Lego Star Wars On The GBA Is Weird 

My experience of this game was finding it in an empty school locker in the 5th grade and thinking that it was crazy that it let you massacre the sand people tribe. What a time to be alive.

I actually bought Lego Star Wars 2 for the DS recently because of your review and honestly Im enjoying it. I do believe I have the patched version because many of the bugs you mentioned arent in the game but other than that the weirdness of it gives it its own charm. Holy crap though the Hoth battle's skybox draw distance is horrible

You can break the Maul fight by tricking him into getting stuck on the hole in the center and using your lightsaber throw. I felt so clever figuring that our as a kid.

Great videos! 😊 neat history

This thing was a goddamn miserable time.... I was so disappointed when I tried it, I never finished it

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the unlockable Baby Rancor. That has to be the weirdest character in the entire LEGO Star Wars series!

Always found it weird how they used the wrong versions of characters for episodes

Episode I Obi-Wan fighting Episode II Anakin on Mustafar is so delightfully cursed.

It's hilarious how the final duel is a duel between Padawans 😂

its funny that you actually get to massacre the tuskens

Funny you mention levels leaving out important parts of the story, because the Skywalker Saga levels do too. How regressive.

Litterally one of the first games i ever owned, before seeing any star wars films it was quite a weird trip with no idea what the story was about. Sunk 100s of hours in and had all the cheat codes written down

The "cheat codes" for this game were fun. The ones I always used changed the lightsaber color to black or yellow, or let you play as a character not on the free play roster like General Grievous or a battle droid on a speeder.

Omg seeing the kashyyk level with yoda brings back some really frustrating memories I swear I remember that level being so hard for no reason

Bro sounds like Hank Hill.

This is one of the first video games I ever beat 100%. Played it a ton in the car when I was like 5-6 years old

This was my first lego star wars game. I remember darth vader was 25000 studs to unlock and it took me so long to get him.

This was how I found out that Anakin is Darth Vader

This was actually one of the first ever video games I owned as a kid. I easily sunk at least 50 hours into it. Eventually I played the regular version when I finally got a ps2 but this one has a special place in my heart. I also think the gba port of lego star wars 2 is a vast improvement to this one, I recommend checking it out! I think its done by the same studio too.

I think it's interesting how R4-P17 is incorporated into the Utapau missions alongside Obi-Wan, even though in terms of the movies, R4 was destroyed by the Buzz Droids in the Battle of Coruscant. But I guess it makes sense since they didn't wanna implement whatever other Astromech Droid Obi-Wan had for Utapau (I believe R3 something) since R4 was more well known anyways.

Fun fact: there are cheat codes that allow you to play as other characters, change your lightsaber color, and view all cutscenes.

This and the sequel on the GBA were my first Lego games. I emulated it years ago. I found this one really boring years ago, but it was fun enough for me to finish all of the episodes. I do remember the sequel being better in every way.

This was a gba game I played a ton as a kid, I really wanted it and still have my original copy, the oldest game from childhood I still have. I was bummed it didn’t have vehicle missions but I still enjoyed playing it. Never liked the isometric camera angle though as it made some platforming difficult. Nowadays I find it hard to go back to, but I still like having the game around

Not only was this my 1st Lego game this was also my 1st star wars game. And from there on I became hooked on star wars games. My 7 year old brain thought this was the greatest game ever until the OT came out and then eventually TCS on DS 😅

Lego Star Wars 2 on gba was a weird one. Would be a good video

I never finished this game. I was recording parts parts for a Let's Play, but only made it to chapter 2 of Episode III. I think my biggest frustrations have to do with the parts where you controlled R2-D2. Those sections were brutal. Some info on Griptonite. They were an independent developer studio that was absorbed by Amaze in 2006. Amaze would then be acquired by Foundation 9. Foundation 9 reinstated Griptonite Games in 2008, and Amaze merged with them in 2009. In 2011, they were sold to Glu Mobile, which was bought by EA in 2021. Whether or not the studio is still around is unknown to me.

It shouldn't really be due to GBA limitations that characters only use one sprite. Like, these should be stored in read-only memory, and a GBA cartridge should have plenty of room to contain hundreds of sprites like these, even if they come with enough frames to support several different smooth animations. I think it's more likely that the budget wasn't there. Likewise, some of these cutscenes seem to use images that only enable one 16-colour palette to be used per 8x8 tile. GBA has a 256-colour mode which allows you to pick from that many colours for each pixel allowing for far higher quality images. The person who implemented these images might have not known about it. GBA is far less limited than people might think. This game just doesn't come close to the limits that GBA does have.

I saw this game in the skill crane type of machines, and I always wondered "how will they fit a 3D action game fit in a GBA?"

I love this video cause I like hearing other people talk about LEGO games, and yeah Yoda laugh is weird

11:37 fun fact: these animations are in he console versions of lsw1 and were supposed to be the death animations, you can see them being used in prototype footage

Having this game for my 9th birthday, purchasing the strategy guide for what turned out to be the console version was my first real experience with the differences in ports - “What do you mean jar jar can’t attack? Yes he can” “What do you mean the blue stud is the most valuable?” “What do you mean there’s more than 15 characters?”

