After the insanely difficult (at least for me) Prince of Persia, I decided to slum it a little with a relatively easy game before I go back to the serious games. I chose this title because of three words: “LEGO,” and “STAR WARS.”
I think that about sums it up man. Anybody who appreciates beautiful things should get this game. That means people who are into Scientology, Evil and Shih Tzus may not be in the correct mindset to appreciate this game.
If you’re like me, you’d be a rabid fan of the original trilogy. Just ask my wife how many times she finds me speaking the dialogue along with the movies, and I’ll tell you how many times she’s threatened me with divorce, and divulge the real size of my wang to all my friends. Fortunately for me, my wife is a woman, and is therefore always ignored by people, and cannot be allowed to vote, as well as being never allowed to leave the kitchen. Also, my pee pee is HUUUGE!
But I digress.
Like I was saying, my devotion to the original trilogy can only be matched by my disappointment over the prequels. The prequels had none of the charm of the trilogy and made up for it with stupid. And because of the prequels, I didn’t think I can ever go to the Star Wars universe again willingly.
That is until this game came about. Sounds hokey, but this game purified Star Wars again for me. It washed away all the pomp and arrogance the prequel movies managed to taint the whole saga with; and replaced it with loads of fun. Which is really is what the whole Star Wars experience was for me.
Anyway, since the Youtube clip below pretty much sums up everything you need to know about the game, I’ll shut up now.
There’s really no point in my showing off this video other than to prove that I’m not dumb. So to my music teacher in Grade 5, Mr. Areza as well as all my classmates who made fun of me: “Suck it bitch!”
And that voice you’ll hear in the background at around 3/4s of the way through the video? That’s my wife talking to me about work stuff.
Anyway:
Also, check out some other stuff which proves I’m not dumb:
Like I mentioned in this post, this game took great pleasure in cockblocking me at every turn.
At the start of this game, it deceived me into thinking that it was going to be a cakewalk because the first half of the game involves nothing more than you finding the next ledge to jump off from and maybe kill a few enemies who almost always have their backs turned away from you. Also from what I remember from the original PC version, you spend the majority of the game trying to figure out how to get through the different levels by jumping, running, and avoiding getting killed.
True to form, you get to do pretty much the same stuff here. Only awesomer. If you’ve seen the Youtube video I posted in the linked entry above, you’ll see the fun part of the game. Where you get to do acrobatic stunts like knife-slash-ride down curtains, wall-run, wall-jump, and kill shit. All because the Prince does not know how to open doors.
Seriously. There are countless doors in this game, but you cannot open a single one. You can break through walls, you can discover hidden passageways to the next level/room, you can control the flow of time. But once you’re faced with a normal, everyday,garden variety wooden door, the Prince will sit there with his thumb up his ass until you figure out his next move.
After the insanely difficult (at least for me) Prince of Persia, I decided to slum it a little with a relatively easy game before I go back to the serious games. I chose this title because of three words: “LEGO,” and “STAR WARS.”
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