LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan

LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan is an action-adventure video game developed by TT Fusion and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It was released in April 2013.^[1] The game is based on the Lego City brand. It serves as a prequel to Lego City Undercover.

Plot – LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan

Two years before the events of Lego City Undercover, Chase McCain, a rookie cop working for the Lego City Police Department, has one objective in mind: to put the most wanted man, Rex Fury, in jail. To do that, he has to go to every region of the city to find the wanted man in question.

As far as story connections go, it was Chase who accidentally revealed that Natalia Kowalski, his girlfriend who previously worked as a news reporter turned out to be the secret witness in the Rex trial, which forced her to go under witness protection. As a result, Chase was eventually exiled from Lego City, but not before he attempted to fix his mistakes by pursuing Rex and the criminals that work for him. It also outlines how Chase managed to arrest Rex Fury. Furthermore, the game reveals that Mayor Gleeson, a character also featured in Lego City Undercover, was formerly the chief of police, and how Chief Dunby was just a deputy officer.

Development – LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan

The game was announced during Nintendo’s press conference at E3 2011 on June 7, 2011, with the tentative name Lego City Stories. On January 17, 2013, the game was revealed to be Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins, and that it would be a prequel to the Wii U game.^{[citation needed]}

Protagonists – LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan

Chase McCain: A rookie cop and the main protagonist of the game. His main objective is to arrest Rex Fury.
Deputy Dunby: A strict police deputy who dislikes Chase.
Chief Gleeson: The police chief before she becomes mayor of LEGO City.
Natalia Kowalski: Chase’s love interest who works as a news reporter before she works in the medical field. She was forced to go under witness protection after Chase accidentally revealed her identity when she testified against Rex Fury.
Warden Fielding: A prison warden in Albatross Island who was locked-up by Burt Wellington. He retires before the events of LEGO City Undercover.
Sheriff Shepherd: The sheriff who is in-charge in the Bluebell Woods Police Station.
Security Guard Meller: A security officer at Apollo Island that assists Chase in defeating Flash Johnson.

Antagonists – LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan

Rex Fury: A criminal who is the game’s main antagonist.
Tony “Knuckles” McGee: The first criminal that Chase encountered in Cherry Tree Hills.
Burt “Birdman” Wellington: Albatross Island’s most dangerous inmate.
Smokey Fuentes: A crime boss who is responsible for preventing the repairs on the Auburn Bay Bridge.
von Kruchman: A terrorist criminal in Fort Meadows who kidnapped Jethro Hayes
Flash Johnson: An astronaut criminal who kidnapped the Natalia Kowalski to threaten Dr. Henrik Kowalski so he could give him his Ray Guns.
Carl Walnuts: A criminal working for Forrest Blackwell.
Forrest Blackwell: A billionaire who wants to destroy the Bluebell Forest to build his apartment complex. (Isn’t known to be a criminal by anyone else)

Reception – LEGO City Undercover The Chase Begins Japan

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	62/100^[2]

Publication	Score
Destructoid	5.5/10^[3]
Eurogamer	7/10^[4]
Famitsu	32/40^[5]
Game Informer	6/10^[6]
GameRevolution	^[7]
GameZone	7.5/10^[8]
IGN	6.3/10^[9]
Nintendo Life	^[10]
Nintendo World Report	5.5/10^[11]
Official Nintendo Magazine	64%^[12]
Pocket Gamer	^[13]
Digital Spy	^[14]
Metro	3/10^[15]

The game received “mixed” reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[2] IGN called it a “decent” game that is marred by “a lot of fog, a lot of loading, no voice acting and a jarring framerate”.^[9] In Japan, where the game was ported for release on 5 March 2015, Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40.^[5]