{"id":4941,"date":"2026-11-06T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:43:35","slug":"video-game-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/video-game-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: LEGO Star Wars &#8211; The Skywalker Saga (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thumb.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/0\/0a\/Lego_Star_Wars_The_Skywalker_Saga.jpg\/250px-Lego_Star_Wars_The_Skywalker_Saga.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&amp;utm_campaign=parser&amp;utm_content=thumbnail\" alt=\"LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2022<br \/>\nRating: E10+<br \/>\nTime Played: ~15 hours<\/p>\n<p>With the release of three more <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies since <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/05\/video-game-lego-star-wars-the-complete-saga-2007\/\"><strong><em>LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga<\/em><\/strong><\/a> came out, I was excited to try out the full set of <em>Star Wars<\/em> films in the LEGO universe. Of course, while <em>LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga<\/em> satisfies this requirement, several years had passed since the heyday of the LEGO movie adaptation video games. The \u201copen world\u201d style of game became popular and pushed <em>Skywalker Saga<\/em> into a design that didn\u2019t quite work since they didn\u2019t fully commit to the new layout.<\/p>\n<p>While the graphics and voice acting were improvements from the previous <em>LEGO Star Wars<\/em> games, the magic just wasn\u2019t there anymore. Most levels felt tedious and longer than they had to be, and even the collectibles took much more effort to obtain, even after playing through the story mode. Add to this that unlocking the characters isn\u2019t as simple as it used to be and that I won most battles with button mashing, regardless of the character\u2019s other traits, and it just felt like a slog to get through this game\u2019s story mode. By the time I was done, I didn\u2019t want to play the game anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker is that this game could have worked as a fuller open-world experience. Instead, I found myself schlepping across the galaxy between each level I played just to get to the right planet where the plot would continue. Sure, that\u2019s how the movies progressed, but adding extra mileage between cut-scenes isn\u2019t a fun way to play a game. Even once you\u2019ve played all the levels, the collectible quests have you do the same traveling across the universe, and I simply do not have time for that kind of game anymore.<\/p>\n<p>A disappointing implementation of the full Star Wars saga, I give <em>LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Year: 2022 Rating: E10+ Time Played: ~15 hours With the release of three more Star Wars movies since LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga came out, I was excited to try out the full set of Star Wars films in the LEGO universe. Of course, while LEGO Star Wars: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1900],"tags":[3107,563,3112,4712,2186,1901,8,4711,284,2388,4710,906],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-video-game","tag-3107","tag-lego","tag-lego-star-wars","tag-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-review","tag-skywalker","tag-star-wars","tag-switch","tag-the-skywalker-saga","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}