Since we've already got like 4 Lego Star Wars games, I don't mind how short each of the individual missions feel. The pacing does feel mildly odd in comparison to the others, though, speed-running the 9-movie story. But the main feature of the game is its many worlds to explore, which are all pretty fun to explore. The gameplay is also an improvement on previous Lego games, with cover-shooting (like in the Force Awakens game), Souls-style boss fights, and spaceship dogfights. It's generally enjoyable, and slight step up from the typical formula, but it's still part of that formula. The puzzles are at a similar low difficulty but even less clever or fun to complete, I assume since the developers focused on getting more worlds included in the final product. I also didn't find it nearly as amusing as other Lego games. It had a few jokes now and then but the story and characters often went unspoofed. Decent, and probably the most comprehensive Lego Star Wars game, but not a huge improvement (at least for adults) if you're hoping for a totally new experience.

Mercifully short campaign, which I appreciated since I felt like I was just being guided through the various multiplayer maps with story objective rails. The game looks gorgeous, and the audiovisual component in general is very vibrant, energetic, and Star Wars-y. Unfortunately, the story isn't even up to par with a normal video game. I suppose this is partially to be expected from a game where the multiplayer is the obvious focus, but if I recall, not having a campaign was one of the many reasons for the backlash to the first EA Battlefront. This one has a good concept--a sith trooper turning to the rebel side--and does very little with it. This transition happens quickly and without deep character consideration. The gameplay in general is adequate. It rarely if ever crashed on me, nor did I encounter any obvious bugs. It just doesn't feel very fun, that's the short and long of it. The animations from firing the gun and the sounds/look of the explosions are good, but walking around, shooting, and hitting people feels about as satisfying as something like Fortnite I would guess. But at least Fortnite has other things to do. This is a non-cover-based shooter without a genuine feel of impact and aggressively uncreative level design. You go to place and look for stormtroopers. They come at you and you shoot. There's nothing more to it, no complex way in which you can style your experience. It's just shoot and kill, the end.