LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

The original LEGO Star Wars games were a huge part of my childhood. Alongside my brother and my dad, I completed both of them, unlocking every character, finding every collectible, and finishing every challenge. As a testament to their quality, I kept on playing them, even hours after there was nothing new left to do. My love of the first two games made The Complete Saga an appealing title. Not only did it offer the entirety of both games in one seamless package, it included a bunch of brand new content to keep me engaged. I'll admit, I never actually hit 100% in this game, but I do own it on four different platforms, so I have plenty of places to go if I need a quick hit of nostalgia, or just some humorous Star Wars fun.

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga takes you through the first six Star Wars films, retold in an abridged format by humorous, non-speaking Minifigures. Each movie is represented by around half a dozen stages. These levels take some necessary liberties with the setting and events of the story in order to make it more appropriate for the LEGO theme, such as adding puzzles, combat, collectibles, and more to the oft-destructible world. It's possible to speed through most of the levels rather quickly if you're just trying to beat them, and you can still unlock most of the characters with that approach. However, each level has a set of collectibles and objectives for those willing to explore more, giving the whole experience a lot more oomph. 

You actually can't complete the game at all without replaying each of the levels. Your first time through a stage plays in "story mode," where the characters you have available are accurate to the story, and the cutscenes play as you progress, but you may not have every character ability that you need available. Beating a level in that mode unlocks "free play," allowing you to play with a set of characters that have no business in that level canonically, but that have the abilities necessary to find the rest of the collectibles. LEGO Star Wars does a fantastic job of using this system to increase the game's content without feeling too much like padding, especially since the two modes can offer such a different feel.

As childish as it is, I love the humor in these games, and I find them to be a great way to relive the stories of the movies. I could do without the vehicle-based stages, and challenges put to a timer aren't really my thing (both of which saw an increase in The Complete Saga), but that isn't enough to make me even remotely dislike this game. Whether you're playing the original pair of games or this neat package of the two, I'm sure you'll have a great time. However, I have to say that I wholeheartedly recommend The Complete Saga if it's an option for you. Even if you don't care about the convenience of combining the two games, the additional content is hard to pass up.

The game is available for Steam here (as of 8/14/21): https://store.steampowered.com/app/32440/LEGO_Star_Wars__The_Complete_Saga/
The game is available for Android here (as of 8/14/21): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wb.lego.tcs&hl=en_US&gl=US
The game is available for iOS here (as of 8/14/21): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lego-star-wars-tcs/id727420266

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