Is LEGO Indiana Jones a Faithful Adaptation? 

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There's also Lego Indiana Jones 2 which is clearly a super faithful adaptation, who could forget the iconic scene in temple of doom where the main characters fight a giant thuggee statue monster 😂

In Lego Indiana Jones II in the first movie hub world you break antennas for a red brick which is a reference to when they were filming. During the filming for the scenes on Sallah’s terrace, 350 television antennas had to be removed to make the area look like it’s in the 1930’s

i feel like the indiana jones franchise would absolutely peak with a story were our main protagonist henry jones jr in fact, does wear the fish hat.

The adaptation process from source to games that TT games does has always been cool. I also love how the audio team adapted the movie's soundtrack for the games, and how for this game they also sourced music from Young Indiana Jones.

The DS version had some differences that may or may not be more accurate (its been years since I played it, but the yellow dinghy was in a level or as bonus minigame)

Can we make this a series? With doing Lego Star Wars and Harry Potter next.

The temple of doom adaptation is better than what was in the second game, with that flaming four armed rock monster. I played the game before seeing temple, and was disappointed with the lack of flaming four armed monsters.

8:44 what’s funny about that rooftop part is the brown platforms might be a reference to how brown Lego pieces are widely known to be very brittle so the brown Lego platforms breaking once you reach the middle is honestly funny if intended

I always like the creative ways that they incorporate a second character into the levels... Like the shovel guy in the first level, who (if I remember correctly) was just a nameless side character who dies to the traps in the movies.

Indie would find the fish hat in the middle of a fight and wear it for a quick disguise out of there

The lego games based on actual movies feel like what you think happens in the movie after not seeing it for a couple of years.

I really think TT should pull a Skywalker Saga with the 5 Indy movies, and create a bloated openworld with countries instead of planets and regions around locations as hub areas. The faithful details from the films, references from extra material and easter eggs from other Lucas productions would be amazing to experience.

This video was a lot of fun, personally I think the game is a good blend of faithful-ness and creative liberty as most of the changes are related to gameplay. Whether it's "there isn't enough here so let's add filler" "this wouldn't be fun/exciting so let's change it" or "we want to include this be couldn't for technical reasons" Do you plan on covering the second game? I would love to see a comparison with the remade levels as well as how accurate KotCS is. I would also love to see a video for the Star Wars games but understand if you don't want to as most of the movies were redone multiple times.

Giving 2-6 the mechanic of the water bursting out and destroying the previous part could also lend itself to giving it a similar checkpoint mechanic to 3-6 in LEGO Star Wars, where the room is being gradually destroyed, so if you die you have nowhere to respawning, so it reverts you to before the room was destroyed and lets you try again.

As much as some of the levels might not be accurate to the source material, one thing that highlights through the whole game is the soundtrack usage for both cutscenes and in-game, i didnt knew some of the music came from the Young Indy Show until later, not to mention they really nailed it with mixing the tracks altogether, it makes the game feel more cinematic in a special way.

This is honestly the most hyped I’ve been for a LEGO video in a while, well done. I based my LEGO Indiana Jones stop-motion series on the games first and foremost so some inaccuracies are distilled through that and I’m honestly glad about it, it feels like I’m giving distinguishable from the hordes of picture-perfect scene recreations that flood RU-vid. Some details also had to be traced from the films themselves, though, otherwise it’d almost be a separate IP.

Very unrelated, but i remember finding a glitch in lego indiana jones 2, where you could in the "hub world" control a gator and use vehicles like normal with that gator, it was some weird ass bug with the mind control ability and something else, idk if it's a known glitch, i remember it being very specific and basically useless ;D

Someday bd1p will release a video about Bionicle Heroes.... Not today... But someday...

Dude this was a great video! I’ve always noticed a lot of these too but of course it never made me hate this masterpiece of a video game. Actually great video dude I was hooked the whole time and you’re videos are some of my favorites whenever I have a Lego game itch

You should try this with Star Wars,pirates of the Caribbean,lord of the rings,etc

the knight attacking Jones at the end of The Last Crusade is actually pretty faithful to the movie as the knight does attack our protagonist there but, due to being old as hell, fails and resigns. The only disparaging element is, well, he actually being able to pose a challenge lol

I might just be a huge Indiana Jones fan for pointing this out but if i remember correctly Tanis was an ancient Egyptian city, ruled by the Pharaoh Shishak, who placed the Ark of the Covenant within a secret chamber called the Well of the Souls. So it is actually the Well of Souls everytime you mention Tanis in the Raiders level analysis. But i really love the passion you created this video especially about LIJ which is my favorite lego game of all times so thank you for your job and keep up the good work man!

