LEGO Lord of the Rings on DS is basically the whole trilogy crammed into one tiny cartridge, and somehow it works. You start off in the Shire, smashing barrels for studs (because of course LEGO Frodo needs money), and before long you're swapping between the whole fellowship to solve little puzzles—Gimli smashes rocks, Legolas does fancy archery tricks, and Gandalf... well, he mostly just waves his staff at glowing things.

The cutscenes are hilarious—they retell the movies with zero dialogue, just grunts and mumbles, and Boromir’s death scene somehow hits harder when he’s a tiny plastic man. Combat’s simple but satisfying, especially when you unlock characters like Sauron and just stomp around Mordor wrecking orcs. My only gripe? The DS version cuts some stuff from the console ones, but it’s still weirdly addictive to rebuild Middle-earth one LEGO bridge at a time.