I played LEGO Horizon Adventures and it was actually.. not easy

I picked up the game on a nice discount and I thought it was going to be a light hearted, easy experience of about 10 hours. I set the difficulty to "Hero" because I thought it might otherwise get too boring.

Boy was I wrong. I did the entire story on Hero difficulty and let's just say the experience was challenging enough to require serious attention during the combat sequences. I was quite surprised as I went into this one blindly.

They did a really amazing job designing the combat system. It actually feels like a Horizon game (components, weak points, elemental states etc). But machines often two shot you and you have to really worry about heals because they are very very limited. On top of this, fights are often in waves and dying takes you back to the beginning of the whole fight. There have been many instances where I have done fine for the most part but died to the last wave - I have had to do it all over again.

The game is really short, but it is definitely difficult if you want it to be. It is more about Horizon than about Lego for sure.