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lieselstarwarsgames) wrote2022-06-16 10:39 pm
lieselstarwarsgames) wrote2022-06-16 10:39 pm
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Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Part 7) - Battle of Takodana
Sorry it took so long, but my back pain has been REALLY getting to me lately and I might have gotten a new game or two for my birthday and I might have been playing them but anyway, let’s continue.
More video games should give you little Lego models to play with while the game loads, but anyway, now that Rey’s been traumatized by the Force visions, she decides that she needs to get back to Jakku and to do that she needs to find a ship. We’ll have to do another task before the next level, won’t we? (sighs) I mean, these between-level tasks aren’t horrible, but I’d like to just get to the next level without having to do tasks beforehand. At least Takodana’s pretty.
Yup, we have Rey climb a wall and use a mechanism to get BB-8 up the rock and then BB-8 can open a gate, what fun. SO MUCH would have been lost if we hadn’t had to do that!
Seriously, what was wrong with The Complete Saga’s format where you just went through a door to get to a level without having to do mandatory tasks beforehand? Eh, at least this was short.
Anyway, the level starts proper with the First Order invading Takodana and Maz giving Finn Anakin’s lightsaber. Finn takes an immediate liking to it and starts swinging it around willy-nilly, breaking some of Maz’s stash in the process. (HA!)
Well, first off we’ve gotta get out of the castle. There are people panicking all around us, but we’ll keep our cool, right? Incidentally, if you pay attention you’ll notice that Maz has statues of alien versions of the famous “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” monkeys – I found that pretty clever.
After taking down some stormtroopers, we reach a door that’s stuck shut. Han observes that something might be able to cut through it – which of course means it’s time for Finn to put his lightsaber skills to the test. Oh, Maz also has a statue of Luminara on the floor.
Well, even though Finn just got the lightsaber two minutes ago, he manages to cut through the door without lopping anyone’s heads off. Outside, you’ll notice a large statue of a Twi’lek reading a book. Good to see that statues are keeping up with their studies.
Also, there are mud puddles out here that are a chore to sloosh through.
Hopefully Han won’t get Mimbam flashbacks from all the mud – or flashbacks of showering with Chewie. Well, we’ve got flamethrower-wielding stormtroopers blocking our way (and Han says “I guess none of us is secretly flameproof, huh?” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!), so let’s have Finn slice up some bars that are blocking a travel chute. I’ll bet Maz has lots of those chutes all over her palace. On the other end of the chute, she can push a crate down so it will crash into useful building bricks. There’s also a quadronculars spot here, but Maz doesn’t have any.
Hey Han, can you toss your quadrnoculars up here? No? Okay, then. Well, at the bottom, those bricks can be built into handy explosives. On one side, the explosive brings down the statue of the book-reading Twi’lek (sad), and on the other side, we build – I shit you not – an explosive birthday cake, which the stormtroopers immediately crowd around.
Of course, the cake goes boom before the stormtroopers get to enjoy any cake, but Han says “Whaddaya know, I got my wish.” Only in a Lego game, but of course Han doesn’t get a chance to enjoy his birthday wish before we get swept into a blaster battle.
This one gets tricky since a TIE Fighter comes flying over us and stormtroopers protected in forcefields, but one of Maz’s friends points out a grapple hook that Han can use to shoot the troopers from above.
Once he gets down, he has to use his quadrnoculars to find a weak spot in the Rodian statue.
He finds one and tells Chewie to blow it up . . . but wait, where IS Chewie? I don’t know where he got to, but fortunately I was able to call him up in the character select screen. Of course, then we find ourselves facing off against more flamethrowers. By the way, I had to show you how when Han and Chewie both crouch down, they look like they’re hugging.
Priceless! By the way, I really suck at these blaster battles, but once we take down the flametroopers, we get a reprieve and Han wipes his brow. Also by the way, I found these guns that you can mount I thought I was supposed to take down TIEs with them, but you don’t actually get anything for taking down TIEs.
Moving on, we’re almost to safety, but in comes that stromtrooper who really, really doesn’t like Finn. Finn says “Uh-oh,” and Han says, “That’s something I always like to hear.”
