If you’ve never played a Lego Star Wars game,thenLego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagais your best chance to catch up. While the game’s story is undoubtedly an abridged interpretation of the Star Wars movies, it features a fairly faithful retelling of the overall movies' plots and major moments, along with full voice acting.
Admittedly, many of the moments in this game fail to reach the same heights or properly hit the right notes that the movies do. However, even with minor moments omitted and several scenes smashed together into one, a few standout sequences shine in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
8The Last Jedi – Luke Skywalker Vs. Kylo Ren
During the Ground A-salt mission, Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker have a much more personal confrontation with good dialogue between the two characters that builds on movie lines.
The most memorable moment from this movie scene was Kylo screaming, “More!”, creating a viral meme while veering away from more direct dialogue and anger directed toward Luke. The personal connection established in the Lego version feels much more impactful, despite the obvious lightheartedness of a Lego setting.
7The Rise Of Skywalker – The Fleet Arrives And Rey Wins
This glorious moment of everyone returning amplifies the impact of the battles in space while delivering emotional resonance by dropping you right into a fight against the revived Emperor Palpatine and his Force Lightning.Fighting off the Emperor while playing as Reyis one of the most epic moments in the game, delivering on the weight of this massive moment.
The movie took itself more seriously, while the Lego version embraces the absurdity of the circumstances, while still delivering an epic moment and ending to the saga.
6The Phantom Menace – The Gungan Vs Droid Army Battle
This interweaves classic sections of the iconic battle with expanded in-game objectives that delve deeper into the nitty-gritty. Aside from the game elements that add to the experience, the droid army isn’t skimped on, as there are hundreds of units on screen at once.
You even get to control the booma catapults to destroy large sections of the enemy army in an instant. Jar-Jar might not sound like you remember, but this moment portrays him as much more of an asset to the army, as he fixes other Gungans' mistakes rather than causing them.
5Attack of the Clones – Anakin’s Nightmare
We see Anakin’s vision of his mother in danger in much more clarity here than we ever did in the movie. Shmi directly calls out for Anakin, and one of the Sandpeople lets out a warrior’s scream to indicate the impending danger. Anakin and Padme communicate much more directly after, and it’s a funny, kid-friendly touch that Anakin and Padme wake up separately in a bunk bed.
The scene still accomplished its goals, and even if the emotional impact was flat, it got the information across more efficiently, which is a surprise considering the mumbling characters of previous Lego Star Wars games. Padme even makes a joke about Anakin’s dislike of sand after the scene concludes. What more could you want?
4Revenge of the Sith – Obi-Wan & Anakin Pursue Grievous
This sequence is the perfect example of when taking the movie’s source material and smashing it into one mega scene works out very well. As you might remember, Anakin usually carries an unconscious Obi-Wan on his back as he tries to escape with Chancellor Palpatine after he defeats Count Dooku. Eventually, this series of scenes finally introduces the now-fully conscious trio to Grievous, but Lego Star Wars' take on this was much more economical.
Instead of Obi-Wan being knocked out, we’re treated to him being fully awake as General Grievous barges in right after Count Dooku’s defeat. Grievous' sudden retreat is both funny and keeps the action rolling without the lull in between Dooku and Grievous encounters. The chase through the hallways still lets us see some wacky scenes within the ship too, so this interpretation has a lot going for it.
To top things off, we still get the “You Lose General Kenobi” line from Grievous, so it’s a win on every account.
3Revenge Of The Sith – R2 Is Left In The Hangar
In the movie, when Anakin and Obi-Wan finish their epic fight sequence in the battle before they board General Grievous' ship, you’ll be fresh off a few great one-liners. This makes their separation from R2 feel somewhat disappointing when the two Jedi go off to find Palpatine, with R2 left behind.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga keeps the good times rolling and fills in the transition with a great little joke, as R2 shocks a battle droid with his stun arm. Sometimes, Lego just gets the tone right in a way a live-action movie can’t.
2Revenge Of the Sith – Obi-Wan and Yoda Discover The Truth At The Temple
This one is another mashup of a few scenes, as Bail Organa appears to immediately help Yoda and Obi-Wan enact their plan to stop Vader and Sidious. Yoda alsowantsObi-Wan to see proof here that Anakin turned to the dark side, though there’s no youngling murder in the holo tape this time. Instead, we just see Sidious coronating Vader as a new Sith.
The quick movement here is appreciated and while the medley of scenes worked better the way they were in the movie, Yoda’s desire to show Obi-Wan the truth (even if it isn’t the grizzly part) feels slightly more satisfying, since it doesn’t appear as if he’s trying to hide anything from a friend, even if it was to shield Obi-Wan.
1Attack of the Clones – Anakin & Padme’s Wedding
The ending of Attack of the Clones always felt too serious for the tone the movie set, while the Lego version of this moment leans into the whimsy. From the wedding guests tothe beautiful location used as a backdrop,this scene feels much more like a traditional wedding than the way it was portrayed in the movie.
Aside from a few absurd details, like Jar-Jar snapping pictures like a paparazzo in the bushes, the small gathering featuring Anakin, Padme, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Jar-Jar Binks has much more of a festive vibe than the deathly serious version from the movie. Let Anakin and Padme enjoy at least this moment in their lives together, and The Skywalker Saga does just that.
