Joe Newman has typed up a preview for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 on the Xbox 360. Read on to see why this might turn out to be the best LEGO based game to date.

Deep within your brain, there’s a little lobe that desperately wants you to act like a nine year-old. This little lobe is in control every time you queue up The Princess Bride on Netflix or decide to buy a candy bar to reward yourself for a trip to the dentist. In that lobe, there’s also a little box with all your favorite moments from the original Star Wars or Indiana Jones or Batman movies, along with your memories of building and smashing LEGOs together on the carpet of your living rooms on Saturday mornings after the good cartoons ended.

Now, the LEGO series is at its best when it’s targeting that particular lobe and tickling it with all its might. To that end, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 certainly seems to be following suit. So is it successful? Well, we only got to see a little taste of Harry’s new adventures in our short demo, but we’re happy to admit that yes, we did feel some tickling.

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