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![]() ![]() Then I found a torch outside! There are lots of these little gleeful moments of discovery and delight.īut possibly the other thing that felt kind of off about The Skywalker Saga is that it's just kind of a third-person shooter now, and this is most evident in the story. Another desert cave had a Kyber Brick inside, but it was too dark to see inside. ![]() A little robot wanted protection from Jawas as it travelled over the desert, and at the end it opened a secret cave door with a new minifig unlock. Some dudes had found an abandoned house but it was locked - the key must be nearby! So I explored and found the key. It was just fun leaping around and riding on improbably large alien beasties and finding secrets. It's maybe a sad indictment of how jaded I feel about Star Wars in general these days, but I enjoyed the hub areas way more than the story levels. There are crates and crates of it around his home, and his first cinematic treats it like the blue milk is some kind of shameful secret, like really niche porn. My favourite retcon in The Skywalker Saga is that Luke fucking loves blue milk and always has. Jedi have a bunch of mind trick stuff they can do, for example. That's cool! And there are very many more of these that I didn't get to play around with. You need a force user to levitate stuff (and to score in that football game), Luke can dress as a Stormtrooper, and - my favourite - some aliens have side missions for you but you can't speak to them unless you're controlling a protocol droid. As well as the hidden Minikits that add up to new vehicles, every level has Kyber Bricks that you can use as a currency to upgrade character abilities to have longer or greater effects. I found a weird little camp suggesting there was a stowaway on the rebel ship, and in the desert of Tattooine there were a couple of Jawas who'd set up a football game. The levels also have nooks and crannies that reward exploration with jokes or collectibles. This also dings an achievement for doing a unique thing hidden in the level, each level having three. The latter allows you to waste the guys, and the former opens up a side path so you can sneak by and then open an airlock (to also waste the guys). The Skywalker Saga levels have multiple routes - for example, in one bit Leia finds a corridor full of Stormtroopers, and can choose to build a fire extinguisher or a turret gun. The earlier movies have been totally remade, and there are more visual gags, more character-specific powers to solve puzzles with, and more collectibles. The first thing you notice is that the game is now very shiny and very high def compared to the older Lego games of yore. In short, it felt like the best version of the Lego games you loved when you were younger. These were the desert around the farm, and Mos Eisley itself. I did the whole bit on the rebel ship where Leia records her message for Obi Wan and wellies Artoo and Threepio down to Tatooine, then a bunch of side missions on the planet, before running around the hub areas. I still kind of think of Episode IV as Episode I, to be honest, but it's the one from the 70s - you know, with Luke all on the moisture farm hearing the call for adventure and the Mos Eisley cantina and that.
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