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https://www.thegamer.com/lego-star-wars-skywalker-saga-300-playable-character/

New details from the upcoming LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga have been revealed in this month's Official PlayStation Magazine, including the number of playable and non-playable characters.
According to Dawn McDiarmid, lead hub designer at TT Games, The Skywalker Saga will feature about 800 unique characters, 300 of which will be playable. McDiarmid also confirmed that many of those characters come from the new Star Wars trilogy, including fan-favorite Babu Frik.

The Skywalker Saga is being built from the ground up in a brand new engine and will include an explorable open world and space battles that players will encounter randomly. McDiarmid told OPM that there are 23 planets and moons with a total of 28 unique locations that players can visit and explore. McDiarmid says "If you have a favorite Star Wars location, it's pretty likely you can visit it in-game."

Another unique feature of The Skywalker Saga is the ability to play through the campaign for each movie in any order. The developers wanted to ensure that players could have the Star Wars experience they wanted, so there isn't any kind of linear progression between the stories. Because of the more open-world approach, players will also be able to collect and complete multiple quests at a time.

While TT Games is ensuring players that all of their favorite Star Wars moments will appear in the game, the developers also felt that some enhancements were necessary. McDiarmid notes that Rise of Skywalker felt like it could have done much more with Finn, and that The Skywalker Saga will be their "chance to put things right."

The first gameplay footage for The Skywalker Saga premiered at Gamescom last year and showed off some of the new features, including the new upgrade options and the ability to aim down sights. While The Skywalker Saga was originally scheduled to release in 2020, it was delayed in August until an announced date this year.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will be available on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S later this year. The preorder bonus for the game is a SteelBook feature LEGO Han Solo in carbonite.

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Hayame Zero posted...

McDiarmid notes that Rise of Skywalker felt like it could have done much more with Finn, and that The Skywalker Saga will be their "chance to put things right."

even the Lego game devs know/agree Finn got screwed over in the trilogy

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Best chance I'll ever get to finally play as Jek Porkins.

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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

even the Lego game devs know/agree Finn got screwed over in the trilogy

I don't know why anyone would disagree tbqh.

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I think I would have trouble naming 30 Star Wars characters that were meaningful enough to be worth playing. 300 seems kind of pointlessly excessive.

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s0nicfan posted...

I think I would have trouble naming 30 Star Wars characters that were meaningful enough to be worth playing. 300 seems kind of pointlessly excessive.

A lot of generic Rebels and Empire people are usually in these games

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Sictis posted...

I don't know why anyone would disagree tbqh.

You'd be surprised the amount of ppl who think the series did nothing wrong

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A LEGO tie-in video game is taking it on themselves to improve the the story it is based on.

Fucking what.
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s0nicfan posted...

I think I would have trouble naming 30 Star Wars characters that were meaningful enough to be worth playing. 300 seems kind of pointlessly excessive.

Yeah its so many its actually puts me off. I guess 95% will just be reskins.

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Yeah 90% of the characters in lego games are reskins

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I'm gonna wait awhile after the last couple Lego games I played went glitched af on me. Especially Lego Harry Potter Collection (whereas the original games didn't).

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Man, I can't wait. The lego star wars games were always a romp.

I went to my dad's house yesterday and he was watching what I assume was the Last Jedi and I saw a few scenes from it which was the first time I had scene them outside of a trailer or review. It just didn't feel like a Star Wars movie but felt like a TV show and the acting felt stiff and the cast had no chemistry. In the original triogy and prequel trilogy everything felt like it had a flow and the cast meshed so well.

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Monolith1676 posted...

prequel trilogy everything felt like it had a flow and the cast meshed so well.

*thinks back to the romantic dialogue between Anakin and Padme*

...lmao
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BakonBitz posted...

*thinks back to the romantic dialogue between Anakin and Padme*

...lmao

Ok, that one scene was bad. Out of all six Attack of the Clones was my least favorite.

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McDiarmid says "If you have a favorite Star Wars location, it's pretty likely you can visit it in-game."

so... Holiday Special?

BakonBitz posted...

*thinks back to the romantic dialogue between Anakin and Padme*

...lmao

Yeah, the sequel trilogy had the worst character development, but at least the dialogue wasn't as cringey.

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Monolith1676 posted...

Ok, that one scene was bad. Out of all six Attack of the Clones was my least favorite.

I'd probably agree. Attack of the Clones was just boring, tbh.
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Hayame Zero posted...

Yeah, the sequel trilogy had the worst character development, but at least the dialogue wasn't as cringey.

They fly now?!

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