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lieselstarwarsgamesTime to escape Jakku – and maybe meet my Han, we’ll see.
So I’ve been thinking about how each level in this game seems to be two or three levels in one. In the interest of not stressing myself out (and not overloading each entry with screenshots), I think I should try a more relaxed style of recapping. Like, I don’t need to talk about every time a droid activates a panel or every time a character grapples something. Anyway, let’s head into the game.
Rey gets up the next morning and she and BB-8 need to head to Niima Outpost. As usual, we follow the ghost studs to get to the next level – though things aren’t that simple since we quickly run into a pit of sinking sand. Fortunately, Rey can summon her speeder by holding down K (and she puts a “BB on Board” sticker on it – HA!).
But of course it can’t be that simple either, since a forcefield now stands between us and Niima Outpost.
Oh, I also got a picture of the sticker.
Deactivating the forcefield requires building terminals, swinging around the levers, and having BB-8 zap a spot, but was this really necessary? I’d rather just, you know, get to the next level. In The Complete Saga, all you had to do was go through a cantina door.
Well we’ve gotten through the forcefield, so NOW we can get to the next level, right? Huh, we actually can, but first I’ve gotta show you this ice cream vendor. Hey, Jakku (I seriously almost typed “Tatooine” there – shows how much TFA, ahem, borrows from ANH) is hot!
The opening cutscene has Rey offering her finds – a TV – to Unkar Plutt and he offers the sixty portions of plastic food for BB-8, but BB-8 butters Rey up with flowers, AWWW! Meanwhile, Finn’s been downing all the water at a water vendor when Rey and BB-8 run into him. Rey doesn’t try to attack Finn for stealing Poe’s jacket here, which makes their first conversation seem more civil than in the movie, but they’re interrupted, of course, by stormtroopers (who were previously trying on clothes at another vendor when they got the call).
Rey actually says “I hate stormtroopers!” as the level begins – aaaaawwwwwkwaaaaaarrrrd. Finn also must be wondering why this girl he just met is destroying all the vendors’ wares and taking their money – huh, when you put it that way, stud-collecting sounds pretty brutal. Anyway, there’s a giant barrier nearby that Rey can slide under, but Finn can’t – guess they don’t cover sliding in stomtrooper training – so Rey needs to find a way to get Finn through.
And look, there’s a guy buried in the sand here.
We could help him . . . or we could jump on his head to get the blue stud floating in the air. SERIOUSLY, we can do that! Hope someone comes around with a shovel, cause we don’t have one.
Where were we? Oh yeah, getting Finn out. Since this is Lego world, when we break up enough shit we’ll have some bricks to build a catapult, which Rey can operate with her staff.
Fling the debris at the barrier and CRASH! Barrier eliminated! Unfortunately, there’s still an Imperial shuttle in our way, but we can dismantle our catapult and build it into a contraption BB-8 can use to pry the blockage off.
That guy’s still buried, by the way, but neither Rey nor Finn nor BB-8 seem to care since we’ve gotten that blue stud. Also, Finn can use the terminal to open the Imperial shuttle. Yeah, the thirty-year-old ship from before Finn was born still recognizes Finn. Rey even asks “How did you get access codes for an Imperial ship?” Well, it was apparently the self-destruct code Finn had since the shuttle breaks apart and slides down the hill, clearing the way for us.
Of course, we run into stormtroopers wanting to kill us – but if you look at the top of the sand dune, you’ll see some other stormtroopers chillin’ out and playing volleyball.
Who says stormtroopers can’t have fun? After all, they were hottubbing in The Complete Saga. Also, you can hitch a ride on a steelpecker and go bouncing around – it’s pretty funny.
Anyway, you can build a sprinkler out of the debris that crashed out of the shuttle, but I’m not sure what purpose it serves. Looks neat, though.
Well, after destroying a bunch of shit, you’ll clear out a chute that BB-8 can go through. After some cartoony crashing sound effects, he’ll emerge on top of the hill.
Of course, the stormtroopers immediately go after him, and since the poor little guy has no means of defending himself, he has to rush to a generator that will rotate the giant ship stuck in the sand and provide a means for Rey to swing up to him.
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of watching Rey swing around like a gymnast. Once she gets up the hill, she can destroy some more shit to drop a ladder down to Finn – oh, and one of the stormtroopers attacking was wearing a sombrero from one of the clothing vendors earlier, HAHAHA!!
You’ll notice the giant conveyor belt that’s sitting here for some reason.