In comes a miniboss battle that must be won with a combination of building gadgets to distract the stormtrooper, whacking him, and at the end there’s a quick time event because why not? But then DUN DUN DUN our gang gets captured! And DUN DUN DUN Kylo Ren lands! And DUN DUN DUN he finds Rey! Oh, and look closely and you’ll see some stormtroopers surfing in the lake – hey, they can take some recreation time so long as they’re here.
But fortunately, the Resistance swoops in to the rescue, blasting the gang’s captors to bits (and Han gets a stormtrooper helmet stuck on his head and Chewie has to yank it off him, HA!). Of course, now we switch to control of Poe’s X-Wing.
This first part’s pretty simple – fly around over the water and take out TIE Fighters, but you can also take out four buoys on the water for a minikit. By the way, when you fly close to the water, your shots make ripples – I love it when games pay attention to details like that. Once you’ve taken out enough TIEs, then in comes a second wave of enemies.
Some of the TIEs knock over Maz’s big statue at her palace, which sucks for the statue but it also reveals the Power Brick floating above the ruins. And let me tell you, the thing’s a PAIN to collect. You have to hover at just the right height at just the right speed – I crashed several times, but it was worth it.
With our treasure in hand, we’ve gotta take out the First Order’s transport ships. Once that’s done, we find out that OH NO LEIA’S TRANSPORT SHIP IS UNDER ATTACK! Gotta swoop in to protect the general! Leia’s pilot will keep yelling at you to hurry up, but once we take out all the TIEs trying to bring down Leia’s transport, then the pilot will suggest that Poe talk to Leia about a promotion.
The good news is that Leia’s transport lands safely, a little worse for wear. The bad news is that Kylo captures Rey. Oh, and even in the Lego universe, we still have that Dear-God-so-heartbreaking moment of Han staring at Kylo as he carries Rey off.
Well, Leia gets off her little-worse-for-wear transport and she and Han smile and make small talk until Han tells her that he saw their baby (and even in Lego form, his expression is heartbreaking). Kylo interrogates Rey – though it’s predictably shorter and less rapey than in the movie, and we get the “Don’t let these dogs scare you” achievement for completing the level.
Not much to say in terms of closing remarks except OW OW OW MY BACK HURTS!
More video games should give you little Lego models to play with while the game loads, but anyway, now that Rey’s been traumatized by the Force visions, she decides that she needs to get back to Jakku and to do that she needs to find a ship. We’ll have to do another task before the next level, won’t we? (sighs) I mean, these between-level tasks aren’t horrible, but I’d like to just get to the next level without having to do tasks beforehand. At least Takodana’s pretty.
Yup, we have Rey climb a wall and use a mechanism to get BB-8 up the rock and then BB-8 can open a gate, what fun. SO MUCH would have been lost if we hadn’t had to do that!
Seriously, what was wrong with The Complete Saga’s format where you just went through a door to get to a level without having to do mandatory tasks beforehand? Eh, at least this was short.
Anyway, the level starts proper with the First Order invading Takodana and Maz giving Finn Anakin’s lightsaber. Finn takes an immediate liking to it and starts swinging it around willy-nilly, breaking some of Maz’s stash in the process. (HA!)
Well, first off we’ve gotta get out of the castle. There are people panicking all around us, but we’ll keep our cool, right? Incidentally, if you pay attention you’ll notice that Maz has statues of alien versions of the famous “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” monkeys – I found that pretty clever.
After taking down some stormtroopers, we reach a door that’s stuck shut. Han observes that something might be able to cut through it – which of course means it’s time for Finn to put his lightsaber skills to the test. Oh, Maz also has a statue of Luminara on the floor.
Well, even though Finn just got the lightsaber two minutes ago, he manages to cut through the door without lopping anyone’s heads off. Outside, you’ll notice a large statue of a Twi’lek reading a book. Good to see that statues are keeping up with their studies.
Also, there are mud puddles out here that are a chore to sloosh through.
