Is There a Steam Deck Version?

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"It does feel like a frosting kind of game. That's just like, a lot of, like, all the many missions that you find in the open world are like things that you can finish in four minutes" "I kept thinking, man, this is like the perfect game for something like a steam deck or something like i know there is a switch version," he says. 'The onys watching sideways, she was watching sideways, and i was like, morlo again,' adds stephen. "'This is literally what i've done the past few nights. Had stuff to watch. Andei, great, you can watch whatever you want. I don't care' -

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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