Starwarts Finball

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I would probably say, fall in order. Did i fall in order? Which is the third person a, an kind ofa souls like ish metrvana ish that came out a couple years ago. Wand there's a sequel coming on the way. Y, i don't know why i think it's good that game is good, because it isn't sow up the lor ass of starwars as many of the other games are. Like you don't need to recognize every single character becase almost all the characters are new raters.

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.

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