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| Developer | Traveller's Tales Amaze Entertainment |
| Publisher | TT Games Eidos Interactive |
| Universe | Bionicle (universe) |
| Starting Level | Piraka Bluff |
| Hub | Voya Nui |
| Release Date | November 2006 |
| Rating | E (GBA) E10+ (PS2, Xbox 360, GC, Wii) T (DS) |
| Systems | PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS Nintendo Wii |
| Categories | Characters Levels Episodes |
| LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy | Bionicle Heroes | LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga | ||||
Bionicle Heroes is a third person shooter published by TT Games. It becomes an FPS in the DS port and a run and gun platformer in the GBA port with the Toa Mata as playable. The game is non canon to the Bionicle lore however and includes elements from the Toa Mata, Toa Metru and Toa Inika storylines of Bionicle.
Plot[]
Beasts known as the Piraka have stolen a mask known as the Mask of Life and have used it to turn the Matoran of Voya Nui into monsters under their control. A single villager named Balta finds the player, an unnamed Matoran and gives them a mask with the power to save Voya Nui and recover the Mask of Life.
The hub world the player starts out in has a shop where they can use the LEGO Technic pieces they find laying around or by breaking objects to buy hints, disks or masks with the different Toa Inika abilities. The Technic pieces are also used to fill up a bar on the top of the screen similar to the Studs, only they allow the player to enter Hero Mode to gain more powerful attacks and be able to build gold Constractions (Construction with Action).
Two levels will involve a miniboss, one against a Rahkshi and the other against a titan that the Piraka has built, with the third level type being just a simple get to the end goal level and the fourth being a boss fight against the Piraka of the Zone. At the beginning and end of certain levels will play a cutscene of the Piraka growing furious at the player thwarting their plans before facing off against the player in the last level of the Zone.
Once all six of the Piraka have been defeated, the player can face off against the final boss and the wielder of the Mask of Life, Vezon and his Rahi, a spider monster named Fenrakk which he rides on. This gives the player access to the final level, Vezon's Awakening. In the end, the villains sink into a pool of lava and the player reclaims the Mask of Light, transforming all of Voya Nui back to normal.
If the player collects all the Canisters, they get an extra cutscene of Balta praising the player for saving Voya Nui as the camera pans out into the clouds
Levels[]
The six episodes (or Zones as it's called in game) are marked by the six different Piraka masks that surround a single room in the hub world, each Zone has four levels and once one level is beaten, the next Zone will open up. The player can either complete the first world of each Zone first, or finish up every level in one Zone first before moving onto the next one.
The Zones also each have a number of Gold and Silver Canisters to find, some of which require the abilities of the Toa that the player can purchase from the hub world's shop. Each level in a Zone follows this pattern, the first will end with a miniboss against a Rahkshi one of the Piraka built, the second will involve the player getting to the end of the stage to find an orb to open the next level, the third will be a miniboss against a stronger titan the Piraka built and the fourth level will simply be a boss fight against the Piraka itself.
During the game the player will have access to six different Toa masks with their own abilities, based on the Toa Inika. If the player loses all of their hit points as one Toa, they can switch to another and lose access to that mask. They can reclaim the mask if they find it hidden in the levels, finding a mask will also replenish their health meter.
Upon beating the boss in one level, the player can replay the levels in the Zone as the Piraka they defeated. Beating the final boss will allow them to play as Vezon himself and be able to perform Constractions that use black bricks, which only he can build.
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Reception[]
This game was met with average reviews, who found this game good for kids, but bad for anyone else. This game was mostly critiqued because of levels, that were repetitive and bad camera angle. Suprisingly, the highest scoring versions were the DS one (rating of 72) and the GBA one (rating of 79). The Xbox 360 and PC versions scored 59. PS2 and Wii version scored 52. The lowest scoring version was the GameCube one rated at 51.
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Trivia[]
- The DS port is the only LEGO game to this day that's rated T.
- However, the PSP version of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy incorrectly carries a T rating instead of E10+ on PS5.
- The Console/PC versions were also planned to be first-person shooters, but LEGO feared that it would up the age rating to M, so they went with the third person perspective instead.
- Despite not being part of the mainline LEGO games, Bionicle Heroes still has elements similar to them such as:
- The Constractions are basically just the building segments.
- The Technic bar being Bionicle's version of the Stud Bar, building within levels and unlocking new extras via the shop in a hub world with the Technic pieces.
- The different Canisters unlocking upgrades to the characters much like the Power Bricks.
- The Toa masks the player buys to unlock new characters are just like the purchasable characters from the mainline games.
- This is the only Bionicle game to not mention Makuta in any way.
- This is the first LEGO game for the Wii.
- This is the last LEGO game for the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance.
- This is the only LEGO Game to have a simultaneous release on the GameCube and the Wii.
- Had the GameCube version been available on LodgeNet TVs as part of the Nintendo Gateway System, there would've been no changes made.
- This was the last LEGO video game in which a GameCube controller could be used until the remastered version of LEGO City Undercover came out in 2017 on Nintendo Switch as none of the LEGO games for the Wii or Wii U support the GameCube Controller.