Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a joyful triumph. While the Lego Star Wars games have always been fun, The Skywalker Saga expands the scope of those titles in a way that makes them far more substantial without compromising the simpler pleasures they’ve traditionally offered. It also finally lets us experience The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker in their glorious Lego forms.

As is the case with the Star Wars films, though, the ability to experience all these adventures at once also raises questions about the “best” order to experience them in.

The Skywalker Saga lets you choose to start your session in The Phantom Menace, A New Hope, or The Force Awakens (the first entries in each sub-trilogy). Once you beat one of those games, you’re able to move on to the next entry in that trilogy. That means that you can bounce between...