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lieselstarwarsgamesMos Eisley time! You know who’s coming, but first we have to get to him, and the game’s not going to make it easy. First thing you’ll notice is that there are stormtroopers EVERYWHERE. Some of them even jump out of the sky to attack you. I’m not kidding. Your best course of action is to jump around and swing your lightsaber around like a madman. Also, try to stay on the upper level, since the ground has a bunch of spikes. After ramming your way through a zillion stormtroopers, you’ll run into Chewie.
Also, Chewie becomes a playable character, nice! Now at the beginning of each level, you’ll get to choose which character to play as.
I’m gonna play as Chewie now (but why does the character selection screen misspell Kashyyyk?). Anyway, ah, the good old Mos Eisley Cantina, complete with an awesome 16-bit rendition of that classic cantina music.
And of course, EVERYONE wants to kill you. I guess they’re all after the bounty on Han’s head. This level’s a little different – instead of hopping around platforms, you have to kill all the enemies before you can advance, kind of like in a beat-em-up. And yes, the enemies are relentless – they REALLY want that bounty. Damn, I knew the cantina was a violent place, but now it’s like you can’t take two steps without someone trying to kill you.
Also, if you look in the background at one point, you’ll see something rather lewd at one of the booths.
Yeah, half-naked ladies who are presumably call-girls in a Nintendo game! I’m surprised that wasn’t censored.
There’s actually a lot of detail in this level. If you take the time to look around while you’re shooting things, you’ll see many of the different creatures from this scene – and of course, the famous cantina band.
This level’s boss is a Kalhar. Don’t know what a Kalhar is? Well, it’s a four-armed creature that actually shows up in the movie . . . as a holochess piece.
Of course, you’re fighting the real thing here, and it’ll give you trouble. You’ve got to jump over his attacks and shoot like mad, but once you defeat him, guess who you meet!
YES, Han enters the scene in all his 16-bit glory! And even better, he becomes a playable character!
Although I don’t know why the character selection screen says his origin is “Unknown.” Sure, this was ages before the Solo movie and even before most of the EU books, but I’m still pretty sure it was a fairly well-known fact that he was born on Corellia even back in 1992. Also, he’s ten years older than Luke and Leia, which would make him 29 or 30 at the time of ANH, not 31. Ah well, that’s my inner geek talking – let’s play Han!
The level’s a lot like the level on the way to the cantina – you jump around and shoot stromtroopers – a LOT of stormtroopers. Sometimes you even have to jump up buildings where the people will stick their heads out the windows and shoot at you. I guess everyone knows about Han’s bounty. Anyway, eventually you’ll have to fight a maintenance droid.
You have to shoot all its limbs off to defeat it, but it can also reattach its limbs, which restores some of its health. Still, it’s not too hard. You might think this is the level’s boss, but nope, now you have to go through the industrial part of Mos Eisley, which, in addition to stormtroopers, has explosives, electrical fences, and most annoying of all, these giant claws that grab you.
“The claw is our master! The claw chooses who will stay and who will go!” You can shoot the claws, but it takes a while to destroy them and by then you might have lost valuable health from other stuff.
Finally, you’ll reach the level’s real boss – a hover carrier piloted by two stormtroopers.
This thing is a BITCH. You have to shoot off all its parts one-by-one while it relentlessly shoots at you – and it’s got a LOT of firepower. It shoots at you from FIVE different turrets – FIVE! Even if you start the battle at full health, this thing can drain it in seconds if you’re not on your toes. You have to take out each of the turrets, then the vehicle whirls out of control as you shoot it dead.
After the battle, the Falcon takes off with a nice cutscene . . .
. . . and then it’s immediately pulled into the Death Star’s tractor beam. Short trip.
Well, I’ll be playing Han again on the Death Star. In fact, I just might play Han for the rest of the game.
At the beginning of the level you run into a bunch of mouse droids. They can’t hurt you, but they’ll push you around this way and that, so better shoot them.
Great big TIE Fighters will also fly by every few seconds, which is pretty cool. Of course, they can also take off your health, which is less cool.
Well, you’ve gotta shoot a bunch of droids and make sure you avoid these holes in the floor that pop up every so-often. Don’t ask me why the Death Star has a bunch of holes in the floor – seems like poor design decision, but then again, there are always bottomless pits in Star Wars.
At one point, a bunch of stormtroopers will descend on you. You can actually stay here for a little bit, since they drop hearts and health swords and other powerups. Once you’ve got a nice long health bar that’s full, you can keep going.
The boss of this level is a HUGE Imperial defense droid. You can only hurt it when it opens itself up, so you’ve gotta duck its attacks and wait for an opportunity to strike.
Blow up the droid and it’s time to explore the Death Star some more.
Now we’re in the detention area, and oh boy, those droids will push you around like you weigh nothing. Seriously, imagine on of the mouse droids in the movie pushing Han around – it’s comical to even think up (and yes, I know that’s not a mouse droid in the picture, but the mouse droids push you around too).
But, you can also ride the droids if you want, which is pretty funny.
And like the sandcrawler, the Death Star is full of moving platforms that you have to carefully time your jumps on because why wouldn’t it be? There are also giant pillars that you have to run under before they slam down and crush you because why wouldn’t there be? After a whole lot of romping through the detention area and shooting everything that moves, you reach the boss, which is a stormtrooper piloting this HUGE Imperial defense droid.
