So, for veterans, is a good way to go about it just picking up characters you like and play sets for content? What's the deal with the toy box expansion things I see like toy box takeover? Is their content similar to playsets? What's the difference?
Also, this is more just out of curiosity, any favorite characters and why? Love hearing that kind of stuff
The play sets are probably the best thing to buy in terms of gameplay. They give you a story mode that you can play though, as well as unlockables for the creation aspect of Infinity. You'll need an Infinity board if you're playing on console so it's worth getting a starter set at first as you get the game, the Twilight of the Republic play set and an Infinity board for a good price. If you play on PC, like I do, you'll be able to redeem the web codes that come with each play set/figure/expansion piece to unlock the content.
Once you've got a playset, you can add compatible characters after finding their icons in the game. For example, you can play the Twilight of the Republic play set levels with any Star Wars character but only Anakin and Ahsoka are available at the start. When you find a character icon, you can use that character in your game, as long as you have the figure. For example, after I found the Darth Vader icon, I could play as Darth Vader in that campaign. I don't think that you can mix franchises in the campaign so you won't be able to play as Mulan in the Star Wars campaign.
The expansion items are extra gameplay modes that are different to the ones in the main campaign. Toy Box Takeover is a dungeon crawler while Toy Box Speedway is an arcade racer like Mario Kart. I haven't spent much time with these two, I only own Takeover, but it's there if you fancy a change.
I'd start with the starter set as I feel that the Twilight of the Republic campaign is better overall than the Rise of the Empire one. You'll be able to get a good amount of gameplay with just that, especially as it's on sale for Black Friday in most places. From there, you can add characters that you want to play with but bear in mind what I said about using them in the campaign.
My favourite characters in the game are Darth Vader and Darth Maul because they have cool force powers that you can use in combos. Yoda has potential but I spent more time with Vader and Maul, because I always liked them from the films, so I didn't unlock a lot of his abilities but I can see him being fun. I'm trying to track down a Venom web code, or I might just get the figure, so that I can play as him in the PC version of 2.0. He was always one of my favourites in Spider-Man.
Don't be afraid to increase the difficulty if you find it to easy. I completed the Republic campaign, and I'm playing the Empire one, on the extreme difficulty level. It can get really tough but I enjoy how well Star Wars has been recreated in Infinity that I didn't mind replaying some bits over and over. Hard mode is probably the best middle ground for experienced players.
