Almost a year removed from its release date, it seems fair to say thatLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagamay be one of the best LEGO games ever made, and it’s certainly the biggest. Featuring over 20 open-world hub planets, over 300 characters, countless vehicles, and a plethora of missions covering all nine mainlineStar Warsmovies,LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagais huge, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for even more content.
In a recent report by Nintendo Life, it was revealed that a slew ofupcoming TT Games projects had just been canceledmid-development. These titles included aDiablo-like Disney dungeon crawler, a non-LEGO Warner Bros. crossover shooter, and a newLEGO Batmangame. But beyond these cancelations, there was also one project that’s reportedly been put on hold, a fully-fledged narrativeThe MandalorianDLC forLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. And if there’s one project that needs to survive this culling, it’sThe MandalorianDLC.
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LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Needs a Mandalorian Narrative DLC
Over the last 11 months,LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagahas received a number of updates and additional DLC packs. All of these DLCs have been character packs, adding in a handful ofnew playable characters based on various areas of theStar Warsfranchise, includingRogue One,Solo,Clone Warsand theObi-Wan KenobiDisney+ show. While it’s great to have even more characters inThe Skywalker Saga, and the price of each pack has been pretty fair, especially with how often they can be found on sale, they’re not quite the type of DLC that fans had in mind whenLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagafirst released.
WhenLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagahit store shelves, fans were adamant that the game would receive DLC packs that expanded the game in some major ways. Fans expected to see not just a character pack fromThe Clone Wars, but a fully-fledged narrative expansion that added missions based on each season of the show, along with new hub-worlds, collectibles, vehicles, and characters. Instead, all they got was the characters.
Though fans haven’t seen it in action, thisMandaloriannarrative DLC sounds a bit more like the type of expansion fans were hoping for. The term “narrative” paints the picture that this DLC would likely cover the events ofThe Mandalorian’s first two seasons, letting fans play through lighthearted versions of each major scenario in the form of new missions. This DLC pack is exactly whatLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saganeeds right now, and letting TT Games resume work on it could be highly beneficial for all parties. Adding aMandalorianDLC toThe Skywalker Sagaright now would tie in perfectly with the third season of the show, and that brand synergy is something that’s been a little lacking during Disney’s era ofStar Wars.
But more importantly, bringing a fully-fledgedMandalorianDLC expansion toLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagawould also hopefully pave the way for future expansions like it, and there’s an absurd amount of potential there. Future DLC expansions could cover the events of theClone Wars,Rebels,Rogue One,Solo,The Book of Boba Fett, theObi-Wan Kenobishow, and just about any other spin-off that isn’t part of the mainlineStar WarsSkywalker saga.LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagafeatures the perfect groundwork for more content to be added gradually over time, and not capitalizing on that is a real missed opportunity.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagais available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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