Let’s face it, the world hasn’t felt good since about 2016. I don’t want to blame all the planets problems on one orange fondant covered human and his army of reptilian super c*nts but I can’t think of any other lightning rod of awfulness, so we’ll stick with that. So, for about 7 years the world has been on a steady decline towards what seems like a system reboot and we all mooch around day by day looking for anything to bring us a tiny sliver to true joy. Memes, wholesome videos and musical trends are a few things but now we’ve seen the absolute peak of what we need, the pure, unadulterated hit of nostalgia we all desperately craved. Lego Star Wars is back.
Now, to clear this up from the get-go, I haven’t actually played it yet… This is just a little bit of my musings on why it might be the purest joy I’ve seen in gaming for quite some time. In fact, yes not since 2016 and the summer of world peace brought about by the launch of Pokémon GO has there been such universal happiness from a video game. To its credit too, even GO brought about a new kind of racism as we all were made to pick sides by choosing what team we would be a part of (F*ck you anyone in Team Mystic you blue wearing nerds, Instinct for life). Back on topic, I think we can all agree there was at least one moment where we settled into to play a level or 2 of Lego Star Wars, the first Lego game that had nothing but fans. With slapstick humour and some of the most fun and betrayal filled co-op. It was an unstoppable force of a Sunday afternoon. I vividly remember playing the last stage of Revenge of the Sith with my brother and we could hardly hold it together for 5 seconds before turning our Lego lightsabers on each other in a brutal cascade of Lego pieces and yells of “you dick!”.
Thanks to our own team here, I’m well aware of just how true to the first this latest Lego offering is. Most comments seem to be it’s the same, just better somehow. Which is honestly all the review I need to make sure this game will be joining my library in the near future. I think I need it, after so many years of things just spiralling towards a perfect replica of the Watchmen universe, it feels like just to tonic to take the edge of for a while. Plus, its probably exactly what’s need to keep my girlfriends interest in gaming from vanishing as quickly as it arrived…