OHMYGOD YODAS LAUGH MADE ME SPIT OUT MY DRINK

I loved this game. Spent many hours and yes, years playing it over and over. Thank you for the nostalgia… love your channel!!

Have very vague memories of the old hand held Lego games and I remember how weird they were.

The AI is so funny and bad in this game

Loved this game so much as a kid. Thought it was cool how it covered different material than the console version, especially the fact they rendered a few new "cut scenes"

Recall this was the first version of the OG Game I could play at the time because I recall when it was being promoted, it was only available on PS2, Xbox and GBA, but not Gamecube until I think a while later. One of the fondest memories O had was playing the Utapau stage and finding out that General Grievous was being recognized as canon in the main films. My mind was blown, because I thought it wasn't possible. And yeah, every characer only haveing one model was weird to me, especially because in Episode 3, you have Episode 1 Obi-Wan fighting againstvEpisode 2 Anakin in Mustafar. Weird choice they did, but was neat.

The first game I ever owned. Still have it to this day, save and all. It was so unbelievably fun for nine year old me to play. Fuck the haters, I loved this game.

It definitely played better than any of the GBA ports by Destination Software/DSI Games.

This game was a favorite among my brothers and friends. There was something about isometric movie tie-in games, like this, the second Lego Star Wars, and the Narnia game (which you could play through the entirety of with your friend!) Replaying this game reminds me of when Episode III came out and light-up lightsaber minifigs were the rage

It was cool to see how the levels were laid out on different platforms, but some didn't work that well...

I grew up owning this version of the game and I love it and have fond memories of it, I’ll never forget the feeling when I beat it 100% I still have it somewhere around my room.

There are so many interesting little quirks that I can't help but love it.

Ive beaten GBA ver on mobile and ive not suffered as much as that time

I remember having this as a kid. It was tedious as hell. lego star wars 2 was significantly better

11:49 since no one asked, the little lightsaber that gives your dude an orange aura is a damage boost (you can jump slash to 1-shot the turrets!), the green arrow is a speed boost, and the yellow heart is invincibility. I remember the cheat codes did some crazy things too. This game was my jam as a 7 year old.

I had this game as a kid, and I played the heck out of it.

I had this game as a kid but cannot for the life of me remember anything about it beyond Anakin running around murdering sand people and not knowing how to progress beyond that.

You sound like hank hill

I can't bring myself to hate this game, it was bizarre but I didn't mind the weird quirks it had, I don't really have a justification or explanation.

Man I loved this game so much. I 100% it more times than I can remember.

i remember playing the gba versions on 8bbit's gba website (cant remember the name rn) when i was 10

i loved this game, lego star wars for DS was really wired

I dont get it why they did a game for GBA when DS was out

also this is more related to lsw2 gba than lsw1 but i remember there being a youtube channel called pingblinggames and i think that's where i found out about the gba versions, channel's been gone since but i remember the pfp being either a character from the matrix with a warped mouth or gabe newell with sunglasses and a warped mouth

When i reed GBA, the first thing that came to my head was song by FGFC820 titled G.B.A. (probably shortcut for God Bless America)

3:44 wth are those super battle droids green, i guess shrek spit on them

Wow. This brings back memories. I think this might be the first game I ever owned.

Growing up, the GBA sp was the only "console" I had. This game was one of my favorites, and I'd play it time and time again- funnily enough, I never noticed the complete lack of space battles nor the fact that characters had the same visual design as in other episodes. One thing I loathed though, was Kashyyk. Yoda was SO SLOW!! The boss battles were easy once my brother and I figured out we could cheese em by using the jump attack constantly 😂 Playing as Maul for the first time is my favorite memory from this game!

This game looks like it was incredibly hard to make

I remember going to the store to get Star Wars Episode 3 for the GBA, but my mom told me I couldn't since it looked "too violent". Was really weird since I had Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PS2) at home, but apparently that GBA game was too much to handle? Instead she said I could get the this lego one instead. It was just alright. Not great, not terrible.

I used to wonder about Qui-Gon's seemingly random special ability until I was rewatching TPM and realized he's actually doing a Jedi mind trick.

I love the textures they used in this game, I think the aesthetic is so cool

This was the first Lego Star Wars game I ever played. Got it in a weird way; during a field trip I swapped my copy of the Spongebob Movie GBA game (which was genuinely great, made by Wayforward) for his copy of this, and we forgot to swap back so uh, whoops. Ended up getting the GBA Lego Star Wars II later that same year which made the first one feel like some alien bootleg by comparison lmao

I actually have this game! I could never get beat it because I sucked at combat loll

I don't know what gameplay you showed here, but my Lego Star Wars (GBA) looked way better than this. (It was all just in my memory, nostalgia did that)

I remember having this and playing it on 1 of the 1st Nintendo dsi models, especially remember the tusken slaughtering part.. Not sure if it was that small square Nintendo game or a Gameboy cartridge since the dsi could fit both

One of my earliest memories is getting my hands on my older brother's GBA and erasing his save file for either this game or lsw2. I believe I was about two years old at the time. To this day I have no idea how or why I did it.

