Action · 2022 · TT Games · local
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Nine films, four hundred characters, and a death that lasts one second.
What it is about
All nine Star Wars films retold with brick figures and rather more silliness than reverence. Each film consists of five stretches, with open planets in between scattered with side missions and collectibles.
You fight, fly and puzzle with around four hundred characters divided into classes: Jedi, bounty hunters, scoundrels, protocol droids. Which class you have decides which doors open — and because both players switch independently, as a pair you almost always have the right one along.
Play is split screen only, with one copy and a second controller. Remote Play Together does the same across distance. There is no online mode.
Our verdict for couples
Dying costs nothing here: get hit and you fall apart into bricks, reassembling a second later with a sound you still laugh at the twentieth time. That is why it works with somebody who never touches a controller — you cannot lose anything or block anything, and if you would rather not shoot, you collect bricks in the corner while the other one fights. Nine films are more material than most couples get through in a winter. Split screen is the only way to play together, though: there is no online mode on any platform, and in the reviews that is the most frequent complaint.
Pros
- One copy is enough on split screen
- Dying costs one second and nothing else
- The second player joins and leaves at any time
Cons
- The screen re-splits depending on distance, and jumps as it does
- The open world between films drags
- Anyone who knows the older LEGO games will miss things
Suitable from
Casual
- Conflict potential
- Harmonious
- Cosiness
- Cosy
- When you can stop
- After 15 minutes
- How long it lasts
- 15–40 hours
What other co-op fans say
Two camps, and both are loud. One praises how much game is on offer for how little hurdle, and strikingly often writes about who they played it with — children, siblings, the person next to them. The other compares it with the older LEGO games and finds the open world between film chapters padded. Both agree on one point: nobody understands why there is no online mode.
- “Game runs great on High settings. My son Loves it. and we play together. his two favorite things put together.”
- “This game is amazing, not only did it bring up the old nostalgic feelings of LSWCS but they did a great job to make it modern.”
- “nostalgic for the lego star wars mobile game. why is there no online play or local co-op??? tell me why I gotta play split screen on my laptop screen (tv split screen is bad enough but a laptop?? torture)”
Summarised by machine from 60 Steam reviews, not written by our editors. The quotes appear verbatim in those reviews.
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