LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a comfy co-op collectathon

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I was genuinely on the fence about getting LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, but I took a chance that my burnt-out Star Wars fandom wouldn’t botch what seemed to be the culmination of TT Games’ tried-and-true LEGO collectathon formula. Now, I’m one of three million people zipping around the galaxy in search of near-endless Kyber Bricks.

To my fellow collectible obsessors — to folks like me who love Donkey Kong 64, hold the caveats — this game is pretty sweet. It’s the kind of experience you can breezily chip away at for months on end, and it’s a near-nightly co-op pastime for me at this point.

To put it in perspective, Powerpyx‘s Trophy Roadmap breakdown marks LEGO Skywalker Saga as a 2/10 on the difficulty scale with a 70- to 90-hour Platinum trophy estimate.

I expected a pleasant enough slow-burn experience as a fan of prior LEGO games like Jurassic World, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Super Heroes (the GOAT), but I was blown away by the sheer scale of this nine-film juggernaut. The whole game could’ve just been the Free Play hub worlds, and I would’ve been fine with that; in fact, I might’ve preferred it.

You can begin the story on Episode I, Episode IV, or Episode VII. But choose carefully.

Running back and forth to NPCs in Episode I without any excitement between beats felt like a bad omen, but the worst segments of LEGO Skywalker Saga won’t last too long. On the flip side, the best bits — scenes that clicked with my Star Wars nostalgia — also felt super brief. It’s fascinating to see what did, and didn’t, make the cut. ~So much~ didn’t.

When everything was said and done, I ended up skimming certain thick-as-hell wiki entries, which I had zero expectation of doing going into this game. As someone who hasn’t really