Some fans on Twitter raised complaints about a lack of cleavage on Slave Leia in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, but most fans aren't having it.
One LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga player pointed out with scorn the lack of cleavage apparent in Princess Leia's slave costume, and fans are banding together to slam the criticism.
A Twitter user posted comparison shots of Slave Leia's look in both LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga from 2007 and the just-released LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, circling the cleavage area on both. He captioned the image with, "Where is Leia (Jabba's Palace) 's cleavage in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga?" and tagged TT Games, the publisher of the LEGO games. At the time of writing this, TT Games have not replied. However, many fans have, and not too many are happy with the complaint.
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"I'm gonna ask, why do you care? Like really? Aren't there better things to worry about than whether lego princesses have cleavage? Is the game any worse off? Why are these your priorities?" asked Tweeter user Mys. Henriksen under the tweet. Others expressed a desire to make LEGO Star Wars more age-appropriate to children, assuming they would be the target audience for the game. One also pointed out the current mini-fig for Princess Leia's Jaba Palace outfit, which also lacks cleavage, and suggested the change was likely to make the character match her real-world LEGO counterpart.
By far and away, however, the bulk of the responses mocked the complaint, specifically the lack of something "sexy" in the LEGO game for players to get off on. People are mocking the criticism by photoshopping Leia to give her the now-missing anatomy or positing screenshots of sexual comments about the LEGO figure from a YouTube video. Others mocked the evident frustration over her lack of sex appeal, such as one user who replied, "THAT'S IT. THAT SEALS THE DEAL. I'm no longer a lego star wars fan. I've been a season ticket holder since 1992 and this is embarrassing. I'll take my fandom to Call of duty where they know how to run a REAL game."
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LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga adapts all three trilogies into LEGO's particular brand of madcap fun, featuring five chapters per episode. Players can also choose to start from whichever trilogy and play the game in the order they please. With almost 400 playable Star Wars characters and over 800 NPS, the game appears to be a comprehensive adaptation of the films. The game makes for a creative reinvention of nostalgic Star Wars fun, earning it favorable reviews from fans and critics alike despite the recent fan complaints about Leia's Jaba Palace outfit. Although players can't make a customized Star Wars character to play, they can still enjoy attacking children in Red Orb's method of hovering around the many planets they visit.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is now available for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
Julia Anderson is the Lead Gaming News Editor for CBR. She is a life-long gamer and bookworm, spending most of her childhood either glued to a novel or the computer. As a teen, she found herself deeply embedded in the fanfiction community and discovered her talent for writing and editing. Since then, she's run her own freelance writing and editing business, Anderson Wordsmith. When she isn't reading or playing D&D, RPGs, or stealth-based games, Julia is usually found imitating old age: drinking herbal tea in her favorite chair, crocheting, and watching a Shakespeare or Jane Austen adaptation with her faithful dog, Ben.