Not necessarily a problem for me, but it might look a little suspect to some people when they get a "Twin Video Rental" charge in their monthly statement.
Really appreciate the mention of the insane crunch time that went into this game. A very serious issue in the industry that a lot of people love to turn a blind eye towards
Raising Kratos does a great job at highlighting not just the crunch, but nearly every aspect that goes into making a video game and how tolling it can be on everyone involved.
The state of the industry is one of the biggest reasons I chose cybersecurity over game dev. $60 for a new big game yearly is a business model that can't keep up.
yeah, an example of this happening is with Sakarai making melee. the dude didn't eat or sleep for days on end and had to be hospitalized because of it. honestly it's an issue that I wish was addressed more, hell even Tekken creator Harada also commented on this issue and says it's the reason why he likes to make sure the games last, because he doesn't want excessive work that's more than necessary
Working in software development it’s like this in most industries these days. Agile has taken over and while good, many leaders see it as “faster” and push past a teams actual velocity. I’m glad I’m at a company that doesn’t expect OT but most aren’t that way, whatever it takes or get to the next release on time.
The comedic synergy of Tony's deadpan with Eddy's exaggeration compliment one another perfectly. I don't know if it's a brother thing or a comedy writing thing but you guys play it out perfectly. The jokes were just hitting with this one for me.
I went back to my parents house to visit recently. My younger brother asked me to play this game with him and I played as the legs the whole time. We spent half an hour with him as general grievous chasing the legs around trying to kill me but those little legs were just too fast lmao. Was a nice time with my typically indifferent teenage brother and I’m glad I’m not the only one who appreciates the magic of the legs. Also the slug, claud, is fucking horrifying I hate how he waddles at you so fast
I fought my brother in lego star wars and we still play it every few months. However, this game's expectations were set way too high by the fans of the original. The Burback boys do a great job in expressing how the game is great when you pair it with fair expectations of a completely different adaptation of a classic. Nice video.
Appreciate it! I think that when there’s a sequel/reboot like this, fans kind of put on blinders to everything that’s new and only notice what isn’t there from before - eddy
@@Burback That's exactly what happens and I knew it was happening. There's legitimate issues like the trailing missions and odd character choices within the game but nostalgia just can never be beat.
I don’t think expectations were set too high. It’s got plenty of issues. I don’t blame devs, it’s on Disney for forcing out an announcement before it should’ve been released, but with so many issues now it just doesn’t feel right. Doktor Skipper makes a great video breaking down issues. I understand people wanting to believe it’s the best Lego game for nostalgia reasons, but so many good parts of the game got removed, even ones that were advertised (battle of geonosis).
All I expected was a puzzle platformer hack 'n' slash in the same vein as the other 30 Lego Games. And have a character customizer, like the other 30 Lego Games.
nothing but respect for the devs, even with so much crunch put on top of them they still managed to do amazing work. i remember some of them saying they still wanted us to play the game in spite of the crunch, and i’m glad they can still take pride in it.
@@theincredibledrl9684 pretty good! Finishing up my last couple weeks of school and getting ready to do TH-cam full time over the summer. (Hopefully that goes somewhat well lol)
The only complaint I had about the split screen is that there wasn’t an option to do horizontal split screen. The vertical just did not work for me and my wife, it was too limiting for a game that honestly had a lot of stuff going on in your periphery that we couldn’t see.
THIS EXACTLY. I should never not want to play local multiplayer in a dang Lego game! But I really don’t in this one, ruined me and my brother’s experience, and the OG was really quite special growing up, heck, even like a 3 years before this was announced we went through it ALL again and was AMAZING. We couldn’t make it through episode 3 before I just decided the game looked so much better singleplayer and decided to watch. Not that I’d get to play the badass final battle with him anyways >:( Lol, #saddening
The best co-op boss fight was when you got to play as both Luke and Darth Vader, but Darth Vader was the boss so he had a boss's health bar and you were able to torment your friend by being overpowered.
Burback has quickly become one of my favorite channels and a great place for fun video essays. I have watched the Wii Sports video probably 5 times at least. nothing else to say, just here to say keep up the great work boys!!!
as someone who has played and has 100% completion on a lot of lego games (tcs, indy, hp, marvel, lotr, etc) it’s a great lego game and clearly the culmination of a lot of hard work from the team. glad you guys gave it a fair review and poked fun at the hardo fans
I threw in that exact “We are what they grow beyond” Yoda quote at the end of my high school graduation speech. Mine was also completely out of the blue, but no one ever said anything to me about it. I’m still convinced that everyone just stopped listening halfway through
Your points in the video definitely convinced me to pick up this game, the original was such a big part of my childhood. Watching this already made my day
Honestly you shouldn't. I love Lego games but the levels here are really bad and the collectibles suck ass. Way more problems but that's the short version
Oh contrair, there is much to fight about, you just have to be creative, (sometimes) 1. When you start a mission or go to a different area, both players have to agree on this 2. When you're a sith, you can just pick up player 1, or 2 and kill them 3. When you're a jedi and the other player is a Droid, you can throw them anywhere you want
Having grown up with LSW 1, 2 and TCS, I wasn't sure how I was gonna feel about voice acting in LSW. I feel like TSS bringing back so much of the Clone Wars voice cast really helped sell me on it though
my biggest annoyance with the game... when you are playing as a bounty hunter or imperial, when you press the action button, at least 40% of the time you'll throw a grenade, and everyone goes insane, including the person you were trying to talk to but accidently blew up his face
I have a really distinct memory of playing the complete saga with my dad when I was about 7 while eating BBQ flavored pringles… the entire wii remote and nunchuck were covered in a thin layer of BBQ flavored powder. Such great memories from that game.
some of my least favorite things are how it they cut out certain parts like battle over coruscaunt and how sometimes levels feel less like levels are more like places with actors and set pieces, its hard to describe that one, and also the lack of big battles like on genosis or kashyyyk, like they did a cool trick in the genosis arena mission where ai droids werent normal droids you usually encounter and die in one hit and i wish they used that more to allow for bigger battles, and also the game sometimes can feel a bit hand-holdy and this is a releatively small complaint, but why arent the regular rebel soldiers playable, and i also dont really like the forced camera lock for boss fights, also the lack of enemies to fight in free roam.
