If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might be
forgiven for thinking “But Matt, haven’t you already beaten Lego Star Wars: The
Complete Saga?” And you would be correct, well done, especially if you’re not
one of the (currently) 33 people who read that blog in the first place. And
you’re right, I wouldn’t normally count a game as ‘beaten’ if I’d already done
so. However, I allowed myself a free pass with Lego Star Wars. And here’s why:
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is the first full game on
the Xbox 360 I have completed 100%. That is to say, I have completed all the
campaigns, collected all the collectables (and this is a Lego game so there are
a LOT,) and got all the achievement points.
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| Playing as Obi Wan in his full 'Cool Old Guy' glory. What's not to love? |
In fairness, this is probably the only game in my collection
where I have a hope of achieving all the achievement points. It’s not because
I’m bad at games, not just because of that anyway. It’s just that for the vast
majority of games I’ve got on the 360, a lot of the achievement points are tied
up in the online Multiplayer mode. And since I’m always going to struggle even
to get a game in now that most people have moved onto the Xbox One, the chances
that I’m going to get many achievements that depend on multiplayer games are
slim indeed. There was one achievement, in this case, that required me to
complete a level with another player online, but I managed that one a couple of
years ago.
I got a long way to doing this when I was participating in
No Game New Year back in 2014, but after collecting all the mini-kits and other
various achievements, I realised I was essentially going to have to play
through the game at least another two times in order to complete the game and
it got filed under “can’t be arsed.” Nearly a year and a half later, I came
back to it and found that I needed to get all the Blue Mini-kits in challenge
mode. I used an online guide for this because I was looking to complete the
game, not get bogged down, and even then some of those kits were very tough to
find in the 10-minute time limit. It took a while, but I got them all.
Then I needed to complete the bounty hunter missions for the
final few gold bricks. These turned out to be quite easy and very enjoyable;
the bounty hunters are always fun characters to play and it’s nice to play the
familiar levels with different characters. Yes, I know Free Play allows you to
do this, but the Bounty Hunter missions lock you with those 6 (I think)
characters so you have to utilise what abilities you have – some have more than
others – to get through the level.
The final thing I needed to do was to complete Super Story
Mode – in this, you apparently have to get through each story in less than an
hour and collect 100,000 studs along the way. Now, I’m not complaining, but I
found in my play-through that I only actually had to do the latter, as some of
the stories took me well over an hour and were marked off as complete anyway. Collecting
100,000 studs is really not that hard to do, so it was just a matter of getting
through the story again, but I managed it for the final achievement of
completing the game 100%.
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| Fitting that this was the scene at the end of the Lego Star Wars - TCS journey... |
And that should be it for Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
I’ve done everything there is to do and there’s no reason for me to own the
game anymore, so I should probably just get rid of it. Except… for some reason,
I can’t bring myself to do it. I don’t know whether I’ve got an
ill-proportioned amount of investment in this game now, or whether I’m thinking
of playing it through again in the future, but I don’t want to delete it from
my hard drive just yet.
Maybe it’s because whatever else it might be, Lego Star
Wars: The Complete Saga is actually a really good game.
