Well first of all, I was describing the goings on to a buddy of mine via facebook chat, and the impression I got from him was that this game doesn't really do a good job of following the movies too closely. Some of the core scenes are there, but it does a lot of stuff to sort of "game" it up, which is fine I guess. When making a side scrolling platformer you can't really expect it to be too faithful, as long as it's fun really.
So that's the big question here, is it fun? Well to be perfectly honest with you, for me, yes, for most people, probably not. This game is HARD, and when I say hard, I mean that unless you play a level perfectly this game will shaft you up the ass so hard that you will not be able to walk for days. The checkpoints in some stages can be really unforgiving, especially in the final level.
My two major complaints however, do not lie with unforgiving checkpoints or game difficulty, but with taking damage and boss life bars. When you take damage you dont fly back like you do it games like Castlevania, you get pushed back. This is fine, but in some situations the whole being pushed thing will fuck with the controls and you'll die for stupid reasons because the enemy has been placed somewhere really obnoxious. When it comes to bosses, their health bars are just flat out too big. These make easy bosses really tough because it turns into an endurance match rather than a test of your accumulated skill. The most bullshit example is that bogmonster I posted a while back, which required you to shave off bits of his body before you could even touch his main health bar, he wasn't tough, just resilient as fuck.
In the end though, the game is pretty fun, but if you want to win you have to be one hell of a patient player with a high tolerance level for bullshit. If you like a challenge then go emulate it or find a cart or something but if super hard games aren't your thing, no matter how much you like Star Wars this one is just not for you.
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