LEGO The Hobbit in 10 Easy Steps - Introduction | LEGO The Hobbit LEGO The Hobbit Guide

Last update: 25 September 2019

LEGO The Hobbit in 10 easy steps is a guide to LEGO The Hobbit which is aimed, to a large extent, to the players that start their adventure with the virtual Middle Earth, constructed out of the renowned Danish bricks. This guide presents all of the key issues and relationships concerned in the game. Knowing them, may prove very useful, while completing the successive stages, correct exploration of the elaborate open world, as well as finding collectibles hidden throughout the game, whose multitude exceeds that in the previous games of the Traveller's Tales Studios. The first chapter of this guide revolves around the game's storyline, informs about the way in which you start the successive stages and what the conditions to replay them are. The main focus of the second chapter are all the issues connected with the Middle Earth, which you can explore between completing the individual missions. The third chapter elaborates on the rules of interaction with the environment, which is often hindered, by the necessity of having appropriate characters, or items, with you. In chapter four, there is information on the types of enemies and the whole variety of dangers that await the main characters. The fifth chapter focuses on the topic of cooperation, used to deal with the successive obstruction, along your path across the Middle Earth, and to defeat enemies. The main topic of the sixth chapter are the Studs, which are associated with the Lego series and are the colorful coins that you spend on, e.g. new characters. Chapter seven informs you of the ways to obtain, and the meaning of, the various types of resources. In chapter eight, you can find a list of the most frequent minigames, which occur in the game. Each of these minigames comes with instructions and a number of hints. Chapter nine concentrates on one of the most important elements in the game, i.e. collectibles. From the last, tenth, chapter you will learn what you need to do to complete the game in 100%. In LEGO The Hobbit you get to explore the rich world that is entirely made up of bricks. The plot of the game is based on the world-famous novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as on the movie trilogy by Peter Jackson, and it allows you to take part in the most important events.

Step 1: The Storyline

In this chapter, you will find all of the basic information concerning the individual stages of the game's storyline mode. It explains the way in which you start the successive missions, what is the easiest way to replay them and when it is best to decide to do that.

Step 2: The Middle Earth and its exploration

This chapter revolves, entirely, around the Middle Earth and on the ability to explore it freely, between the individual main stages. You will learn, among others, how to travel, in a fast and easy way, between distant locations, what attractions are awaiting the main characters and when they become available.

Step 3: Interaction with the environment

In this chapter, you will find detailed information on the meaning and the way to interact with the environment. Much significance has been attached to explaining the matter of "unavailability" of certain elements of the surroundings, due to the lack of appropriate characters or items.

Step 4: Enemies and the other dangers

This chapter is concerned, mainly with the enemies that you encounter in the game world. Apart from that, you can find there information on the other dangers that await the characters, which can deprive them of the health-bar hearts (traps, falls into chasms, etc.).

Step 5: Cooperation

It this chapter, you will find information on how to cooperate (either with the AI-controlled or with a human player), which is inescapable, when it comes to solving many puzzles and defeating some of the strongest opponents.

Step 6: Studs (coins)

The main issue raised by this chapter are the Studs, i.e. the coins that you find throughout the world (the local currency). You will learn about the types of studs, as well as about the most interesting ways to earn and spend them.

Step 7: Resources (loot)

This chapter is entirely concerned with resources and it informs you of the available types of these, as well as about the circumstances in which you obtain them. The chapter explains the issue with marking the resources that you have, for the construction of various structures. The importance of this is that collecting of resources is often required to progress.

Step 8: Minigames

This chapter lists those of the minigames that are likely to be most frequently encountered, while completing the successive stages, and during the free exploration of the Middle Earth. each minigame has been provided with a description, basic assumptions and a number of hints that will help you achieve the highest score (this is often rewarded with additional studs or resources).

Step 9: Collectibles

In this chapter, you will find the information concerning collectibles, which come in heaps in this game. By reading this chapter, you will learn about the types of the available collectibles and in which circumstances they can be found.

Step 10: Completing the game in 100%

This chapter lists all of the requirements, which need to be met if you want to complete the game in 100%. This is additionally rewarded (depending on the platform) with an achievement or a trophy.

Jacek "Stranger" Halas (www.gamepressure.com)