A new behind-the-scenes video for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga details the process behind the latest LEGO video game and the many fun details and references that have been included for fans of the Star Wars franchise. Developer Traveler’s Tales announced a LEGO adaptation of all nine mainline Star Wars movies back in 2019, but LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga would be held back until later this year as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and production issues surrounding extensive employee crunch at Traveler’s Tales. However, the long wait will soon be over, as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is currently set to be released on all major platforms in April.
Over the past few months, Traveler’s Tales has unveiled several key improvements and new features that could help LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga stand out from the LEGO games that came before it. In addition to a massive roster of playable characters and vehicles from all three major Star Wars eras, The Skywalker Saga will feature revamped combat for both blaster-wielding characters and lightsaber-centric Jedi and Sith. Players who missed the pantomime storytelling of past LEGO Star Wars games will be able to mute the dialogue in Mumble Mode, and Traveler’s Tales has also confirmed that LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will feature DLC based on spin-offs like Rogue One and The Mandalorian after launch.
The LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Behind The Scenes video was just posted to the official Warner Bros. Games YouTube channel, and provides plenty of insight from the developers at Traveler’s Tales as they reflect on the challenge and excitement of adapting all nine main Star Wars films into a LEGO game. Traveler’s Tales’ Lead Sound Designer Tessa Verplancke notes that Lucasfilm granted her team access to all of its media and asset libraries, and project head Jonathan Smith and Cinematics Director Dave Brown comment that telling the nine-part Skywalker Saga in LEGO form granted them the freedom to add jokes and funny moments to the proceedings – such as Han Solo tossing food at Darth Vader on Cloud City. Other fun side details the developers have included consist of a character’s voice changing when they don a Stormtrooper disguise and a massive Bantha dancing along with R2-D2 on the sands of Tatooine.
Traveler’s Tales’ connection to Star Wars runs deep, as the developer’s very first LEGO game was 2005’s LEGO Star Wars – which adapted the events of the Prequel Trilogy in the lead-up to Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith. The following year would see the release of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, which featured the plots of the classic trilogy as the name suggests. After LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars adapted stories based on the hit Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, Traveler’s Tales would once again retell a live-action Star Wars film in 2016’s Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, though the latter two films in Disney’s Sequel Trilogy would remain unadapted.
That will change in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which will finally see The Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker retold in LEGO form alongside the rest of the nine-chapter Star Wars saga. It’s clear that Traveler’s Tales has put a lot of care into its latest LEGO game, with plenty of details and fun Easter Eggs for fans to notice and enjoy once LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga finally hits stores this spring.
Source: Warner Bros. Games/YouTube
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