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Some would say that the Lego franchise has already reached the ceiling. How did you go about changing the established formula?

For us as a developer it's incredibly important that we ensure no one could accuse us of simply re-skinning the LEGO Star Wars game with 'another major movie license'. We make every effort to ensure that within the gameplay experience we're capturing the essence, in a LEGO form, of the character that we're creating the game around. There are elements that work really well in all of our games that we wouldn't change, such as two player drop in/drop out or the accessible controls. However, we hope that when you play either Indy or Batman you get a real sense that you are the LEGO version of that character. Indy is much more about exploration, so there's quite a puzzle element to the game. Batman and Robin are trained martial artists so the game has a lot more action and a lot of enemies to scrap against.