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lieselstarwarsgamesSorry I’ve been absent for a couple of days, but you can blame TAXES. Anyway, back to Attack of the Clones, let’s go to Kamino.
No wasting time in the cantina today – let’s get straight to the level.
The opening cutscene shows Obi-Wan and R4 landing on Kamino (and a Kaminoan bumping his head while fixing a light – ha!) and I’ve gotta say up front that this level does a great job capturing the mysterious (and wet) atmosphere of Kamino. In addition to the amazing John Williams score, you’ve got waves on the water, puddles that you disturb when you step in them, the lighting is appropriately moody, all that good stuff. It once again shows how much love was put into giving this game a real Star Wars feel.
Well, since Obi-Wan is a gracious Jedi, he and R4 are gonna help the Kaminoan (I guess it’s supposed to be Taun We) fix the light with the help of the Force, which also extends a bridge to the clone creation center. We could go inside right away, but first let’s look for studs. There are studs all over the place, including a bunch of blue studs. Awesome! There’s also a minikit, but alas, where’s Jar Jar and his super jump when you need him?
There’s another minikit that you can only reach with R4’s flying ability. Yup, in Lego world at least, rockets are standard issue for ALL astro droids, not just R2.
Once we go inside, Lama Su greets Obi-Wan and invites him to follow, but of course we can go gathering studs before doing so. By the way, I love how you can see the torrent of rain out the window.
There’s a closet with an activation panel that R4 can use to open the door, revealing a bucket and a broom.
Obi-Wan can use the Force to knock over the bucket for studs, then he can use the Force on the broom to make it start sweeping down the hall. As soon as the broom gets out of sight, it will start heading back to the closet, but if Obi-Wan keeps Force sweeping and doesn’t let it go back to the closet until it’s swept the full circular hall, then you get rewarded with a shit-ton of studs. Nice to know that the Kaminoans will pay Obi-Wan for sweeping their floor.
Lama Su leads us into a hallway full of windows covered by forcefields. Whatever could be behind THOSE? Certainly not an army of clones, nope!
Well after we’ve collected all the studs we can by using the Force and slicing stuff up, here comes one of the more frustrating parts of the game. See this square here?
The little circles inside it light up when you step on them and you have to light all of them up in order to continue. Problem is that they only stay lit up for a few seconds, so you’ve gotta make a FAST run around all of them. I remember having the hardest time with it the first time I played it, but since I’ve played the game through several times since then, I was able to do the runaround quickly and make this console thing appear.
Using the Force on the console opens the windows and reveals OMG THE CLONE ARMY. Oh, and it’s HILARIOUS how the clone incubators contain single Lego bricks – HA!
There’s a hall we can go down that leads to a door that needs a bounty hunter to open it. Hmmm, what’s Jango keeping behind there?
Anyway, we’re supposed to follow Lama Su again, but he’s really patient, since he’ll wait for us to use the Force on everything to get studs. He doesn’t even question why we’re stealing all the money they keep hidden away.
Oh, and you can go to the end of one hall and the camera will actually go outside the building, giving you a pretty neat view.
There’s also another door locked to everyone except stormtroopers. Well, at least that makes sense here since the place is full of stormtroopers-in-training. Maybe this is where they go to get those Order 66 chips implanted.
Eventually Lama Su leads Obi-Wan to Jango and Boba’s room. They’re not happy to have visitors, so Jango runs off and sends a group of flying droids to kill Obi-Wan. This is the first time we’ve had to actually fight something in this whole level, but anyway, kill the droids while Lama Su just stands around and watches. Sure, we could go chasing after him, but there’s so much stuff to use the Force on for studs, including the table.
Use the Force on the chairs and again they’ll dance around while the Mos Eisley Cantina theme plays, HA! Also, there’s this incomplete picture next to a minikit that’s blocked from our reach.
You’ve gotta use the Force on the panel next to the picture over and over and it will keep spitting more and more Lego bricks out. Once you’ve got enough bricks, Force-move them to fix the picture of Jango and you can now get the minikit.
Also, if you use the Force on the Jango picture after fixing it, it will turn into a clone trooper picture.
There’s also a door R4 can open that leads to a blue stud and sends a rocket flying out that explodes into studs. I wasn’t able to get a screenshot of the rocket, but it’s pretty funny to see it shoot out and explode.
Okay, now we can chase after Jango. Apparently he’s just been standing in the hall waiting for us.
Well, take out the ceiling guns shooting at you by ricocheting their blasts back at them, then Jango will run into another room. Inside the room, he’ll drop into a chute, and sure, we can follow him down there, but there’s more shit to break and a minikit to get!
What you’ve gotta do to get this minikit is step on the circle on the floor that matches the lit-up circle on the wall (and your partner will do the same thing on the other side). Do it three times and you’ve got another minikit. I wonder if Jango put these minikits here to distract Obi-Wan.
Anyway, when all the loot is gotten, we can follow Jango down the chute, which leads back outside.
