So I started playing, started on Phantom Menace and it was unbelievably boring - there was like only one fun part and it was beating up Maul. I spent so much time just walking from place to place, very little action, building things nonexistent. Why these huge, unskippable empty hubs? In the originals you could just go from level to level and weren't forced to go into the hub every damn time. Also the split screen was awful - I was constantly losing track of Player Two. It would've been much nicer if the split screen only came into affect when we were far away from each other.
When we beat Maul and it gave us excruciatingly pointless and boring scenes that weren't even in the movie, Player Two rage-quit on me. This game was agony to play. Started up original Lego Star Wars and it was so, so much better, actually had content to /do/ and good pacing.
No, I don't want to slowly follow Lord Palpatine and get slowed down every time I threaten to move past him. Ditto for Jar Jar Binks and the protocol droid. Is this game a walking simulator?
I think an underappreciated thing about the original LEGO Star Wars games is just how accessible they were. You could give those games to a 5 year old and they could play and enjoy it. I should know; I was one of them. Looking at the Skywalker Saga, you couldn't possibly do the same thing.