Star Wars is perhaps one of the biggest franchises and sagas of the film industry, not only innovated in its time with special effects, but also the way in which to tell a space story, full of epicness, action, adventure and even comedy. The movies of this saga are to my liking, they are not even close to my favorites, however the first trilogy, which is the classic one I like quite a lot, the second trilogy I think they are decent but I am not such a diehard fan of this saga, then I tried to watch the most recent trilogy but I didn't like it at all, the only recent product of the Star Wars saga that I liked is the first season of The Mandalorian, although after watching that first season I have lost track of that series and now I don't know if new seasons have been released. But leaving that aside, Star Wars is huge and maybe nowadays it is not what it was in its time, it certainly left a legacy worth admiring, so it is not surprising that video games were made based on the movies, in fact, there have been many video games based on that universe and today I will talk about a Star Wars game made for the old Super Nintendo.
Super Star Wars is basically an adaptation of the first movie, it has the facts of the movie almost in the same way, but with their respective differences to be adapted to a video game, so there will be sequences and moments that were not in the movie, but in general terms it is a good adaptation of the most memorable moments of the first movie. This is a game whose graphic aspect manages to emulate quite well what can be seen in the movie, from scenarios, decorative elements, enemies and main characters, were developed and designed in such a way that with just a small observation we can realize that we are facing a game based on Star Wars. This is a game that stands out for its visual effects, explosions, lights, all these aspects were created with great care, not for nothing is a game made by LucasArts and connoisseurs of the subject, know that this game developer, in his prime created many spectacular games. One of the best aspects in terms of graphics are its scenarios, they are very varied, recreating the most emblematic locations of the film so faithfully that it is impressive, even for a game as old as this one is.
The character design is spectacular, they have an adequate size for a game of this style, but the variety of character sprite sizes will vary, being able to find characters with large sizes, other relatively small and other huge and still do not lose their great quality of work in the design. Undoubtedly, one of the best aspects of this game in its soundtrack and I think this is not something to be surprised, as it is known that the Star Wars saga has one of the best soundtracks in the history of cinema, so it was quite logical that this game had a soundtrack that could pay tribute to the movies, we can hear at least the vast majority of the classic themes of the first film adapted to the ship of the Super Nintendo and despite its clear and logical limitations, the composers in charge of the soundtrack of this game managed to create something worthy of listening and worthy of being an adaptation of the original melodies.
Super Star Wars is basically and most of the time an action and platform game, although in some moments there will be some driving sections, where depending on the character we control, we will have to move by means of a vehicle where we will dodge enemies or attack them, even recreating the mythical scene where we control the ship and we must destroy the Death Star, this being an epic moment both in the movie and in the video game.
In this game we not only control the main protagonist of the story which is Luke Skywalker, which in the beginning of the game his main weapon will only be a laser gun, but then as we advance in the story we can get his classic lightsaber, which we can use to eliminate our enemies more easily but above all, with greater epicity. Han Solo and Chewbacca will also be playable characters, having these characters both mechanics and different weapons between them and we can control them depending on the point of the story in which we find ourselves. In short, Super Star Wars is a spectacular game, a worthy adaptation of one of the best science fiction movies out there and a game that has left me wanting to play its sequels, which I hope will be as good and entertaining as this first game.
Star Wars quizás sea una de las franquicias y sagas más grandes de la industria del cine, no solo innovo en su época con los efectos especiales, sino también la forma en como contar una historia espacial, llena de epicidad, acción, aventura e incluso comedia. Las películas de esta saga son de mi agrado, no son de ni de cerca mis favoritas, sin embargo la primera trilogía, la cual es la clásica me gustan bastante, la segunda trilogía me parece que están decentes pero tampoco soy un fan tan acérrimo de esta saga, luego intente ver la más reciente trilogía pero no me gustó para nada, el único producto reciente de la saga Star Wars que me ha gustado es la primera temporada de The Mandalorian, aunque luego de haber visto esa primera temporada le he perdido el rastro a esa serie y actualmente no sé si se ha estrenado nuevas temporadas. Pero dejando eso a un lado, la Star Wars es enorme y quizás actualmente no es lo que era en su época, sin duda dejó un legado digno de admirar, por lo que no es para sorprender que se hicieran videojuegos basados en las películas, de hecho, se han hecho muchísimos videojuegos basados en ese universo y el día de hoy hablaré de un juego de Star Wars hecho para la antigua Super Nintendo.
