Star THE Empire Strikes Back Wars BY JOSEPH PUTNAM-EVANS Game Boy Version Produced by Ubi-soft and Nintendo Table of Contents 1) game story and background 2) initial review of game 3) moves and controls 4) characters, vehicles, and enemies 5) powers and weapons 6) the levels 7) supervillian strategy 8) legal stuff 1) Story It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the rebel forces from their hidden base, and pursued them across the galaxy. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters, led by Luke Skywalker, have established a hidden base, on the remote ice world of Hoth. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding the young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes, into the farthest reaches of space. All credit for this story is given to Lucasarts, for the intro of Star Wars Episode 5, the Empire Strikes Back. 2) Game Review The Empire Strikes Back had a lot to live up to when released for Game Boy. Not only was its predecessor a million seller, but the movie for which it is based has been hailed as one of the best motion pictures ever. I think the game did a good job of living up to the the standards of furious, extremely difficult gameplay, set by Star Wars, and I find it a lot more difficult. However, the complexity and difficulty of the game, make it one of the most rewarding to beat. I would consider this, all in all, the best platform game ever, also. When I got it, there were no internet walkthroughs or published strategy guides, so I was on my own. It took me a year to beat, the most of any game I’ve ever beaten, and two and a half years to beat it with all Jedi powers. I hope to solve that problem for anyone who has this game. The gameplay is fun, and the graphics are great for Gameboy. The only problem is the lack of any kind of non-gameplay scene at all, and the ending is sort of cheap. So Here it is, the first Empire Strikes Back Walkthrough ever! 3) Moves and Controls The first thing any aspiring Jedi needs to know, is the basic moves and controls of the game. The initial controls are very simple, but get more difficult, as you start to use the force more and more often. Below are the controls for the basic moves, and then the vehicle controls, as well as Jedi power controls. A) Basic controls walk or run: To walk or run, simply press the control pad in the direction you wish to go. shoot or swing lightsaber: To shoot or use lightsaber, press the B button. With the blaster, you can fire in up to eight directions, using the control pad. You also have three different lightsaber attacks. If you don’t press anything while swinging, is the same as pressing down, Luke will slash down, and will hit the ground with the tip of his lightsaber. If you hold the side arrows while swinging, Luke will advance forward, while swinging twice. If you hold up while swinging, Luke will slash his saber, and then jab upwards. jump and advanced jump: To perform a standard jump, you press the A button. To perform a high jump, with a flip, Hold down, until Luke flashes, like he has been damaged, and then press A, to perform the advanced jump. B) Force Power controls Jump power controls: to perform a force accelerated jump, arm the force power on your force power screen, by highlighting it and pressing A or B, then press A. Luke will do a jump similar to his advanced jump, but he does not have to warm up, and he goes farther and higher. Speed controls: Simply arm power, and press side to side, and Luke will run about three times as fast as he normally does. Deflection Controls: Just arm power, and Luke will deflect enemy shots, without you pushing buttons. Heal Power: Just arm it, and it does its work. Graphic Eye power: Just arm it, and it is on. Levitation controls: Activate it, and then press up on the directional pad to levitate. Advanced Saber: Just arm it, and your saber becomes much more powerful. Advanced Blaster: Arm it, and your blaster shots do an immense amount of damage. C) Vehicle controls Tauntaun: Okay, it isn’t a vehicle, but the tauntaun is the first thing luke can ride. It’s moves and controls are almost exactly the same as Luke’s, except all the tauntaun’s moves are accelerated versions of Luke’s. Snowspeeder: The snowspeeder can fire it’s high powered laser cannons with the B button, and can accelerate with the side to side controls, and change directions. It can pull up, and dive with the up and down controls. One absolutely crucial control to beating level 2, which is not mentioned in the manual, is the harpoon gun. The select button fires the harpoon, which fires forward, and if it hits a walker’s legs, the walker goes down. X-wing: The X-wing controls are exactly like those of the snowspeeder, except the X-wing can pull up and down infinitely, and goes faster than the speeder. AT-ST: The AT-ST has the same controls as the tauntaun, except the select button self-destructs the walker, so you cannot use it anymore. The cannons fire like shockwaves, which are much more destructive, even than advanced blaster shots. 