As superheroes go, it’s hard to look beyond the unmistakable, Chiropteran-shaped searchlight that has dominated the troubled skylines of Batman’s adventures since he first swooped into view. No disrespect to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan, and Buck Rogers, who all emerged in the years before Bruce Wayne’s crime-fighting alter-ego debuted in March 1939’s 27th edition of Detective Comics, but Batman endures as a singular entertainment icon, scaling every pop culture medium in sight across 10 decades.
That much is quickly made apparent in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, as you tear around a gloomy but vividly alive Gotham City at the wheel of one of the robustly rendered and explosively powered Batmobiles that bring skin-stretching velocity to the base playground. This legend has been rebuilt Lego brick by Lego brick in captivating Gothic style by TT Games, who have an authentic hand in the legacy of the franchise, having first collaborated with DC Comics for 2008’s Lego Batman: The Videogame.
