LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - All the Cheat Codes Spotted in the New Trailer

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Over the years, video games have lost some things that were once considered staples. One of the biggest examples of this is cheat codes. These codes used to be common in games, giving players anything from access to secret music rooms to special characters to the ability to access any level and fly around with a debug mode. The 3D era brought even more variance to cheat codes, with a lot of them like big head mode being relegated to jokes that could last for an entire playthrough. They were rarely necessary additions to games, but many developers added a fair bit of extra charm through them, and some like the Konami Code have gone down as a signature part of gaming history.

Not all cheat codes were lost as the generations ticked on, however. Even as video game projects became more focused and tightly designed, a couple of places still found room to fit in old-school cheat codes. Perhaps the most famous of these is the LEGO games, starting with the original LEGO Star Wars. While these codes were different from normal codes in that they often unlocked things that then needed to be purchased with in-game resources, they still did just about everything that one would expect from a cheat code. Characters, money multipliers, visual filters, and other assorted gags were all tied into these codes.

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Now, almost two decades later, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is bringing back some of the franchise’s oldest cheat codes for the grandest LEGO Star Wars yet. The gameplay overview trailer partially revealed the list of extras unlocked through codes or currency and collectibles, and they consist of a mix of old favorites and new cheats that are