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
[email protected]
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.
