Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a love letter to the series

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The Star Wars universe has been explored and retold through so many mediums, going through those adventures so many times can easily feel like a chore. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga does a fantastic job of making it a joyous adventure, while also ensuring the side content and galaxy exploration of the game remain the primary highlight.

Typically, a Star Wars game needs to tell a new story, ones we haven’t already heard dozens of times, but The Skywalker Saga embraces all of the movies in each of their respective trilogies. The good, the bad, the funny, and the heartbreaking. Although TT Games’ Lego humor breaks through one too many times during these struggles, it never takes away from what made the Star Wars stories so beloved.

The adventure begins with you having the choice to start with the first episode in any of the three Star Wars trilogies. You’ll need to work your way through the traditional stories, and you’ll slowly unlock content as you progress through the game, acquiring new characters, starships, missions, and planets to explore. The cinematics, heroics, and voice acting are superb throughout each Episode. To the delight of many Clone Wars fans, many actors are reprising their roles, such as James Arnold Taylor and Matt Lanter as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, respectively.

The graphics throughout the game are always gorgeous, and they’re given even further highlights when paired with beautiful cinematic shots. While it is a game primarily about Lego bricks, those bricks shine with an unusually perfect sheen, and the background and environments are exquisitely rendered, making it hard to believe we didn’t get a photo mode. Thankfully, these story