The disappointments never stop
Friday, 3 March 2023 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temrisThis year was already off to a shaky start, and with bad news after bad news, my only hope for a little bit of joy was for my younger sister to return home so we could have our guaranteed fun with a LEGO game we've not played yet.
LEGO games were always our thing, since it kinda required two people to complete the puzzles we always made sure we played it together. I don't remember which ones we played first, I'm assuming it was either the Marvel/X-Men ones or the Batman/DC ones. But the most we've had fun were the original Star Wars games. The humor, along with the puzzles mixed inbetween were always a nice memory in my mind. We used to play it daily to finish it in one go. (Even while playing this new one, we kept laughing at our past memories tangled with the previous version, undoubtedly having more fun reminiscing those than playing this...)
So I don't have to talk about how much we've both waited for this new one to come out. We were disappointed that they released a single one for TFA after the movie came out, and were really curious as to how they'd make the rest of the sequel trilogy.
I can't explain how disappointed I was with this game.
Like I mentioned, at its core I think what really made us link to this game was the dual gameplay. Without one another, it's not nowhere near as fun. I don't know why, but The Skywalker Saga focuses too much on single-player. Like I literally dropped out and just watched her play instead at most parts, because the game is frigging fixed split screen, and it doesn't even give you the option to change that! The combat is also changed drastically for a dumb combo system where you have to press different buttons every two moves and it takes too long for even a random Stormtrooper to die. There were barely any "puzzles" I remember and they weren't even that challenging. I don't mean like the older one had complex puzzles, but, we used to think so hard and spend sooo much trying to understand how without looking at walkthroughs online.
Another thing we liked on the other games were the different type of characters actually mattered instead of having a small, unnecessary special skill (I'm thinking of that random eureka kind of skill the scoundrels have. The one where you just have to focus on a part and the game just does the thing for you. Why do we need that?). We used to have different characters only being able to pass a part of the map, do a puzzle, move on and then open the way for the other one, etc. Like in LOTR games, hobbits alone could pass through small sections, Gollum could walk on the walls etc. There was barely anything like that in this one.
And don't even get me started on the sections you had to endure between each scene. Like do I need to roam through the galaxy to the other start point EVERY. SINGLE. TIME???????? Half of the gameplay hours probably went for that. It's like they wanted SOOO BAD for us to play the free galaxy thingy, that they ruined the story mode completely. I don't play after I finish the story in LEGO games because I don't want to.
I love, I mean REALLY LOVE Star Wars and this game actually made me get bored playing a game taking place in that universe. Good job I guess. I now crave playing KotOR again to get rid of this feeling I have.
LEGO games were always our thing, since it kinda required two people to complete the puzzles we always made sure we played it together. I don't remember which ones we played first, I'm assuming it was either the Marvel/X-Men ones or the Batman/DC ones. But the most we've had fun were the original Star Wars games. The humor, along with the puzzles mixed inbetween were always a nice memory in my mind. We used to play it daily to finish it in one go. (Even while playing this new one, we kept laughing at our past memories tangled with the previous version, undoubtedly having more fun reminiscing those than playing this...)
So I don't have to talk about how much we've both waited for this new one to come out. We were disappointed that they released a single one for TFA after the movie came out, and were really curious as to how they'd make the rest of the sequel trilogy.
I can't explain how disappointed I was with this game.
Like I mentioned, at its core I think what really made us link to this game was the dual gameplay. Without one another, it's not nowhere near as fun. I don't know why, but The Skywalker Saga focuses too much on single-player. Like I literally dropped out and just watched her play instead at most parts, because the game is frigging fixed split screen, and it doesn't even give you the option to change that! The combat is also changed drastically for a dumb combo system where you have to press different buttons every two moves and it takes too long for even a random Stormtrooper to die. There were barely any "puzzles" I remember and they weren't even that challenging. I don't mean like the older one had complex puzzles, but, we used to think so hard and spend sooo much trying to understand how without looking at walkthroughs online.
Another thing we liked on the other games were the different type of characters actually mattered instead of having a small, unnecessary special skill (I'm thinking of that random eureka kind of skill the scoundrels have. The one where you just have to focus on a part and the game just does the thing for you. Why do we need that?). We used to have different characters only being able to pass a part of the map, do a puzzle, move on and then open the way for the other one, etc. Like in LOTR games, hobbits alone could pass through small sections, Gollum could walk on the walls etc. There was barely anything like that in this one.
And don't even get me started on the sections you had to endure between each scene. Like do I need to roam through the galaxy to the other start point EVERY. SINGLE. TIME???????? Half of the gameplay hours probably went for that. It's like they wanted SOOO BAD for us to play the free galaxy thingy, that they ruined the story mode completely. I don't play after I finish the story in LEGO games because I don't want to.
I love, I mean REALLY LOVE Star Wars and this game actually made me get bored playing a game taking place in that universe. Good job I guess. I now crave playing KotOR again to get rid of this feeling I have.
