Does LEGO Star Wars meet expectations? (Game Review)

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Review (PS5)

TT Games have been making LEGO games since 2005. Heck, they only made LEGO games starting in 2009 and haven’t made anything else since. I played LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game when I was younger and I loved it. Me and my brother would wake up every morning until we 100%’d the game. It was the first time I finished a game completely. Over the years, I would continue to play the LEGO games as my brother fell out of love for them. I would play LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, and LEGO Batman: The Videogame. This was my introduction to these IPs and I still haven’t watched a single Indiana Jones movie.

When the gameplay overview trailer was released earlier this year, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga looked very good. This game culminated everything the LEGO games have been over the years while enhancing the gameplay tenfold. The visuals, the voice acting, and funnier recreations of the source material. They introduced new gameplay mechanics while keeping the lighthearted spirit in re-telling the Star Wars movies. On that same day however, Polygon released an article detailing the harsh work environment the team faced. This game has been in development since 2017, before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker even came out. Crunch culture…