My partner joined me on the adventure to conquer the story mode of all 9 films and it was a great co op experience. Couch co op is so rare these days and the beauty of the co op is that each player can do their own thing at different times. It makes the levels feel really grand and makes it less boring for each player.
In terms of gameplay, it's very different from the originals. It essentially plays as an over the shoulder hack n slash game with ariel combos and all. It's honestly a blast to play. It's just so satfifying breaking an enemies guard and smashing them into the air like I'm Dante from Devil May Cry made of freakin lego.
The gameplay is indeed really enjoyable but I gotta say, this game is MASSIVE. It took 62 hours to do it all. About 15-20 of that was the actual main core game. There is SO much to do in this game. It's a lego collectathon on another scale. There is a total of 28 explorable planets to explore, 5 captial ships and 45 story missions makes this game the largest and most vast Lego game to date.
And it's way too much.
Sadly, as much as the side quests can be amusing and the races are fun, the game just has too much where it becomes kind of mind numbing. Maybe it's because I did it in about 2 weeks but it felt like the game was filled with a lot of pointless content to fill in it's levels.
To make up for that, the story is indeed hilarious and fun. It is voiced and the mumble mode is actually garbage. So surprisingly, we played it voiced and god. It's pretty good in most areas. Episode 4 sucks the most in terms of it's voice direction but everything else was a blast.
The humour is still here and it's a good laugh. Emperor Palpatine offering Rey a mint lolly like an old man during their fight is peak my dumb kind of comedy.
My biggest and absolute huge drawback is it's many level breaking glitches and bugs. The amount of times I had to close out of a level or move on to another one and go back later was way too much. It was awful. It desperately needs a restart from checkpoint button because it is wild how many times a character just won't do what it has to do.
Pro tip, play on story mode after your freeplay run. Story mode ended up fixing all my issues. I guess the AI just can't register a freeplay set or characters like it can pre set models in the story.
Overall, if you want a fun lego game that will offer tonnes of content, a fun co op experience, this game is fanastic. It's a no brainer co op game.
If you love Star Wars, bam, this is also for you and it does the series so much justice.
But there are a lot of issues and as a platinum hoarder, this game is a biiiiigggg time sink. We got through almost 7-8 3 hour podcasts thanks to this game.

Could've been better, should've been better. This game still has the classic lego humour, the combat's been given more depth than any game before, and it's the best looking lego game with a cool open-world so there's clearly been a lot of effort put into trying to make this the best lego star wars experience. But unfortunately the developers clearly didn't have proper time to create well-designed levels like the old games, and it massively hinders the experience, as without them you're just walking around checkpoint-to-checkpoint, and if you're lucky they might lead you to a level with some thought put into it. This is obviously an issue that comes from the time crunch that the developers were put through, and now that LEGO isn't exclusively working with TT Games anymore hopefully the new developers get the time needed to create a fully thought-out game.

The biggest blue balls in gaming history

On paper this is the ULTIMATE Star Wars game. An action adventure EPIC turning EVERY planet from the Skywalker Saga into SPRAWLING collect-a-thon playgrounds, EXPANDING these iconic locales into thriving landscapes of secret areas and satirical gags... BUT THE MECHANICS AND LEVEL DESIGN ARE SO FUCKING BORING

USE THE MYSTICAL POWERS OF THE ALMIGHTY JEDI TO very, very slowly move this crate into position. Don't worry about any sort of challenge making this interesting, the crate automatically locks into a specific spot. THEN USE THESE TRANSCENDENT FORCES OF MYTHICAL LEGEND TO very, very slowly move this other crate onto the first one. Again, don't worry about the crates falling over or any other room for error that could make this vaguely interesting, this crate also automatically slots into position. STACKING CRATES IS WHAT MY UNCLE DOES FOR A LIVING, I'M DARTH "ANAKIN" VADER NOT KEITH, THIS IS TERRIBLE

A series of platforms. Hell yeah, some 3D platforming!... Press X. That's it. To jump from platform to platform, press X. You don't have to aim. You can't fall. Press X. And again. And again three more times... YOU DID IT HOLY SHIT YEEEEAAAAHHHH YOU'RE A GOD AMONGST CLOWNS MAKE LOVE TO ME

BLOCKING SHOTS IS AUTOMATIC. YOU COULD STAND ANAKIN IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLONE ARMY, PUT THE CONTROLLER DOWN, FLY TO FUCKING ISTANBUL AND PISS AND SHIT THERE FOR TWO WEEKS, AND RETURN TO ANAKIN "THE KID KILLER" VADER STILL STANDING THERE COMPLETELY UNHARMED.

Complete Saga's mechanics were basic. Time a button press to dodge a bullet. Jump over these really close together platforms. Use the right character at the right terminal. Individually mundane, but collectively creating a consistent stream of micro scenarios to subconsciously problem solve. It's easy, but never mindless. Skywalker Saga lacks many of these micro systems, meaning the moment-to-moment gameplay is almost non-existent.

Darth Sidious accidentally calling for Order 67, which makes all stormtroopers break out in a dance party, was the exact moment I knew my suicide note was worth finishing

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga was probably my favorite game in my younger years. I was so, so excited to see another LEGO game be announced and to get to cash in on the nostalgia.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga just fell so short of any expectation I had. It's not bad. It's just not good. It's filled to the brim with content, but I didn't find any of it to be engaging. The levels feel like abridged versions of their counterparts from both LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga and LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I also find the FoV to be small to the point of it hindering my ability to enjoy a lot of the gameplay. There's no character creator either, which I honestly find to be crushingly disappointing. I think if I ever get the itch to play another LEGO game, I'll just stick to the classics, if this is any indication of what's next.