All the parts for my fancy gaming PC except my SSD got here today. It will be arriving tomorrow but i’m impatient. So i decided to slap a 2.5 HDD in there that i think was either harvested from an iPod Classic or my old PS3 Super Slim and try it out with Lego Star Wars TCS. It wasn’t really a benchmark (it wouldnt work well with this game anyways with how old it is lol), but i wanted to play with it a bit. Overall, it performed how i expected it too. 60 fps (i cant get it to output to 120 for some reason despite my display supporting it), and 4k. Honestly the HDD was a bottleneck in scenes where it needed to load in assets, as it would stutter then.

The water in this game is very charming. there’s something about just being a slightly opaque 2D image that is really mesmerizing to me. I think it’s because of a level in Lego Star Wars 3 that it reminds me of. Speaking of Lego Star Wars 3, TCS gave me flashbacks to it. I never really played TCS growing up. I was always more of a Lego Star Wars 3 person.

Maybe it was just because it was late at night, but it gave me vivid memories of staying up with my sister and drinking Jones Soda while trying to 100% Lego Star Wars 3.

while playing this i also noticed that personally, the first level is the closest i feel like a lego game has looked to being made out of legos (excluding bonus levels). The patterns on the bricks have that same kind of rough patterns that legos do.

I had a lot of fun experiencing this game for the first time. Hopefully tomorrow my m.2 SSD arrives, because i have more than a few large titles i want to break in this system with. i think after it arrives i’ll retire the 250 gb HDD to being used to store ROM backups to emulate. I’d love to have the storage space to keep a larger collection than what my Steam Deck allowed.