For the first 2 minutes of the video all I could think about, for real, was "woow, I really want a hat like that", so yeah, Indiana Jones would be SUPER cool with it!

32:49 Iehova is not "the hebrew spelling of Jesus", but the Hebrew name of god in the old testament. Great video, by the way Edit: Fixed the time stamp

11:38 WHY AND HOW HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THAT 😮😮😮

I had heard a rumor a few years ago that that wall kick was accidental that he was actually about to fall and he just went with it and he went towards the wall and kicked off of it to make it look cool

You missed 2 other important costume mess ups in Temple Of Doom. 1. The palace guards are hostile in the game but there's no indication in the movie that they know about the thuggee 2. None of the thugs in the mineshafts are wearing the slave driver costumes There are some other inaccuracies but they aren't important.

Your hat has my full support.

The light didn't have anything to do with the trap in the original movie. It was a ploy by Indy to misdirect Satipo. If Satipo betrayed Indy and left, he would be so focused on avoiding the light that he would step on the traps ACTUAL trigger, a tile on the floor.

I played lego indy a lot when I was a kid. I think we got it after I had watched raiders(granted throughout the movie my dad covered my eyes for certain liike the opening of the arc). When I found out about the young indy stage and the fact that it took place in utah made it my fav level instantly. Now looking back I see why there was a certain nostalgia when I was finally watching temple of doom and the last crusade for the first time.

2:03 No *laughs hysterically and runs away*

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:19 understandings 1:52 Side note ¶ 2:08 Raiders 2:29 Level 1 6:26 level 2 7:41 level 3 | 8:15 intermission 10:00 level 4 11:46 level 5 • 13:16 level 6 ∆ 14:36 Raiders conclusion ¶ 15:15 ToD 15:32 level 1 16:36 level 2 18:49 level 3 20:18 level 4 21:40 level 5 • 22:18 level 6 ∆ 24:00 ToD conclusion ¶ 24:35 TLC | 25:12 Young Indy 26:52 level 1 29:20 level 2 30:22 level 3 31:08 level 4 31:45 level 5 • 32:17 level 6 × 33:58 LIJ conclusion 34:38 Outro

Another banger video from bd1p. I'd love to see more of these covering different tt games

Great video, and all. On an unrelated note, I literally own the same cup as you in 11:46! For some reason this is weirdly exciting for me!

That’s a cool ass fish hat.

Indy not wearing his jacket in level 5 of Raiders has always bothered me.

Cool video! Great work.

this video combines all of my special interests, thank you

I would love to see this video format done for other Lego games like TCS and all the other movie game adaptations

TT needs to make Lego Indy 3 with all 5 movies, similar to what they did with Skywalker Saga more recently. Doubtful anything like that will ever happen due to the state of Lego not making any more new Lego Indy sets..

In 1/1 when you enter the waterfall, you can see the Paramount mountain too.

I remember getting on my ancient Xbox 360 and decided to play a L O T of old games I played as a kid (4-10). A lot of games I beat, like Lego Marvel,Batman the First,Call of Duty and much more. But one of the few games I wasn't able to beat was... LEGO Indiana Jones the Complete Adventure! I wasn't able to beat the second level of the game because I couldn't figure out how to use the wrench.

Really good analysis, I was captivated by it. Admittedly I've never seen a single Indiana Jones movie out of sheer ignorance and not because I refuse, but this was still pretty fun despite my lack of knowledge.

1:09 Yeah, but that's the crazy thing. It actually did show those. Both of those. 🤣

I wonder if the Himalayan section was from a deleted scene or from the novelization as the Lego games do that sometimes

24:51 Funny thing about this, Sean Connery was only 12 years older than Harrison Ford

oh man more videos like this for other lego games like star wars or harry potter would be really cool

Excellent video! :)

33:49 He does attack Indiana Jones in the movie, just he falls over immediately and decides that Indie won

the whip surfind in raiders DOES happen in the lego game it's in the first cutscene of pursuing the ark

12:46 I think there’s a gramophone at the camp after they find the arc

Please please do this for LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga! This is such a cool type of video, I love seeing background things I’ve never seen before like all the different backgrounds in the Indiana Jones movies.

