This is honestly one the best ways to play lego star wars by yourself. Going back and playing the previous ones, it's co-op in a way that almost demands it. Not where it's required like in "It Takes Two", but in a way where there is no fun to be had with the puzzles without it. This game can be played co-op, but the puzzles are better with or without a player 2.
The boss battles are done well, the puzzles aren't hard but are as fun as ever, it has full on dialogs instead of grunts (thank you tt games), this is the definitive way to play lego star wars in my opinion.
My one of two real complaints are that it's not as compelling to 100% it the way other lego star wars (lego games in general) are. They now have 9 movies to adapt into levels. This wouldn't really be much of an issue if cut scenes in the middle of the level can be skipped. The way you are meant to 100% a lego game is going through a level in "Free play" mode, which allows you to go through a level again with a variety of characters to swap through unlocking new parts of a map. Normally cut scenes would not play entirely in playing a level like this. But in Skywalker Saga they are still there. And even worse, unskippable at times, making the level more tedious if you so much as miss a single collectable when going through a level. I know 100%ting a game is something weird to include about in thinking of recommending a game, but that's what lego games are typically built off of. So many collectables and unlock-able characters and items, that the game encourages you to replay levels to get all of them. Sure you can play and finish all the levels, and be done. But to me that has always only been 1/4 of a full lego game.
My second issue is the DLC. The only "DLC" we get for this game are character pacts. All from spinoffs of the star wars universe. Which in theory sounds cool, until you have to pay real money to play them. And this is a given that whoever is there should be. Such as the star wars rebels pack missing Zeb and Chopper entirely. I would preferred for the DLC to be more levels than anything. More content to play in this behemoth of a star wars game, and I can understand what development times may not have allowed for that seeing as how tt games likely has other lego games to work on. But the character pack just feels so unnecessary at this point.
The game itself is definitely one of the best to play through, with many of it's gameplay elements being different from any star wars game we seen before. Blaster characters are actually useful, the puzzles while once again not hard very satisfying, The new objective system gives Lego starwars a fresh way to play, the world feels so nice with how much they open it. It's a good game for sure, and it's honestly the best way to play Lego star wars right now.
The boss battles are done well, the puzzles aren't hard but are as fun as ever, it has full on dialogs instead of grunts (thank you tt games), this is the definitive way to play lego star wars in my opinion.
My one of two real complaints are that it's not as compelling to 100% it the way other lego star wars (lego games in general) are. They now have 9 movies to adapt into levels. This wouldn't really be much of an issue if cut scenes in the middle of the level can be skipped. The way you are meant to 100% a lego game is going through a level in "Free play" mode, which allows you to go through a level again with a variety of characters to swap through unlocking new parts of a map. Normally cut scenes would not play entirely in playing a level like this. But in Skywalker Saga they are still there. And even worse, unskippable at times, making the level more tedious if you so much as miss a single collectable when going through a level. I know 100%ting a game is something weird to include about in thinking of recommending a game, but that's what lego games are typically built off of. So many collectables and unlock-able characters and items, that the game encourages you to replay levels to get all of them. Sure you can play and finish all the levels, and be done. But to me that has always only been 1/4 of a full lego game.
My second issue is the DLC. The only "DLC" we get for this game are character pacts. All from spinoffs of the star wars universe. Which in theory sounds cool, until you have to pay real money to play them. And this is a given that whoever is there should be. Such as the star wars rebels pack missing Zeb and Chopper entirely. I would preferred for the DLC to be more levels than anything. More content to play in this behemoth of a star wars game, and I can understand what development times may not have allowed for that seeing as how tt games likely has other lego games to work on. But the character pack just feels so unnecessary at this point.
The game itself is definitely one of the best to play through, with many of it's gameplay elements being different from any star wars game we seen before. Blaster characters are actually useful, the puzzles while once again not hard very satisfying, The new objective system gives Lego starwars a fresh way to play, the world feels so nice with how much they open it. It's a good game for sure, and it's honestly the best way to play Lego star wars right now.