8:10 CLEARLY the people who made THIS game LIVED through the Complete Saga as kids.. and didn't want anyone else to lose their sibling to a Star Wars game.
The crunch is so baffling bc like... what was the rush? The game wasn't on a holiday release deadline. It didn't have to coincide with any Star Wars movie/show release. Like don't get me wrong, crunch is always bad regardless of whether it's "justified," but the game came out in April, half a year away from Christmas, and the most recent movie the game ties into came out in 2019
Yeah most other videos I've seen of TH-camrs talking about the game barely mention it and some act entitled about additional features which couldn't have been in the game due to crunch
My main issue with the humor is it felt like they zeroed in on well known memes and drove them into the ground particularly in the character interactions
My little nephew is OBSESSED with the Star Wars complete saga, I watch him play all the time and it’s so fun to watch, I remember playing it when I was little and it feels the same watching it now
I appreciate your take on the game. Especially that you called out some issues and quasi-addressed the poor dev team. I ultimately dislike this game. They removed so many great scenes from the original and replaced them with boring dialogue. Mumble mode made the animators look for creative ways to tell the story. Adding dialogue gave them the lazy out of "characters walk and talk for 12min of a 15min level with a boss fight at the end" (Kamino was the most boring level of any game I have ever played in my life). I hate the use of dialogue in this game. I'm not saying dialogue as a feature is bad. They used it to EXCELLENT effect in the whole Jurassic Park LEGO game and it never felt they leaned on it as a crutch to get away with not "showing" the audience the story ("show me, don't tell me"). We all saw the movies. We don't need crap voice acting and boring dialogue (yes, the handful of Clone Wars voice actors did well, but they didn't save the game from the plethora of awful voice acting). Then, for some reason, this time around they decided to make an action shooter with a needlessly tight camera, shitty storytelling, ridiculous menus that even I get lost in, and boring boss fights with identical mechanics that utterly leave out the second player to stand around and scratch their ass. I only play LEGO games in 2-player mode as this is the family style game my wife is willing to play with me. She won't even play it she's so disappointed in this game. I have to agree. We returned it after a month of trying to get psyched to play it, trying, glitches kicking us out and freezing our console, trying again, frustrations over not being able to see anything with such a tight and unforgiving camera, and ultimately arguments over who gets to be what character since P2 was always "the droid" or "the sidekick generic clone/rebel/bounty hunter". I don't need 30 variation of clone trooper just so they can tout OVER 300 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS! I'm sorry, there are not 300 characters in this franchise that I can even name, and I've read majority of the extended universe. And don't get me started on the jump puzzles that have zero difficulty because you press A and your character goes to the place. The console is playing the game for me at that point. *sad sigh* And I want my linear hallways back.
@@austinbatton4849 Weird comment but you can go load up the game for yourself man. It really is just an empty open world with bad unfinished levels, the few times they can even be considered “levels” at all. I think the pretty graphics are the only thing that really kept the hype up in the first place. Trust me I really really wish I enjoyed it as much as so many others seemed to, but there’s just no substance to it at all. But I have a feeling you’re not really looking to hear me out on this one lol
I really enjoyed the video, guys! I also really appreciate how much you guys mentioned the crunch. I feel like nobody else has been talking about it since the game came out.
I’m playing through this game right now. I loved the original games and I think this one is an excellent step forward for the Lego Star Wars games. I am having an absolute blast exploring and collecting everything. But oh my god, and I’m so glad you guys mentioned this, but O or B being the button for the force push / weapon withdraw / grenade / pretty much everything is so so infuriating. I was just trying to put my weapon away and now I’m being attacked because I force-pushed some rando into a lego food stand.
I’m glad to hear that there is voice acting created specifically for this game. The main reason I HATED the last Lego Star Wars game (the sequel one) I played was because they just took dialogue straight from the movies and added lazy visual humor. It did not work.
Main Problem for me was, that every character in a character group is pretty much the same. This way i don`t really care which one i am playing. In the old games characters like Boba Fett or IG-88 where speciall because they got unique abilities and even bad characters got these kinds of abilities like one guy forgetting in which pocket his blaster was so he needs double the time to draw it. This way i wanted to test every character out. But now i don`t have a reall reason to try
not being able to replay the entirety of the movies is my biggest gripe with this game. its why i liked the lego games, so only being able to replay tiny snippets of the movies while most of them take place in the open world areas kinda blew this game for me.
