’Twas Brillig*

I completed story mode (without True Jedi) ages ago, but other games came along and I forgot about Lego Star Wars. Recently the eldest two have started playing and I picked up my save to have another bash. Last night I finally got the last red brick on “A New Hope” - annoyingly hidden at the end of chapter 6 in a fairly obvious place (so obvious I can’t believe I missed it), that leaves 24 gold bricks and 5 red bricks in the remaining episodes.

I’ve started a proper go at the collecting phase, so far I’ve only got 5 (out of 12) Jedi Status on a new hope, around half the containers and a handful of gold bricks - must do better (as my 4th year reports would put it).

Completed my first run through of episode VI - the last chapter was ‘unfun’, but the stuff on Endor was very good. I need to go back and get Jedi Status on most chapters of IV to VI now.

Some wedding anniversary presents are better than others and this is (as expected) huge amount of fun. I suspect the uninitiated will say it is short and easy, but they are wrong, it has taken just over two hours to have a first run through the six chapters of Episode IV - but I have in no way finished a new hope. Like in the original game each chapter can be played in freeplay mode which allows access to loads of secrets playing with a selection of your unlocked characters. A new feature for this version unlocks super story mode which allows you to try completing the entire episode in less than an hour and/or beating your current stud total - I tried it last night and failed (around one hour and seven minutes), but it sure was fun although most of the humour had to be ignored. Writing of which anyone who can play the game without laughing has no soul - some highlights include stormtroopers bathing (with helmets on) in thong(!) trunks, Chewie pulling off characters arms, Leia slapping characters in hand-to-hand combat and stormtroopers cleaning windows on the Death Star.