It looks menacing, but it’s not that hard. Shoot it when it opens up and exposes its inner red light thing and avoid its shots at you. Sometimes some stormtroopers will attack, which you can shoot for extra health. When it runs out of health, a smaller, faster droid emerges, but this one goes down really quickly. After you defeat it, you find Leia.
And since we found Leia, why don’t we have a break now? See you for some more sweet SNES action.
Also, Chewie becomes a playable character, nice! Now at the beginning of each level, you’ll get to choose which character to play as.
I’m gonna play as Chewie now (but why does the character selection screen misspell Kashyyyk?). Anyway, ah, the good old Mos Eisley Cantina, complete with an awesome 16-bit rendition of that classic cantina music.
And of course, EVERYONE wants to kill you. I guess they’re all after the bounty on Han’s head. This level’s a little different – instead of hopping around platforms, you have to kill all the enemies before you can advance, kind of like in a beat-em-up. And yes, the enemies are relentless – they REALLY want that bounty. Damn, I knew the cantina was a violent place, but now it’s like you can’t take two steps without someone trying to kill you.
Also, if you look in the background at one point, you’ll see something rather lewd at one of the booths.
Yeah, half-naked ladies who are presumably call-girls in a Nintendo game! I’m surprised that wasn’t censored.
There’s actually a lot of detail in this level. If you take the time to look around while you’re shooting things, you’ll see many of the different creatures from this scene – and of course, the famous cantina band.
This level’s boss is a Kalhar. Don’t know what a Kalhar is? Well, it’s a four-armed creature that actually shows up in the movie . . . as a holochess piece.
Of course, you’re fighting the real thing here, and it’ll give you trouble. You’ve got to jump over his attacks and shoot like mad, but once you defeat him, guess who you meet!
YES, Han enters the scene in all his 16-bit glory! And even better, he becomes a playable character!
Although I don’t know why the character selection screen says his origin is “Unknown.” Sure, this was ages before the Solo movie and even before most of the EU books, but I’m still pretty sure it was a fairly well-known fact that he was born on Corellia even back in 1992. Also, he’s ten years older than Luke and Leia, which would make him 29 or 30 at the time of ANH, not 31. Ah well, that’s my inner geek talking – let’s play Han!
The level’s a lot like the level on the way to the cantina – you jump around and shoot stromtroopers – a LOT of stormtroopers. Sometimes you even have to jump up buildings where the people will stick their heads out the windows and shoot at you. I guess everyone knows about Han’s bounty. Anyway, eventually you’ll have to fight a maintenance droid.
You have to shoot all its limbs off to defeat it, but it can also reattach its limbs, which restores some of its health. Still, it’s not too hard. You might think this is the level’s boss, but nope, now you have to go through the industrial part of Mos Eisley, which, in addition to stormtroopers, has explosives, electrical fences, and most annoying of all, these giant claws that grab you.
“The claw is our master! The claw chooses who will stay and who will go!” You can shoot the claws, but it takes a while to destroy them and by then you might have lost valuable health from other stuff.
Finally, you’ll reach the level’s real boss – a hover carrier piloted by two stormtroopers.
This thing is a BITCH. You have to shoot off all its parts one-by-one while it relentlessly shoots at you – and it’s got a LOT of firepower. It shoots at you from FIVE different turrets – FIVE! Even if you start the battle at full health, this thing can drain it in seconds if you’re not on your toes. You have to take out each of the turrets, then the vehicle whirls out of control as you shoot it dead.
After the battle, the Falcon takes off with a nice cutscene . . .
. . . and then it’s immediately pulled into the Death Star’s tractor beam. Short trip.
Well, I’ll be playing Han again on the Death Star. In fact, I just might play Han for the rest of the game.
At the beginning of the level you run into a bunch of mouse droids. They can’t hurt you, but they’ll push you around this way and that, so better shoot them.
Great big TIE Fighters will also fly by every few seconds, which is pretty cool. Of course, they can also take off your health, which is less cool.
Well, you’ve gotta shoot a bunch of droids and make sure you avoid these holes in the floor that pop up every so-often. Don’t ask me why the Death Star has a bunch of holes in the floor – seems like poor design decision, but then again, there are always bottomless pits in Star Wars.
At one point, a bunch of stormtroopers will descend on you. You can actually stay here for a little bit, since they drop hearts and health swords and other powerups. Once you’ve got a nice long health bar that’s full, you can keep going.
The boss of this level is a HUGE Imperial defense droid. You can only hurt it when it opens itself up, so you’ve gotta duck its attacks and wait for an opportunity to strike.
Blow up the droid and it’s time to explore the Death Star some more.
Now we’re in the detention area, and oh boy, those droids will push you around like you weigh nothing. Seriously, imagine on of the mouse droids in the movie pushing Han around – it’s comical to even think up (and yes, I know that’s not a mouse droid in the picture, but the mouse droids push you around too).
But, you can also ride the droids if you want, which is pretty funny.
And like the sandcrawler, the Death Star is full of moving platforms that you have to carefully time your jumps on because why wouldn’t it be? There are also giant pillars that you have to run under before they slam down and crush you because why wouldn’t there be? After a whole lot of romping through the detention area and shooting everything that moves, you reach the boss, which is a stormtrooper piloting this HUGE Imperial defense droid.
It looks menacing, but it’s not that hard. Shoot it when it opens up and exposes its inner red light thing and avoid its shots at you. Sometimes some stormtroopers will attack, which you can shoot for extra health. When it runs out of health, a smaller, faster droid emerges, but this one goes down really quickly. After you defeat it, you find Leia.
And since we found Leia, why don’t we have a break now? See you for some more sweet SNES action.
