Relive The Force Awakens in Disney Infinity, or at least as much as you can without touching on any major spoilers.
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Warning: Light Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers are in the review.
When Disney Infinity first launched in 2013, I was excited by the idea of having a solid base for licensed content to come out alongside movies. With the release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Play Set day and date with the movie, that idea is now a reality. While The Force Awakens still carries the baggage of the Wii U version of the game (woeful load times and some graphical hitches), the 5-hour adventure is a satisfying way to relive the movie and its cast of characters.
The Play Set comes bundled with Finn and Rey, and your cast can immediately grow to three if you buy the Poe Dameron figure (sold separately). Oddly, the Kylo Ren figure (sold separately) is only playable when you find a Champion Coin, which is also how you can play as other Star Wars characters. It follows the basic structure of the movie, taking you from the wasteland of Jakku to the colorful Takodana with some stopovers in Han Solo’s freighter and Starkiller Base. Jakku and Takodana are the only big hub worlds, but both are packed with side quests that unlock tons of Star Wars content for the Toy Box. What’s odd is that the story is missing characters and certain key moments. The majority of the big reveals and game-changing events are just ignored, even though cut scenes seem to reference them happening. A lot of things are just left unexplained, which makes this work best as a companion to the movie than a replacement.
Even if the story is muddled in the transition to video game, the game is still a fun romp, mostly focused on combat and light platforming. The different missions you embark on are varied, though there’s a little bit of an overreliance on “kill the onslaught of enemies.” Each of the three heroes is different enough that they’re all worth playing as, with a mixture of melee and ranged fighting styles complete with skill trees. It’s unfortunate that Kylo Ren is only playable roughly halfway through the game, because he’s the only Force user of the bunch (at least as they are in this game).
While the thrill of being able to play a game based on the movie as the movie released is grand, The Force Awakens Play Set honestly might have been better off waiting to come out a few months down the road, when the plot of the movie wasn’t such a mystery. The back half of the game seems to rush to the finish as to avoid any major spoilers, but in the process, it doesn’t make much sense. And that’s a shame, because until that point, it’s a lighthearted, enjoyable time.
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