I remember playing the Xbox version as a kid and when I saw the gba version I was so excited I had it bought for me, just to be so confused as to why it didn’t look and play like the console version, being around 5 was fun 😂

This was one of the first GBA games I ever played, maybe one of the first games as a whole. I definitely didn't get through much though, curse my DS Lite's broken L button.

What do you mean handhelds WERE popular...my Switch has never seen the inside of it's TV dock 😂

Boss battles made more inreresting by the inclusion of more button mashing than normal?

It never battery saved bc bootleg carts never did :( Being broke meant leaving the GBA on till you beat the game

i used to watch my cousins play this and pokemon on their gameboy back in the day. so nostalgic even tho i literally never played and just watched. such a interesting game. i played the og games on console and just always wanted to try playing this version.

Griptonite's track history isn't the worst all things considered. They made a set of decent turn based RPGs for the Harry Potter series as well

I remember when I was a kid I got this game as a birthday gift before I had watched the prequels so I was very confused about what was happening and who everyone was lol

I remember I had nightmares after playing the game. And I killed them all. Not only the men. But the women. And the children too.

I remember this game being really good for GBA of course it’s not as good as the console game. One of my favourite GBA games as a kid

I remember playing this game for countless hours to unlock Jango Fett only to find out that he really sucked, he can only “fly” as high as you’re able to jump in a stage and it was really easy to soft lock yourself in certain levels for some reason.

This guy almost sounds like Hank Hill

I think qui gon jinn has invisible ability is because he did that in the Star Wars books

I think it was fun as a kid and it provided a decent challenge. I liked that it was different from the consoles in some ways. It was my first gba game, and I still have it.

I have the GameCube version of this game and the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii versions of Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga. Lucky for me, I never played the horrible Nintendo DS version of Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy. Also, since Nintendo added Quest for Camelot which was made by Warner Bros Games to the Nintendo Switch Online service, do you think they might add the GBA Lego Star Wars games sometime this year? If they do, I might give them a try.

Great vid but also you sound like Hank Hill

this was the first starwars game I owned. I wanted the Gamecube one (which I did eventually get) and sank so much time into this version.

I played the crap out of this as a kid and I loved it. lol I had it before the version on console and still had a blast.

You forgot to talk about the cheat codes! You get to play as so many characters and it allows you to use more than just 1 extra character in the freeplay mode

"It's a LEGO game. It's not supposed to be that challenging." I couldn't agree more with this quote. I just wish whoever was responsible for the crimes against LEGO that were the LEGO Movie video game on the 3DS and the even worse LEGO Marvel Super Heroes game also on the 3DS. Not if but when you die in one of those games, you have to restart the level, and there are these "optional" challenges in every level that give you gold bricks. Except after every three levels, if you're total number of gold bricks isn't high enough, you can't play the next level until you get more gold bricks from the levels you've already unlocked. LEGO Star Wars 2 may have been the worst DS game (I don't have enough of a comprehensive list to have an opinion on that claim one way or the other), but it can't have been worse than the two games I just mentioned for the 3DS because it was like LEGO games forgot how to make LEGO games. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes was even worse because every level had a single character in story mode, and even in free play mode, you could only use a team consisting of that same character and one other character of your choice. Those games don't even give you extra hearts to use. It's especially insulting when you consider that they were made during roughly the same time frame as LEGO Lord of the Rings for the 3DS which was the best LEGO game on a handheld (excluding the Switch which is technically both a console and a handheld).

Qui-Gon had many uncommon Force abilities, but turning invisible was not one of them.

Bought for like 4 bucks at a flea market back in the day. Was a big fan of the complete saga ds port at the time. I think i got stuck or bored with an early level and lost the game. Itll probably show up somewhere.

It was really janky but actually peak lego game

Thank you, Hank Hill, this was a nice video and I think I shall subscribe

Thank you for this man. I got so much nostalgia from the gameplay 🙌🏽

I only played lego star wars II on the GBA, but that one actually had a hub world!

This was my childhood! A stressful childhood! But a childhood nonetheless!

Yo Sir Nostalgic, If I were you I would spell out GameBoy Advanced instead of GBA in the title. It adds another recognizable word that peaks interest instead of the GBA letters. Not enough people know what GBA stands for. I didnt for one. Just gameboy would be fine if you dont want to put advanced there I think.

One of the worst ports ever!

Obi-Wan staying young throughout the whole trilogy is really weird.

I remember finding out about these games on rom sites and I tried the 2nd one and it was alright. Crazy they even attempted to put these games on the GBA

This brings back memories for me. I had my modded Gameboy Advance and I played this version on my TV.