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lieselstarwarsgamesIs it time for the Battle of Naboo yet? Let’s find out.
We’re back at the lake and oh wow, Lego Padme looks awesome in her warrior queen garb, all ready to kick ass. Also, when she walks into the lake and falls apart, she says “I’ve been voted back in!” when she respawns, which I thought was really cute.
Anyway, we go back to Otoh Gunga and find the place empty, but an astro droid named R2-R9 is here and Obi-Wan can talk to him (her? They?) and he (she? They?) gives him a datapad to deliver to a Gungan. Wait, didn’t they all flee the city? Apparently this one didn’t.
In fact, there are still a few Gungans hanging around, including one who’s still lazing around in his house – but he’s forgotten the password to the trunk where he keeps his belongings. He says that he trusted the password with a “Rebel friend,” but he can’t remember where said friend lives either. Wait, Rebel friend? Before the Rebellion even exists? What? I have a feeling this is a mission for a later time.
Well, I found the Gungan who’s the message recipient – he hasn’t fled because he’s too busy swatting at bugs in his house. But, it turns out that the message reads “To thesa scoundrel whosa take my special spatula, pleasa bringen it back so mesa can cook tasty fried fatfish without burning mesa hands off!”
The Gungan claims he has no idea the flyswatter/spatula belonged to someone else, but I’m not sure I believe him. He’s also not going to wash the squashed bugs off before giving it back. Jerk. How much do you wanna bet that he’s not gonna give it back at all?
Also, I found a Gungan whom Qui-Gon can mind-trick. And . . . it’s not just a few seconds of influence like in the movies – instead you can actually take control of all his actions and force him to do your bidding. Ho-ly shit, that’s messed up. I actually made the mind-controlled Gungan beat Qui-Gon until he fell apart in order to free himself from his evil power. Like, seriously, that’s some dark side shit there.
What are we supposed to do again? Oh right, find Boss Nass. Well, he’s not at home, and that’s when Jar Jar brings up the sacred place, so it’s back to the surface we go. Of course, since this is a video game, we need a key to get into the sacred place, and since this is a Lego game, said key is broken and we need to rebuild it. The “key” turns out to be a lever that we need to push to open the gate, which is also a giant head sculpture. Like I said, Lego game.
Once inside, we can break apart some of the Gungans’ sacred statues because we have no respect for other cultures. Talking to Boss Nass triggers a cutscene where we have an “I am Spartacus” twist to the Queen Amidala reveal – everyone in Padme’s entourage claims to be Queen Amidala! Clever, Lego.
We go to the palace and trigger another cutscene of the heroes attacking the palace, Anakin scrambling into the fighter, and a pilot complaining that Anakin stole his ship. HA! Then, DUN DUN DUN, Darth Maul attacks – and Obi-Wan gets jealous of his double-bladed lightsaber. Again, HA!
It’s time to fight Darth Maul! This is not a drill! Let’s see what our first true boss battle is like.
It actually starts out similarly to The Complete Saga’s Darth Maul fight – Maul Force-flings stuff and you and you’ve got to fling it back at him, then he attacks with all he’s got and you’ve got to counterattack, then after a while he flees and you’ve got to chase after him. And get this, the Darth Maul fight is an actual LEVEL, complete with stud meters and minikits to find! I’ve missed those. This level even creates a similar sense of vertigo to The Complete Saga and I’m still not sure exactly how it does it.
After taking our sweet old time destroying stuff for studs, we can catch up with Maul, who’s been waiting patiently for us. He may be a Sith Lord, but that doesn’t mean he’s not considerate. Course, once we catch up to him, he sends some droidekas to take care of us and rushes up an elevator.
Once I killed the droidekas, I ran into a battle droid band. Yes, a battle droid band playing Duel of the Fates. They’re not attacking or anything, so I could just let them be . . . or I could throw a lightsaber at them for studs. Three guesses which thing I did.
There’s an elevator operator battle droid at the elevator – complete with the stereotypical hat. Guess he’s taking us to Maul.
I was right, he was taking us to Maul. Guess IT’S A TRAP, am I right? (crickets chirp) Eh, whatever. For this round, we need to use teamwork – Maul will whip his lightsaber at either Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan and we have to quickly switch to the other character, who can then whack Maul from behind. After a while, Maul flees again, ripping up the floor behind him.
We’ve got to leap from tiny piece to tiny piece to get across, but then Maul rips up the floor again, blocking our way from him, but also creating narrow, unstable bridges to new platforms (the bridges even make a loud creak when you walk across them, adding to the vertigo). One of the new platforms has an elevator we can use to reach Maul, but first let’s slice apart five cleaner droids to get a minikit. God, I love that.
We follow Maul through the area with all the forcefields (having to use precise timing while doing so, of course), then it’s time for one last skirmish to finish him off (well, for now). We slice him in half and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan celebrate . . . but then Maul’s torso stabs Qui-Gon. Yes, really. After Qui-Gon dies, Obi-Wan knocks what’s left of Maul into the shaft, then we cut to Padme taking control back from Nute Gunray.
Okay, the movie’s over, right? Not quite. Don’t forget that the Gungans still need to do battle (even though Padme’s already taken the planet back) and oh yeah, Anakin ended up flying into battle by mistake.
I think our next entry will be the TPM finale, though I’m not sure how it will top the rush that was the Darth Maul battle.
