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lieselstarwarsgamesI assume we’re going to Coruscant next, so let’s go to Coruscant.
There’s another opening crawl now, but unfortunately it doesn’t have any jokes in it – it just narrates about how Qui-Gon gambled on Anakin winning the podrace. Afterwards, we end up in space, where Obi-Wan says “Well if we can avoid fighting any more hooded strangers, we might actually get to Coruscant.” Now that the hyperdrive’s fixed, we can use it to get to Coruscant – which basically means opening the map screen and selecting Coruscant from the map.
Once you engage the hyperdrive, you can move the ship up and down and side to side through the hyperspace tunnel, not sure what the purpose of that is, maybe there will be items in hyperspace later on. Anyway, we get out of hyperspace and land on Coruscant and who should be there to greet us but Senator Palpatine himself! What an honor! The totally good guy Senator Palpatine decided to grace us with his presence!
There are also some consoles on the landing platform where you can select different starships . . . if you’ve unlocked any. So yeah, that’s for later.
I’m supposed to talk to the absolutely good guy Palpatine, but first I’ll go running around and destroy some public property. I love how there are all these people around and they don’t give a damn that you’re slicing up signs and holographic displays and everything else. I found what looks like a shopping district in a tunnel which is pretty cool-looking with how everything’s lit up, but there doesn’t seem to be much to do there except break stuff. I also found a Kyber brick in a large fountain because of course you can go wading around in a public fountain, why wouldn’t you be allowed to do so?
Oh, and I ran into . . . a clone trooper. Ten years before the clone army is revealed. Did this guy escape Kamino and go rogue? Or did the game programmers just forget to edit him out from this point in the timeline? Anyway, he tells us that there’s a chute that a full-size human can’t fit through, but maybe “half a person, or a pair of sentient legs” could fit. Hey, maybe we’ve finally got a use for Anakin.
Apparently not – I tried to get Anakin to fit through the opening and he wouldn’t go it. Guess that has to wait until later too.
And now I talk to a guy and suddenly I’m sent on a mission to find a stolen air taxi. Uh, yeah, we’re kind of in a hurry here. Just because we were wandering around aimlessly and smashing everything in sight doesn’t mean we have time to find your missing taxi. Well, guess there’s no one else who can find it, so let’s see what we can do.
There’s a woman who claims she almost got knocked over by an air taxi, so that’s as good a lead as any. Searching nearby reveals others who claim that they almost got run over, so following that trail of complaints leads us to . . . the stolen taxi!
But of course, it can’t be as simple as grabbing it and driving it away. The thief wants us to pay for a ride in the “totally NOT stolen taxi.” Luckily, we’ve been harvesting studs out of all the shit we’ve destroyed, so I guess paying for the ride is how we get it back from the thief? Let’s see.
In the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar, “It’s a trap!” The thief calls in her lackeys to take care of us, which means we’ve got a battle on our hands. The lackeys aren’t too hard to break apart, but the thief throws bombs at us. Shit, why can’t thieves just play fair?
After the thief and her lackeys are in pieces, the transport officer comes running and thanks us for finding his taxi, adding that this isn’t the first time one of his taxis has been stolen – he really needs to stop leaving his keys in the ignition! Something tells me that guy needs to get fired, but hey, we unlocked Luminara as a playable character as a reward for our quest!
Okay, enough fooling around, let’s go back to our good guy friend Palpatine. He tells us about the special session of the senate to hear Queen Amidala’s claims, adding on that the chancellor has little real power and the best option would be for the queen to push for the election of a new chancellor. Definitely no ulterior motives there, nope.
We’re supposed to follow him no, but he’s damn slow, and he walks kicking his feet up with every step. It’s a pretty funny walk cycle, especially for someone who totally isn’t the most evil Sith in the galaxy.
Also, I made Padme punch him in the face over and over again. Yes, seriously, you can do that. Satisfying comeuppance for how he’s about to use her in his scheme to become chancellor.
FINALLY we reach the transport platform. Everyone hops in and we catch a ride to the senate building, where there’s of course a lot more shit to destroy. There’s also a Wookiee hanging around. Switch to Obi-Wan and he’ll talk to you. Oh yeah, Obi-Wan speaks Shyriiwook, at least I assume he does since he initially spoke to Chewie about hiring Han. Anyway, this Wookiee calls himself “The Wandering Wookiee” and he’s been all over the galaxy and can offer tidbits of information, such as how Coruscant is covered with layers of city, “like an onion of a planet.” Okay, I already knew that, but hey, still cute.
You can also get a Kyber Brick by destroying thirteen lampposts. One thing I haven’t mentioned is that every time you get a Kyber Brick, a little “Mission Complete” message pops up along with the name of the “mission” you just completed (the one in the fountain was called “Splish Splash,” for example). Well, the lamppost “mission” is called “Turning to the Dark Side.” Ha, double meaning since not only have we destroyed light sources and plunged the area into darkness come nightfall, but it’s pretty dark side to be slicing up public property like we’ve been doing.
There’s ominous music playing when we reach Palpatine’s office. Hmm, whatever could THAT mean? Palpatine’s totally a good guy, right? Well, after destroying everything in his office, we talk to him and that triggers the cutscene of the senate meeting where Padme moves for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Vallorum, with Palpatine munching on popcorn behind her. Also, Darth Maul is at the meeting posing as a Jawa, I’m not kidding.
After Qui-Gon shows Anakin to the Jedi Council and Mace expresses his distrust of him, we can take a transport back to where we first landed to head back to Naboo. Also, I found a Kyber Brick when I had Padme jump up to the top of a statue and she said “A prize fit for a queen.” Huh, well she has to be at least a bit materialistic to wear those fancy gowns all the time even if she doesn’t usually act like it.