4) Characters, Vehicles, and enemies. A) characters and supervillians Luke Skywalker: Luke is the central character in the movie and the game, and you play as him the whole course of the game. Luke is an aspiring Jedi, and learns the ways of the force, and is confronted by his own fears, as the course of the game unfolds. Leia Organa: Leia is Luke’s one of Luke’s most loyal allies, and talks to you often over your communicator. In Echo Base, Artoo Deeto will give you messages from her, but you never meet her in person until just before the final battle with Darth Vader. Han Solo: Han is one of Luke’s dearest friends, and has pulled him out of many dangerous situations. Han communicates with you very often, and you never actually see him in the flesh, even though you save him from the carbonite (the low point of this game), which didn’t really happen until Return of the Jedi. Artoo Deeto: Artoo Deeto is the sidekick that helps you most in the game. In the earlier levels, all he does is give you messages, but eventually, he will save your life in Cloud City, by deactivating the defensive beams, which kill on contact. Obi Wan Kenobi: Even after death, Obi Wan does a heck of job of giving you visions of hope in your most desperate times. He also gives you a hint as when your lightsaber is near. Yoda: The Jedi master that trained Obi Wan, is back with all his heavily cliched and corny sayings, but also with the advice of eight hundred years of being a Jedi. He will work your tail off in the Jedi training level. Darth Vader: Darth Vader is a mechanical monster, probably the most memorable character from the movies, who was once an innocent child in episode 1, a restless jedi trainee in episode 2. He is the key character of the entire story, as this once good man is corrupted into a twisted monster, and eventually saved by the prospect of watching his son die an agonizing death, right in front of him. The game doesn’t reveal the best part of the movie, which is when Darth Vader tells Luke that he is his father. Darth Vader is defintely the most difficult villian in the game, not only because he has the force throw power, some awsome lightsaber moves, levitation, and infinite deflection powers, but, get ready, he has five lives! Actually, six, if you count Luke’s dream encounter on Dagobah, which of course is included in the game. Boba Fett: For about the last half of the game, you are pursuing the evil bounty hunter, Boba Fett on Bespin, in search of Han. The final showdown, over the planet Bespin, is understated, but should not have been included, since it never really happened in the movie. B) Vehicles X-Wing: Luke’s fighter, which he uses to take down TIE fighers, Cloud cars, and Boba Fett’s ship. Snowspeeder: Luke’s fast and small fighter in the second level, the snospeeder, has two laser cannons, and a harpoon launcher. AT-ST: The AT-ST is a formidable and fast opponent, until you can take it down, and climb inside. It can walk directly over deadly terrain, and it has lasers powerful enough to take down a probe droid in two hits. AT-AT: The big brother of the AT-ST, you cannot pilot the AT-AT, but it still is a much more dangersous opponent than the scout walker. Slave 1: Boba Fett’s distinctive ship, it has a time mine launcher on the back, and a rapid-firing laser cannon the front. It is easily exploited, though, and I will tell you how, in the walkthrough section. tauntaun: Luke’s first “vehicle,” the tauntaun can jump high, run fast, except it takes lots of damage very quickly. C) Enemies young wampa: The smaller version of the huge ice creature, this small predator lives in the dark cold caves of the ice world of Hoth. adult wampa: This huge creature is about three times the size of a tauntaun, and the same size as an AT-ST. It takes many hits from a lightsaber or blaster to take down this huge beast. Its only weakness is that it won’t usually go right near the edge of ice cliffs, which make a good sniper position. dagbats: These fast creatures can be found on Hoth and Dagobah, and take only one hit, but are hard to pin down. probe droid: these small Imperial droids are lightly armed, but often travel in groups. masterprobe: The masterprobe has several guns, and its legs make formidable clubs in combat. The masterprobe is the key to beating the ice field level. stormtrooper: You first encounter this doggedly persistent opponent, in Echo Base. In the Base, the troopers are wearing snow uniforms, but they wear them the whole game, even in the hellish, hot, and dark carbon freezing facility in cloud city. The trooper has a rapid firing blaster, and can run pretty fast. They also usually work in teams. vine snakes: you encounter vine snakes on Dagobah, and only Dagobah. They hide in knotholes in trees, and they jump out to strike at you. underslugs: These small slugs hunt in pairs on the forest floor of Dagobah, and move very quickly. They are also almost implossible to hit with blaster or lightsaber. elephant slugs: These huge slugs take a while to wear down with a blaster or lightsaber, and jump really fast. small spiders: These easily exploited spiders fall from the canopy of trees, but can only move up and down, and are easy to hit. large spiders: These huge spiders are the most deadly enemy on Dagobah. They run fast, can tear you up with their legs, and they shoot damaging web from their mouths. When you encounter one, you should probably run like heck. mantis: These creatures are slow flyers, but can do some serious damage. The best strategy against them is using advanced blaster. exploding mushrooms: For those of you with the manual, there are no exploding mushrooms. This is taken from the Nintendo version, in which the mushrooms on Dagobah will blast open. This does not happen on Gameboy. TIE Fighters: These small fighters are the signature fighter design of Imperial pilots. They fly fast and fire fast, but can only take one hit. They can only be fought in the Bespin dogfight level. Cloud Cars: The police cars of Bespin’s mining facilities, fire slow, fly fast, work in teams, but do not have any more armor than TIE fighters. They can also only be fought in the Bespin dogfight mission. laser security beams: This is not really an enemy, but it is an invincible wall of flame that kills on contact, and only Artoo Deeto can deactivate them. bounty hunters: These heavily armored minions of Darth Vader roll along the ground, popping up to fire their blasters. They are pretty easy to take down. I will tell how to defeat them as they come up in the walkthrough. bespin guards: These heavily armored guards wear combat suits, with laser cannons in their wrists, which are as powerful as the turrets that stormtroopers operate in Echo Base. stormtrooper gun turrets: These high powered blasters are operated by troopers in Cloud City and Echo Base. Ugnaughts: You do not encounter these small piglike creatures, until the final battle with Darth Vader. They run around in small robes, and throw grenades. 