Review: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

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It’s often really hard to keep track of LEGO games. If you aren’t the target audience, sometimes a sequel is fully out before you can even look at picking up the original. But with Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Traveller’s Tales is aiming to just get it all done in one go.

That wholesale approach works out in their favor, with some caveats.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X [reviewed]) Developer: Traveller’s Tales Publisher: WB Released: April 5, 2022 MSRP: $59.99

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a lightsaber-nostalgia-fest spanning nearly 50 years of prequel, sequel, and original trilogy history. While those nine films are the core focus, there are homages to Solo and The Mandalorian, mainly in the form of character unlocks (there’s over 300 characters in all, and 78 “extras” not housed under the nine film umbrella).

So at the very start of the Skywalker Saga, the first film in each trilogy is unlocked, and you’re free to enter one of your choosing (completing the first film in a single trilogy will unlock the subsequent sequel, and so on). It’s all very relaxed, as LEGO games often are, and you can change episodes via a menu screen while in-game like you were swapping cartridges in a retro system. Because of that, I found myself swapping between stories often so one trilogy didn’t overstay its welcome.

Full voicework is back, although there is still some pantomiming. I can see the merits of both approaches, and feel like the modern games benefit from a mix. There’s plenty of comedic undertones that fit the lighthearted themes of the Lucas films. To be clear, this isn’t a remaster: in fact, The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were never given the LEGO treatment