There are dozens of classic games that took up hours of our childhood, but few are as truly beloved as Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Serving as a pseudo-remaster of the first two Lego Star Wars games, The Complete Saga brought a galaxy’s worth of plastic Star Wars characters, ships, and iconic movie moments into the gaming space when it launched in 2007.
There’s little doubt that The Complete Saga provided countless hours of co-op fun to many fans, whether it was through collecting all the minikits or experimenting with its character creator. To celebrate the continued longevity of the Lego games, here are our picks for the most nostalgic moments in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
9 Character Creation
Introduced in Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy, character customization was greatly expanded in The Complete Saga. With the ability to use parts from nearly every character in the saga-spanning roster, the options truly were endless.
Whether you were looking to bring extended universe characters like Mara Jade or Thrawn into the roster, or just wanted to create some horrific Ewok and Watto hybrid, playing through the levels with custom characters was a blast. Notably, this feature is missing in the more recent Skywalker Saga.
8 Couch Co-op
A consistent feature since the very first Lego: Star Wars launched in 2005, the ability to have a friend drop in on your game without interruption was a revolution in co-op convenience. Every level in the game was fun to play solo but they were even better with a partner.
A special shout-out should be given to the game’s partner AI which, while not revolutionary in any sense, would still do an admirable job of filling in when returning to solo play, which only made things more seamless.
7 Minifigure "Dialogue"
One of the unique parts of the original suite of Lego games was their lack of any real dialogue. Instead, characters spoke in grunts and soundbites from the films. Surprisingly, most if not all the important plot beats were somehow still conveyed effectively without a single spoken word.
The grunting characters made their triumphant return in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga in the form of “Mumble Mode,” which axes every bit of dialogue in the game in favor of the classic mumbling.
6 The Character Roster
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Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga had a truly epic character roster of 160 characters from across the six films. Like all Lego games, players could take full advantage of the roster in Free Play mode with lore-bending pairings like Lando and Yoda, or Emperor Palpatine and a Gonk Droid.
Though its roster would end up dwarfed by future games like Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga still deserves credit for bringing together a diverse cast of characters from across the series.
5 Secrets and Cheat Codes
As is basically tradition in Lego games at this point, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga had an abundance of cheat codes and secrets for players to discover. Codes could unlock a range of things from secret characters and vehicles to powerups and stud multipliers, which could quickly become essential for those looking to hunt down every last minikit.
Nearly every level in the game had some kind of easter egg or secret room for players to discover. These secrets would often be filled with studs, further encouraging players to search levels brick by brick.
4 Playing Through All Six Films
Most Star Wars games, even now, focus on a specific era of time in the galaxy far, far away. The Complete Saga was novel for being one of the first games to include, as the title says, the complete saga of Star Wars films.
Die-hard Star Wars fans could finally enjoy a full playthrough of all six prequel or original trilogy films in one game, albeit in Lego Form. Including every Star Wars film released up until that point made the game truly feel like a celebration of the series.
3 Indiana Jones
In a very shrewd bit of marketing from developer Traveler’s Tales, watching a hidden trailer for Lego: Indiana Jones would allow you the ability to play as the famous adventurer.
Whereas all the other characters in The Complete Saga’s roster were armed with whimsical space weapons like blasters and lightsabers, Indiana used a normal handgun, which is a little weird but not entirely off-brand for the character. Players could also use his signature hat as a piece in character creation.
2 Bonus Levels And Modes
As if all the content from both Lego Star Wars games wasn't enough, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga also included multiple bonus levels and modes. Among the extra levels were two Lego City stages, which tasked players with destroying a small lego settlement as quickly as possible.
The extra modes included the chaotic bounty hunter missions, which cast players as Boba Fett and the bounty hunter gang seen in The Empire Strikes Back as they hunt down various characters. Then there was the chaotic versus mode, which pit players against each other on small maps with highly customizable game options. The wealth of extra content ensured that the galactic mayhem persisted long past the closing credits.
1 Minikits
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Finding all ten minikit pieces hidden in each level in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga was one of the best (or worst if you’re a non-completionist) parts of 100 percenting the game. The Complete Saga had 36 minikit sets in total, meaning that there were 360 minikits hidden throughout the game.
This is essentially standard for most lego games, but when The Complete Saga was launched, finding all the minikits was a nearly Herculean task. Players who successfully collected each minikit would unlock the use of Boba Fett’s Ship for free play.