I agree completely that a game like this is impossible with hyper-realistic graphics. But I also think a simpler, more fun art style is better than realism for a game like this in the first place. I feel like it allows for more creative freedom and fun (and more content) that a more serious game wouldn’t be able to do. And I’d argue it looks more interesting. I wish more games would take this approach even outside of lego. The majority of games aren’t going to look like horizon forbidden west so why not make them look more interesting/artistic while also making it easier on the devs (and maybe even get us, the epic gamers, more content)? Just as a quick example because I like talking about this stuff: we probably won’t be getting a new batman game anytime soon and while lego batman exists, it doesn’t hit the same as a true batman game would. Why not combine the two and have the same function as a normal batman game with all the charm, fun, and simplicity (for ease of development) as a lego game, kind of like how the skywalker saga goes beyond a typical lego game to feel like a huge star wars game
This game was visually dazzling and the open world was fun, but the main story missions were genuinely awful. Almost none of them required any thinking or strategy like the great puzzle solving of the original games. They were far too reliant on the hub worlds, the boss fights were repetitive, and iconic movie segments that would have made amazing levels were cut short. Each movie feels like it’s being rushed through, and I just felt like I was sleepwalking through most of the levels especially the prequels. Phantom Menace is like 80% just walking around. The lack of character customization is also just insanely dumb
By far the funniest aspect of this game is the combat system. It is absolutely hilarious that the combat feels like baby's first DEVIL MAY CRY, with launchers and juggling and some characters can almost enemy step??? But none of the enemies have anywhere near enough health to really flex that freedom. So what inevitably happens is you find the nearest unkillable child and beat the absolute shit out of them to see how far you can push the combat. Which again, is WAY farther than you'd ever need to.
In my opinion, they focused waaaay too much on the hub worlds and far too little on the levels for this game. About half of the story mode in the prequels and sequels was just walking in the overworld between points. The levels themselves were generally pretty short, with the exception of the OT levels (which they did an excellent job on), while the open-world planets were way too big. The levels are the reason I play Lego games; the hub world/worlds should just add some additional fun things to do and see. The hub should not take longer to complete than the actual game. Lego Batman 2 and Lego Marvel 1 had a great balance: fun, well-paced levels and a fairly large hub that you could reasonably complete in an afternoon or two. The Skywalker Saga sacrificed levels for the sake of a huge, open-world hub, which was to the detriment of the game. It sucks even more that these giant hubs were also probably a big part of the reason crunch was necessary.
5:13 Auralnauts actually did an edit of the actual scene without the music. It was super awkward. Look it up it's called "Star Wars Minus Williams - Throne Room"
My only big issue with the game is that there isn't a lot of replayability. A lot of the story takes place in the hub and you only do that once, so miss out on a lot. Then the missions themselves are very short. It's still a great game, just misses the mark on that aspect.
Holy crap was I lucky to hit refresh on my feed! Oh BOY! I love these vids Burback boys. Really makes me want to play these Lego games that I unfortunately missed as a kid.
The Disney Sequels are kinda hard to get through....but much, MUCH less so than the actual movies themselves. If you want an uber passionate celebration of Star Wars? This is your game bro
Id recommend the complete saga. This game is very streamlined with most levels being around 3 minutes with plenty of cutscenes walks. Most of the characters have much more mechanical overlap and feel very samey with C3PO having combat strings and Boba Fett having a small hop for his jetpack. You'll feel the limited repetitive design boring quickly.
@@Eggolas then go ahead. Id recommend other Lego games before this one. Lego City Undercover is underrated. But if you need more Star Wars Lego right now at full price then go ahead.
i have to say, i prefer the two player non-split screen of the old game. like i wish there was an option to turn the split screen off and play it in classic mode.
They didn't talk about the shitty level design, that is the one thing the Skywalker saga can't hold a candle to in the original. The fact that half of the levels are walking around and there are barely any puzzles really sucks and is a huge disappointment
Complete saga was one of my favorite old games I played as a kid. I know as the 20 year old playing a game intended for kids I'm not the target audience. But I didn't want elden ring bosses I wanted some sort of puzzle in the boss fight at least. I maxed the difficulty knowing it would be an easy game. The humor was amazing though. I put it on myself for getting to many expectations up. I was expecting some levels to go through but mostly the open worldness was just annoyed at having to walk slowly with the npc to a random area. Idk. I like levels and the conciseness of going from one to the other with a small or medium hub. I have 0 complaints on the actual levels when I got to them but I felt like there was huge spaces between actual levels. Again, had a blast with each level. WHEN I GOT TO THEM. I'm not a huge fan of open world's anyhow so that immediately put some negatives for me.
Tony is such a great straight man to Eddy. Since Eddy already had his own channel we've been used to his... unique sense of humor, so having a regular dude to reel him in at times is nice.
From watching some of the Lego shows with my son, I would say there is about five jokes a minute in those shows, Whether it be they use early 2000s randomness, or visual gags, they are definitely trying to reach as many audiences as possible. I think I first noticed this watching the emergency and rescue show with my three year old.
They are both unique in their own ways, my only real problem with the new one is lack of character customization and no force ghost characters, besides that I really like it.
I checked if the band stops playing their instruments when you turn off the music like as soon as this game came out because of the last Lego star wars video hahaha
Just on the note of content and crunch: more crunch does not equal more content. Another game series with lightsaber like weapons is the Xenoblade series, which take hundreds of hours to complete. The devs of those games, Monolithsoft, famously are anti crunch, having a 40 hour *maximum* work week with overtime. And as a result, they are releasing Xenoblade 3 ahead of schedule.
This might be a nitpick, but I hate the new camera angle, while playing I had a headache before even beating a single level and stopped, havent gotten back to it since
Hey guys, love it! Another banger from the Burback Boys! If I could offer one constructive comment it would be, add something distinctive to your thumbnails that screams “this is a Burback joint”. I’ve missed your videos in my feed, and almost did again today, because the thumbnail looks too similar to other Channels I’m subscribed to but watch less frequently, like IGN. I skip right past them because I don’t care what ign has to say about Star Wars lol but then I look at the channel name and I’m like “oh shit I almost missed u! Get over here you little stinker!”
