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...no, really. That's pretty much it. It follows the same path except for following the story of the three Star Wars movies that are canon and the three that most people just tend to want to forget. Of course it does it in that quirky LEGO style that we've come to know and...love, I guess? I mean, I played with them as a kid, but I don't really look back on it with extreme fondness or dislike either way. Like with the Marvel version, a lot of the emphasis comes into manipulating the various LEGO bits of environment to acquire studs and bring up that total score.
Oh, and the various other goodies you can run into. Really, going into them would be a pain. You find the secrets and what not throughout the levels - many of which can only be found on the "Free Play" playthroughs after having already gone through the level in Story Mode. It's a game for the collector, much like for its Marvel equivalent. Replace super powers with Force Powers and other character abilities (such as hi-jumping or droid) and you basically have no real difference beyond the aesthetics. And while the aesthetics are nice - very faithfully recreated from the movies (in LEGO style, of course) - that's ultimately what they are, just looks.
The camera angles still bug me. Some of the boss fights drag out way, way too long, and no matter how many times I throw Jar Jar off a cliff he just keeps respawning and I begin to lose interest.
Though, at the very least, the Marvel version never actually made me play as Jar Jar.
...then again, this game doesn't have a cameo from an invincible Joe Quesada.
All joking aside, this game is made for the collector, the one hundred percenter - those who like to scour each and every nook and cranny of the game world to find every last little bit of precious. And for some, that's great! For me, personally? Not so much. But again, there's really nothing to knock here. It's actually very addictive and you could do a lot, lot worse with a licensed game as we've seen a few times here. And after all, it's Star Wars! And what bad thing ever came out of Star Wars*!
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is now available from Traveller's Tales and LucasArts.
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*The staff behind "From the Mouth of the Munchkin" would like to remind our readers that nothing post-1983 and pre-2015 (pending the new film) is accepted as wholly canon, and thus is not 'Star Wars'. Thank you for your attention.
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