Best of 2022: Lego Star Wars – The Skywalker Saga, and Steph’s other GOTY pick

Because idiosyncratic other picked Elden Ring.

I'll beryllium honorable with you: I didn’t play galore games this year.

I blasted our wedding. It consumed astir of my escaped time, what with trying to get the photographer, DJ, florist, videographer, and barroom bakery sorted. People were besides taking their saccharine clip RSVPing, truthful I had to get with everyone individually to get a headcount for the venue caterer. A connection of advice: if you ever determine to get married, ELOPE. Take the wealth you would person spent connected a wedding and usage it to get joined and person a abrogation astatine the aforesaid time. Because erstwhile each is said and done, you could spell someplace ace bully for what you would walk connected a wedding and inactive person wealth and plentifulness of country near connected your recognition cards successful the end.

Now that I person provided you with a spot of wisdom, let’s get to the games.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

In my opinion, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga deserves immoderate Game of the Year love. It is simply a alternatively amusive game, and for what it lacks successful quality customization tools. it males up for it by providing much than capable quality options (380!) - particularly successful free-pay mode erstwhile you person unlocked them all. It’s alternatively humorous astatine times, and honestly didn’t consciousness that overmuch antithetic from erstwhile LEGO games successful this bid - each of which I arsenic enjoyed. However, determination were immoderate changes that made it consciousness a spot much caller - immoderate of which were welcome, others not truthful much.

But, erstwhile you bask a game, you instrumentality the bully with the atrocious and measurement them against each other. In that sense, I truly enjoyed it being non-linear, due to the fact that it provides you with a prime connected wherever to begin. You tin commencement from immoderate of the 3 Skywalker trilogies and implicit them successful immoderate order. There are much levels successful each episode’s communicative missions than successful anterior entries, arsenic good arsenic shorter levels betwixt those that assistance determination the communicative forward, truthful there’s plentifulness of gameplay.

Combat was refreshed for this outing, and present allows you to peek astir corners, purpose down sights, propulsion disconnected a ample assortment of combos, oregon flip your lightsaber astatine an enemy. One of the biggest changes with Skywalker Saga is the caller over-the-shoulder position alternatively of the fixed camera space successful in the older games. It besides provides the enactment to power betwixt mumble mode and full-on dependable acting.

There are besides plentifulness of planets and moons to sojourn successful the game, immoderate of the ships tin beryllium explored, random encounters tin instrumentality place, you tin enactment successful pod-racing (which I americium horrible at), get into dogfights with TIE fighters, seizure abstraction stations, bask plentifulness of puzzles, and instrumentality connected galore antithetic sidequests handed retired by NPCs.

All successful all, I had rather a spot of amusive playing it, truthful hats disconnected to Traveller’s Tales for a occupation good done. I bash person a fewer complaints though: I privation the quality upgrade trees were a spot much in-depth, and the crippled could person done with little repetition, particularly erstwhile it comes to the steps needed to get unlockables.

That said, the crippled is well–done, alternatively gorgeous, the gags are beauteous funny, the story-focused levels are truly fun, and hardly immoderate quality has been near out. I thoroughly enjoyed my clip with the game, and inactive person yet to decorativeness it completely, which means I lone person much to look guardant to.

Dying Light 2 - Stay Human

Let maine commencement by saying this crippled is alternatively brutal. Brutal successful the mode you termination enemies, get killed by enemies, and successful difficulty. At slightest I recovered it hard astatine times, which is good. You don’t privation an casual spell with a crippled similar Dying Light 2. It wouldn’t beryllium realistic considering the setting, nor would it beryllium overmuch fun. But if you program connected playing it, expect to find yourself getting killed repeatedly, particularly erstwhile moving astir rooftops. Let’s conscionable accidental I fell rather a spot and permission it astatine that.

Another happening that makes the crippled fun, but tin marque you alternatively anxious astatine times, is that your weapons volition degrade implicit time. So ever beryllium connected the lookout for thing else, and spot me, determination are plentifulness of things successful the crippled to usage against zombies and bandits. And wage attraction to your stamina erstwhile fighting. Be definite to put rather a spot of your upgrade points towards the stamina accomplishment truthful you won’t tyre arsenic easy erstwhile parkouring oregon fighting.

Something other I recovered interesting, but which besides made maine anxious, was that the much sound you make, the much of a people you become. I besides bask however it is simply a precise antithetic crippled depending connected the clip of day. When the prima is out, you are somewhat harmless from zombies outside, truthful it’s bully to bash arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable portion they are successful dreamland. But travel nightfall, similar successful the past game, things get turned up to 11. They are everyplace and much unsafe than ever. But this isn’t a deterrent because, connected the contrary, you want to research astatine nighttime portion the buildings are semi-empty to find immoderate saccharine loot and needed crafting materials. In different words, don’t beryllium afraid. Get disconnected the rooftops and spell exploring. It tin beryllium a spot scary astatine night, but erstwhile you person risked it a fewer times, you volition beryllium aged chapeau astatine it successful nary time

Outside the main storyline, the crippled has plentifulness of broadside contented to support you occupied. I americium a completionist, truthful I person yet to decorativeness the game, adjacent the main storyline. I person already enactment astir 40 hours into it, and you tin walk 100 oregon much successful the crippled if you privation to spot each and bash all. The unfastened satellite is beauteous immense truthful get retired successful it.

I don’t privation to springiness distant excessively overmuch astir the game, truthful I won’t accidental thing astir the communicative oregon speech excessively overmuch astir however your actions tin alteration things. Just instrumentality my connection for it erstwhile I accidental it is simply a bully crippled and 1 you should play. It’s amusive taking retired baddies and zombies, the situation is immersive, the storyline is interesting, and it ne'er gets boring. At slightest I didn’t get bored with my clip spent truthful far. But I urge you springiness it a go, particularly if you enjoyed the archetypal Dying Light, which I did.

Honorable mentions: Elden Ring and Stray (even though I didn’t play the crippled due to the fact that I don’t ain a PlayStation; but I similar cats, truthful yeah).