There’s a platform full of studs that R4 can fly to, but alas, he can’t reach the minikit that’s floating just out of his reach.
Go back to the bridge and oh fuck, Jango’s planted bombs all over it. Hey Jango, it's not very nice to destroy your landlords' bridges.
The bombs will explode as you approach them, blowing holes in the bridge. If you don’t want to lose studs, you might want to use R4 to fly over the gaps. It’s possible to jump over them with Obi-Wan, but it’s more reliable to just fly.
Once we’ve passed the bombs, we find yet another tantalizing minikit (upper right-hand corner of the screenshot) that we can’t access due to there being an ascension hook and no blasters in sight. Obi-Wan, you might want to listen to what Han’s going to say in the future.
There’s a gap in the bridge that cuts us away from the building. Obi-Wan can step on a switch that brings up a platform, but he still can’t jump far enough from the platform to get to the building. As such, R4 will need to use his amazing flying ability to reach a second switch.
Wait a minute, IS R4 male? Is his gender ever mentioned in the movies? How do you tell an astro droid’s gender anyway? You can argue that 3PO having a male voice makes him male, but R2 and other astro droids have NOTHING to indicate gender.
Uh, moving on, the room you enter now is PRETY with how bright it is.
But the flying droids keep coming and coming and COMING through these shafts in the ceiling. Once again, you’ve got to use trusty R4 to activate the switches that close up the shafts. Where would we be without astro droids?
After taking out the droids, use the Force to clear out some debris and reveal another astro droid panel for R4 to use his/her/their skills to open.
And now it’s time to fight Jango!
This boss battle is actually really exciting. Jango sends Boba to pilot Slave 1 and shoot at Obi-Wan, so good old R4 needs to activate panels that will turn on these big guns to shoot at Slave 1 and keep it busy while Obi-Wan lightsabers Jango. After a few hits, Jango takes to the air, so Obi-Wan needs to ricochet his blasts back at him. Then for the final round, Slave 1 sends rockets out that you need to Force-intercept to hit Jango. All of this in the rain!
After the fight Jango flies off and Obi-Wan follows him to Geonosis, ending the level. Well, now that bearded Obi-Wan and good old R4-P17 have been unlocked, let’s see who we can buy at the bar.
We can buy a clone trooper . . .
. . . Lama Su . . .
. . . and Taun We.
Wait, the picture of Taun We has a blue neck . . . oh shit, it was Taun We we were following when I said it was Lama Su. Hey, don’t blame me – those Lego Kaminoans look so damn similar!
Oh well, I’ll see you next level.
No wasting time in the cantina today – let’s get straight to the level.
The opening cutscene shows Obi-Wan and R4 landing on Kamino (and a Kaminoan bumping his head while fixing a light – ha!) and I’ve gotta say up front that this level does a great job capturing the mysterious (and wet) atmosphere of Kamino. In addition to the amazing John Williams score, you’ve got waves on the water, puddles that you disturb when you step in them, the lighting is appropriately moody, all that good stuff. It once again shows how much love was put into giving this game a real Star Wars feel.
Well, since Obi-Wan is a gracious Jedi, he and R4 are gonna help the Kaminoan (I guess it’s supposed to be Taun We) fix the light with the help of the Force, which also extends a bridge to the clone creation center. We could go inside right away, but first let’s look for studs. There are studs all over the place, including a bunch of blue studs. Awesome! There’s also a minikit, but alas, where’s Jar Jar and his super jump when you need him?
There’s another minikit that you can only reach with R4’s flying ability. Yup, in Lego world at least, rockets are standard issue for ALL astro droids, not just R2.
Once we go inside, Lama Su greets Obi-Wan and invites him to follow, but of course we can go gathering studs before doing so. By the way, I love how you can see the torrent of rain out the window.
There’s a closet with an activation panel that R4 can use to open the door, revealing a bucket and a broom.
Obi-Wan can use the Force to knock over the bucket for studs, then he can use the Force on the broom to make it start sweeping down the hall. As soon as the broom gets out of sight, it will start heading back to the closet, but if Obi-Wan keeps Force sweeping and doesn’t let it go back to the closet until it’s swept the full circular hall, then you get rewarded with a shit-ton of studs. Nice to know that the Kaminoans will pay Obi-Wan for sweeping their floor.
Lama Su leads us into a hallway full of windows covered by forcefields. Whatever could be behind THOSE? Certainly not an army of clones, nope!
Well after we’ve collected all the studs we can by using the Force and slicing stuff up, here comes one of the more frustrating parts of the game. See this square here?
The little circles inside it light up when you step on them and you have to light all of them up in order to continue. Problem is that they only stay lit up for a few seconds, so you’ve gotta make a FAST run around all of them. I remember having the hardest time with it the first time I played it, but since I’ve played the game through several times since then, I was able to do the runaround quickly and make this console thing appear.
Using the Force on the console opens the windows and reveals OMG THE CLONE ARMY. Oh, and it’s HILARIOUS how the clone incubators contain single Lego bricks – HA!
