Current mood:	Legotastic
Current music:	Lenny Kravitz - If You Can't Say No

Nubbin-headed goodness
Sample dialogue of my week:

pirateelmo (on the phone): "Are you playing Lego Star Wars?"
Me: "Not right now...but, um, I was getting up to do that."
pirateelmo: "Good, because I was going to come over in a while."

Lego Star Wars has descended on my PS2 and taken over my life. This game preserves everything that's cool about Star Wars - the lightsaber duels, the alien races, etc - while redeeming everything that's hokey about Episodes 1-3 - Jar-Jar, Amidala, etc - because it looks funnier in Legos. And there's no dialogue, only sounds.

I can barely begin to list the cool things about this game. Your enemies fall apart when defeated. When you use the Force on things, they spray money. Mace Windu (the Samuel L. Jackson Jedi) is bald, so his head has a Lego nubbin on the top. When you Force a table with chairs, they dance and the cantina music from the original Star Wars plays. There's a part where you can set up a disco, and the woojy white aliens from Episode II dance to a full disco version of the Star Wars theme.

Playing through Episode II makes me want to see the movie again. I think it'll hold up better now that it can be viewed as a bridge between two existing movies. And never mind you nay-sayers, despite all its faults, I loved Episode III. Back me up here, mechaskwid