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venture! stimulate! The Jedi don't like these things. If that's true, then all Jedi should cancel their pre-order for LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga. Because of this new lego game series brought by Traveller's Tales, the use of plastic blocks once again brings more exciting adventures! With nine classic scenes from the Star Wars mainline movies and a sheer number of planets for players to explore freely, Skywalker's hilarious style brings an exciting adventure that makes me as happy as a robot bathed in hot oil.
LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga boldly abandons the zoomed-out camera perspective of previous LEGO games, instead adopting a shoulder-crossing third-person perspective that is closer to the characters, similar to Gears of War and Uncharted. This design makes it easier for players to control your character's attacks, you can throw a lightsaber and catch it, and the chest can be pushed around with the Force, giving a strange sense of satisfaction. The simple combo system also makes it easy to throw enemies into the air and take them away with a set of lightsabers. The battle experience of playing as a Jedi or Sith may not be as deep and complex as Star Wars Jedi: The Fallen Order, but it is just as smooth and smooth to play, and the experience is excellent.
If you control the character with the Blaster Gun, you can hide behind bunkers such as walls and kill enemies from a distance, and you can switch between different bunkers with one click. (A similar bunker design was used in 2016's LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but only in specific scenes in a certain level.) I like that they added a mechanic to this system that can quickly repair destroyed bunkers (enemies too), but I don't feel like I have to hide behind bunkers except for specific boss battles. In Skywalker Saga, the constant recovery of health bars and the Storm Soldier who can't hit people at all means that even if you run around and fight, there is basically no risk. I do enjoy the gunfights in Skywalker, but the fun comes more from the colorful scenes than from the tactical depth of it.
The new over-the-shoulder perspective not only makes you feel closer to the battle, but also makes each LEGO brick look more realistic. Hot Wheels: Unleashed in 2021 sets a new standard for high-fidelity virtual plastic rendering, and every piece of plastic in Skywalker Saga looks like it's more than enough. There will also be some traces of paint wear on the dolls, like toys that are often held in their hands. Every LEGO object is so realistic that when the LEGO titanium fighter, which was carefully assembled with 1,000 bricks, exploded, I seemed to be able to hear the angry howls of parents who spent an afternoon helping their children put together this toy.
Farce awakens
LEGO Star Wars games always add the spoof fun of the movie Space Cannonball when restoring classic scenes, and Skywalker Legends is no exception, even in the most dangerous moments, it will try to highlight the funny side of the Force. Whether it's emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader discussing the new Death Star, the Stormmen behind them stumble like dominoes, or Darth Sidious accidentally issues order 67 while sending instruction 66, causing all the clones to start jumping on the disco in place without starting a mass hunt for the Jedi. Skywalker Legends always finds a way to satirize the original movie, bringing many fun moments. And in the Rise of Skywalker section, many of the deliberately spoofed plots are more enjoyable than the unexpected laughs in the original movie.
What attracted me to Skywalker was not only the hilarious atmosphere, but also the variety of mission types. Although creatively and gameplay is not as good as 2021's "Two-Player Trip", the 45 main story levels are different, and the gameplay never becomes boring. Skywalker Legends has brainless mowing sections, such as the exciting tower defense mini-game in the Battle of Naboo, where players use Gangen trebuchets to fire energy balls to destroy hordes of Trade Alliance robots and tanks. At the same time, there are also sections in the main quest that focus on the gameplay on the protagonist, such as when Rey enters the Mirror Cave on Temple Island, the player must carefully control her reflection to find the portal switch that opens the exit.
The game's levels fully meet the expectations of fans, not only designed shuttle racing, X-wing fighter assault on the Death Star, and various lightsaber duels, but also these players familiar scenes are also silky smooth, beautiful graphics, and a great experience to play. The only fly in the ointment is that the cinematic approach to expression is sometimes too rigid. For example, in a boss battle against Kylo Ren, I had already emptied his blood bar, but because of the series of QTE events that followed, the battle continued for nearly a minute before it ended.