Hopefully Han won’t get Mimbam flashbacks from all the mud – or flashbacks of showering with Chewie. Well, we’ve got flamethrower-wielding stormtroopers blocking our way (and Han says “I guess none of us is secretly flameproof, huh?” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!), so let’s have Finn slice up some bars that are blocking a travel chute. I’ll bet Maz has lots of those chutes all over her palace. On the other end of the chute, she can push a crate down so it will crash into useful building bricks. There’s also a quadronculars spot here, but Maz doesn’t have any.
Hey Han, can you toss your quadrnoculars up here? No? Okay, then. Well, at the bottom, those bricks can be built into handy explosives. On one side, the explosive brings down the statue of the book-reading Twi’lek (sad), and on the other side, we build – I shit you not – an explosive birthday cake, which the stormtroopers immediately crowd around.
Of course, the cake goes boom before the stormtroopers get to enjoy any cake, but Han says “Whaddaya know, I got my wish.” Only in a Lego game, but of course Han doesn’t get a chance to enjoy his birthday wish before we get swept into a blaster battle.
This one gets tricky since a TIE Fighter comes flying over us and stormtroopers protected in forcefields, but one of Maz’s friends points out a grapple hook that Han can use to shoot the troopers from above.
Once he gets down, he has to use his quadrnoculars to find a weak spot in the Rodian statue.
He finds one and tells Chewie to blow it up . . . but wait, where IS Chewie? I don’t know where he got to, but fortunately I was able to call him up in the character select screen. Of course, then we find ourselves facing off against more flamethrowers. By the way, I had to show you how when Han and Chewie both crouch down, they look like they’re hugging.
Priceless! By the way, I really suck at these blaster battles, but once we take down the flametroopers, we get a reprieve and Han wipes his brow. Also by the way, I found these guns that you can mount I thought I was supposed to take down TIEs with them, but you don’t actually get anything for taking down TIEs.
Moving on, we’re almost to safety, but in comes that stromtrooper who really, really doesn’t like Finn. Finn says “Uh-oh,” and Han says, “That’s something I always like to hear.”
In comes a miniboss battle that must be won with a combination of building gadgets to distract the stormtrooper, whacking him, and at the end there’s a quick time event because why not? But then DUN DUN DUN our gang gets captured! And DUN DUN DUN Kylo Ren lands! And DUN DUN DUN he finds Rey! Oh, and look closely and you’ll see some stormtroopers surfing in the lake – hey, they can take some recreation time so long as they’re here.
But fortunately, the Resistance swoops in to the rescue, blasting the gang’s captors to bits (and Han gets a stormtrooper helmet stuck on his head and Chewie has to yank it off him, HA!). Of course, now we switch to control of Poe’s X-Wing.
This first part’s pretty simple – fly around over the water and take out TIE Fighters, but you can also take out four buoys on the water for a minikit. By the way, when you fly close to the water, your shots make ripples – I love it when games pay attention to details like that. Once you’ve taken out enough TIEs, then in comes a second wave of enemies.
Some of the TIEs knock over Maz’s big statue at her palace, which sucks for the statue but it also reveals the Power Brick floating above the ruins. And let me tell you, the thing’s a PAIN to collect. You have to hover at just the right height at just the right speed – I crashed several times, but it was worth it.
With our treasure in hand, we’ve gotta take out the First Order’s transport ships. Once that’s done, we find out that OH NO LEIA’S TRANSPORT SHIP IS UNDER ATTACK! Gotta swoop in to protect the general! Leia’s pilot will keep yelling at you to hurry up, but once we take out all the TIEs trying to bring down Leia’s transport, then the pilot will suggest that Poe talk to Leia about a promotion.
The good news is that Leia’s transport lands safely, a little worse for wear. The bad news is that Kylo captures Rey. Oh, and even in the Lego universe, we still have that Dear-God-so-heartbreaking moment of Han staring at Kylo as he carries Rey off.
Well, Leia gets off her little-worse-for-wear transport and she and Han smile and make small talk until Han tells her that he saw their baby (and even in Lego form, his expression is heartbreaking). Kylo interrogates Rey – though it’s predictably shorter and less rapey than in the movie, and we get the “Don’t let these dogs scare you” achievement for completing the level.
Not much to say in terms of closing remarks except OW OW OW MY BACK HURTS!