Finn can use his grapple gun to tug on the conveyor belt and get some more bricks down here – we need to build a launcher to send BB-8 over the wreckage that’s in our way. There’s been a lot of stuff in our way this level.
One terminal activation later, the wreckage is cleared, but we quickly run into another obstacle: sinking sand. Of course, since Rey’s used to Jakku, she can just jump over it, but her new friends can’t. However, she can build a bridge for them.
Our way is blocked yet again on the other side of the bridge, but there’s a luggabeast in a corral nearby. I bet he’d like to be set free, wouldn’t you? Let’s blast down his gate and jump on his back!
Now we’ve got a means to crash through everything! Incidentally, they leapt up and started shooting as soon as they saw the luggabeast, but there were stormtropers sunbathing around this café table.
The wall behind the café table leads to the next part of the level, but let’s have a look around first. There are astro droids buried in the sand here, but you need the Force to get them out and neither Rey nor Finn know they’re Force-sensitive yet (hell, I don’t think the filmmakers knew Finn was Force-sensitive yet).
Hopefully someone who knows they’re Force-sensitive will come along and help them. Or just someone with a shovel.
Also, don’t forget to use the luggabeast to crash into this box and get the minikit inside.
When we’re done fooling around, let’s use the luggabeast to crash through the back wall . . . and we’ll be knee-deep in blasterfire.
We should probably try to get rid of these stormtroopers, but first let’s build a sprinkler that will make these beautiful desert flowers grow – and they have blue studs floating over them!
After that, let’s build an old-fashioned type cannon to blow those troopers up!
But even after we get rid of our enemies, we’ve got to get in this building. Of course, the door is locked, but there’s a giant box on the roof that we can pull down.
We need both Rey and Finn to pull it, though, but a few shots will reveal this cool rock climbing wall.
Then Finn and Rey can use teamwork to pull down the crate, which will crash into bricks that will build an activation panel for BB-8.
Of course, we can shoot everything in sight once we’re inside – including the microwave. Do microwaves actually exist in the Star Wars universe? No freaking idea.
I also like how the sand dusting the metal floor is rendered here.
But of course, on the other side of the building are more troopers waiting for us. Rey grabs a blaster from a crate and we start a blaster battle.
Even though . . . Rey had never used a blaster before Han gave her one. Well, sometimes games take poetic license – it would be weird if Finn were the only one you could play here. Anyway, you’ll notice the trooper in that small building has a forcefield around him and we can’t take him out with blasters.
We have to send BB-8 through a chute so he can activate a GIANT-ASS CANNON!
We get a first-person sandy-tinted view when we leap into the cannon too!
Also, I love how the sunbathing stormtrooper just doesn’t give a shit about the battle going on around him.
Speaking of sunbathing stormtroopers, in the next area after the battle I got attacked by some shirtless stormtroopers. Guess we interrupted their sunbathing too. Don't interrupt a stormtrooper's sunbathing - they really don't like it.
Well, the jumper Rey and Finn were going to fly away on gets blown up and Rey relents that they’ll have to fly away on the garbage – and there it is, the MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON!
Of course, we still have to GET to it. There’s a lot of grappling and building involved, but the interesting part is building this little droid here.
He can sift around in the sand for hidden stuff and it’s pretty fun to use him. He’ll find studs, bricks we need to put the generator together – and bricks we can build into a minikit!
When we’re done, let’s link up the generator and hop in the giant gun!
Now let’s use the gun to shoot down six TIE Fighters before they can get the Falcon.
After shooting the TIES, the wall will come down and we can finally get in THE MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON!
Rey rushes to the cockpit and Finn rushes to the gun turret like in the movie and you might think the level’s over . . . but you didn’t think we’d miss out on flying the MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON, did you?
Am I sure what I’m doing? Not really, but I’m flying the MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON, so who cares? I need to shoot some TIE Fighters, that’s all I need to know.
And then we fly through the wreckage and blow up all the shit we can!
And finally, the Falcon takes off into space. We also have the scene of Kylo talking to Vader’s helmet (earlier than in the movie, but whatever) – and we zoom out and see he has a bedroom full of Vader memorabilia, HAHAHAHAHAHA! Even better, when an officer interrupts him to tell him that BB-8 escaped, he quickly tries to hide his Vader alarm clock!
Well we won’t see my Han this time – but we definitely WILL see him next time! Expect lots of gushing then, but for some pre-level gushing, here's a fanart of Han and Ben sleeping together (credit: shiakan) and if you don't squeal at the cuteness, you're dead to me.
