Mini Review: Funko Fusion (PS5) - Bland, Cryptic Nostalgia Bait Lacks LEGO's Charm

I'll probably pick this up when it's 14.99 in a couple of weeks , as I'm a big fan of the franchises

Look, it’s ok to be wrong and wrong you are. The game is super fun and has lots of fun secrets to find. The puzzles are the right level of challenging and the level variation craps over most Lego games. This is def a 7/10 game easily. .

Precisely as expected.

I've a friend who's a clown for this garbage and sure enough, he's playing this game as if it was some sort of lifesblood.

I am unfortunately playing through the game right now and aside from the novelty of seeing all the characters and game worlds it’s a slog. I started with Hotfuzz on my second profile and for a split moment I thought this could actually be a decent game so started playing it on my main. Also, maybe it’s just me but I’m finding the game to be quite difficult. The lack of level checkpoints and unskipable cut scenes also drags the game down a lot. You have 3 lives and once they’re gone it’s game over and back to the start of the level. Other things like using items is a pain too. A quick heal would be good, but you have to navigate over to and equip the healing item and then hold square to use it, hoping not to get hit by the infinite spawning enemies. Graphics look nice though.

Edit: Also, the story is very barebones and the cutscenes start and stop so abruptly that it ruins the flow of the game. Every time a cutscene starts it’s like being hit in the face with a pie.

Edit: Does anyone know if it’s possible to change worlds at any point? I’m stuck playing the Thing and I want to change it up.

These funkopop abominations are absolutelly disgusting and should be thrown into depths of hell never to be recovered.

The Funko stuff is so weird... I have never seen the appeal, in fact some of them are so bland it is nigh on impossible to tell who they are!

So yeah, this game was never on my radar but to see that it also a bit of a throw back to the shovelware licensed stuff of the past is very sad.

But it's not a lego game! And I've been playing since Friday and this game is bloody awesome! Love funko then get it

Yeah it's not a 7/10 no way , it's ok wayyy to hard , no clue what your suppose to be doing music pretty good especially hot fuzz area

Ehh, where is Blizzard cameos? I have 3 Diablo IV Funkos. And probably buy another 3 new ones this year. Those things are cute

@Kiefer-Sutherland That's the funny bit though, you CAN skip cutscenes sometimes. it's very weird.

You unlock them by going to the crown door in each hub and choosing a new one.

This game just goes to further show how awful pops look.

This review plus the games metacritic rating has put me off getting this game. Maybe one day when it's under £10.

why do people hate funko pops?

A game based on cheap plastic garbage is rubbish? Who could have forseen that coming

The only thing Funko Pop related that has ever brought me joy was Jeff Gerstmann saying GameStop went "from Funcoland to Funko Land."

@nomither6 for my part, they are incredibly lazy and rarely look anything like the thing they are supposed to be a caricature of. To the extent that when a figure looks like the character, it no longer looks like a Funko Pop. The iconography is backwards.

@nomither6 people don’t like seeing others enjoy things.

We live in a hate culture.

@nomither6 Probably because they're the ugliest, most soulless series of figurines to ever exist. Doesn't help that they're seemingly everywhere so you'll end up looking at one even if you don't want to.

More power to you if you're into them, though.

This game is gonna go so hard when it’s in the ASDA bargain bin for £5

Worth the price of admission (a fiver) for Hot Fuzz alone

I'm sure it'll sell more than Concord which was a 7/10.

Xena is in it. That’s all I care about.

@nomither6 They're cheap plastic tat designed to appeal to insatiable consumerism, and bring almost nothing of their own to the table.

I say "almost" because the one thing they do bring is the destruction of memorable character designs - look at the silhouette of any number of famous characters, they're still easily to recognise. Now look at the silhouette of the equivalent Funko - generic stick body with a generic block head.

Oh, and the bug eyes on them are hideous as well.

@Ryu_Niiyama that's literally the only reason I'm getting it.

I had a feeling this game wouldn't be that great, regardless of the Funkos representation

@get2sammyb you could just play Fortnite — they have a tie-in for seemingly every IP under the sun

@Jacko11 is your avatar John Days Gone hitching a ride with HBO's Last of Us? Is it because he ran out of gas? That's actually why I stopped playing, lol. I ran out of gas in an area crawling with freakazoids and had to walk my bike like a million miles to get fuel. So that's actually really accurate.

