LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Perhaps the best compliment that one can pay to LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is that it feels like you're playing with a living LEGO playset.

A fantastic game that deserves to be played by everyone. It is easily accessible, truly addictive, and loaded with tons of content to warrant the $50 price tag. However, if you have already played through the first two games there is little here worth coming back for unless online co-op and more Achievement points are your thing.

LSW has a certain charm about it that one cannot help but recognise, great for family and friends alike.

Complete Saga will charm the socks off Star Wars fanatics and platforming fanboys alike.

So aside from the camera controls, not-so-snappy studs and some problems with pacing in a handful of places, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is a solid game, and one of the rare titles on Xbox 360 and PS3 that the family can safely sit down together to play.

While the flying levels are frustrating and the change-characters-to-hit-this-switch mechanic gets old, the great humor and extras make Lego Star Wars worth playing if you haven't tried it yet.

Best played in short bursts but it's still unbelievably repetitive and, at times, monotonous. But it can also be fun and you get two games in one. [Issue 26, p.90]

This is easily the best lego game to ever exist and nothing tops this in terms of perfection

While many technical aspects of Lego Star Wars has not aged very well, the simplicity of its design is its strongest attribute. It offers a kid-friendly approach to designing levels and telling the story, most of which is mimed in a charming way that I wish the Lego games still did. The game offers a plethora of extra collectibles that give this compilation a ton of replay value. I love so many little details about this game like the Cantina hub world or the humorous little quirks within their animation. However, there are many dated systems and mechanics, one of which being the look of the game, which is a lot less "Lego Set" looking than I remembered. Not to mention, the janky camera controls or the tedium of collecting everything. Overall, though, it is a charming adventure that is still well worth playing even after the Skywalker Saga.

Played some of the earlier Star Wars Lego versions years ago but never finished them. Got The Complete Saga for free on GOG. It's been fun but I think a lot of these scores are based off of nostalgia for Star Wars, Lego and old games in general. I have been victim of all of these especially old games, but I recommend players replay their old games and see if they hold up. This one does not. And a couple things prevent this from becoming a perfect game. The first biggest issue is the camera. It is terribly placed in quite a few levels and locations causing a lot of unneeded deaths when your character is on the other side of the location, if only couple extra camera movements to new locations would help. In a few locations it is downright broken, like the Darth Maul reactor level where you can't even see your character if you move to higher platforms. How has this not been fixed in 15 years? AI controlled characters.... they are dumb, useless and more often in the way and can sometimes push you off ledges. They are only there to switch to with Y button. They rarely ever even kill an enemy, I wish you could opt to remove them and call them in to swap when needed. Chasing down exposed studs gets annoying and adds probably 20-30% playtime to each level. When they spawn they are immune to pickup for a second so you even if you are strategically placed you must chase them all around and will usually loses many to pits and a very quick despawn. The puzzles and platforming are great. The humor if fun. The character unlocks with the special abilities make 100% playthrough addictive. But a few tweaks that would take programmers a week would have made this game perfect.

Childhood ruined. Blue stud. Mocked me from the abyss. Couldn’t sleep at night knowing I’d never reach 100%. Would rather face Darth Vader without a lightsaber than see that thing again.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]