So I’ve been thinking about how each level in this game seems to be two or three levels in one. In the interest of not stressing myself out (and not overloading each entry with screenshots), I think I should try a more relaxed style of recapping. Like, I don’t need to talk about every time a droid activates a panel or every time a character grapples something. Anyway, let’s head into the game.
Rey gets up the next morning and she and BB-8 need to head to Niima Outpost. As usual, we follow the ghost studs to get to the next level – though things aren’t that simple since we quickly run into a pit of sinking sand. Fortunately, Rey can summon her speeder by holding down K (and she puts a “BB on Board” sticker on it – HA!).
But of course it can’t be that simple either, since a forcefield now stands between us and Niima Outpost.
Oh, I also got a picture of the sticker.
Deactivating the forcefield requires building terminals, swinging around the levers, and having BB-8 zap a spot, but was this really necessary? I’d rather just, you know, get to the next level. In The Complete Saga, all you had to do was go through a cantina door.
Well we’ve gotten through the forcefield, so NOW we can get to the next level, right? Huh, we actually can, but first I’ve gotta show you this ice cream vendor. Hey, Jakku (I seriously almost typed “Tatooine” there – shows how much TFA, ahem, borrows from ANH) is hot!
The opening cutscene has Rey offering her finds – a TV – to Unkar Plutt and he offers the sixty portions of plastic food for BB-8, but BB-8 butters Rey up with flowers, AWWW! Meanwhile, Finn’s been downing all the water at a water vendor when Rey and BB-8 run into him. Rey doesn’t try to attack Finn for stealing Poe’s jacket here, which makes their first conversation seem more civil than in the movie, but they’re interrupted, of course, by stormtroopers (who were previously trying on clothes at another vendor when they got the call).
Rey actually says “I hate stormtroopers!” as the level begins – aaaaawwwwwkwaaaaaarrrrd. Finn also must be wondering why this girl he just met is destroying all the vendors’ wares and taking their money – huh, when you put it that way, stud-collecting sounds pretty brutal. Anyway, there’s a giant barrier nearby that Rey can slide under, but Finn can’t – guess they don’t cover sliding in stomtrooper training – so Rey needs to find a way to get Finn through.
And look, there’s a guy buried in the sand here.
We could help him . . . or we could jump on his head to get the blue stud floating in the air. SERIOUSLY, we can do that! Hope someone comes around with a shovel, cause we don’t have one.
Where were we? Oh yeah, getting Finn out. Since this is Lego world, when we break up enough shit we’ll have some bricks to build a catapult, which Rey can operate with her staff.
Fling the debris at the barrier and CRASH! Barrier eliminated! Unfortunately, there’s still an Imperial shuttle in our way, but we can dismantle our catapult and build it into a contraption BB-8 can use to pry the blockage off.
That guy’s still buried, by the way, but neither Rey nor Finn nor BB-8 seem to care since we’ve gotten that blue stud. Also, Finn can use the terminal to open the Imperial shuttle. Yeah, the thirty-year-old ship from before Finn was born still recognizes Finn. Rey even asks “How did you get access codes for an Imperial ship?” Well, it was apparently the self-destruct code Finn had since the shuttle breaks apart and slides down the hill, clearing the way for us.
Of course, we run into stormtroopers wanting to kill us – but if you look at the top of the sand dune, you’ll see some other stormtroopers chillin’ out and playing volleyball.
Who says stormtroopers can’t have fun? After all, they were hottubbing in The Complete Saga. Also, you can hitch a ride on a steelpecker and go bouncing around – it’s pretty funny.
Anyway, you can build a sprinkler out of the debris that crashed out of the shuttle, but I’m not sure what purpose it serves. Looks neat, though.
Well, after destroying a bunch of shit, you’ll clear out a chute that BB-8 can go through. After some cartoony crashing sound effects, he’ll emerge on top of the hill.
Of course, the stormtroopers immediately go after him, and since the poor little guy has no means of defending himself, he has to rush to a generator that will rotate the giant ship stuck in the sand and provide a means for Rey to swing up to him.
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of watching Rey swing around like a gymnast. Once she gets up the hill, she can destroy some more shit to drop a ladder down to Finn – oh, and one of the stormtroopers attacking was wearing a sombrero from one of the clothing vendors earlier, HAHAHA!!
You’ll notice the giant conveyor belt that’s sitting here for some reason.
