Although these shots automatically home in on the nearest dark energy, you can't just fire without discretion. By pressing the attack button, and flailing your wand/staff, you can unleash a fiery blast of elemental energy. Luckily, these can all be toasted using "good elements" (the fire Toa happens to use fire). Your jumping is occasionally hindered by pockets of bad guys that shoot "dark elements" at you. You're confronted with the problem of navigating a very basic platform filled level - the most difficult segment is when you have to jump across a lava flow on decently sized rocks. While the variety is supposed to keep you from getting bored, it instead makes for a disjointed experience.Īfter the initial story telling scene, you'll find yourself in the guise of the Toa Tahu in Ta-Wahi (or the fire elemental in a volcanic region).
Instead, you're constantly switching environments, characters, and actions - a delight for children with ADD or heroin addicts. In an effort to appease fans and keep kids interested in the game, Bionicle never settles on one character or gameplay style for any extent of time. Gameplay Bionicle starts out simply enough, unfortunately it never really gets complicated - besides for the odd lingo. If you aren't eleven, and are daring enough to look past the LEGO, then you'll unearth quite the interesting title. For all the eleven-year-olds whose lives revolve around the popular LEGO franchise, a dark tale of good versus evil has been carefully crafted just for you - completely true to the Bionicle mythos. If this sounds like a foreign language, then you probably want to turn away now - things aren't going to get any better. It's up to the guardians of each Wahi, the Toa warriors Tahi, Lewa, Kopaka, Gali, Pohatu, and Onua, to rescue the Matorans and find the Toa of Light, who is the only one strong enough to stop Makuta.
The dark spirit Makuta has infected the Rahi throughout the island - using his control of the Bohrok, Bohrok-Kal, and Rahkshi to kidnap the Matoran villagers throughout the various Wahi. There's turmoil in the island of Mata Nui.