Indiana Jones would be cool wearing that cool ass fish hat for SURE 😤 (btw great video! I’d love to see more like it - whether it’s the clearly more grounded and realistic Indy 2 lol or other Lego games!)

One of the most memorable games from my childhood alongside the complete saga🐐

I used to do this all the time as a kid, I had played the game so much that I knew every level and cutscene by heart, so when I was old enough to watch the movies I sat there like "That's diffrent from the game" or "Oh, that's actually in the movie aswell". To this day there are some stuff from the game I confuse with the movies. Like the last time I rewatched Last Crusade, I was certain the scene from the Lego game where they make the chandelier hit the ground in the liberary happened in the movie, but obviously that wasn't the case.

At 26:52 you can see some pretty cool Easter eggs in the Venice cut scene you can see Belloq a Thugee henchmen a club Obi wan dance girl and jock walking past Indy and you can see a hovitos tribesmen driving the boat

this is the only oriiginal lego game ive never played and once i finally got it the disc was too scratched to read

I’m excited to see what machinegames does with Indiana Jones whenever that game comes out. It has been 2 years since it was announced.

I think his would approve of the hat.

Are you going to to some other reviews of Lego games doing faithful adaptations if so you should do one on Lego stars the complete saga

Do You have in plans to do the other LEGO TT comparisons like that?

LIJ TOA is one of my favourite video games ever. I got the game for my 7th birthday along with a PS2. I have probably completed the game 10 times. I also played the game before I saw any of the movies, but I think the developers did a great job in recreating the movie.

Some of the things you mentioned that weren’t in the game-like the rhino train car- were put into the DS game, even if it’s way less faithful

The grail night in the movie acts like Elrond from lotr wheras the lego one acts like Gimli. 😂

I really wish we could fight the Hatay soldiers in the Last Crusade once we got to the level Canyon of the Crescent Moon. They should’ve included the Hatay Army that helped escort Vogel and Donovan to the Grail. And Vogel’s Hatay tank should’ve had the turret like what Indiana Jones 2 had.

What’s the DKC music at 30:08? I’ve been looking for it for years and found it once but forgot the name.

Indie would totally wear that fish hat

I knew Indy fans were extreme, the thing with the hat leather and all but DAMN! What did I just watch..😂 Great video bro

I actually like Pankot Secrets. It is very atmospheric.

Is and will forever be my favorite Lego game

You can make this into a full series

Great vid

this was a good ass video dawg

I know that with Lego Star Wars was made using old scripts and directors papers, causing missions such as (ep3 - 4) the jedi temple one to be completely based on scenes not in the movie. I feel that it isn't entirely impossible that the team at TT games got a partially different revision script that had extra scenes such as level 2 of raiders

i would like a film based on the lego games where the charavters are realistic CGI or something and fight giant snakes and spiders.

Do this Whit every Lego game

Now I'm curious how the Lego versions of the star wars movies and Harry Potter ones stack up

100 percent for this game was so fun all the achievements not so much but it is a great game now I gotta do Lego Batman (I have done hp 1-4 and pirates too)

cool ass fish hat bro

My bet is tt got footage never before seen of all the movie sets

The subscribe button glowed when you brought up subscribing

I felt motivated by this masterpiece ❤

W video, fun to watch.

Holy shit hes on camera

A lot of these inaccuracies are partly cos this was only the third LEGO game in the series. If made today then it would likely be more faithful.

I mean…. It’s probably more faithful than Dial of D̶e̶s̶t̶i̶n̶y̶ Diarrhea.

16:09 have you heard the word hangar before?

Watching this while my 4 y old sis plays the game with our dad

Praise the fish god

Thats a different bridge bro

11:21 I, as a pedantic dork, want to emphasize that an unfaithful adaptation is not necessarily poorly adapted. I’d argue being a good level is the _most important_ part of good video game adaptation. (I’m sure you know this, it was practically a slip of the tongue. Engagement though, fun video)

What about the bonus levels? Isn’t one of the bonus levels based on the first level of 4th movie?

Great video

You should do a LEGO Star Wars video next.

Harrison Ford in his prime would absolutely pull off that fish cap. Hell, it wouldn't look bad on current day Ford either.

you should do this, but treat the game as source and critique the movie for not including the extra lore of indy having to build 5 ladders to get somewhere

Would be interesting if you compared the other Lego games to the movies as well to see how faithful they are!

Do Lego Star Wars, the complete saga next

I never played the Young Indy level on the Xbox. Is that included, how did I miss it?