Finn can use his grapple gun to tug on the conveyor belt and get some more bricks down here – we need to build a launcher to send BB-8 over the wreckage that’s in our way. There’s been a lot of stuff in our way this level.
One terminal activation later, the wreckage is cleared, but we quickly run into another obstacle: sinking sand. Of course, since Rey’s used to Jakku, she can just jump over it, but her new friends can’t. However, she can build a bridge for them.
Our way is blocked yet again on the other side of the bridge, but there’s a luggabeast in a corral nearby. I bet he’d like to be set free, wouldn’t you? Let’s blast down his gate and jump on his back!
Now we’ve got a means to crash through everything! Incidentally, they leapt up and started shooting as soon as they saw the luggabeast, but there were stormtropers sunbathing around this café table.
The wall behind the café table leads to the next part of the level, but let’s have a look around first. There are astro droids buried in the sand here, but you need the Force to get them out and neither Rey nor Finn know they’re Force-sensitive yet (hell, I don’t think the filmmakers knew Finn was Force-sensitive yet).
Hopefully someone who knows they’re Force-sensitive will come along and help them. Or just someone with a shovel.
Also, don’t forget to use the luggabeast to crash into this box and get the minikit inside.
When we’re done fooling around, let’s use the luggabeast to crash through the back wall . . . and we’ll be knee-deep in blasterfire.
We should probably try to get rid of these stormtroopers, but first let’s build a sprinkler that will make these beautiful desert flowers grow – and they have blue studs floating over them!
After that, let’s build an old-fashioned type cannon to blow those troopers up!
But even after we get rid of our enemies, we’ve got to get in this building. Of course, the door is locked, but there’s a giant box on the roof that we can pull down.
We need both Rey and Finn to pull it, though, but a few shots will reveal this cool rock climbing wall.
Then Finn and Rey can use teamwork to pull down the crate, which will crash into bricks that will build an activation panel for BB-8.
Of course, we can shoot everything in sight once we’re inside – including the microwave. Do microwaves actually exist in the Star Wars universe? No freaking idea.
I also like how the sand dusting the metal floor is rendered here.
But of course, on the other side of the building are more troopers waiting for us. Rey grabs a blaster from a crate and we start a blaster battle.
Even though . . . Rey had never used a blaster before Han gave her one. Well, sometimes games take poetic license – it would be weird if Finn were the only one you could play here. Anyway, you’ll notice the trooper in that small building has a forcefield around him and we can’t take him out with blasters.
We have to send BB-8 through a chute so he can activate a GIANT-ASS CANNON!
We get a first-person sandy-tinted view when we leap into the cannon too!
Also, I love how the sunbathing stormtrooper just doesn’t give a shit about the battle going on around him.
Speaking of sunbathing stormtroopers, in the next area after the battle I got attacked by some shirtless stormtroopers. Guess we interrupted their sunbathing too. Don't interrupt a stormtrooper's sunbathing - they really don't like it.
Well, the jumper Rey and Finn were going to fly away on gets blown up and Rey relents that they’ll have to fly away on the garbage – and there it is, the MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON!
Of course, we still have to GET to it. There’s a lot of grappling and building involved, but the interesting part is building this little droid here.
He can sift around in the sand for hidden stuff and it’s pretty fun to use him. He’ll find studs, bricks we need to put the generator together – and bricks we can build into a minikit!
When we’re done, let’s link up the generator and hop in the giant gun!
Now let’s use the gun to shoot down six TIE Fighters before they can get the Falcon.
After shooting the TIES, the wall will come down and we can finally get in THE MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON!
Rey rushes to the cockpit and Finn rushes to the gun turret like in the movie and you might think the level’s over . . . but you didn’t think we’d miss out on flying the MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON, did you?
Am I sure what I’m doing? Not really, but I’m flying the MILLENNIUM FUCKING FALCON, so who cares? I need to shoot some TIE Fighters, that’s all I need to know.
And then we fly through the wreckage and blow up all the shit we can!
And finally, the Falcon takes off into space. We also have the scene of Kylo talking to Vader’s helmet (earlier than in the movie, but whatever) – and we zoom out and see he has a bedroom full of Vader memorabilia, HAHAHAHAHAHA! Even better, when an officer interrupts him to tell him that BB-8 escaped, he quickly tries to hide his Vader alarm clock!
Well we won’t see my Han this time – but we definitely WILL see him next time! Expect lots of gushing then, but for some pre-level gushing, here's a fanart of Han and Ben sleeping together (credit: shiakan) and if you don't squeal at the cuteness, you're dead to me.
