Super Star Wars (SNES) - Full Game

Super Star Wars to me was a big thing back then. Why? There can never be enough goodness of the original trilogy and goodness it was. Basically, it is more a platformer than a run & gun game. Every few platforming stages there will be a Mode 7 shooting stage in a vehicle and the platforming stages usually end with a large and impressive boss. There are games for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and both follow the same formula, but are even better: the Mode 7 stages have more variety (ATAT + Snow Speeder on Hoth = bricks are shat) and the bosses are more interesting.

The game takes the most important parts of the movie and loosely adds them together with stages that resemble the movie scenery. You start as Luke Skywalker and you got a blaster rifle that you can upgrade and get some serious firepower. In the middle of the game you meet Obi Wan Kenobi who gives you your lightsaber, but it sucks so I use the blaster the whole time. Once you meet Han Solo and Chewbacca you can play as them too. They have different running speed and Chewbacca has more health so I use him.

The game is quite linear, nothing to explore, but there are hidden items that appear if you shoot specific spots. It is not too hard, but there are some parts that can be a bitch, especially the last stage. You lose so much health in one hit that the hardest difficulty, Jedi, may kick your butt at Jedi speed. I'm not a fan of this kind of difficulty increase. Yea, you should not have too much health at high difficulty, but I want that additional challenge to come from more enemies, different enemy patterns, more projectiles, reduced firepower etc. Just losing more health feels cheap and not creative. So this is done at Brave, which is the medium difficulty setting, but I'll check out Jedi in the sequels that I don't know that well.

Why is this game so great you ask? I would say it is because of the sound and music. The music is pretty much taken from the soundtrack and uses the superb SNES audio hardware very well. Just that makes every Star Wars fan happy. Add excellent graphics, very good level design and good use of Mode 7 and you got a winner. And as mentioned the sequels are even better! I remember having finished Super Empire Strikes Back too, but I don't think I've played Super Return of the Jedi. I read a review back then that there is a Rancor fight too - Can't wait to see this and now that I found a way to get good recordings of SNES games there's no excuse to not upload some SNES classics.

I'm working on one very long playthrough which may still take some time to get it done, but if you got any requests for games you want to see here, just post a comment and I'll see if I can get it done.