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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is action adventure game the released in 2022 for the Nintendo Switch. The game retells the story of the 9 main Star Wars films in LEGO format. It was initially going to released in 2020, but got repeatedly delayed.
Plot[]
The plot is a streamlined retelling of the movies with comedy injected at various points. Each of the movies is told across 5 levels consisting a varied sequences that somewhat loosely follows the plot. While every character is voiced, there is an option to play the game where everyone speaks in mumbles.
Gameplay[]
Unlike most Lego video games in which players had to advance through the story in a linear order, players can choose to start the game from any of the three Skywalker Saga trilogies and complete them in any order they wish. Each episode has five main story missions, making a total of 45 levels, contrasting from six levels per episode in previous games. Combat has been revamped from previous titles, such as lightsaber wielders now using a variety of combo with light attacks, heavy attacks, and Force moves, and blaster characters having an over-the-shoulder camera. The game features 380 playable characters, not necessarily restricted to the nine Skywalker Saga films.
Much like its predecessor, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the game's hub is not a single area, such as the Mos Eisley Cantina in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, but a wide range of fully explorable planets filled with many iconic Star Wars landmarks. Planets and moons featured in the game include Naboo, Tatooine, Coruscant, Kamino, Geonosis, Kashyyyk, Utapau, Mustafar, Yavin 4, Hoth, Dagobah, Bespin, Endor, Jakku, Takodana, D'Qar, Starkiller Base, Ahch-To, Cantonica, Crait, Ajan Kloss, Pasaana, Kijimi, Kef Bir, and Exegol. Many ships have freely explorable areas in the hub as well, such as Star Destroyers and the Death Star. Random encounters may occur in the game's hub world. For example, an Imperial Star Destroyer could suddenly jump out of hyperspace and send a fleet of TIE fighters after the player. Players can choose to engage in dogfights with them or continue onward to progress the story.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga does not feature a character customization tool unlike many previous Lego video games. The game also includes Mumble Mode, an extra feature allowing players to switch between the game's original voice acting and having the characters mumble and grunt, akin to the style of older Lego video games.
Development[]
The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm had not shared significant details of the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with the game team before the film's release. In the meantime, TT Games worked on other aspects of the game until Lucasfilm shared more details. The game is developed in TT Games' new proprietary game engine, NTT (pronounced "entity").
Reception[]
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. It had the biggest launch of a Lego game on Steam. The retail version of the game debuted at No. 1 on the UK software sales chart in its week of release. It had the biggest launch ever for a Lego game in the UK, breaking the record previously set by Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (2008).
Gallery[]
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External links[]
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga at GameFAQs