The first LEGO Star Wars game was released in 2005 among the other amount of massive merchandise releases tailgating from the release of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. The games quickly grew a fan following that only builds with every further installment. This growth continues to expand the Star Wars/LEGO portfolio gets larger, which we can see clearly in their recent release history. What will most likely become the best-selling LEGO Star Wars video game of all time, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, only solidifies that this crossover is as big as ever and will continue to grow brick by brick.
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For many Star Wars fans, LEGO is easily one of the most interesting aspects of the franchise because of its ability to explore with the expansiveness and creativity that Star Wars requires. The galaxy far, far away is one of the biggest, most in-depth worlds ever put on screen, pages, or toys, and only seems to get bigger with every new entry in the galaxy. LEGO games easily lend themselves to that style of story, providing an opportunity for users to literally build upon what they already have into something exciting, new, and unique to themselves. The fun of LEGO games — and especially The Skywalker Saga — lies in the hours of content players can spend on an exploration of what hasn’t been seen before onscreen, or just on fun side missions. They don’t provide just a linear path like other Star Wars games, but heighten the nuances of Star Wars and give fans the feeling of an actual galaxy full of things to explore. There is so much Star Wars content that it is near impossible for any one property to include all of it. However, LEGO Star Wars has been the best at including as much content as possible in a coherent, fun experience.
Many other Star Wars games before, like Battlefront, didn’t really explore the galaxy’s lore, and only just scratched the surface. The latest video game installment of LEGO Star Wars goes beyond this. It includes nearly 400 playable characters and over 20 worlds to explore — and that’s not counting the ships and other vehicles. Characters range from the most well-known fan favorites to random characters that were briefly in the background of one of the nine movies. That’s what makes LEGO the ideal way to explore the galaxy in video game form. There is more than just one way to play the game, and exploration is encouraged.
This creates an experience that is made for all types of Star Wars fans, from the most surface level to the absolute die-hard. Players can see the love and attention the developers gave to the most minute details of the franchise, giving the lore of Star Wars a place to exist in its full glory. The games have allowed fans to go back to what it was like being a Star Wars fan as a child and play out the stories in the same way they once did with their action figures.
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But mostly what lends Star Wars to LEGO-style games so well is that it is a silly story made for kids. That makes it no surprise, since one of the most memorable things about LEGO video games is their childlike goofiness. The movies and other Star Wars source materials can be very serious. But at their core, they are goofy space adventures with fun characters that market to the daydreams of kids everywhere.
The LEGO games do so well at creating some of the most obscure Star Wars references in the most random places, diving deep into the brains of fans. They take the feelings that many had in childhood watching Star Wars for the first time, and crank it up 10 times higher. It is very meta when it comes to its references, but that’s what makes these games so fun. They aren’t dark and serious; they embrace how silly these stories can be, but do it in a way that respects the source material. These games are obviously made by people who grew up loving Star Wars and wanted to make an experience that embraces what everyone loves about the franchise, and on that aspect alone, these games truly capture what Star Wars is for fans.
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