NZGamer writes: "When Lego Star Wars came out, I was a major sceptic. The idea sounded ludicrous. And indeed it was. Yet at the same time it was a hugely entertaining game: cute, quirky, and excellent to romp through with a friend.
Now, however, after several Lego crossover success stories, the ridiculousness of the premise seems to have finally caught up. Where once things meshed in a weirdly magical way, now the cracks show through. Lego Batman, rather than bringing the best of both worlds (each awesome in their own right), seems to fail both at being a Batman game and at being a Lego game."