We recommend the Machete Order, a popular online concept that changes the prequels into flashbacks
As a Star Wars fan, starting Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga feels like a massive undertaking. For the first time, you're going to play through all nine films in the Skywalker Saga in a single game—and straight away, you're forced to make the decision of all decisions: which movie should you start with?
The options are The Phantom Menace, A New Hope, or The Force Awakens, implying that a player can start the game at any of the three Star Wars trilogies. And, although some of my friends began in chronological order, with The Phantom Menace, and others in release sequence, with A New Hope, I chose a different road: the path of Machete.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which is currently available for most gaming platforms, is a fun, family-friendly action game in which players take control of Lego mini-figures of renowned Star Wars characters and fight their way through the movie' narrative. There are enough of side missions and Easter eggs along the way to keep the storylines you already know fresh, and it's a crazy thrill.
But I don't think of The Phantom Menace when I hear the word "pleasure." I really didn't want to start my Lego Star Wars adventure with that. As a result, I leveraged my years of online experience to recommend a different course. Back in 2011, a writer named Rod Hilton devised "The Machete Sequence," a Star Wars viewing order that has since become rather renowned and popular. The concept arose from the vexing reality that, once the prequels were out, if you sat a person down to watch the Star Wars films in chronological sequence, the prequels spoiled one of cinema's greatest discoveries, that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.
As a result, Hilton advised viewers to begin with 1977's A New Hope, followed by 1980's The Empire Strikes Back. After that momentous disclosure, they should revisit Attack of the Clones from 2002 and Revenge of the Sith from 2005. As a result, those flicks serve as a massive, complicated flashback detailing how and why Luke's father, Anakin, became the wicked, infamous Darth Vader while simultaneously maintaining the focus on Luke.
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With Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, The Machete Order also answered my conundrum. Now I could begin with the well-known and ideal starting point of A New Hope. I could play as Luke, Leia, and Han Solo, and fly X-Wings and the Millennium Falcon to get enthused about playing this game. That seemed far superior to beginning with Trade Federations, destroyer droids, and Gungans.
So I played A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and then resisted the desire to see Return of the Jedi, my personal favorite of the trilogy, in favor of the prequels. The Lego Machete sequence, on the other hand, deviates from the original. The Phantom Menace is fully destroyed as a result of Hilton's instruction. Poof. Gone. Sure, you miss out on some pretty great symbolism, but it's essentially insignificant in terms of Anakin's road to become Darth Vader. (For a more in-depth explanation, see the original post.)
That is not an option in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. To unlock Attack of the Clones, you must first complete The Phantom Menace (just as you have to play through the first films in each trilogy to unlock the second, and the second to unlock the third). But, after seeing the wonders of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, I was quite content to travel back in time for some podracing and Gungan warcraft.
After a few days, I finished the prequel trilogy (which is far more fun to play through as a Lego character than it is to watch as a human) and then dived into Return of the Jedi, which is when something magical happened. Both the film and the game, Return of the Jedi, open with the Emperor appearing on the second Death Star and speaking with Darth Vader. It's the first time you meet the Emperor in the flesh in the original trilogy, and playing Lego Star Wars with the Machete order, this debut comes right after three games in which he's the major villain. The throughline is perfect. In fact, it suited so beautifully that I had to halt the game to admire it.
Jumping from the end of Revenge of the Sith where the Emperor fights Yoda and Darth Vader gets his armor, to the beginning of Return of the Jedi, with the two of them ruling the galaxy as Sith Master and Apprentice, my Machete Order decision was wholly justified. The flashback filled in all of the questions a viewer might have after The Empire Strikes Back and now I was ready to head to Jabba the Hutt’s palace to save my buddy Han, frozen in Carbonite.
So here is the best order to play LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga:
- Star Wars: Episode 4 – A New Hope
- Star Wars: Episode 5 – The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars: Episode 6 – Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: Episode 7 – The Force Awakens
- Star Wars: Episode 8 – The Last Jedi
- Star Wars: Episode 9 – The Rise of Skywalker
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