Eddy & Tony On Old Lego SW: Moment of silence for all the fights caused by the camera movement and people leaving areas early when P2 wants to explore Also Eddy & Tony On New Lego SW: 7:45
It took me so long to realize that a Burback was speaking to me - it took a picture with Eddy to make me check the channel and go “ohhhh that’s why he’s so sarcastic.”
My household’s first move in free play was to grind out the stud multiplier. Now the most expensive items in the game barely make a dent in our wealth 🤑
Your Lego Star Wars videos unlocked some very beloved memories of playing the game with my brother. Luckily I was able to find Skywalker saga at a reuse store for ¥1,100 (about $8) and just want to thank you for this nostalgic fun
I didn't think I would enjoy a video about lego starwars so much. I enjoy your comedic style, you guys can make any topic interesting and entertaining. Good work boys
The comedic flair of no dialogue is kinda missed but at least the devs behind the Lego games seems to have gotten a grasp at making decent jokes and the pre-quel memes are kinda weird without dialogue I guess
Real OG’s will remember loading their Lego Star Wars 1 unlocks into their Lego Star Wars 2 game to get all the first games characters before the complete saga
I’m right there with you in that the quality of the game is top notch. It’s funny, The voice acting is good when they could’ve phoned it in, the game looks beautiful, and the way they recreated some of these environments is very impressive. BUT my biggest gripe is that I don’t think the ACTUAL missions are anywhere near as fun as The Complete Saga and a lot of them are also weirdly short? Some of the missions are legitimately like 3 or 4 minutes long, it’s just weird. I definitely preferred having 6 pretty long linear levels for every movie like in TCS. I found myself just trying to collect as many bricks as I could and buy as many characters as I could more than actually playing the levels and then I got bored of doing that after a week or so. Like go back and think of how memorable some of the missions in TCS were, the way the levels are set up in this game, it didn’t grab me the same way.
I don’t think this game has the same replay value as the original sadly. Also not enough time spent on the story missions like the amount spent on the open world and roster of characters
I'm 38 and haven't played this one yet but I love the Lego games. The Jurassic Park/World one where you have both in one game is pretty fun and I love the superhero Lego games
I think the whole thing in general is that people were expecting their nostalgia recaptured instead of something new. I expected it to be a grind because it's covering 9 whole episodes and with the fact there are hub worlds it makes sense how much grinding there would be. My main issue overall is the unreplayability vs the replayability. There are some levels and story beats you cannot repeat and that is frustrating in itself. Also some levels we're not made that I wish were made such as the Battle above Coruscant, multiplayer duel of Anakin vs Obi-Wan and more. Some of the humor felt like it was off putting in comparison to others. Where some scenes were respected it felt like others were treated in bad taste. Still there's no doubt how incredible it all looks and all the characters you play as are very diverse and fun. People talk about the repetitiveness but ignore the repetitive nature of the other games too. So that's just expected overall. I'm willing to bet this comment goes in comment purgatory.
On the B/Circle button complaint, it's also the button to rip protocol droids like C3PO in half. Which I also learned after completing the game 100% is a completely useless function anyways there's no reason for other characters to rip protocol droids in half and carry them around. But since it's also the button to use the force to move droids around often you'll be accidentally ripping droids in half when you're trying to use the force on them to get them to a certain area for a puzzle, which can get pretty annoying after awhile.
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Not necessarily a problem for me, but it might look a little suspect to some people when they get a "Twin Video Rental" charge in their monthly statement.
Crewneck coming soon?? I’d like a hoodie but I’d love a crewneck!
Shoutout to Tony's gf for making youtuber merch that doesn't look like youtuber merch
Really appreciate the mention of the insane crunch time that went into this game. A very serious issue in the industry that a lot of people love to turn a blind eye towards
Raising Kratos does a great job at highlighting not just the crunch, but nearly every aspect that goes into making a video game and how tolling it can be on everyone involved.
The state of the industry is one of the biggest reasons I chose cybersecurity over game dev. $60 for a new big game yearly is a business model that can't keep up.
yeah, an example of this happening is with Sakarai making melee. the dude didn't eat or sleep for days on end and had to be hospitalized because of it. honestly it's an issue that I wish was addressed more, hell even Tekken creator Harada also commented on this issue and says it's the reason why he likes to make sure the games last, because he doesn't want excessive work that's more than necessary
@@garbagetrash2938 the reason I left game programming was because of buffer overflows
Working in software development it’s like this in most industries these days. Agile has taken over and while good, many leaders see it as “faster” and push past a teams actual velocity. I’m glad I’m at a company that doesn’t expect OT but most aren’t that way, whatever it takes or get to the next release on time.
The comedic synergy of Tony's deadpan with Eddy's exaggeration compliment one another perfectly. I don't know if it's a brother thing or a comedy writing thing but you guys play it out perfectly.
The jokes were just hitting with this one for me.
I couldn't have said it better myself
And he isn’t an asshole.
Tony>>>>>>>gus
They've got rerez vibes
I went back to my parents house to visit recently. My younger brother asked me to play this game with him and I played as the legs the whole time. We spent half an hour with him as general grievous chasing the legs around trying to kill me but those little legs were just too fast lmao. Was a nice time with my typically indifferent teenage brother and I’m glad I’m not the only one who appreciates the magic of the legs. Also the slug, claud, is fucking horrifying I hate how he waddles at you so fast
Klaud is the fucking best.
@@NihilisticBallman Hes a menace to society
@@spagheddie69 Yeah, so what?
@@NihilisticBallman you right my bad
I too appreciate the magic of legs
I fought my brother in lego star wars and we still play it every few months. However, this game's expectations were set way too high by the fans of the original. The Burback boys do a great job in expressing how the game is great when you pair it with fair expectations of a completely different adaptation of a classic. Nice video.
