While I was smart enough to not have children in pre-apocalypse America, a lot of my friends and co-workers did, and they raised them on videogames so they could keep playing too. Starting around 2010, I heard from those friends how great the Lego games were, even for them as adults. While the Lego games covered a lot of pop culture (Star Wars, Marvel Comics, Harry Potter, etc), they never seemed like something I would enjoy.
The recommendations continued over the years, focused on how the games had humor and were easy to play co-op alongside your offspring. I pushed those endorsements aside as I had other games to play. My recent decision to throw a "palate cleanser" easy game into my mix, however, brought me to play Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga on the Xbox 360, via Gamepass on the Xbox One. I choose "The Complete Saga" over "The Skywalker Saga" because those last three movies were tragically bad.
So I had six movies, each broken down into six chapters, to play through and see if those old recommendations were valid or just another case of parents endorsing things to their childless friends because misery loves company. It turned out about as I expected. It was fun but only in small doses, and challenge existed mostly through environmental puzzles that needed solving to progress.
The story diverges from the movies here and there, the dialogue-less characters give puzzling expressions at times, and there’s a huge focus on collection quests and unlocking stuff.
Which makes sense. Keep the kids busy with those time-consuming tasks and you don’t have to get them the next big game yet.
I probably won’t play any more Lego games but I’m glad I got through this one so that I have a better understanding of what my dad-friends were going through. I hope they made good memories of playing side by side with their sons and daughters with those Lego games.
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