It firmly believes you're someone who likes collecting bricks, so it's too bad if you don't. It pushes all its chips into the center of the poker table and says, "all in" on collectibles. Complete a mission and it'll run you through the challenges you completed – or didn't – the bricks you got – or didn't – the Lego bits you collected – or failed to – and you get the idea – or do you? The Lego games have always had quite a bit of this, but in rewarding you for collecting all these different things The Skywalker Saga seems to forget that it's unrewarding when you don't. No complaints on this frontĬollect your first Kyber Brick and a pop-up will announce that you've pocketed one of over a THOUSAND. Playing at 1080p on an RTX 2070 saw no hitches or stuttering and a very smooth frame rate in busy areas. You'll need them to upgrade your many skill trees, which offer health and damage upgrades and more ways for you to earn Lego bits. Scattered all over them are shiny bricks that are marked on your minimap. The trouble with the hub worlds is their unwavering confidence that you'll love collecting stuff. You can't fault The Skywalker Saga's presentation, which Lego-fies the galaxy in a wonderful way, truly making every little thing feel like it's constructed by a Danish toy production company. Some locales really do look the part, especially Mos Eisley, which brims with raiders and weird alien dudes and tusked beasts. Mos Eisley, Tattooine, Hoth, Manchester – they're all here. Sandwiched between the wars of the stars are hub worlds that are basically commercial breaks the game plops you into. And as Alice Bee said in her Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Preview, there's a lot of third-person shooting now. Sometimes, though, it reduces climactic moments to pure drudgery, as you stave off an army of Droids the MMO way: hovering a circle over rectangles and watching numbers climb. Sometimes it's great fun, as you hoist Yoda on your back and tackle an obstacle course, or speed past Sebulba in a slightly jank pod-race. The game swings between these two extremes as you hop between episodes. The Force Awakens is strong too, with clever platforming sections that have you cycling through Rey's scavenger tools, like a net gun to scale walls or a glider to traverse gaps. You're encouraged to flit between Leia and R2 to hack terminals or deconstruct and reconstruct things that'll help you progress. Start with A New Hope and things are better paced, with a nice balance of puzzling and battling that plays to Lego Star Wars' main strength i.e. Early on you escape from the Droidekas and before you know it you're underwater in Gungan Town. The Phantom Menace is laughably short, racing through sections with little cohesion. Quality differs tremendously depending on which episode you choose. Expect lots of slapstick comedy like aliens bonking their heads on low doorways or characters spilling drinks over one another, blue milk, that sort of thing. There is an infectious cheekiness to the Skywalker Saga, which makes it a simple jaunt for fans or those new to it all. The game cares more for the collectathon than it does the story, dishing out the plot like George Lucas idly flicking through a collection of flash cards. No, not the way the galaxy's portrayed with a plastic sheen and built from blocks, but in the ludicrous number of collectible bricks. Technically yes, but trust your gut, your feeling, the force and you'll realise that it's bricks. You might think the Skywalker bloodline is what runs through the game's episodes and ties them all together. And that's fine, making things manageable for someone like me who gets paralysed by choice. Once you've beaten one of these you move onto the next in the boxset. Although, it only lets you access the first from each of these 'series' to begin with, so that's A New Hope, The Phantom Menace, or The Force Awakens. You can take your pick from a carousel of all nine Star Wars films to date: the originals, the prequels, the sequels. Yet its episodes are wildly inconsistent, with stories told at lightspeed and open world hubs filled with so many collectible bricks it solidifies your brain to a lump of mortar.īoot up Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and it's quite something. The game is charming and breezy, offering plenty of locales and set pieces fans of the force will fawn over. All nine Star Wars films bundled up in bricks! But do its pieces really come together? Well, yes and no. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga represents great value. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga reviewĪ Star Wars compilation that's undeniably fun, but wildly inconsistent and with far too much padding from collectibles.
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