5)Powers and Weapons A) Weapons blaster: The blaster is Luke’s first weapon, and one of only two. It fires quickly, but does not do much damage. lightsaber: The true weapon of a Jedi, this small weapon must be found in the ice caves. It does more than twice the damage of a blaster, and is the only weapon to have an effect on Lord Vader. B) Jedi Powers jump power: This power makes Luke jump higher and farther than normal. speed power: This power makes Luke run extraordinally fast. deflection power: This power deflects enemy laser blasts. Graphic Eye Power: This power, which, in this game’s unconverted NES form, is more aptly named mind control, is very helpful, but eats up tons of force power. It makes you invisible to enemies while your force power holds out. You can walk through them without taking damage, and they usually won’t shoot you. This doesn’t work on Darth Vader. levitation: The most essential power, this makes Luke elevate upwards, endlessly, until his force power drains, that is. heal: This rip off of a force power, completely drains your force energy, to give you full health. This is the only power that has actually led to my death, by robbing me of force energy. advanced blaster: The only power that makes the blaster worth your while against harder bosses, is the advanced blaster power, which magnifies your shots. advanced lightsaber: This power makes your saber to considerably more damage 6) The levels This is where the game really starts. In the missions you will fight for the Rebel Alliance, and start on your path to becoming a Jedi Knight. Before the each level, I will give some info on the level, and a difficulty rating from one to twelve. Mission One, Hoth Ice Fields Difficulty Level: 2 Vehicles: tauntaun enemies: probe droids, dagbats, and wampas. force powers: advanced jump, speed, and deflection music: Obi-Wan Kenobi theme allies: none (except Obi-Wan, who is only there in spirit) You start out riding your tauntaun. You should continue across the fields, and recieve a message from Han. Take out the probe that you encounter, and continue, until you reach the cave entrance. Continue right in the cave, and keep from falling through the thin ice. Stay high up in the cave, until you reach the wall. You will reach a ledge, or you may already be on top of if. Jump up and dismount the tauntan, and get on the small rock, and use it to jump up to the small entrance. Climb up and fight the small wampas, and claim your lightsaber. Go back and get on your tauntaun, and fall down to the bottom of the cave. Ride the floating chunks of ice to the left, and when you reach the wall, shoot the hanging ice blocks, to form a sort of stairs, then dismount your tauntaun, and jump so you can get up to the ledge the cubes are hanging from. Go right from there, jump the pit, to claim the advanced jump power. When you collect it, Obi-Wan gives you a mysterious message, to go to Dagobah. Go back down, and mount your tauntaun. You can shoot through the left wall, and go through a large facility, fighting a few large wampas, to claim your speed force power, but I don’t really think it is worth it. Go back on the floating ice, and go back to where you came down to the frozen water. Bust through the ice blocks, to fight a few small probes, and take the ice platforms to an island where there is a ledge. Jump from the ice columns, until you reach the top. About the middle of the climb, on the left, there is a force recharge. When you reach the top, you fight another large wampa. To defeat it, just stand on the edge of the cliff, where the wampa will not go, and shoot or slash it until it goes down. Go right alont the field where the wampa attacked. Jump up to the ledge, and you will be back in the open. Fight the probes, and you will recieve a message from Han telling you to destroy the probe. Go right, and drop down in the cave. Go down as far as you can, until you reach a small tunnel. Go down it, or go up for some recharges, in case you are running low on force or health. Jump off the ledge at the end of the tunnel. Destroy the probe, then arm your jump power. Run at the ledge you fell down to, and jump. You will land on an ice column. Repeat this, fighting bats and probes, until you reach a climb. You can go down and keep going right, for some risky jumps, and the deflection force power or go up. I reccommend going up. Go up and go along the ice plateu, and do a charged jump off the end. You can fight a wampa, or you can shoot out a few of the cubes of ice, to the farthest right the wampa will chase you. Climb up, and go up through a tunnel again, and prepare to fight the masterprobe. Strategy is discussed in the next section, but this thing is not to hard to take down. Once it goes up in smoke, continue up onto the ice fields, and the level is automatically complete! Mission 2, Battle of Hoth Difficulty Level: 2 vehicles: Snowspeeder enemies: AT-ATs, and stormtroopers force powers: none music: Star Wars