Nine films and three trilogies in one video game: this episode of Lego Star Wars is for the developer TT Games the sum of nearly twenty years of stellar brick-built games.
The Skywalker saga
celebrates the conclusion of the story arc of
Star Wars
and only examines the cinematic universe of the nine films from A new hope a The rise of Skywalker. A lot of meat on the fire therefore, for an action game and puzzles in the purest Lego style, but with some innovations in the mechanics and with an excellent multiplayer that make it the best of the series. It must also be said that TT Games has not forgotten the most beloved “spin-off” heroes, thus inserting the Mandalorian and the beloved Grogu. The player can start the narration as he prefers: at the beginning of the game he can select the chronological order of exit to the cinema starting with A new hopeor start from the order suggested by the storyline and then with The phantom menace. Levels will unlock accordingly as you progress through the story, which tries (successfully) to cover all the highlights of the entire Lucas saga. TT Games has completely recreated from the ground up any situation we had found ourselves playing in any previous one Lego Star Warsalso rewriting the concatenation of events and numerous jokes and gags which the game, in perfect continuity with the past, is full of.
The development team’s choice of giving the player the freedom to explore the classic worlds of Star Wars between one mission and another. Thanks to very large and open world settings we will be able to visit Tatooine, Coruscant, Jakku and many other locations of the saga for a total of 24 planets divided into sectors: a real pleasure for any opera lover. The areas are teeming with main and secondary missions, but when the levels are all unlocked we recommend that you dedicate yourself to the “free play” mode, which allows you to move from one planet to another without constraints and freely choosing the characters. Given the multitude of heroes that we will find ourselves controlling, it is always important to choose carefully and according to the situation. Some use the Force, others decode terminals, still others hack: whether you play alone or in multiplayer, it is always good to keep in mind the various skills available for each of the classes. The game is never difficult or frustrating, however: the medium difficulty is set downwards and exploration never leads to dead ends. For sure, TT Games has given depth to the whole by enriching it with role-playing cues, complete with skill expansion trees for the various characters. Nothing too complex, but a welcome addition to the usual formula.
To a more cinematic style of play than usual and more similar to that of third-person shooters, TT Games has added refined enemy AI. The flight sections are a little less fluid, due to controls that are not exactly intuitive: it will be necessary to get some hands on them. Visually, the work done by the developers is more than good, with wonderful scenarios reproduced in Lego sauce but as spectacular as in any film of Star Wars. The game easily holds up the most excited situations without ever losing the framerate, and the modest leap forward of the new generation console versions is evident. Any lover of Lego games alone or as a family will find it in The Skywalker saga the best of the TT Games production of the last twenty years, plus some interesting insights from the gameplay point of view. No game like the ones in the Lego series allows you to combine so many narratives into one experience, and in this case no fan of Star Wars will be able to resist.
Format: PS4, PS5 (versione testata), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Developer: TT Games Vote: 8/10