Super Star Wars es básicamente una adaptación de la primera película, cuenta con los hechos de la película casi de la misma manera, pero con sus respectivas diferencias para poder ser adaptadas a un videojuegos, por lo que habrán secuencias y momentos que no estuvieron en la película, pero en términos generales es una buena adaptación de los momentos más memorables de la primera película. Este es un juego cuyo aspecto grafico logra emular bastante bien lo que se puede ver en la película, desde escenarios, elementos decorativos, enemigos y personajes principales, fueron desarrollados y diseñados de tal manera que con tan solo una pequeña observación podremos percatarnos que estamos ante un juego basado en Star Wars. Este es un juego que destaca bastante por sus efectos visuales, explosiones, luces, todos estos aspectos fueron creados con sumo cuidado, no por nada es un juego hecho por LucasArts y los conocedores del tema, saben que esta desarrolladora de videojuegos, en su mejor época creo muchos juegos espectaculares. Unos de los mejores aspectos en lo que respecta al tema grafico son sus escenarios, son muy variados, recreando las localidades más emblemáticas de la película de manera tan fiel que es impresionante, incluso para un juego tan antiguo como lo es este.
El diseño de personajes es espectacular, tienen un tamaño adecuado para un juego de este estilo, pero la variedad de tamaños de los sprites de los personajes van a variar, pudiéndonos encontrar personajes con tamaños grandes, otros relativamente pequeños y otros enormes y aun así no pierden su gran calidad de trabajo en el diseño. Sin duda, uno de los mejores aspectos de este juego en su banda sonora y es que creo que esto no es algo para sorprendernos, ya que por si se sabe que la saga de Star Wars cuenta con una de las mejores banda sonores de toda al historia del cine, por lo que era bastante lógico que este juego contase con una banda sonora que pudiera dar tributo a las películas, podremos escuchar al menos la gran mayoría de los temas clásicos de la primera película adaptados al ship de la Super Nintendo y a pesar de sus claras y lógicas limitaciones, los compositores a cargo de la banda sonora de este juego lograron crear algo digno de escuchar y digno de ser una adaptación de las melodías originales.
Super Star Wars es básicamente y en la mayoría del tiempo un juego de acción y plataformas, aunque en algunos momentos habrán algunas secciones de conducción, donde según sea el personaje que controlemos, tendremos que movilizarnos por medio de un vehículo donde iremos esquivando enemigos o atacándolos, incluso recreando la mítica escena donde controlamos la nave y debemos destruir la Estrella de la Muerte, siendo este un momento épico tanto en la película como en el videojuego.
En este juego no solo controlamos al protagonista principal de la historia el cual es Luke Skywalker, el cual en el inicio del juego su arma principal tan solo será una pistola laser, pero luego al avanzar en la historia podremos obtener su clásico sable de luz, el cual podremos utilizar para eliminar a nuestros enemigos con mayor facilidad pero sobre todo, con mayor epicidad. Han Solo y Chewbacca también serán personajes jugables, teniendo estos personajes tanto mecánicas como distintas armas entre si y los podremos controlar según sea el punto de la historia en el que nos encontremos. En definitiva Super Star Wars es un juego espectacular, digna adaptación de una las mejores películas de ciencia ficción que hay y un juego que me ha dejado con ganas de jugar a sus secuelas, las cuales espero que sean igual de buenas y entretenidas como este primer juego.
Todays kids won't believe how famous these games were at a time.
I didn't live the boom time of this game, but I was able to investigate and it was crazy at the time when this and its sequels came out, they are very well done.
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Never played this one but looks good. Great job with the Gifs man, as always.
Thanks man. What I enjoy the most is making the Gifs, I'm glad you appreciate them.
I actually remember hearing of this game years ago because of a whoisthisgit video that was part of his [Worst Levels Ever]...and said level being not any of the normal levels, but specifically, and I'll spoiler it just in case as I think it is near the end...
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The sequence where you have to fly into the Death Star, go through a normal level section, and THEN get out of the Death Star again. And that is through a different style of flying section unlike the Mode 7 flight like one of your screenshots, but instead automatically accelerating through what feels like a bunch of tunnels and gates...and one wrong judgement in a SNES game of depth perception in how close you are to a wall and you're dead.
But that aside, I haven't actually got to know or see much of this game...might be interesting to try someday, although I keep saying that often and if I wrote down every game I've said that for, my backlog would be a book at this point 😅
Anyways, always cool in my book to see people take a look at old, lesser known games like this. Even if it is Star Wars, a franchise that needs no introduction, the game is certainly not something that's spoken about these days- especially not compared to the one eternal darling of people that played it [classic Battlefront 1 and 2- my brother told me once he actually had played it at one point when he was younger with a friend that had an OG Xbox lol]
Yes, the game has certain details in the difficulty that I don't know if they did it on purpose or if they were programming and level design errors that they didn't take into account when testing it, but it is still quite enjoyable.
!hueso