theme allies: none You Start out being launched from Echo Base, past the Sheild Generator. Accelerate right, toward the first walker. Aim at its legs, and fire a harpoon. The walker will go down, and repeat this on the next two walkers, until you are out of harpoons. Then you can continue fighting the walkers in the air, or crash your speeder, and continue on foot. When on foot, run underneath a walker, and hold A and press up, and Luke will use his grappling hook and detonator to destroy the walker. Once all the walkers are gone, it’s on to Echo Base. Mission 3, Escape from Echo Base Difficulty level: 4 Vehicles: AT-ST Enemies: stormtroopers, turrets, probe droids, masterprobes, and AT-ST’s force powers: advanced lightsaber, advanced lightsaber, and speed music: Princess Leia theme allies: R2-D2 You begin the level right near artoo deeto. Walk up to him, and he will play a message from Leia, telling you that there are stormtroopers in the base. Continue to the right, and climb up the ladder. Shoot the stormtroopers that you see, from the ladder, so they can’t hit you. Jump up from the ladder, to the right, and continue that way. You will encounter several places where there is a ladder leading down, and another floor to jump right to, that will be paralell to the one you are on. Jump to the right at these floors, until you reach an area where the only way you can go is down. Go on down the ladder, and meet Mr. AT-ST. You can just ignore the AT-ST, and run right, and jump up on the ledge, or take out the AT-ST, which is a waste of time, because you cannot use it, except on one floor. Once you are up on the ledge to the right of the AT-ST, climb up until you reach a ladder. Climb up and go to the left. Jump the pit of electricity or fire (you can’t tell with these graphics), and you will see some stairs (except they’re real big). Go up them, to get the advanced lightsaber power. When you pick up that power, Obi-Wan gives you another mysterious message about Yoda and Dagobah (who the heck is Yoda? That would be what Luke thinks at this point in the game). Go back down and retrace your steps back to the start of the level. When you are there, go to the ladder, but don’t climb it. Continue right, and follow the tunnel, avoiding the electrified floor, until you reach a ladder. Go down it, and Han gives you a message about an abandoned AT-ST. You will see it, a bit to your left. Get in it with the A button. Go right in your AT-ST. Until you reach some moving platforms. Go up them in the AT-ST. When you reach the top, go right. You can’t climb the ladder you encounter in your AT-ST, so ignore it for now. Go right, and you will reach some small spikes with wheels, that have a spike bouncing form them. Shoot the bouncing spike. There are three of them, and you need to destroy them. When you do, go back to the ladder, and exit the AT-ST with the select button. Climb the ladder, and use the moving platforms to go right. Once there, you see R2-D2. Leia, will give you a message, telling you not to cross the wreckage on foot. Climb the ladder, and go left. When you reach the end of the tunnel, go up and right. You will come to a place where there are blocks that you can shoot out on your left, and an AT-ST on your right. If you go left you can get force speed. If you do that, come back and defeat the AT-ST. Board it, and go back to R2-D2, and cross the wreckage. Don’t worry, you’re almost there. Once you get off the wreckage, eject from the AT-ST, and jump up on the ledge. Up farther, there are a few power-ups, and a dead, end, so get them, and then go down. Climb down the ladder, and take out the turret operating stormtrooper. Get on the ladder behind him, and go almost halfway down it, and you will see several ice platforms. Jump on to the one nearest, and jump across them to your left. When you reach a ledge from the last one, you will be in a large cavern. Go down the stairs, and get on the ladder. Down at the bottom, will be a stormtrooper on a turret, guarding, is that really, yes it is, the advanced blaster force power. Get it, and go back to the ladder that you got off in the middle. Go down, it, and take out the stormtroopers. Climb up the next ladder you see, and make your way to another ladder going up. Once you reach the top of this ladder, a masterprobe will attack you. Just go a bit down the ladder, so the probe can’t grab you, and just fire up constantly, until the probe is gone. When you reach the top of the ladder, go left, and get the force power, but don’t step on the wreckage. Go back and jump the ladder to the right. Jump the huge wreckage pit, and here is the final Echo Base Boss. Just another AT-ST. Use your advanced blaster of lightsaber, and take it down. Then go to the right, and you did it, you beat one of the longest levels in the whole game. It’s now time for Luke’s training. Mission 4, Dagobah Difficulty Level: 4 Vehicles: none Enemies: dagbats, elephant slugs, underslugs, vine snakes, small spiders, large spiders, and mantis’s force powers: none music: star wars theme allies: Yoda This mission begins with Luke saying all he has to do is find this Yoda, if he actually exists. Go to the left. Then you come to a ledge, watch for the underslugs to pass underneath you, and then chase them. Jump them when they turn around, and go up on the ledge to the left. Climb up the ledges, and get to a ladder, that leads you to a bunch of ledges, with ladders between them. Go the last one, and go down it. If you go down the wrong one, you will get attacked by an elephant slug. Use your advanced weapon powers on it, or you’re dead. When you go down the last one, you will get some health, and