I wish this was decent, the LEGO games need a bit of competition!

@naruball Xena fans unite! I’ve been meaning to complement your profile pic for years but I don’t do that unless the user has spoken to me before, so thanks for the assist. Love your profile pic. I’m a huge Xena/Lucy Lawless fan.

@LikelySatan who hurt you poor little lamb?

It's so refreshing seeing review scores on an actual 1-10 scale. 👏

@AdamNovice "So you created an account"

I thought I was the only person who checked accounts for when they were created. At least the 1 other person who liked the game has had their account since last September 2023, but I don't think I've ever checked an account and just had it say "7:49AM". Though it is Australia so that might be yesterday, or tomorrow. 🤷‍♂️

Is the person who wrote the review in here? The best thing to me about the Lego games was the couch co-op. I'm assuming this game doesn't have couch, but does it have online? If it doesn't have any co-op that's still a thing I think I'd mention in my review of a game that I compare several times to the Lego games. I mean if I was writing a review of a game and constantly comparing it to Halo and Destiny I think at some point I'd at least say "single player only".

Wanted to get this to play w/ my spouse but the lack of co-op did it in. That's been happening to me a lot lately, games that I'd expect to have co-op, this, Astro Bot, Mario & Luigi Brothership, just don't. Wish Lego Horizon would get dated already.

Thanks for all the people giving this a 7 in the comments, I get the impression the person who wrote the review already wasn't a fan of Funko. Sure they're ugly, but that's the point. The black eyes are kinda soulless, glad my Balrog has yellow-orange.

This has such amazing license's I'm gonna have to play it at some point. He-man, The Thing, Back To the Future and loads more, pure gold 👍

@Ryu_Niiyama can't stress how wonderful it is to find a fellow Xena/ LL fan. I loved the ps1 game, I quite enjoyed the n64 fighting game and even bought the ps2 abomination. I remember going to my local shop every week asking them if it had arrived yet and when it did, the owner told me, "all this fuss over this? It's not even a good game." I had no idea how bad it'd be, but I couldn't resist. Whenever there is any game with character creation, I always choose female and try to make her look and fight like Xena as much as possible. I even downloaded Raid: Shadow Legends.

Anyway, rant = over

If you play, Funko Fusion at some point, I'd really like to hear your thoughts.

@rjejr Co-op is not available, it's coming in a later update (probably when the PS4 version launches in November).

I'm ambivalent to Funko. I don't particularly like the look of them but the odd one is okay (I have the Proto Man one on my shelves atm). I don't have the rabid hatred for them that others seem to have though.

Bland, soulless, generally unnerving cash-grab. Sounds a very faithful adaptation to me!

Damn. I'd booked two weeks off work to play this.

@Jacko11 Huh? I was just relating my experience because your avatar made me remember something and chuckle about it.

@SMcCrae95 Thanks. Guess I’ll keep an eye out for November.

My kids may be happy to try it when it hits PS Plus one day?

Have feeling this game will end up on PS Plus Essential before long. I'm interested to play for Hot Fuzz alone but there's no way I'm paying full release price for this.

Funko can funko off, their products are trash tier, so not surprised the quality of the games matches.

@Jacko11 We probably live in a hate culture because big corporations like Funko choose to bury their stock instead of give them out to poorer children in 3rd world countries because money. Maaaaaybe have a look at why a company is generally disliked more than others, it's usually deserved.

@Jayofmaya your consoles and whatever piece of technology you made this comment from is made by slaves earning pennies a year in sweatshops.

Don’t try and lecture based on Funko 😂😂

@SMcCrae95 Thanks for the review, but why is there no disclosure about the developer? It's a new studio, founded by the TT Games founder (LEGO Games), Jon Burton and this is their first game. Regarding his experience, the result is really baffling.

@Jimbobaus I completely agree

@Jacko11 That's an argument of false equivalence. Most people require a phone to remain social and maintain their livelihood, as well as have security in emergencies. I don't think you could argue you need your big headed plastic figures for any of that... Also, just because we may be supporting one unethical thing, it doesn't mean we may as well support all of them.

@Jayofmaya so f**k those kids?

@Jacko11 No, the company mostly, but also the parents of said kids that would still buy the products of said company with knowledge of their misdeeds.