Could the Fourth be with you! We’re republishing this checklist in celebration of Star Wars day and after giving it a great ol’ sweep, so after your Andor binge, be sure you go away a while to take a look at the very best video video games Star Wars has to supply.
The Skywalker Saga might have led to 2019, however Star Wars is rarely actually over, is it? Particularly on the planet of video video games. Spanning programs all the best way again to the NES and arcades, Star Wars has been on virtually each online game console ever.
So under, we’re looking at nigh-on each Star Wars recreation on Nintendo programs within the West, ranked from worst to greatest by you, expensive readers. To maintain issues tidier, in situations the place the identical recreation was launched on a number of platforms, we have opted to say the lesser of the 2 — invariably the transportable model — within the different’s entry. Bear in mind, this checklist isn’t set in stone however is ruled by every recreation’s Person Ranking in our database.
So, include us on a journey to a galaxy fa—oh the remainder. We start on the backside, so beware that the Power is not sturdy with many of those…
42. Star Wars: The New Droid Military (GBA)
An isometric platformer that takes place between Assault of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, you management the petulant younger Skywalker on this stodgy motion recreation. Contemplating the platform it is on, the sport seems and sounds okay. Past that, although, it is boring, repetitive and so s-l-o-w. Anakin, you are breaking our coronary heart.
41. Star Wars: Jedi Energy Battles (GBA)
With satisfactory animation and audio (particularly contemplating the system) and boring, finicky platforming, Star Wars: Jedi Energy Battles falls right into a regretfully acquainted sample of transportable Star Wars video games. It isn’t as hateful as some, and it is a bit of faster-paced than New Droid Military, but it surely’s an analogous story.
Maybe developer HotGen was making an attempt to faithfully seize the joy of The Phantom Menace‘s commerce disputes, during which case job carried out. Some may name the non-canon blue lightsaber wielded by Mace Windu on the quilt unforgivable, however we had been too bored to care.
40. Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon (GBA)
Anybody who’s solely ever performed Star Wars video games on a Sport Boy deserves your pity. Retro Nintendo portables had lots of issues going for them, however a excessive midi-chlorian depend wasn’t certainly one of them.
Flight of the Falcon is among the very worst Star Wars video games ever as a result of it is bought Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon on the quilt — the 2 coolest issues within the Star Wars universe — and it sullies their good names. As with all horrible Star Wars video games, the iconography fools you into considering ‘ah, it may well’t be that dangerous!’, however our overview conclusion sums this up completely: “Flight of the Falcon is a really dangerous recreation. As such, you shouldn’t play it. Nevertheless cool the screenshots look, nevertheless promising the premise sounds, simply keep in mind that the Power isn’t with this one in any approach, form or kind.”
Han, mah boogie, you deserved higher.
39. Star Wars: Yoda Tales (GBC)
It’s a must to keep in mind that whereas Yoda is a beloved character, this recreation got here earlier than we might ever seen him wield a lightsaber in what is well the very best scene in Assault of the Clones. Regardless of the title, in Yoda Tales you management Luke Skywalker in a top-down journey as he chops snakes in two along with his laser sword. How dangerous can that be?…
Actually fairly dangerous, it seems. ‘Sedate’ is simply too beneficiant a phrase, and the entire recreation is a technical embarrassment. It is tempting in charge the {hardware}, however then you definately have a look at Hyperlink’s Awakening and see what may need been. Hyperlink’s Awakening this ain’t. Poodoo, plain and easy.
38. Star Wars: Episode II: Assault of the Clones (GBA)
Fittingly, maybe, the weakest film within the saga bought one of many weakest Star Wars video games ever. Usually we might caveat a press release like that with ‘arguably’, however Episode II is inescapably pants in elements (apart from Mace Windu’s basic badassery and that Yoda bit on the finish — we keep in mind fairly liking that).
The tie-in GBA recreation is a turgid side-scrolling beat ’em up that lacks the creative polish even the dullest Star Wars video games deliver to the desk. Coarse, tough, and worsening, certainly.
37. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again (NES)
A comparatively ho-hum 8-bit platformer the place you play as younger Skywalker battling by means of variations of the areas from the film, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Again couldn’t be extra common. For teenagers determined to play as hero Luke, it was satisfactory filler however no extra.
A Sport Boy model additionally exists, however in the event you’re gagging to play by means of the very best movie of the saga in online game kind, you are a lot better off going with the 16-bit ‘Tremendous’ iteration. Certainly, LucasArts did not even hassle with an 8-bit Return of the Jedi — the developer merely jumped generations and began afresh with Tremendous Star Wars on the SNES.
36. Star Wars (NES)
One other platformer. To be honest, it did an honest job of offering some selection and bearing on the primary characters and areas of the film, but it surely’s fairly unmemorable (and unforgiving).
The token Sport Boy model upped the problem because it decreased display screen actual property, however presumably essentially the most fascinating of the 8-bit variations is the totally totally different and earlier Famicom recreation developed by Namco in 1987. ‘Attention-grabbing’ as a result of it isn’t afraid of deviating considerably from the supply materials and having Darth Vader flip right into a scorpion. Not ‘fascinating’ as a result of it is any good, sadly.