then you will reach a place, almost exactly like the start of the level. Arm your jump force power, and jump the giant spider. Jump up on the left, and run from the spider. In a knothole near here is a vine snake, so be careful. When you reach a ladder, climb it, and jump from it. Climb up to the right. You will reach a swinging vine. Grab onto it, and jump from the end. If you land on the top of the ledge, you will have to jump a lot of under slugs, to get up onto the ladder. If you miss the top ledge, you will land on a cave. Climb the vine, firing up to take down the dagbat. When you are on the ladder, climb up it, and you will reach some really tall trees. Climb them, and go to the right as much as you can. When you reach a really long limb, superjump off the end. Repeat this process, and you will eventually reach another tree. When you get on the first limb, you will fight a mantis. Shoot it until this dude goes down. When He’s down, climb up, and try to catch the swinging vine. This is pretty hard. When you make it, just do some superjumping off the ledges you come to another tree. Climb up a little ways, but don’t go yet. Jump up to the little branch which is a little left and straight up. From here, you can see, and jump to the graphic eye force power. After a few more jumps, you should find the little dude, with the wisdom of eight-hundred years of being a jedi master. Mission 5, Jedi Training Difficulty Level: 7 Vehicles: none Enemies: Same as Dagobah, except one additional enemy, Darth Vader! Force Powers: Heal, Levitation, Deflection, And Graphic Eye. Music: Star Wars Theme Allies: Yoda This is the first really hard level. There are three different stages, lots of difficult enemies, the first force-required obstacles, and Darth Vader, in the vision encounter. You begin standing on the forest floor. Run right, and talk to Yoda. He will tell you to cross the swamp, and feel the force around you. He will be standing next to swamp water. As a floating platform floats up, jump on it. Get ready to superjump. On the ledge that the platform goes to are several underslugs. Jump right when they are on your side, so they are gone by the time you land. Go right, not up. When you reach another swamp, get ready, this one is really hard. Jump onto the first moving platform, and then jump to the next. As soon as you land on the second one, arm your superjump force power. The platform will come to a ledge with a mantis and two or three underslugs. As soon as you see the head of the mantis, superjump to the right. The underslugs should be on the other side. Jump the underslugs, and jump to the ledge above this one. Take a breather, if you made it, you deserve it! When you’re ready, jump onto the platform a little ways above you. The vine ladder is being guarded by a vine snake. You can take a chance, and superjump as high as you can, and grab the ladder, or you can shoot out the snake, be careful, it’s a tricky shot. Go up the ladder, and cross the small cave, shooting out the small spiders. Go down the ladder you come to, and get the health, you’ll need it. As you continue right, the screen will turn black, and you will start in another cave. Continue right, and you will drop down. Get ready to jump. A big spider will attack you. You should super jump it, and run. Make your way to a series of vine ladders. Climb up them, and there will be a tricky jump to a cave entrance on the right. A useful hint for superjumping from ladders, is to arm your lightsaber, and hold down while swinging. Luke will begin flashing, and you can do a charged jump. This is necessary for this part. You will come to a pit on the floor. If you fall down it, you will face a huge spider, which you have to take down. The prize, levitation, the most important force power. If you choose to jump the pit, there is another opportunity in this level for levitation. Take the spider out with advanced blaster, and claim your power. Use your new power to get out of the pit. To the left of the pit are some small trees. If you get them, you can talk to yoda, and then you can go through a small complex of enclosed caves with underslugs, to get heal force power. This power is a rip off, and you do not get a better ending for having all power, I checked, so it’s up to you if you want to get it. Go back to the pit, and cross it. You should reach a point where the screen turns black, just as before. You will have to get through some mushroom complexes, and do some fancy jumps, and you will reach Yoda. He will tell you something like the force can overcome any obstacle. Go right, and prepare to meet the dark lord Darth Vader! He has deflection and the lightsaber moves, but he will not levitate or throw any stuff at you, like in Cloud City. Remember, this is just a vision, for Luke, but it of course is necessary to complete the game. You can take down Vader right there, but I would not reccommend it. Do as much damage with your advanced lightsaber, and then fall down the pit to the left of Yoda. Down there are a few enemies, one giant spider, and three Jedi powers. However, none are new, if you have gotten all the previously available powers. Yoda will tell you that the force can overcome any obstacle, and he’s right. You have to use the force to get back to Vader. If you lose force power, you’ll have to commit suicide. Go down and jump to the right. In a cave high up on the right there is the deflection force power in its second appearance, guarded by two or three small spiders. Drop down, and go down the ladder, and go left, to get the levitation force power, guarded by dagbats. Then go right, but don’t go into the final room in the right. Levitate