Will Padme be able to convince the Gungans to help? Stay tuned.
There’s another opening crawl now, but unfortunately it doesn’t have any jokes in it – it just narrates about how Qui-Gon gambled on Anakin winning the podrace. Afterwards, we end up in space, where Obi-Wan says “Well if we can avoid fighting any more hooded strangers, we might actually get to Coruscant.” Now that the hyperdrive’s fixed, we can use it to get to Coruscant – which basically means opening the map screen and selecting Coruscant from the map.
Once you engage the hyperdrive, you can move the ship up and down and side to side through the hyperspace tunnel, not sure what the purpose of that is, maybe there will be items in hyperspace later on. Anyway, we get out of hyperspace and land on Coruscant and who should be there to greet us but Senator Palpatine himself! What an honor! The totally good guy Senator Palpatine decided to grace us with his presence!
There are also some consoles on the landing platform where you can select different starships . . . if you’ve unlocked any. So yeah, that’s for later.
I’m supposed to talk to the absolutely good guy Palpatine, but first I’ll go running around and destroy some public property. I love how there are all these people around and they don’t give a damn that you’re slicing up signs and holographic displays and everything else. I found what looks like a shopping district in a tunnel which is pretty cool-looking with how everything’s lit up, but there doesn’t seem to be much to do there except break stuff. I also found a Kyber brick in a large fountain because of course you can go wading around in a public fountain, why wouldn’t you be allowed to do so?
Oh, and I ran into . . . a clone trooper. Ten years before the clone army is revealed. Did this guy escape Kamino and go rogue? Or did the game programmers just forget to edit him out from this point in the timeline? Anyway, he tells us that there’s a chute that a full-size human can’t fit through, but maybe “half a person, or a pair of sentient legs” could fit. Hey, maybe we’ve finally got a use for Anakin.
Apparently not – I tried to get Anakin to fit through the opening and he wouldn’t go it. Guess that has to wait until later too.
And now I talk to a guy and suddenly I’m sent on a mission to find a stolen air taxi. Uh, yeah, we’re kind of in a hurry here. Just because we were wandering around aimlessly and smashing everything in sight doesn’t mean we have time to find your missing taxi. Well, guess there’s no one else who can find it, so let’s see what we can do.
There’s a woman who claims she almost got knocked over by an air taxi, so that’s as good a lead as any. Searching nearby reveals others who claim that they almost got run over, so following that trail of complaints leads us to . . . the stolen taxi!
But of course, it can’t be as simple as grabbing it and driving it away. The thief wants us to pay for a ride in the “totally NOT stolen taxi.” Luckily, we’ve been harvesting studs out of all the shit we’ve destroyed, so I guess paying for the ride is how we get it back from the thief? Let’s see.
In the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar, “It’s a trap!” The thief calls in her lackeys to take care of us, which means we’ve got a battle on our hands. The lackeys aren’t too hard to break apart, but the thief throws bombs at us. Shit, why can’t thieves just play fair?
After the thief and her lackeys are in pieces, the transport officer comes running and thanks us for finding his taxi, adding that this isn’t the first time one of his taxis has been stolen – he really needs to stop leaving his keys in the ignition! Something tells me that guy needs to get fired, but hey, we unlocked Luminara as a playable character as a reward for our quest!
Okay, enough fooling around, let’s go back to our good guy friend Palpatine. He tells us about the special session of the senate to hear Queen Amidala’s claims, adding on that the chancellor has little real power and the best option would be for the queen to push for the election of a new chancellor. Definitely no ulterior motives there, nope.
We’re supposed to follow him no, but he’s damn slow, and he walks kicking his feet up with every step. It’s a pretty funny walk cycle, especially for someone who totally isn’t the most evil Sith in the galaxy.
Also, I made Padme punch him in the face over and over again. Yes, seriously, you can do that. Satisfying comeuppance for how he’s about to use her in his scheme to become chancellor.
FINALLY we reach the transport platform. Everyone hops in and we catch a ride to the senate building, where there’s of course a lot more shit to destroy. There’s also a Wookiee hanging around. Switch to Obi-Wan and he’ll talk to you. Oh yeah, Obi-Wan speaks Shyriiwook, at least I assume he does since he initially spoke to Chewie about hiring Han. Anyway, this Wookiee calls himself “The Wandering Wookiee” and he’s been all over the galaxy and can offer tidbits of information, such as how Coruscant is covered with layers of city, “like an onion of a planet.” Okay, I already knew that, but hey, still cute.
You can also get a Kyber Brick by destroying thirteen lampposts. One thing I haven’t mentioned is that every time you get a Kyber Brick, a little “Mission Complete” message pops up along with the name of the “mission” you just completed (the one in the fountain was called “Splish Splash,” for example). Well, the lamppost “mission” is called “Turning to the Dark Side.” Ha, double meaning since not only have we destroyed light sources and plunged the area into darkness come nightfall, but it’s pretty dark side to be slicing up public property like we’ve been doing.
There’s ominous music playing when we reach Palpatine’s office. Hmm, whatever could THAT mean? Palpatine’s totally a good guy, right? Well, after destroying everything in his office, we talk to him and that triggers the cutscene of the senate meeting where Padme moves for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Vallorum, with Palpatine munching on popcorn behind her. Also, Darth Maul is at the meeting posing as a Jawa, I’m not kidding.
After Qui-Gon shows Anakin to the Jedi Council and Mace expresses his distrust of him, we can take a transport back to where we first landed to head back to Naboo. Also, I found a Kyber Brick when I had Padme jump up to the top of a statue and she said “A prize fit for a queen.” Huh, well she has to be at least a bit materialistic to wear those fancy gowns all the time even if she doesn’t usually act like it.
Will Padme be able to convince the Gungans to help? Stay tuned.