Appreciate it! I think that when there’s a sequel/reboot like this, fans kind of put on blinders to everything that’s new and only notice what isn’t there from before - eddy
@@Burback That's exactly what happens and I knew it was happening. There's legitimate issues like the trailing missions and odd character choices within the game but nostalgia just can never be beat.
I don’t think expectations were set too high. It’s got plenty of issues. I don’t blame devs, it’s on Disney for forcing out an announcement before it should’ve been released, but with so many issues now it just doesn’t feel right. Doktor Skipper makes a great video breaking down issues. I understand people wanting to believe it’s the best Lego game for nostalgia reasons, but so many good parts of the game got removed, even ones that were advertised (battle of geonosis).
All I expected was a puzzle platformer hack 'n' slash in the same vein as the other 30 Lego Games. And have a character customizer, like the other 30 Lego Games.
The expectations were that it would be a playable game, not very high. It’s a lego walking simulator with a fight every few hours.
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that droid wasn't a day from retirement, he was LITERALLY RETIRING.
Rip in piece
nothing but respect for the devs, even with so much crunch put on top of them they still managed to do amazing work. i remember some of them saying they still wanted us to play the game in spite of the crunch, and i’m glad they can still take pride in it.
This video has plenty of Lego, Star, and Wars to go around for everyone. Beautiful work.
Hey, kittydaw. Used to watch Ur vids back when this great game had hype, how u doing
@@theincredibledrl9684 pretty good! Finishing up my last couple weeks of school and getting ready to do TH-cam full time over the summer. (Hopefully that goes somewhat well lol)
The only complaint I had about the split screen is that there wasn’t an option to do horizontal split screen. The vertical just did not work for me and my wife, it was too limiting for a game that honestly had a lot of stuff going on in your periphery that we couldn’t see.
THIS EXACTLY.
I should never not want to play local multiplayer in a dang Lego game! But I really don’t in this one, ruined me and my brother’s experience, and the OG was really quite special growing up, heck, even like a 3 years before this was announced we went through it ALL again and was AMAZING.
We couldn’t make it through episode 3 before I just decided the game looked so much better singleplayer and decided to watch.
Not that I’d get to play the badass final battle with him anyways >:(
Lol, #saddening
One of my favorite things to do in the complete saga was starting all out brawls in the cantina. But in this game everyone just runs away :(
the way tony delivered that "im poor" line had me dying.
The best co-op boss fight was when you got to play as both Luke and Darth Vader, but Darth Vader was the boss so he had a boss's health bar and you were able to torment your friend by being overpowered.
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Burback has quickly become one of my favorite channels and a great place for fun video essays. I have watched the Wii Sports video probably 5 times at least.
nothing else to say, just here to say keep up the great work boys!!!
yes loves the wii sports video!
as someone who has played and has 100% completion on a lot of lego games (tcs, indy, hp, marvel, lotr, etc) it’s a great lego game and clearly the culmination of a lot of hard work from the team. glad you guys gave it a fair review and poked fun at the hardo fans
Tony needs to stop treading on Eddy's toes. Let the man sing, you're just envious he has the pipes of an angel!
I threw in that exact “We are what they grow beyond” Yoda quote at the end of my high school graduation speech. Mine was also completely out of the blue, but no one ever said anything to me about it. I’m still convinced that everyone just stopped listening halfway through
Your points in the video definitely convinced me to pick up this game, the original was such a big part of my childhood. Watching this already made my day
Mid game.
Honestly you shouldn't. I love Lego games but the levels here are really bad and the collectibles suck ass. Way more problems but that's the short version
@@kfirezrati807 it's too late he definetly cursed himself to play the game by now :(
@@dipflop5530 Yeah you're probably right. Oh well
I love it.
Oh contrair, there is much to fight about, you just have to be creative, (sometimes)
1. When you start a mission or go to a different area, both players have to agree on this
2. When you're a sith, you can just pick up player 1, or 2 and kill them
3. When you're a jedi and the other player is a Droid, you can throw them anywhere you want
Ok but can Yoda go on his chair? His floating chair? The best part of the first Lego Star Wars? He. When he chair?
Having grown up with LSW 1, 2 and TCS, I wasn't sure how I was gonna feel about voice acting in LSW. I feel like TSS bringing back so much of the Clone Wars voice cast really helped sell me on it though
Playing as the legs is so freaking funny to me
my biggest annoyance with the game... when you are playing as a bounty hunter or imperial, when you press the action button, at least 40% of the time you'll throw a grenade, and everyone goes insane, including the person you were trying to talk to but accidently blew up his face
I have a really distinct memory of playing the complete saga with my dad when I was about 7 while eating BBQ flavored pringles… the entire wii remote and nunchuck were covered in a thin layer of BBQ flavored powder. Such great memories from that game.
You know what’s crazy is that I just did the Death Star quest like 10 minutes ago and the. Saw this video with it talking about the Death Star quest
some of my least favorite things are how it they cut out certain parts like battle over coruscaunt and how sometimes levels feel less like levels are more like places with actors and set pieces, its hard to describe that one, and also the lack of big battles like on genosis or kashyyyk, like they did a cool trick in the genosis arena mission where ai droids werent normal droids you usually encounter and die in one hit and i wish they used that more to allow for bigger battles, and also the game sometimes can feel a bit hand-holdy and this is a releatively small complaint, but why arent the regular rebel soldiers playable, and i also dont really like the forced camera lock for boss fights, also the lack of enemies to fight in free roam.
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8:10 CLEARLY the people who made THIS game LIVED through the Complete Saga as kids.. and didn't want anyone else to lose their sibling to a Star Wars game.
I’m surprised they didn’t talk about character creation. I really hope they add that and online co-op.
