I couldn’t go to a planet until I visited it during one of the films, which means The Skywalker Saga’s sandbox felt incomplete throughout my whole adventure. Despite that, all nine films are telling linear stories, and the game is constantly trying to shuffle the player to the next big thing. Players can even fly in space above each planet. The Skywalker Saga features many planets and locales that are truly fun to explore. I was disappointed to find that the game really doesn’t do that. Going into The Skywalker Saga, I couldn’t wait to see how TT Games seamlessly integrated the stories of nine Star Wars films into one open-world sandbox. I can forgive that in such a large game, but this design mindset also gives The Skywalker Saga a structure that some may consider unnatural. This approach does mean that some ideas aren’t fully fleshed out and that some character abilities, like a Protocol Droids’ ability to hack turrets, feel useless.
The Skywalker Saga constantly throws out new ideas and riffs on preexisting ones, which keeps the experience fresh.
For example, Jedi can use force powers, droids can hack certain terminals, and heroes can disguise themselves as enemies after defeating them. The Skywalker Saga’s 300+ characters are part of individual character classes, each of which has unique abilities in and outside of combat. They are often the main reward for the challenges found across each planet, and they’re needed to upgrade each class’s abilities. Collecting studs and completing challenges in the linear levels grants Kyber Bricks. Kyber Bricks are the primary motivator behind doing anything in The Skywalker Saga. The Skywalker Saga constantly throws out new ideas and riffs on preexisting ones. The introductory level of A New Hope does an amazing job at highlighting how much has improved compared to past Lego games. I chose to play the game in release order, from A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker. When I first booted up The Skywalker Saga, I could select the first film of any of the trilogies. Throughout my adventure, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga always felt torn between being a faithful recreation of every mainline Star Wars film and becoming the freeing galactic sandbox it clearly wants to be. Unfortunately, it’s also an experience that doesn’t fully coalesce. This makes it a perfectly enjoyable Lego title for players who may have fallen out of love with the series and an exciting teaser of where this franchise can still go. It retells the stories of nine iconic films, features a lot of hubs worlds that players can explore and collect items in, and deepens combat with its new class systems.
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