Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga uses the Force to pull me back in

I used to enjoy the Lego video games, but I checked out of the series years ago. After seeing a live gameplay demo of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga earlier this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, I’m ready to come back to the digital world of Lego.

The Skywalker Saga is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC in 2020. It will retell the stories of all nine of the episodic Star Wars movies, including the unreleased Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Most of these films have already had Lego game adaptations. In fact, 2005’s Lego Star Wars (which adapted the prequel trilogy) set the format that most Lego games have been following since. You walk through Lego-made recreations of the classic stories, smashing everything you can and taking advantage of each character’s unique abilities to solve puzzles. For example, you may need a Force-user like Anakin Skywalker to construct a bridge out of a pile of loose bricks.