up to the ceiling, and enter the room. If you didn’t, a giant spider will kill you. Go up to the small platfrom near the ceiling of the large cavern. Here is the graphic eye power. Get on the ladder, and start to go down. Go down until you see the spider directly below you. Fire down constantly, until you take it down. Now go back up to the place where you fell down after seeing Darth Vader. Levitate up, and drop down on Darth Vader’s right. Fight him and take him down with the advanced lightsaber. When he goes down, he will only give you a small heart. Go right, and jump any pits you come to. You will soon get a message from Leia through the force, like in the movie. “Luke, help us!” Is all she says. You are pretty much done. You will have to fight some small spiders. When you go far enough, you will see Yoda up on a ledge. Descend the stairs to him, and talk to him. He will tell you that you have learned much. He will then tell you to rescue your friends on Cloud City, but beware the dark side of the force, fore you are not a jedi yet. Mission 6, Bespin Difficulty Level: 1 Vehicles: X-wing enemies: cloud cars and TIE fighters force powers: none music: Star Wars theme allies: none I guess the programmers decided that you deserved a break after your Jedi training, so they gave you this level. It is the easiest level in the whole game. All you do is fight cloud cars and TIE fighters over Bespin. Once you destroy ten of each, you are to Cloud City, one of the hardest levels. Mission 7, Cloud City Difficulty Level: 10 Vehicles: AT-ST enemies: Bespin guards, probe droids, stormtroopers, stormtrooper turrets, AT-ST’s, and Boba Fett. force powers: none music: Darth Vader theme, or Imperial march allies: Lando Calrissian and Artoo-Deeto This is a big change from the forests of Dagobah. Welcome to metal hell! This is your introduction to the instantly lethal obstacle. There are two here. The molten floor, the easier one, and then there is the laser beam. The level starts on the docking bay of Cloud City. Run right, and fight two probes. Takes you back to the ice fields, doesn’t it? Keep going, and you will come to the molten floor. You will recognize it, don’t worry. Jump it, and run across the conveyer belt. Lando is standing on the end. Talk to him, and he will tell you that artoo will deactivate the laser beams for a short time, and he means short. Climb the ladder behind Lando. You will now see the laser beams of death. Watch artoo as he makes his way through them. The split-second that he is in the laser beam’s field it will be inactive. You will have to run through with him. Don’t worry, it takes lots of practice, and this is the only level in which you will have to do this. Go right, and you will have to go through about five laser beams. There will be a stormtrooper at the end of the beams. Take them down, and run right. Fall down, and Leia will tell you, through the force that bounty hunters are everywhere, and she is dead right. Go right through the lasers, and meet, the bounty hunter, or so he is called in the game. Stand next to the beams, but don’t feel like you need to get too close. Shoot right, and The bounty Hunter will roll at you, and fire several shots in the other direction. Kinda stupid. Reminds you of the stormtroopers in Star Wars the original for game boy and game gear. Just keep shooting right, and he will eventually go down, without causing you any damage. When he goes down, he will give you a health/force powerup, which is new, and is one of the few good things that comes with being in the high levels. Climb up the ladder you come to on the right after the bounty hunter. Go through some laser beams, and meet a Bespin Guard. These dudes are well trained, and wearing full body armor. Make sure to do a superjump over him, and then you can run, or take him down from the conveyer belt. I’d recommend taking him down. The deflection force power is great on these dudes. You will have to repeat this as you make your way right. The one thing about Besping guards, at least in this level, is they won’t go on conveyer belts. After the guards are down, you will come to a ledge. Jump from it, and you will land behind a stormtrooper turret. Take him out, and drop down between the two ledges. You can go left for some power-ups, and then drop down betseen the platforms you’re on. You want to drop down on the farthest right of middle hole, but not the left. Drop down on the left, and climb the ladder. You will probably be able to go over the laser beams, and if you can’t jump all of them, levitate. Once you’re past them, you can fight an AT-ST. Take it out, but the most crucial thing, is that you save lots of force power, but you can take lots of health damage, because before Boba Fett, there is health, but not force. Get in the AT-ST, and go back to where you met the Bespin guard. The AT-ST can go right through the laser beams without taking any damage. The moving platforms will help you, because the walker can not jump too high. Go all the way back to where you met the bounty hunter. Instead of trying to go up, go left, through the beams that Artoo-Deeto would not deactivate. Keep going left. You can soon drop down. Some troopers attack you. Shoot them, and run right through the beams. You will eventually come to a conveyer at the end of the beams, with a health on it. Make sure to jump it on the AT-ST. If you pick it up, you can still probably beat Boba Fett. Drop down and take down the two guards. Then eject the AT-ST. Go back up to the conveyer belt, levitate if necessary, and get the health. But make sure you have some force power. Go back down to where you fought the guards, and