We’re back at the lake and oh wow, Lego Padme looks awesome in her warrior queen garb, all ready to kick ass. Also, when she walks into the lake and falls apart, she says “I’ve been voted back in!” when she respawns, which I thought was really cute.
Anyway, we go back to Otoh Gunga and find the place empty, but an astro droid named R2-R9 is here and Obi-Wan can talk to him (her? They?) and he (she? They?) gives him a datapad to deliver to a Gungan. Wait, didn’t they all flee the city? Apparently this one didn’t.
In fact, there are still a few Gungans hanging around, including one who’s still lazing around in his house – but he’s forgotten the password to the trunk where he keeps his belongings. He says that he trusted the password with a “Rebel friend,” but he can’t remember where said friend lives either. Wait, Rebel friend? Before the Rebellion even exists? What? I have a feeling this is a mission for a later time.
Well, I found the Gungan who’s the message recipient – he hasn’t fled because he’s too busy swatting at bugs in his house. But, it turns out that the message reads “To thesa scoundrel whosa take my special spatula, pleasa bringen it back so mesa can cook tasty fried fatfish without burning mesa hands off!”
The Gungan claims he has no idea the flyswatter/spatula belonged to someone else, but I’m not sure I believe him. He’s also not going to wash the squashed bugs off before giving it back. Jerk. How much do you wanna bet that he’s not gonna give it back at all?
Also, I found a Gungan whom Qui-Gon can mind-trick. And . . . it’s not just a few seconds of influence like in the movies – instead you can actually take control of all his actions and force him to do your bidding. Ho-ly shit, that’s messed up. I actually made the mind-controlled Gungan beat Qui-Gon until he fell apart in order to free himself from his evil power. Like, seriously, that’s some dark side shit there.
What are we supposed to do again? Oh right, find Boss Nass. Well, he’s not at home, and that’s when Jar Jar brings up the sacred place, so it’s back to the surface we go. Of course, since this is a video game, we need a key to get into the sacred place, and since this is a Lego game, said key is broken and we need to rebuild it. The “key” turns out to be a lever that we need to push to open the gate, which is also a giant head sculpture. Like I said, Lego game.
Once inside, we can break apart some of the Gungans’ sacred statues because we have no respect for other cultures. Talking to Boss Nass triggers a cutscene where we have an “I am Spartacus” twist to the Queen Amidala reveal – everyone in Padme’s entourage claims to be Queen Amidala! Clever, Lego.
We go to the palace and trigger another cutscene of the heroes attacking the palace, Anakin scrambling into the fighter, and a pilot complaining that Anakin stole his ship. HA! Then, DUN DUN DUN, Darth Maul attacks – and Obi-Wan gets jealous of his double-bladed lightsaber. Again, HA!
It’s time to fight Darth Maul! This is not a drill! Let’s see what our first true boss battle is like.
It actually starts out similarly to The Complete Saga’s Darth Maul fight – Maul Force-flings stuff and you and you’ve got to fling it back at him, then he attacks with all he’s got and you’ve got to counterattack, then after a while he flees and you’ve got to chase after him. And get this, the Darth Maul fight is an actual LEVEL, complete with stud meters and minikits to find! I’ve missed those. This level even creates a similar sense of vertigo to The Complete Saga and I’m still not sure exactly how it does it.
After taking our sweet old time destroying stuff for studs, we can catch up with Maul, who’s been waiting patiently for us. He may be a Sith Lord, but that doesn’t mean he’s not considerate. Course, once we catch up to him, he sends some droidekas to take care of us and rushes up an elevator.
Once I killed the droidekas, I ran into a battle droid band. Yes, a battle droid band playing Duel of the Fates. They’re not attacking or anything, so I could just let them be . . . or I could throw a lightsaber at them for studs. Three guesses which thing I did.
There’s an elevator operator battle droid at the elevator – complete with the stereotypical hat. Guess he’s taking us to Maul.
I was right, he was taking us to Maul. Guess IT’S A TRAP, am I right? (crickets chirp) Eh, whatever. For this round, we need to use teamwork – Maul will whip his lightsaber at either Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan and we have to quickly switch to the other character, who can then whack Maul from behind. After a while, Maul flees again, ripping up the floor behind him.
We’ve got to leap from tiny piece to tiny piece to get across, but then Maul rips up the floor again, blocking our way from him, but also creating narrow, unstable bridges to new platforms (the bridges even make a loud creak when you walk across them, adding to the vertigo). One of the new platforms has an elevator we can use to reach Maul, but first let’s slice apart five cleaner droids to get a minikit. God, I love that.
We follow Maul through the area with all the forcefields (having to use precise timing while doing so, of course), then it’s time for one last skirmish to finish him off (well, for now). We slice him in half and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan celebrate . . . but then Maul’s torso stabs Qui-Gon. Yes, really. After Qui-Gon dies, Obi-Wan knocks what’s left of Maul into the shaft, then we cut to Padme taking control back from Nute Gunray.
Okay, the movie’s over, right? Not quite. Don’t forget that the Gungans still need to do battle (even though Padme’s already taken the planet back) and oh yeah, Anakin ended up flying into battle by mistake.
I think our next entry will be the TPM finale, though I’m not sure how it will top the rush that was the Darth Maul battle.
