Killing Children In LEGO Star Wars Comes With A Strange Bonus

Traveller's Tales won't let you kill children in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, but if you try, it turns out the open-world adventure has a bizarre perk.

07th Apr 2022 16:02

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The younglings, won't somebody think of the younglings? While there are some pretty dark aspects of the Star Wars universe, LEGO's revamp of the galaxy far away tends to gloss over this with a plastic sheen. Yes, Padme might still pop her LEGO clogs, but it's not going to show her passing away from the horrors of childbirth. 

One of the most iconic moments in the entire nine-movie saga is Revenge of the Sith's harrowing younglings scene. Here, Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker followed Order 66 and launched an attack on the Jedi Temple - cutting down a room full of young Jedi with his lightsaber. Thankfully, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker makes this a little more family-friendly.

Can You Kill Kids In LEGO Star Wars?

Going around the place and slicing younglings like they're sushi might sound fun for some of you, but in The Skywalker Saga, you can't actually kill kids with your lightsaber. Normally, you can run around this world and blast characters into several pieces with your gun, or slice their heads off with a saber - while still keeping it relatively funny. They usually just pop their heads back on and off you go.

When it comes to child characters, you can't cut them down in The Skywalker Saga. This has led to a bizarre predicament for those who want to do the whole "let's kill Hitler thing" and off Anakin before he breaks bad. Technically, if you killed little Ani during the events of The Phantom Menace, the atrocities of the Jedi extinction, Alderaan, and even Kylo Ren would never happen. But, that's a scenario for a different day.

Posting on Twitter, @RedOrbFragment reiterated that child characters can't take friendly fire. This also led to a bizarre exploit where you repeatedly bash them to launch yourselves into the air and cross great voids to access off-map areas of each world. The scene of seeing little orphan Ani being pummelled by Qui-Gon Jinn but remaining in one piece is oddly frustrating. 

 

What's The Point Of The Child Glitch?

As much as we'd like to put the cosmos out of its misery, "child flight" is a new ability we never knew the Jedi had. Not everyone liked the exploit though. One grumpy gamer wrote: "Stuff like this in games should warrant a 1 star review. Like in PS4 Spiderman you could uppercut a regular goon 10 feet straight up into the air, he’d crash down onto pavement, get right back up. It took 4 of these to knock him out… seriously?? Wouldn’t his spine have broke?" You can, however, use the exploit to get some tricky Kyber crystals that appear just out of reach.

Across the board, The Skywalker Saga is being praised as the best LEGO game of all time. An unkillable Anakin Skywalker is a bizarre glitch, but alongside someone being able to summon a whole clone army of Mandalorians, the bugs are few and far between. We don't know what's more heartwarming, the fact you can't kill younglings or that Traveller's Tales finally made Finn and Poe's romance canon.

 

Tom Chapman

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