there is a ladder. Climb it, and go across some conveyer belts, jump a molten floor. Strategy for taking him down is in villian strategy. Once he’s down, it’s on to the X-wing. Mission 8, Pursuit of Boba Fett Difficulty Level: 2 Vehicles: X-wing enemies: Boba Fett’s Slave 1 force power: none music: Star Wars theme allies: none This level is pretty easy. It is in the same setting as the Bespin level. Look for Boba Fett, and when you find him, get behind him. Pull up so you are parallel with the cockpit of his ship. Just keep shooting. The bottom of his ship will launch mines, but they don’t lock on. You will go faster than him, so you will have to double back some, but he is pretty easy to take out. Mission 9, Return to Cloud City Difficulty Level: 6 vehicles: none enemies: Bespin guards and Bounty Hunters. force powers: levitation allies: Princess Leia This level is a bit of a break from Cloud City. It is not nearly as hard, even though every enemy has a screen-presented health meter. The good thing is there aren’t many enemies. The weirdest thing, is that this, and the first level, are the only levels that I’ve never gotten a game over on. You start on a docking platform, much like the one in the first cloud city. Go right, and drop down a bit. Go right, and you will have to jump a molten pit and fight a stormtrooper in a turret. When you reach the right wall, levitate up. Go to the left once you’re up, and two bespin guards will come at you from your right. Use the ledge you’re on as a sniper post. Once the guards are down, go right, and drop down on the last chance you get. If you go down the first pit, you will have to fight a bounty hunter, for a health pack. Go down, and you will come to a place where you drop down, onto a conveyer belt, and if you advance, you will be mobbed by two guards. Take them down with your advanced blaster. Climb the ladder behind them, and get some power-ups. Go back down, and go right. You notice you are going down the whole time. This is for a reason. The carbon facility is deep within cloud city, where Vader waits. You will drop down onto another platform, and fight an AT-ST. You are almost there. Go left after taking out the AT-ST, and Obi-Wan will tell you to use the force. Jump the molten pit, and go across the conveyer belt. A guard will attack you. You can either jump him and run, or go double back right, and cross the pit. He won’t cross it, and you can shoot him across it. Go back and cross the conveyer belt. There will be some more Bespin Guards, but you can levitate over them. You will have to drop down, and then go left, levitating over some laser beams. After the last one, a bounty hunter will come after you. He will push you into the laser beams, so don’t hang around to fight him. Levitate up to the ceiling, and go left. When you reach a platform, get on it. Go left, and you can look up and see Leia. Jump up to her. If you miss the jump, you will die, and start the level over. Now for the most fateful battle in all the Star Wars movies, Darth Vader! Mission 10, Darth Vader Difficulty Level: 12 vehicles: none enemies: stormtroopers, ugnaughts, and Darth Vader force powers: none allies: none music: Darth Vader theme You are finally to the battle of destiny and fear that Luke must survive to complete his journey to become a Jedi. Luke’s friends are safe, but now Luke must go alone to fight his own personal enemy, and the fear inside him, the dark lord Darth Vader. You start on a pile of crates. Run to the right, because ugnaughts are coming from behind. You can now see a new obstacle, the spikes. Unlike in Star Wars, the original, they kill on contact. Jump up to the pulley that’s going up and down. Jump right from it, run and drop down. Get the force power-up up on your right. You will land on a thing that looks like a lightning rod. Run left on it, and go down the ladder you come to. The first platform on your left, get on it and go left. Now it’s time to meet your daddy! He comes at you swinging with his long black lightsaber. Arm your advanced lightsaber, and swing it at him. There is no health meter or boss music, how strange! Jump to the ladder, which he will push you onto, go down a bit, and slash at him from there. He will go down with this wierd ecliptical explosion, and then he will say that famous line: “Impressive.” Now get the health/force that he gives you. Go left, and go past the first ledge. Go to the left wall, and there will be a platform a ways up. Levitate up, and go up to the ladder. Go to a platform with a pole coming out of it. Levitate from there onto the platform on your left. Darth Vader comes at you from the left. Use your advanced saber, and do as much damage as possible. He will probably push you off. When you fall, levitate right on up, and use your advanced saber. When he’s down, go left, and climb the pylons, up to a ledge with full force and health power. Go back down to the ledge where Vader was, and Levitate up, and to the left. Get on the ledge, and you will probably have to fight some stormtroopers. Go left, and get on the huge metal columns. Drop down a few levels and he will levitate up. This is where Vader uses his second to last Jedi power, levitation, duh. He will go up and down, and swing. Only two hits will take him out. Go left along the columns, and levitate when necessary. This is the hardest part of the level. You will have to go through the entire Bespin Carbon Freezing Facility, which is huge, dark, guarded by stormtroopers and ugnaughts, and the floor is spiked, so you will have to stay on the catwalks. On the left wall, go up, and then go left along about five or six catwalks. The first