There’s a hall we can go down that leads to a door that needs a bounty hunter to open it. Hmmm, what’s Jango keeping behind there?
Anyway, we’re supposed to follow Lama Su again, but he’s really patient, since he’ll wait for us to use the Force on everything to get studs. He doesn’t even question why we’re stealing all the money they keep hidden away.
Oh, and you can go to the end of one hall and the camera will actually go outside the building, giving you a pretty neat view.
There’s also another door locked to everyone except stormtroopers. Well, at least that makes sense here since the place is full of stormtroopers-in-training. Maybe this is where they go to get those Order 66 chips implanted.
Eventually Lama Su leads Obi-Wan to Jango and Boba’s room. They’re not happy to have visitors, so Jango runs off and sends a group of flying droids to kill Obi-Wan. This is the first time we’ve had to actually fight something in this whole level, but anyway, kill the droids while Lama Su just stands around and watches. Sure, we could go chasing after him, but there’s so much stuff to use the Force on for studs, including the table.
Use the Force on the chairs and again they’ll dance around while the Mos Eisley Cantina theme plays, HA! Also, there’s this incomplete picture next to a minikit that’s blocked from our reach.
You’ve gotta use the Force on the panel next to the picture over and over and it will keep spitting more and more Lego bricks out. Once you’ve got enough bricks, Force-move them to fix the picture of Jango and you can now get the minikit.
Also, if you use the Force on the Jango picture after fixing it, it will turn into a clone trooper picture.
There’s also a door R4 can open that leads to a blue stud and sends a rocket flying out that explodes into studs. I wasn’t able to get a screenshot of the rocket, but it’s pretty funny to see it shoot out and explode.
Okay, now we can chase after Jango. Apparently he’s just been standing in the hall waiting for us.
Well, take out the ceiling guns shooting at you by ricocheting their blasts back at them, then Jango will run into another room. Inside the room, he’ll drop into a chute, and sure, we can follow him down there, but there’s more shit to break and a minikit to get!
What you’ve gotta do to get this minikit is step on the circle on the floor that matches the lit-up circle on the wall (and your partner will do the same thing on the other side). Do it three times and you’ve got another minikit. I wonder if Jango put these minikits here to distract Obi-Wan.
Anyway, when all the loot is gotten, we can follow Jango down the chute, which leads back outside.
There’s a platform full of studs that R4 can fly to, but alas, he can’t reach the minikit that’s floating just out of his reach.
Go back to the bridge and oh fuck, Jango’s planted bombs all over it. Hey Jango, it's not very nice to destroy your landlords' bridges.
The bombs will explode as you approach them, blowing holes in the bridge. If you don’t want to lose studs, you might want to use R4 to fly over the gaps. It’s possible to jump over them with Obi-Wan, but it’s more reliable to just fly.
Once we’ve passed the bombs, we find yet another tantalizing minikit (upper right-hand corner of the screenshot) that we can’t access due to there being an ascension hook and no blasters in sight. Obi-Wan, you might want to listen to what Han’s going to say in the future.
There’s a gap in the bridge that cuts us away from the building. Obi-Wan can step on a switch that brings up a platform, but he still can’t jump far enough from the platform to get to the building. As such, R4 will need to use his amazing flying ability to reach a second switch.
Wait a minute, IS R4 male? Is his gender ever mentioned in the movies? How do you tell an astro droid’s gender anyway? You can argue that 3PO having a male voice makes him male, but R2 and other astro droids have NOTHING to indicate gender.
Uh, moving on, the room you enter now is PRETY with how bright it is.
But the flying droids keep coming and coming and COMING through these shafts in the ceiling. Once again, you’ve got to use trusty R4 to activate the switches that close up the shafts. Where would we be without astro droids?
After taking out the droids, use the Force to clear out some debris and reveal another astro droid panel for R4 to use his/her/their skills to open.
And now it’s time to fight Jango!
This boss battle is actually really exciting. Jango sends Boba to pilot Slave 1 and shoot at Obi-Wan, so good old R4 needs to activate panels that will turn on these big guns to shoot at Slave 1 and keep it busy while Obi-Wan lightsabers Jango. After a few hits, Jango takes to the air, so Obi-Wan needs to ricochet his blasts back at him. Then for the final round, Slave 1 sends rockets out that you need to Force-intercept to hit Jango. All of this in the rain!
After the fight Jango flies off and Obi-Wan follows him to Geonosis, ending the level. Well, now that bearded Obi-Wan and good old R4-P17 have been unlocked, let’s see who we can buy at the bar.
We can buy a clone trooper . . .
. . . Lama Su . . .
. . . and Taun We.
Wait, the picture of Taun We has a blue neck . . . oh shit, it was Taun We we were following when I said it was Lama Su. Hey, don’t blame me – those Lego Kaminoans look so damn similar!
Oh well, I’ll see you next level.
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Date: 2021-02-19 02:13 am (UTC)