LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga starts with the wonderfully indulgent promise of letting you hop among all nine numbered Star Wars films, then backs it up with a huge toy box of heroes, villains, ships, planets, and breakable scenery. Lightsaber brawling, free-aim blaster fights, Force tricks, vehicle sequences, and a steady stream of studs make even routine progress feel pleasantly busy.

Its best quality is flexibility. You can push through an episode for the broad story beats or wander planetary hubs looking for character quests, side activities, and class-specific secrets. The amount to collect can turn completion into a long haul, but local co-op and the constant variety of character abilities make this one of the more inviting Star Wars games to share with someone on the couch.

Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first few hours feel like being handed a well-stocked LEGO bin with the entire Star Wars saga spilled across the floor. You can choose among unlocked episodes rather than committing to one long campaign, and the game moves briskly between melee scraps, blaster firefights, environmental puzzles, and flights in recognizable kinds of Star Wars vehicles. That variety is the reason it stays lively even when an individual objective is as simple as finding someone, getting into a base, or recovering an important item.

Combat has more range than the old button-mashing reputation might suggest. Jedi and Sith can lean on lightsabers and Force powers, while blaster users get free aiming and cover-based shooting. Force lifting, tossing debris, and manipulating devices give the action a useful connection to exploration instead of making every encounter a separate arena. Vehicle missions also break up the pace with dogfights and pursuit sequences, so you are not just running from one puzzle room to the next.

Exploration is where the game becomes much larger than a straight film retelling. Planets act as compact open areas full of side missions, puzzles, collectibles, and optional paths that ask for particular character classes. A scavenger’s built tools, an astromech’s access to doors and terminals, and Jedi mind tricks all encourage you to return with a different roster. Some obstacles allow alternate solutions through brute force, abilities, or constructed devices, which makes experimenting more enjoyable than simply checking off a requirement.

That same abundance can become tiring if you need every brick and every character. Progression ties new characters, ships, and upgrades to the steady collection of studs and bricks, and the class upgrade system gives you further places to spend them. It is satisfying when a newly unlocked ability opens a route you noticed earlier, but completion-minded runs will inevitably revisit familiar spaces. Local split-screen co-op helps enormously here: exploring in different directions or working through a puzzle together turns the scavenger hunt into a social activity rather than a solo chore.

Graphics

The game puts a broad LEGO cast on screen, from Jedi and Sith to smugglers, troopers, droids, and scavengers, then carries them through planets, bases, and space in starfighters and other vehicles. That mix gives the journey a welcome sense of scale, especially because the action regularly shifts from ground-level character scenes to flight-focused sequences.

Story

This is a retelling of all nine numbered Star Wars films, not a new branch of the saga. Each episode follows its movie’s broad outline through short missions and hub exploration, so the familiar struggle between light and dark remains the spine of the whole adventure. If you already know these stories by heart, the draw is revisiting favorite stretches with a lighter, more playful rhythm rather than chasing surprises.

Letting you begin unlocked episodes independently is a smart fit for material this familiar. You can drop into the era or film you feel like revisiting instead of treating the saga as a mandatory sequence. That makes the game especially easy to pick up in shorter sessions, and it suits co-op nights where each person has a different favorite corner of Star Wars.

The tradeoff is that the story has to share attention with exploration, combat, and collecting. Missions are short, and the game repeatedly sends you into hub areas for objectives and optional tasks, so this does not feel like a tightly paced cinematic marathon. That is not a problem if you want the films as a loose framework for play. It may disappoint you if your priority is a deeply focused narrative run through the saga.

Overall Experience

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga earns its size through variety. It combines the familiar pull of all nine films with enough character classes, puzzle approaches, vehicle segments, and planetary detours that you rarely stay in one mode for too long. The immediate fun is smashing through a scene with a lightsaber or blaster. What starts to click later is how often a different character or a return visit can change what you can do in the surrounding area.

The game is strongest when you treat its collectibles as invitations rather than obligations. Follow the main episode path when you want a quick Star Wars fix, then roam when you are in the mood to poke at doors, terminals, side quests, and environmental puzzles. Trying to clear everything with military discipline risks making the galaxy feel more repetitive than it needs to.

Give it a chance if you want a generous, approachable action-adventure that can serve both as a solo comfort game and a couch co-op project. It is particularly easy to recommend to Star Wars fans who enjoy collecting characters and revisiting familiar locations from different angles. The payoff is a large, cheerful playground built around a saga you already know, with enough room to make your own route through it.