The crunch is so baffling bc like... what was the rush? The game wasn't on a holiday release deadline. It didn't have to coincide with any Star Wars movie/show release. Like don't get me wrong, crunch is always bad regardless of whether it's "justified," but the game came out in April, half a year away from Christmas, and the most recent movie the game ties into came out in 2019
truly appreciate mentioning the crunch time for developers!!!
Yeah most other videos I've seen of TH-camrs talking about the game barely mention it and some act entitled about additional features which couldn't have been in the game due to crunch
My main issue with the humor is it felt like they zeroed in on well known memes and drove them into the ground particularly in the character interactions
My little nephew is OBSESSED with the Star Wars complete saga, I watch him play all the time and it’s so fun to watch, I remember playing it when I was little and it feels the same watching it now
I appreciate your take on the game. Especially that you called out some issues and quasi-addressed the poor dev team.
I ultimately dislike this game. They removed so many great scenes from the original and replaced them with boring dialogue. Mumble mode made the animators look for creative ways to tell the story. Adding dialogue gave them the lazy out of "characters walk and talk for 12min of a 15min level with a boss fight at the end" (Kamino was the most boring level of any game I have ever played in my life). I hate the use of dialogue in this game. I'm not saying dialogue as a feature is bad. They used it to EXCELLENT effect in the whole Jurassic Park LEGO game and it never felt they leaned on it as a crutch to get away with not "showing" the audience the story ("show me, don't tell me"). We all saw the movies. We don't need crap voice acting and boring dialogue (yes, the handful of Clone Wars voice actors did well, but they didn't save the game from the plethora of awful voice acting).
Then, for some reason, this time around they decided to make an action shooter with a needlessly tight camera, shitty storytelling, ridiculous menus that even I get lost in, and boring boss fights with identical mechanics that utterly leave out the second player to stand around and scratch their ass. I only play LEGO games in 2-player mode as this is the family style game my wife is willing to play with me. She won't even play it she's so disappointed in this game. I have to agree. We returned it after a month of trying to get psyched to play it, trying, glitches kicking us out and freezing our console, trying again, frustrations over not being able to see anything with such a tight and unforgiving camera, and ultimately arguments over who gets to be what character since P2 was always "the droid" or "the sidekick generic clone/rebel/bounty hunter". I don't need 30 variation of clone trooper just so they can tout OVER 300 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS! I'm sorry, there are not 300 characters in this franchise that I can even name, and I've read majority of the extended universe. And don't get me started on the jump puzzles that have zero difficulty because you press A and your character goes to the place. The console is playing the game for me at that point. *sad sigh*
And I want my linear hallways back.
ha ha, don't mine me, leaving a comment after i watched the full video AND NOT before finishing the video just because i want to be heard!
Lego starwars speedrun analysis when??
You guys are so fun to watch I love this channel. Especially the mentions of fighting over the screen it brings back memories lol
Fun fact: If you look closely, you can see the Lego trademark stuff, even in Star Wars, you can't escape Lego.
It feels weird that you guys didn't mention that you can't make your own character in the skywalker saga
Or that the game lacks any gameplay besides wandering around aimlessly in unfinished levels and empty “open worlds” lol
@@bluebomber875you’re delusional
@@bluebomber875you incels just cry over made up complains lol
@@austinbatton4849 Weird comment but you can go load up the game for yourself man. It really is just an empty open world with bad unfinished levels, the few times they can even be considered “levels” at all. I think the pretty graphics are the only thing that really kept the hype up in the first place. Trust me I really really wish I enjoyed it as much as so many others seemed to, but there’s just no substance to it at all.
But I have a feeling you’re not really looking to hear me out on this one lol
The Han Solo glow up is the greatest innovation of the decade
I really enjoyed the video, guys! I also really appreciate how much you guys mentioned the crunch. I feel like nobody else has been talking about it since the game came out.
Eggy and The Tone back at it again! Nothing will stop these Burback boys!!
I’m very glad you two made this channel. This was great.
I’m playing through this game right now. I loved the original games and I think this one is an excellent step forward for the Lego Star Wars games. I am having an absolute blast exploring and collecting everything. But oh my god, and I’m so glad you guys mentioned this, but O or B being the button for the force push / weapon withdraw / grenade / pretty much everything is so so infuriating. I was just trying to put my weapon away and now I’m being attacked because I force-pushed some rando into a lego food stand.
I’m glad to hear that there is voice acting created specifically for this game. The main reason I HATED the last Lego Star Wars game (the sequel one) I played was because they just took dialogue straight from the movies and added lazy visual humor. It did not work.
Main Problem for me was, that every character in a character group is pretty much the same. This way i don`t really care which one i am playing. In the old games characters like Boba Fett or IG-88 where speciall because they got unique abilities and even bad characters got these kinds of abilities like one guy forgetting in which pocket his blaster was so he needs double the time to draw it. This way i wanted to test every character out. But now i don`t have a reall reason to try
not being able to replay the entirety of the movies is my biggest gripe with this game. its why i liked the lego games, so only being able to replay tiny snippets of the movies while most of them take place in the open world areas kinda blew this game for me.
I agree completely that a game like this is impossible with hyper-realistic graphics. But I also think a simpler, more fun art style is better than realism for a game like this in the first place. I feel like it allows for more creative freedom and fun (and more content) that a more serious game wouldn’t be able to do. And I’d argue it looks more interesting. I wish more games would take this approach even outside of lego. The majority of games aren’t going to look like horizon forbidden west so why not make them look more interesting/artistic while also making it easier on the devs (and maybe even get us, the epic gamers, more content)?
