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Luke Skywalker? Boring. General Grievous? Now we're talking.
As a wise person once said, “Sit down, Elden Ring babies, LEGO Star Wars is the real gamer's game." Or something like that.
I’m not going into the whole spiel about how we’re still in early 2022, and my game queue is already blown through the roof. Now, to the untrained, un-G-FUEL-gamer-supplement-infused eye, one may think, LEGO Star Wars, that's baby shit!” For them, I weep. Sure, at first look, it may not be the most complicated game. But with hundreds of characters and collectibles—sometimes locked behind brain-boggling puzzles—there's plenty of fun and veg-worthy content to explore. For the unfamiliar, the newly-released LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga takes players through a gorgeous, lovable, and comedic recreation of all nine films in the Skywalker Saga. The game is a certified couch co-op, collectathon masterpiece, this time with a deeper combo and combat system, and stunning, plastic-filled graphics, so why waste my time selling it? True gamers (who are the only people reading this, I assume) already know this.
Instead, I'd like to revisit my Pulitzer Prize-winning article (fake, wrong) from two years ago, when I dove into the world of Tic-Tac Zoomers and helped learn them about what their LEGO Star Wars profile pic said about them. I’m sure you have a lot of questions, like, why would you revisit that? Or hell, write it in the first place? To all of you I simply say: 1-v-1 me on the streets of Dagobah, noob.
Now, only the real ones are left. Let's get started. For Part One—and I can't believe I'm saying that—head over here.
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