{"id":123637,"date":"2022-04-06T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129898"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:30:00","slug":"random-everyone-is-trying-to-kill-child-anakin-in-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-but-he-cant-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/random-everyone-is-trying-to-kill-child-anakin-in-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-but-he-cant-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Everyone Is Trying To Kill Child Anakin In LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, But He Can&#8217;t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18a9408e2dd33\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18a9408e2dd33\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Star War\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18a9408e2dd33\/star-war.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18a9408e2dd33\/star-war.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Star War\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Apologies for the <strong>Phantom Menace<\/strong> spoilers, but quite frankly, Anakin Skywalker might not have become such a whiny, genocidal grown-up if someone had just given him a <em>mild<\/em>, non-lethal lightsabering as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/lego_star_wars_the_skywalker_saga\">LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga<\/a>, you can attempt to end the Skywalker Saga before it even begins, but the LEGO developers saw it coming, and have apparently turned off damage on child characters. In isolation, this totally makes sense: The only kind of person who would willingly kill younglings is <em>probably<\/em> a pretty evil guy, but also, can we not kill this <em>one<\/em> child to save a bunch of <em>future<\/em> children? What a philosophical conundrum we have on our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Or not. Some players have absolutely no qualms about showing Anakin Skywalker what the inside of a lightsaber looks like:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They really wont let me kill this literal psycho <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PS4share?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PS4share<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P1TWZeQau6\">https:\/\/t.co\/P1TWZeQau6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eUX70dvtKn\">pic.twitter.com\/eUX70dvtKn<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Jonn (@JonnX20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnX20\/status\/1511584589499621377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">all jedi abuse children differently, obi wan likes to take a more vertical approach. send them to heaven directly yah know?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LegoStarWarsTheSkywalkerSaga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LegoStarWarsTheSkywalkerSaga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SCP9kPgdg5\">pic.twitter.com\/SCP9kPgdg5<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Red Orb (@RedOrbFragment) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedOrbFragment\/status\/1511701185513746435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But, and this is a strange sentence out of context, not being able to damage children actually turns out to be a <em>good<\/em> thing, because you can use it in the game as an exploit to go to areas you might not be able to reach otherwise, as seen in this clip where Qui-Gon Jinn goes ham on a 9-year-old:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">so, children. at least this child, don&#8217;t take friendly fire damage, so i found my test dummy. also side note, you can use children to cross large pits and void space. im calling this Child Flight <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddx_exe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ddx_exe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rkTzSQDNr9\">pic.twitter.com\/rkTzSQDNr9<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Red Orb (@RedOrbFragment) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedOrbFragment\/status\/1511507554425208833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Again, we do not condone trying to slice children in half with a laser-sword. But if this <em>one<\/em> child was <em>accidentally<\/em> fed to the Sarlacc, preferably before the pod-racing segment of The Phantom Menace, we might be tempted to look the other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the Phantom Menace spoilers, but quite frankly, Anakin Skywalker might not have become such a whiny, genocidal grown-up if someone had just given him a mild, non-lethal lightsabering as a kid. In LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, you can attempt to end the Skywalker Saga before it even begins, but the LEGO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}