After a slip of the tongue during this years Star Wars Celebration, today’s E3 2019 showing confirmed the existence of an even more complete collection ofLEGO Star Wars games. To coincide with the end of the Skywalker saga in theaters, the intellectual property that kickstarted Traveller’s Tales line of licensed LEGO titles will receive its own capper.
Previous entries in thisLegosubseries include the firstLego Star Warsgame that depicted the full prequel film trilogy, shortly followed by a sequel that reinterpreted the original trilogy with the same, silent, quirky sense of humor from the first game. With no more live-action films to adapt at the same time, Traveller’s Tales focused on the 3D animated showThe Clone Warsfor the series’ third game.
Most recently, Traveller’s Tales adapted the then-new movieThe Force Awakens, adapting the plot of that movie and even events that took place beforehand—a bit of padding, but sensible given thatThe Last Jediwouldn’t release until two years after. With a complete collection, even more complete than the previous compilation of the first two games, the Rian Johnson 2017 movie, which is in no way controversial, and the upcomingThe Rise of Skywalker, will make up some new content for this next big game.
The success of theLego Star Warsgames led to a number of additional licensed Lego games, with franchises getting the Lego treatment includingLord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Batman, The Avengers, Indiana Jones, and probably more that I’m forgetting. With so many games of this type, it’s natural that some players may have felt some fatigue for these games’ co-operative and collecting-heavy gameplay.
Luckily for me, I never got into those other Lego games after the secondLego Star Warsgames, so I’ll be looking at this new one through a lens of nostalgia rather than exhaustion.Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Collectionwill be coming to Xbox One, PC, and presumably all other modern platforms in 2020. Check out the trailer below:
