It’s May 4th! Yes, May the fourth is with us (hmm, that does not actually work) and we’re republishing our ranked listing of each Star Wars recreation on Nintendo consoles, however now with a twist! We’ve rejigged the ranked listing under to be ruled by every recreation’s User Rating in our database, that means that the order is now dynamic and completely reader-ranked — and topic to actual-time change, even after publication.
In order to price any of the video games on the listing under out of 10, logged-in Nintendo Life customers can merely faucet the ‘star’, assign it a private score, and refresh the web page to see any modifications mirrored. With varied of the video games within the decrease half of the listing solely having a handful of scores on the time of writing, there’s loads of potential for change within the coming days. It might be fascinating to see how the rating shakes down as we transfer onto May fifth, May sixth, and different equally un-Star Wars-y dates. Enjoy!
The launch of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019 might have ‘ended’ Star Wars as we have identified it for the previous 4-and-a-half a long time, however all it actually did was tie a bow on the cinematic tales of the Skywalker clan and the 9-movie saga which started means again in 1977. After all, Star Wars is rarely actually gone.
Streaming platform Disney+ has all the flicks in 4K, plus reveals like The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan, and a deluge of different TV initiatives, and never forgetting new trilogies, spin-offs films, video games, and far more within the pipeline. Yep, that galaxy far, far-off might be coming at you throughout all media for a lengthy time to return.
The franchise has an extended and storied historical past with video video games, too. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor could be grabbing all of the galactic gaming headlines for the time being, however there are many Star Wars video games to play on Switch, too. Below we have a look again at nigh-on each Star Wars recreation on Nintendo techniques within the West, ranked from worst to greatest by you, expensive readers.
To hold 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.
So, include us on a journey to a galaxy fa—oh you understand the remainder. We start on the backside, so beware that the Force is not sturdy with many of those…
Publisher: THQ / Developer: Helixe
An isometric platformer that takes place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, you management the petulant younger Skywalker on this stodgy motion recreation. Considering the platform it is on, the sport appears to be like and sounds okay. Beyond that, although, it is uninteresting, repetitive and so s-l-o-w. Anakin, you are breaking our coronary heart.
Publisher: THQ / Developer: HotGen
With satisfactory animation and audio (particularly contemplating the system) and boring, finicky platforming, Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles falls right into a regretfully acquainted sample of transportable Star Wars video games. It’s not as hateful as some, and it is a bit of quicker-paced than New Droid Army, but it surely’s the same story. Perhaps developer HotGen was making an attempt to faithfully seize the joy of The Phantom Menace‘s commerce disputes, during which case job executed. Some would possibly name the non-canon blue lightsaber wielded by Mace Windu on the duvet unforgivable, however we have been too bored to care.
Publisher: LucasArts / Developer: THQ
Anyone who’s solely ever performed Star Wars video games on a Game Boy deserves your pity. Retro Nintendo portables had a number of issues going for them, however a excessive midi-chlorian depend wasn’t one among them.
Flight of the Falcon is likely one of the very worst Star Wars video games ever as a result of it is acquired Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon on the duvet — 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 might probably’t be that dangerous!’, however our overview conclusion sums this up completely: “Flight of the Falcon is a very bad game. As such, you should not play it. However cool the screenshots look, however promising the premise sounds, just remember that the Force is not with this one in any way, shape or form.”
Han, mah boogie, you deserved higher.
Publisher: THQ / Developer: David A. Palmer Productions
Fittingly, the weakest film within the saga acquired one of many weakest Star Wars video games ever. Normally we would caveat a press release like that with ‘arguably’, however Episode II actually is inescapably pants for probably the most half (aside from that Yoda bit on the finish — we keep in mind fairly liking that).
The tie-in GBA recreation is a turgid facet-scrolling beat ’em up that lacks the inventive polish even the dullest Star Wars video games deliver to the desk. Coarse, tough, and worsening, certainly.
Publisher: THQ / Developer: LucasArts
You should do not forget that whereas Yoda is a beloved character, this recreation got here earlier than we would ever seen him wield a lightsaber in what is definitely the very best scene in Attack of the Clones. Despite the title, in Yoda Stories you management Luke Skywalker in a prime-down journey as he chops snakes in two together with his laser sword. How dangerous can that be?…
Really fairly dangerous, it seems. ‘Sedate’ is just too beneficiant a phrase, and the entire recreation is a technical embarrassment. It’s tempting accountable the {hardware}, however you then take a look at Link’s Awakening and see what may need been. Link’s Awakening this ain’t. Poodoo, plain and easy.
Publisher: Ubisoft / Developer: Ubisoft
A Ubisoft facet-scroller, Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force positive seemed spectacular. It used the identical engine because the console’s port of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, with easy animation and 3D-type character fashions. Giving gamers the possibility to relive the unique trilogy anew, bland gameplay was as soon as once more its undoing. Totally vanilla, completely underwhelming, however might’ve been worse.
Publisher: THQ / Developer: HotGen
Another one fast to tick the ‘uninteresting’ and ‘repetitive’ packing containers, when you assume the isometric adventures on the GBA have been powerful happening the eyes, Obi-Wan’s Adventures takes that type of recreation again a console technology in an ‘journey’ set concurrently towards the occasions of Episode 1. It’s not terrible, simply ugly and completely pedestrian.
Publisher: Activision / Developer: Exient
Angry Birds — keep in mind them? This Star Wars crossover got here out for Wii and 3DS as nicely, and though the comedy of the mash-up won’t be to everybody’s tastes, it is a enjoyable little time sink all the identical. It suffered from being massively overpriced on consoles, however the core Angry Birds gameplay is as enjoyable because it ever was, besides this had TIE Fighters with pig faces. What’s to not like?
Publisher: JVC / Developer: Lucasfilm Games
A comparatively ho-hum 8-bit platformer the place you play as younger Skywalker battling by variations of the places from the film, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back couldn’t be extra common. For youngsters determined to play as hero Luke, it was satisfactory filler however no extra.
A Game Boy model additionally exists, however when you’re gagging to play by the very best movie of the saga in online game type, you are significantly better off going with the 16-bit ‘Super’ iteration. Indeed, LucasArts did not even trouble with an 8-bit Return of the Jedi — the developer merely jumped generations and began afresh with Super Star Wars on the SNES.
Publisher: Ubisoft / Developer: Ubisoft
Another Ubisoft entry, Star Wars: Lethal Alliance put a Twi’lek named Rianna on the duvet, which is about probably the most thrilling factor it has going for this third-particular person shooter. Ditching lightsabers for blasters, the story introduces characters new and previous (Kyle Katarn’s in it) and options the theft of the Death Star plans earlier than Rogue One arrived to wipe the canon clear. With compulsory touchscreen shenanigans as a result of DS, it is not terrible by any means, simply generic.
Star Wars deserves higher, no?
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