Extra adventure
Each story mission is associated with a sizable central region on 20 planets. From the dusty streets of Mos eisley on Tatooine to the glossy surfaces of Coruscant's financial district, scenes from many movies appear in the game. These open areas and collectible hidden Köber blocks are a perfect match, bringing with them many interesting environmental puzzles. While it's inevitable that there will be repetitive challenges in the galaxy — stacking chests to get the Khober squares in mid-air seems to appear frequently on every planet — there are plenty of surprises waiting along the way. I particularly liked that one of the challenges on Camino was inspired by Lemmingham, which required me to adjust a series of platforms to prevent a hapless clone from going to the wrong room, or conducting a Wookie choir on Casik star to howl out a Star Wars theme song by John Williams.
The Kapper Blocks collected can be used as currency to purchase core upgrades shared by all characters or boosts for each class. However, many core upgrades seem to me to be mandatory, such as increasing the range of resources that characters automatically collect, or speeding up the speed at which they build things. Then a lot of professional specialties are actually not necessary to upgrade, because Skywalker Legends is not very difficult at all. If I could easily use the Blaster Gun to solve the enemies who ambushed me after falling off the wall, the ability of so many bounty hunters to see the enemy through the bunker would be of little significance.
Although I mainly followed the mission objectives to advance the main storyline, after completing all the story missions, I spent a few hours completing side quests to unlock more additional characters. Then switch between these characters on the go to use their special abilities to solve specific problems. In the process, you'll travel between galaxies and down to the surface of the planet to help the locals on all sorts of weird tasks. At this time, "Skywalker Legend" plays like a cute doll version of "Mass Effect". If you're tired of exploring and platform jumping around the planets, you can always hop on your beloved ship for a space dogfight. There are so many activities to do in Skywalker, and I've been playing for over 20 hours, but I still feel like I'm only touching the skin. The game's collectible vehicles and unlockable minifigures are enough to write a long list of New Year's gifts.
System disorders
The biggest problem I encountered in Skywalker Saga was a bug in the prequel trilogy that made it impossible for the story after Attack of the Clones to continue. While playing on Xbox Series X, I encountered a bug that would crash when I started the Hunt for Jango Fett mission, and after restarting the game, the mission objective disappeared from the map and menu, and I couldn't find a way to retrigger the target. Since players can choose any trilogy to play alone, I still completed the process from the fourth to the ninth film in the week. But I still had to open a new file to finish the prequel trilogy, and fortunately there were no more bugs in this process of crashing the game. (As of this writing, the developers have told me they are rolling out a patch to fix this issue.) ）
I also found a few minor flaws with Skywalker's local co-op model. Half of the nine films were played by myself, and the other half was played with my son. Overall, the second player does bring more joy and chaos, but because the vertical split screen limits the field of view, it is easier to get lost when exploring. In addition, it seems that there is always one player who wants to be a supporting role in the boss battle in the story mode, playing the role of a robot watching the battle, while another player can come to a cool and gorgeous lightsaber duel. In a battle that erupted between Anakin and Obi-Wan, who were flowing with lava from Mustafa Star, I spent most of my time playing C3PO standing on a floating platform watching the passionate battle below. It made me feel like I was suffering from a bit of C3PO dementia.
summary
LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Legends brings many spoofs of Star Wars classics, and arranges these scenes into the many planets of the vast galaxy, as well as a wealth of exploration and entertainment content. The upgrade and bunker systems are redundant, and the co-op gameplay is obviously flawed, but the lot of fun and variability that the game brings is enough to make the flow of all nine movies enjoyable from beginning to end, and I can't give the same rating to the movie.
merit
Adopts a shoulder-over-the-shoulder perspective that is convenient for maneuvering and combat
The ubiquitous humor spoof is just right and hilarious
Exceptionally rich game content
shortcoming
There are some fatal bugs that cause the system to crash