People often joke about this game and only regarding it as “Good nostalgia” but man this game is so much more than good nostalgia, it’s straight up good game design from licensed game, that’s right if anything Lego Star Wars is the most licensed of all licensed games I mean Lego and Star Wars mixed together? Those two brands were the biggest thing in the early 2000s and I am SO RELIEVED that they actually put efforts into it.

Most people either don’t know or forgot this version existed, when we talk about Lego Star Wars we talk about The complete saga, that’s the big boy of the franchise and it really made me think “Is the original really worth coming back to?”
Andddd… No not really, but you should if you are curious.

Unfortunately there’s nothing special waiting for you in this version, it does have some cool features like Dex’s Dinner from Episode 2 as the HUB, the Cantina is better but it’s a nice breathe of fresh air with The original trilogy and The complete Saga both using the Cantina. We got a totally unique version of Yoda which is OP as hell for some reason, they really debuffed him in the Complete Saga and it really bums me out. And we got a secret Tantive IV stage but that doesn’t really matter when The complete saga already has the entirety of Episode IV does it? It was a sweet touch anyway.
So far it only seems like we are missing out on features but unfortunately it does have some bad, nothing terrible, but bad nonetheless compared to the remastered version of the complete saga.

The graphics are rough, it’s clear they either didn’t have time or couldn’t optimise the game enough to have higher polygon models and high quality textures.
The stages can be pretty tedious or boring at times, they lack alternate path or anything to shake up a replay, they tried to fix this in the Complete Saga but playing the Prequel trilogy and the Original Trilogy back to back it’s easy to tell that the latter are so much better.
The minikits, while iconic and fun to collect, really lacks variety in their placements, you can tell they just randomly scattered them around without really putting the characters abilities into play, it’s often just “Woah look at this out of reach Minikit, you can’t get it now come back with R2D2 or Jar Jar Binks!”, The Complete Saga fixed this by adding more characters ability taken from Lego Star Wars 2 and mixing them up in the original stage by adding new bonus rooms and such to make the game more fun to replay on Freeplay and just explore all of these funky bonus rooms that we all love.
Again with the Minikits, they are completely useless, you get nothing except coins I believe when getting all 10 of them, like there’s no incentive to go back and play the stages again other than the game itself being good so good job on that part TTGames, but imagine if the stages were fun to replay AND you’d get cool shit for completing them! Yeah I know I’m just talking about the complete saga yet again but this is one of the best Remaster ever made, it fixes so much from the original games, it’s great!
Red bricks are nowhere to be seen, the extras are here but only the generic worthless funny crap that cost a lot of studs compared to the characters for some reason, guess it might be good to quickly talk about the economy of this game because it’s really different from the future games, since this game doesn’t have x2,x4,… multiplication bricks it’s kind of a bitch to obtain studs, so the prices for characters are hella cheap compared to the complete saga! funnily enough the game tracks your stud count and not a completion percentage like the other games, making the minikits even more worthless.
The lack of bonus stages in general is kinda disappointing, I know I’m asking a lot from a licensed games but the future games spoiled me so much with bonus crap I just can’t not ask for more, hell, if you ask for more it just means the game is good.
There’s one thing that tingles me about secret stage, does unlocking it via the stud counter in each stage a good game design since if you are being throughout while playing the stages for the first time it means you can instantly unlock the secret stage, but wouldn’t it be more gratifying to unlock it after collecting all of the minikits? Not forcing the player to do things they don’t want to do to unlock cool rewards or force the players to do things they may not want to do but overall makes the game more gratifying to complete while giving more depth to specific features, I’m curious to know your opinion on that.

I could go on for hours but that would be beating a dead horse, there’s unfortunately not many reason to come back to this version other than actual nostalgia for this specific version, otherwise just go with the complete saga.
I really want to give this game a higher score but it’s just a silly licensed game, the game is pretty short and the stages aren’t all that great at times, this is a certified banger for anyone who likes Lego and Star Wars but again, just go with the Complete Saga.

This might be one of my biggest disappointments in terms of "hyped" games, and this game is from 2010 it's insane to be disappointed by an old piece of shit!

"Play Alan Wake", they said, and since this game is somewhat considered a classic I thought "Sure, I loved Max Payne 2, and storytelling in games can be great! I'm sure I can trust Remedy's new game!" but oh-so-wrong I was!

This is the tale of a little boy saddened to see the state of Alan Wake on his Playstation 5.

Alright so pointing out the obvious, I don't care about pseud stories related to books and whatnot, I'm a gamer! I like Cheetos, I like Gamecubes, I like boxes with Xs on them and stupid shit like Mario! I don't fucking know about books and I'm not a writer either so I surely can't relate to Alan Wake and his stupid issues.
I'm not saying that all video game stories have to be dumb or relatable to the player, I'm just saying that if you give your game to greasy Xbox 360 players, from the Max Payne creators, I'm pretty sure they'd expect something else from the game.

Something that perplexes me is that this game does not seem to know what it wants to be, do you want to be a more story-focused experience like a Telltale game with episodes and such, or do you want to be a "Survival horror" similar to Resident Evil 5 and 6 (oh god)?
The game feels like they only had one idea on the drawing board and it was "Play with light and shadow", then they thought "Let's make it a horror game", but then like all 360era horror games it turned into a more action-focused game which removes any scares and replaces it by long fucking corridors that never ends with the same enemies and gameplay over and over, mixed with some poor metaphorical metastory meta whatever storytelling with a confusing cutscene and a story that writes itself with the most obvious ending possible which only released as DLC, yeah I'm pissed.

I have a fun game in mind, since this game is pretty much a mix of all cliché Xbox 360 games I think it would be fun to list everything you've seen overused in other games from that era!

This game is a third-person shooter
It has forced vehicle sections
it has regenerative HP
It has useless garbage collectibles for "Lore" and a set number of bonus collectibles for a nice "nothing" reward for collecting all 100
It uses a chapter system
Italian new-yorker sidekick

And probably many more that I cannot bring myself to remember, if anything this game is the most 360 of them all!

But is the main gimmick of the game even good? It's cool for 10 minutes, then you realize the "Light to fight monster" gimmick is just a loading bar for enemies, it never gets used in creative ways, you just flash the same enemies over and over till the very end of the game, the game doesn't even have real boss fights they are just copy pasted fast ghost dudes with the model of a relevant character from that chapter.

This game just feels like a time waster, the end twist is obvious, the gameplay isn't fun and it's REALLY repetitive, the characters all suck I don't like any of them other than the Italian sidekick.
I truly do not understand what people find so special about this game, did the people praising it even finish it?
But maybe it's just me, maybe I'm too dumb to understand such a deep and complex story! The boring gameplay just represents the sadness of alan wake! I swear!