and second have ugnaughts, the third has stormtroopers, then you will have to go up a bit. Remember the swinging vines on Dagobah, Well you have to use those in this level. They will connect the catwalks. If you miss one, then just levitate. After the last catwalk, you will land on one of those rods like at the start of the level. Go left, and go down the ladder. Arm your lightsaber, about half-way down, and swing it while climbing down. This will charge your jump. Jump right, and you will land in a dark metallic cave. You will come to a pit. You can levitate up to get some powerups, which are guarded by stormtroopers, or just drop down. Then go down through some levels with power-ups, and fight some stormtroopers. Go right, and Yoda will tell you to use the force. He’s dang right. Levitate up, through the vertical cave. The exit is on the right, after a little while. You can keep levitating, and go left, and shoot the stormtroopers. On the left is an item which is not pictured in the manual. It is the supposedly non-existant extra continue. It looks like little luke inside a box. Go back down to the exit from the vertical chamber. Go left, and climb every ladder you come to. After two ladders, Do an advanced jump from the ledge you are on. Vader will be coming up behind you. You can outrun him easily. You will now come to the Cloud City ventilation catwalk, the final part of the movie. Stand on the catwalk, but Vader will not follow. He will stay inside the cave. Stand on the catwalk and swing at him. You can take him down without taking any damage at all. If you are suicidal, and want to see something really cool, don’t take down Vader in the cave. If you want to finish the game on this continue, DO NOT TRY THIS. Leave Vader, and go right. Vader will be waiting for you. In his final stage, he will follow you back into the cave. If you left the fourth Vader, they will both attack you from either sides. Two Vaders. That’s enough to make Mike Alstott sleep with a night-light. I have never done this and survived. If you want to live and get out of here, take out Vader, and go right along the fateful catwalk. Jump the missing sections. On the third part of the catwalk, you can see the weather antennae where Luke lost his hand in the movie. Some junk will come flying at you through the air. Duck under it. It should be only two peices, and get ready to take down the Dark Lord. Now you will hear the boss music, and see a health meter. If you read the next section, I will tell you the strategy for taking down this final villian, and completing the game. When Vader’s out, the level is automatically complete. I won’t ruin the ending for anyone who wants to earn it on their own, but I will tell you a bit. When Vader is down to one health, Luke freezes in place, and the music continues. It keeps Luke in the exact lightsaber stance he was in, and Darth Vader throws his lightsaber skyward, and jumps. He falls right down off the screen, and the game is complete. Great job, for anyone who gets this. If you have, you can say you’ve beaten one of the, if not the hardest game ever made. If you want me to spoil the ending for you, or have any other questions, email me at 4mimijim@directvinternet.com 7) Supervillian strategy A) the villians The three dudes I would consider really worthy supervillians in this game, are the masterprobe, Boba Fett, and of course, Darth Vader. I have arranged the strategy from the easiest villian to the most difficult. 1) Masterprobe In your ice cave encounter with the masterprobe, you have to move around some to take him out. I like to arm my lightsaber, and run to the right wall. Wait for him to swoop down, and stand right where you’re just out of range of his legs when he dives. From there just swing whenever he dives. If he fires at you just jump the shots. That’s pretty much it. 2) Boba Fett This dude is also pretty easy, but getting to him’s the trick. Once you reach him and hear the boss music, arm your advanced blaster. Don’t drop down into the pit where he drops detonators. Just shoot him when he flies by, and after about three passes, he’s down. Suprisingly easy, wasn’t it. 3) Darth Vader Here’s the villian that more than makes up for all the weaknesses of the villians you’ve fought. When you go along the catwalk, jump the missing sections, and on the third section of the catwalk. Duck under the pieces of metal that he throws at you with the force. Here he uses all his Jedi powers. Levitation, over the missing sections of the catwalk. He deflects any blaster shots you fire, and the one you can’t get, force throw. After you duck the junk, get ready to meet the dark lord himself. You will hear the boss intro, and see his health, as he walks onto the screen. There are two methods. Each of which works pretty well. In the middle of his catwalk secion, there are three columns. You can stand on one and take swings at him from there. The other method, which is probably easier, is to arm your advanced saber, and just run along the catwalk hitting him. If he pushes you off the catwalk, don’t think the falcon is going to pick you up like in the movie. I’ve explored every inch of this final arena. The only way out is to take down this dude. As you’re falling levitate back up, and keep causing him damage. Once he’s down to one health he jumps, and the game is over. Congratulations, on a job well done. 8) Legal Stuff This walkthrough was written by me, Joseph Putnam-Evans with no assistance. This game was made by Lucasfilm games and JVC, licensed by Nintendo, and converted from the NES to Gameboy by UbiSoft Inc. All characters and situations in Star Wars are property of Lucasfilm Ltd.