" said in a way that doesn't constantly sound tired or disappointed? - Only a minor point but the TT Games intro which usually is quite impressive, is very dull. It's just the Guardians opening but with the TT logo pasted over it. You've got decades of comics to reference, and they couldn't find a way to integrate an interesting opening cutscene like they did in TFA or Jurassic World? - Oh dear god, the webslinging. It's so nauseating and impossible to control, especially when really early on in the game you're tasked with chasing some dude as Spidey and Gwen. Flight isn't great compared to the first game either, but that at least doesn't give me a headache. - The Time manipulation ability. Expect to sit there twiddling a thumbstick for like 5 minutes with no feedback that anything is, or should be, happening. Then you turn it the other way and get no feedback at all. Turn it back the first way, and oh, suddenly it's working and there's a new stage to it. - All the extras start pre-unlocked. Why? Red bricks has always been a good and rewarding system. - The character unlock animation length. Bloody hell. You don't need 15 seconds of shuddering and shaking before you show us a character, especially when you're unlocking 5-6 each time and you end up waiting over a minute waiting to find out what that one character is that you didn't recognise. On the other hand: - It's pretty. Plenty of really nice details on the character models (like the LEGO logo under the arms I hadn't even noticed was on real minifigs until now). - The Season Pass actually seems to include all the DLC, which is a huge step up from the other recent games that haven't included everything. - The hero customisation is pretty solid. I made a fairly convincing Elsa to go with the multiple Frozen references this game seems to make.