Just as a quick example because I like talking about this stuff: we probably won’t be getting a new batman game anytime soon and while lego batman exists, it doesn’t hit the same as a true batman game would. Why not combine the two and have the same function as a normal batman game with all the charm, fun, and simplicity (for ease of development) as a lego game, kind of like how the skywalker saga goes beyond a typical lego game to feel like a huge star wars game
Luckiest day of my life was finding Lego Star Wars: the complete saga, for $2 at my local library in their “For sale” pile back in 2008
This game was visually dazzling and the open world was fun, but the main story missions were genuinely awful. Almost none of them required any thinking or strategy like the great puzzle solving of the original games. They were far too reliant on the hub worlds, the boss fights were repetitive, and iconic movie segments that would have made amazing levels were cut short. Each movie feels like it’s being rushed through, and I just felt like I was sleepwalking through most of the levels especially the prequels. Phantom Menace is like 80% just walking around. The lack of character customization is also just insanely dumb
Keep up the great work guys! Its been so much fun watching the channel grow and I can’t wait to see where you take it from here!
By far the funniest aspect of this game is the combat system. It is absolutely hilarious that the combat feels like baby's first DEVIL MAY CRY, with launchers and juggling and some characters can almost enemy step??? But none of the enemies have anywhere near enough health to really flex that freedom.
So what inevitably happens is you find the nearest unkillable child and beat the absolute shit out of them to see how far you can push the combat. Which again, is WAY farther than you'd ever need to.
The Complete Saga came out in 2007, not 2006.
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy came out in 2006.
In my opinion, they focused waaaay too much on the hub worlds and far too little on the levels for this game. About half of the story mode in the prequels and sequels was just walking in the overworld between points. The levels themselves were generally pretty short, with the exception of the OT levels (which they did an excellent job on), while the open-world planets were way too big.
The levels are the reason I play Lego games; the hub world/worlds should just add some additional fun things to do and see. The hub should not take longer to complete than the actual game. Lego Batman 2 and Lego Marvel 1 had a great balance: fun, well-paced levels and a fairly large hub that you could reasonably complete in an afternoon or two. The Skywalker Saga sacrificed levels for the sake of a huge, open-world hub, which was to the detriment of the game. It sucks even more that these giant hubs were also probably a big part of the reason crunch was necessary.
5:13 Auralnauts actually did an edit of the actual scene without the music. It was super awkward. Look it up it's called "Star Wars Minus Williams - Throne Room"
My only big issue with the game is that there isn't a lot of replayability. A lot of the story takes place in the hub and you only do that once, so miss out on a lot. Then the missions themselves are very short. It's still a great game, just misses the mark on that aspect.
Holy crap was I lucky to hit refresh on my feed! Oh BOY! I love these vids Burback boys. Really makes me want to play these Lego games that I unfortunately missed as a kid.
This video has convinced me to get the game. I'll grab it this weekend. I was on the fence.
The Disney Sequels are kinda hard to get through....but much, MUCH less so than the actual movies themselves. If you want an uber passionate celebration of Star Wars? This is your game bro
Id recommend the complete saga. This game is very streamlined with most levels being around 3 minutes with plenty of cutscenes walks. Most of the characters have much more mechanical overlap and feel very samey with C3PO having combat strings and Boba Fett having a small hop for his jetpack. You'll feel the limited repetitive design boring quickly.
@@cdubsb3831 bro i did complete saga about a 100 times already
@@Eggolas then go ahead. Id recommend other Lego games before this one. Lego City Undercover is underrated. But if you need more Star Wars Lego right now at full price then go ahead.
@@rileymachelle4088 gameplay wise, the Sequels are probably the most fleshed out trilogy
copped me a shirt boys. love the video
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i have to say, i prefer the two player non-split screen of the old game. like i wish there was an option to turn the split screen off and play it in classic mode.
They didn't talk about the shitty level design, that is the one thing the Skywalker saga can't hold a candle to in the original. The fact that half of the levels are walking around and there are barely any puzzles really sucks and is a huge disappointment
Complete saga was one of my favorite old games I played as a kid. I know as the 20 year old playing a game intended for kids I'm not the target audience. But I didn't want elden ring bosses I wanted some sort of puzzle in the boss fight at least. I maxed the difficulty knowing it would be an easy game. The humor was amazing though. I put it on myself for getting to many expectations up. I was expecting some levels to go through but mostly the open worldness was just annoyed at having to walk slowly with the npc to a random area. Idk. I like levels and the conciseness of going from one to the other with a small or medium hub. I have 0 complaints on the actual levels when I got to them but I felt like there was huge spaces between actual levels. Again, had a blast with each level. WHEN I GOT TO THEM. I'm not a huge fan of open world's anyhow so that immediately put some negatives for me.
Tony is such a great straight man to Eddy. Since Eddy already had his own channel we've been used to his... unique sense of humor, so having a regular dude to reel him in at times is nice.
This video is great, I’m surprised you were able to put so much into it given the intense time crunch
I love the content on this channel. You guys have innovated on a classic format in an entertaining and hilarious way
From watching some of the Lego shows with my son, I would say there is about five jokes a minute in those shows, Whether it be they use early 2000s randomness, or visual gags, they are definitely trying to reach as many audiences as possible. I think I first noticed this watching the emergency and rescue show with my three year old.
My roommate and I played the ROTS Mustufar boss battle as C-3PO’s body and legs just beating the shit out of Anakin with a dismembered c-3po
They are both unique in their own ways, my only real problem with the new one is lack of character customization and no force ghost characters, besides that I really like it.
