The Empire Strikes Back, Shadows of the Empire

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

It's just a matter of your stomach for old games that play kind of funky. When shadows of the empire came out, making games for game cartridges was expensive and difficult. You literally needed to put the game on to they cost a lot more to make. So i think those are all like, fun game s.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga reminds us of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, in that it feels unsustainably grand. Its creators have crammed nine films worth of characters, planets, and stories, plus winks at corners of the expanded universe, into one game. A report on crunch at the studio, however, raises serious questions about its leadership's decisions to make the game bigger and bigger and bigger. What does it mean for good games to be made in bad ways? Individual creators have filled Lego Star Wars with charming references, clever stages, and some genuinely funny writing. People clearly cared about their contributions to this project. So, this week, we try to parse our feelings of this complicated game and its creation.

Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!