Lego Star Wars is pretty clearly a kid’s game: it’s not particularly deep, and it gets kind of monotonous after a while, but it’s so chock full of cuteness that it’s impossible to resist. It’s one thing to chop a badguy in half with your lightsaber; it’s quite another to have his little Lego body separate from his little Lego legs. Like the people in Katamari Damacy who scream as you roll them up, it somehow manages to take the most disturbing sorts of violence and make them harmlessly absurd. It helps that they ditch the movies’ poor dialogue in favor of good old-fashioned Lego pantomime.
While the bulk of the game focuses on reenacting sequences from the three recent films, there’s a bonus level that lets you play through the first scene from A New Hope. Seeing those giant ships fly across the screen — even in Lego form — makes me happy in a way that totally gives lie to my claim that I no longer care about Star Wars after sitting through three crummy prequels.