One LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga player discovered an unusual way to fly – by repeatedly pummeling a young Anakin Skywalker with a lightsaber. Traveler’s Tales’ latest LEGO game was finally released after a long series of delays spanning two whole years, allowing fans young and old to play through all nine main Star Wars films in a humorous LEGO style. Reviews for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga have been overwhelmingly positive so far, and Steam reported that the game managed to set a new record for the biggest launch of any title in either the Star Wars or LEGO franchises mere hours upon its release.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga shakes up the LEGO gaming formula in many interesting ways, and one of the most noteworthy of them is the game’s revamped combat system. While melee combat in past LEGO games was a simple button-mashing affair, The Skywalker Saga allows players to string together different button presses to perform combos with either a character’s bare hands or the elegant lightsaber of the Jedi Knights. This includes aerial combos, allowing The Skywalker Saga’s roster of 300 playable characters to leap into the air to continue pummeling their plastic enemies into submission.
When used against certain allies, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s aerial combo system can even be used to fly in the most spectacularly cruel way imaginable. Twitter user Red Orb recently discovered that child NPCs and playable characters don’t take friendly fire damage like other characters do, and demonstrated this in a quick gameplay clip featuring Qui-Gon Jin and the child version of Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Qui-Gon suddenly decides to attack poor Anakin with his lightsaber, and since the boy doesn’t take any damage, Qui-Gon is able to fly by performing a never-ending LEGO Star Wars aerial combo on the helpless Jedi-to-be. Red Ord has dubbed this crude method of transportation as “Child Flight,” and apparently it can be used to hover across large pits and the void of space in The Skywalker Saga.
Aside from using unsuspecting children as a means of flight, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga players have spent the last couple of days uncovering all kinds of amusing tricks, details, and Easter Eggs while enjoying the latest family-friendly LEGO game. Fans have figured out how to conjure the dreaded Death Star to any planet within The Skywalker Saga’s massive free-roaming galaxy map, noticed how the game retains subtle details from the films like Carrie Fisher’s vanishing British accent from A New Hope. There are even glitches that allow players to command an army of battle-hardened LEGO Star Wars Mandalorians against the Galactic Empire or First Order.
While striking a defenseless child repeatedly is conduct unbecoming a noble Jedi Master like Qui-Gon Jin, it’s still interesting to see how players can use LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s new melee combat system to fly using continuous aerial combos. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has only been out for a couple of days at this point, so players will likely continue to uncover new and interesting ways to play and explore Traveler’s Tale’s most recent and ambitious LEGO title to date.