All 9 movies in one game? What do you mean? There are only 6 movies
I checked if the band stops playing their instruments when you turn off the music like as soon as this game came out because of the last Lego star wars video hahaha
Just on the note of content and crunch: more crunch does not equal more content. Another game series with lightsaber like weapons is the Xenoblade series, which take hundreds of hours to complete. The devs of those games, Monolithsoft, famously are anti crunch, having a 40 hour *maximum* work week with overtime. And as a result, they are releasing Xenoblade 3 ahead of schedule.
This might be a nitpick, but I hate the new camera angle, while playing I had a headache before even beating a single level and stopped, havent gotten back to it since
Its a good game and playing one episode in story mode took about 2 hours, real fun
I love this channel ngl, the banter you have reminds me so much of mine with my sister which pairs with 00s nostalgia perfectly 👌👌
Hey guys, love it! Another banger from the Burback Boys! If I could offer one constructive comment it would be, add something distinctive to your thumbnails that screams “this is a Burback joint”. I’ve missed your videos in my feed, and almost did again today, because the thumbnail looks too similar to other Channels I’m subscribed to but watch less frequently, like IGN. I skip right past them because I don’t care what ign has to say about Star Wars lol but then I look at the channel name and I’m like “oh shit I almost missed u! Get over here you little stinker!”
Eddy & Tony On Old Lego SW: Moment of silence for all the fights caused by the camera movement and people leaving areas early when P2 wants to explore
Also Eddy & Tony On New Lego SW: 7:45
It took me so long to realize that a Burback was speaking to me - it took a picture with Eddy to make me check the channel and go “ohhhh that’s why he’s so sarcastic.”
Gonna play this game with my buddy when I get home from college for the summer. This video just got me so hype for it. Thx boys
id love to see one of these with the new switch sports!
Love to see the new video, even cooler since i was chatting for a lot of the gameplay filming. It's a really cool set up y'all have going on
My household’s first move in free play was to grind out the stud multiplier. Now the most expensive items in the game barely make a dent in our wealth 🤑
Love this game so much, the thing that bummed me out though is that there is no custom character creation :'(
Your Lego Star Wars videos unlocked some very beloved memories of playing the game with my brother. Luckily I was able to find Skywalker saga at a reuse store for ¥1,100 (about $8) and just want to thank you for this nostalgic fun
I didn't think I would enjoy a video about lego starwars so much. I enjoy your comedic style, you guys can make any topic interesting and entertaining. Good work boys
The LEGO pirates of the Caribbean spilt screen is just… *chefs kiss*
The comedic flair of no dialogue is kinda missed but at least the devs behind the Lego games seems to have gotten a grasp at making decent jokes and the pre-quel memes are kinda weird without dialogue I guess
love the auralnauts reference at 5:14
The feeling when you find a new TH-camr with quality content is like finding a secret party room in a church
Real OG’s will remember loading their Lego Star Wars 1 unlocks into their Lego Star Wars 2 game to get all the first games characters before the complete saga
you did good burbros. that's what we call you now. we own you
I’m right there with you in that the quality of the game is top notch. It’s funny, The voice acting is good when they could’ve phoned it in, the game looks beautiful, and the way they recreated some of these environments is very impressive. BUT my biggest gripe is that I don’t think the ACTUAL missions are anywhere near as fun as The Complete Saga and a lot of them are also weirdly short? Some of the missions are legitimately like 3 or 4 minutes long, it’s just weird. I definitely preferred having 6 pretty long linear levels for every movie like in TCS. I found myself just trying to collect as many bricks as I could and buy as many characters as I could more than actually playing the levels and then I got bored of doing that after a week or so. Like go back and think of how memorable some of the missions in TCS were, the way the levels are set up in this game, it didn’t grab me the same way.
This video is actually hilarious and when you guys asked us to buy your shirt it sounded like Danny Gonzales
I don’t think this game has the same replay value as the original sadly. Also not enough time spent on the story missions like the amount spent on the open world and roster of characters
This is my favorite TH-cam channel at the moment
I'm 38 and haven't played this one yet but I love the Lego games. The Jurassic Park/World one where you have both in one game is pretty fun and I love the superhero Lego games
"A 24 Year old sitting in my dark room with bloodshot eyes illuminated by my monitor at 4am" I FEEL SO CALLED OUT. DIRECTLY. FOR THE THROAT
I have zero games or consoles but this content is fascinating and I will always watch lmao
I cant believe I didnt see this video!
Gotta say love that the phantom menace is just the same stretch of naboo swamp over and over
I hope they go over the new switch sports game! That's gonna be a great video
I think the whole thing in general is that people were expecting their nostalgia recaptured instead of something new. I expected it to be a grind because it's covering 9 whole episodes and with the fact there are hub worlds it makes sense how much grinding there would be. My main issue overall is the unreplayability vs the replayability. There are some levels and story beats you cannot repeat and that is frustrating in itself. Also some levels we're not made that I wish were made such as the Battle above Coruscant, multiplayer duel of Anakin vs Obi-Wan and more. Some of the humor felt like it was off putting in comparison to others. Where some scenes were respected it felt like others were treated in bad taste. Still there's no doubt how incredible it all looks and all the characters you play as are very diverse and fun. People talk about the repetitiveness but ignore the repetitive nature of the other games too. So that's just expected overall. I'm willing to bet this comment goes in comment purgatory.
Holy shit the level of dopamine my brain experiences when that Burback video drops is insane
On the B/Circle button complaint, it's also the button to rip protocol droids like C3PO in half. Which I also learned after completing the game 100% is a completely useless function anyways there's no reason for other characters to rip protocol droids in half and carry them around. But since it's also the button to use the force to move droids around often you'll be accidentally ripping droids in half when you're trying to use the force on them to get them to a certain area for a puzzle, which can get pretty annoying after awhile.