VGC writes: "Batman is the third franchise to undergo Lego-fication, and the first to do so with an original story. That right there leads into the first criticism of the game. As with Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Batman tells its story entirely by pantomime, without even any text bubbles to help you figure out what's going on. As a result, you only get a pretty basic plot of the villains escaping from Arkham Asylum, and Batman and company having to go track them all down. The finer details of what the villainous gangs are up to are hard to grasp in the Hero missions, but in the Villian ones you get a page of text describing what's going on during the loading screens before each mission. Unfortunately the Villain missions are only accessible after you've already beaten the corresponding Hero versions, so you're forced to play through as Batman and Robin once without any real idea of what's going on."
