Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga | Critical Consensus
Danielle Partis
News Editor
Tuesday 5th April 2022
Today sees the launch of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, a collation of cinema-adjacent Star Wars adventures developed by TT Games.
The Skywalker Saga was originally unveiled in December 2019 following the release of the most recent mainline movie, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It was initially slated to launch in 2020, but hit a couple of delays during the pandemic.
It was also reported earlier this year that employees at TT Games were subject to excessive crunch during the time that The Skywalker Saga was in development, as well as bullying and mismanagement which allegedly led to the delay of the game.
The Skywalker Saga contains adaptations of all nine mainline Star Wars films, retold in Lego's signature style. Players take control of popular characters from the films and move through levels, adventuring through retellings of the story's familiar plot lines, laced with the trademark slapstick humour of the Lego games.
It is dubbed as the most extensive Lego title to date, with "hundreds of playable characters" spread across an open-world galaxy full of collectibles. The Star Wars trilogies can be played in any order, but players must begin at the start of each one (no randomly dropping in at the Luke and Vader fight in Episode V, for example.)
"The perfect Lego game, the perfect Star Wars game, and a fantastic send off to an illustrious series as a whole"
James Law, Gfinity
As of writing, it currently has a score of 84 on Metacritic, composed mostly of favourable reviews. One of the highest ratings came from James Law at Gfinity, who, in a 9/10 review, called The Skywalker Saga "the perfect Lego game, the perfect Star Wars game, and a fantastic send off to an
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