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| Abbreviation | LSW2-GBA |
| Developer | Griptonite Games Amaze Entertainment |
| Publisher | Eidos GIANT Lucasarts |
| Universe | Star Wars |
| Starting Level | Blockade Runner |
| Episodes | A New Hope The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi |
| Hub | Mos Eisley Cantina |
| Release Date | September 12, 2006 |
| Rating | ESRB: E |
| Systems | Game Boy Advance |
| Categories | Characters Levels Episodes |
| Bionicle: Maze of Shadows | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GBA) | Bionicle Heroes (GBA) | ||||
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy for the Game Boy Advance is a version of the game built for the Game Boy Advance hardware. Its gameplay significantly differs from the console version, and is a 2D sprite-based isometric game instead of a 3D model-based game.
Gameplay[]
Unlike the first game, the gameplay of this game is even more faithful than that the home console version.
Instead of a menu to access levels, levels are accessed in a hub, which is Mos Eisley Cantina. The player can only play as Princess Leia (Senator) and Rebel Trooper in the Cantina. This is likely due to the hardware limitations of the Game Boy Advance.
Death has changed in this version, sending players to the point where they died instead of the last checkpoint. Health also changes depending on the character the player controls. For example, if the player plays as an enemy like a Stormtrooper, they will have low health, but if they play as a boss like Darth Vader, they will have a lot of health.
The functions of the L & R buttons from the first game have been reversed where instead, R is used to build objects or use the Force while L is used for special moves. Other than that, the rest of the controls are the same as the first game.
Unlike the first game, two or three playable characters can appear onscreen during Story Mode.
The Story and Free Play modes have been modified. For example, the player will no longer have to repeat the Blockade Runner and Tatooine levels if they want to play Death Star Rescue again in its Story Mode version. The game's AI now chooses random characters in Free Play as with all the other LEGO Star Wars games except for The Skywalker Saga. The characters chosen for Free Play always consist of a lightsaber character, a blaster character, a protocol droid, an astromech droid, an Imperial, a Gamorrean Guard and Lando Calrissian.
Instead of five Death Star Plans, the game has ten minikits per level. If all ten are collected, a character or vehicle will be available for purchase at the Mos Eisley Cantina store.
The game counts True Jedi status instead of Jedi ranks. Like the home console versions, the player has to fill it by collecting studs. When the True Jedi is obtained, the player gains a stud bonus. Unlike the home console version, the player only has to fill it once, regardless of which mode they are in. However, the player can still fill the True Jedi state after filling it once, although this does not affect the 100% percentage.
Studs have changed their values. Silver studs are worth 10. Gold studs are worth 100. Blue Studs are worth 1,000. Studs can be spent to purchase hints, characters, vehicles and extras in the store.
Temporary powerups, such as increased damage, or invincibility, are gone. R2-D2 became harmless. Special moves have now been given only to lightsaber characters. This time, there is no energy bar above, so the player can use special moves and jump attacks as many times as they want.
The Build ability has only been granted to certain characters. Some characters, like the Jedi, can't build things.
Like the first game, blaster shots can only be deflected with a lightsaber by swinging instead of blocking if they are heading towards the player, not from the sides or from behind.
The game now features an Extras menu instead of an extensive list of cheat codes. Most of the extras, like Ltsaber, Blue, are Purely Aesthetic, while others, like Invincibility, are useful. The Sith Mode extra makes the consequences of death like the Game Boy Advance version of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, making the game more difficult.
Story[]
This game is based on the Star Wars Original Trilogy. Like its predecessor, it omits some scenes found in the console version, but adds some that do not appear there. For example, this game does not contain content based on Exogorth from The Empire Strikes Back, but there are scenes of Yoda's death from Return of the Jedi that were omitted from the console versions.
Characters[]
- Princess Leia (Senator)*
- Rebel Trooper*
- R2-D2*
- C-3PO*
- Luke Skywalker (Tatooine)*
- Obi Wan Kenobi*
- Han Solo*
- Chewbacca*
- Luke Skywalker (Trooper)
- Han Solo (Trooper)
- General Han Solo
- Princess Leia (Hoth)
- Han Solo (Skiff)
- Princess Leia (Bespin)
- Lando Calrissian*
- Padawan Luke Skywalker
- Princess Leia (Slave)
- Luke Skywalker (Jedi)
- Princess Leia (Endor)
- Wicket W. Warrick*
- Darth Vader*
- Stormtrooper*
- Tusken Raider*
- Imperial Navy Lieutenant*
- Imperial Navy Trooper
- TIE Fighter Pilot
- MSE-6*
- Snowtrooper
- Gamorrean Guard*
- Boba Fett*
- Scout Trooper
- Emperor Palpatine*
- R2-Q5*
- K-3PO*
- Yoda*
- Baby Rancor*
Vehicles[]
- X-Wing Fighter*
- TIE Fighter*
- Vader TIE Advanced
- SnowSpeeder*
- Probe Droid*
- Millenium Falcon*
- Speeder Bike - Rebel*
- Speeder Bike - Trooper
- Slave 1*
Levels[]
Episode IV: A New Hope[]
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back[]
Episode VI: Return of the Jedi[]
Abilities[]
Extras[]
- Cantina Music
- Jabba's Baroque
- Sith Mode
- Invincibility
- Ltsaber, Blue
- Ltsaber, Red
- Ltsaber, Green
- Jedi Spirit
- Silhouette
- Clown
- Classic
- Bubble Blaster
- Egg Blaster
- El Pollo Blaster
- Extra Vehicles
- Dancing Girl
- Washed Out Mode
- Monochrome Mode
Differences in this version compared to the Console/PC versions[]
- Mos Eisley Cantina is completely different in this version.
- Each Episodes have five to six levels.
- This version lacks any hurt/death sounds compared to the previous game on GBA.
- The music and sound effects are completely different. Both are recycled for the infamous DS version.
- Most of the names of the levels are also recycled for the DS version.
- The cutscenes are displayed via gameplay.
- None of the prequel characters are available in this version.
- Unlike other versions, the episode doors in this version are separated from each other.
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Trivia[]
- It is so far one of the only two LEGO games impossible to complete 100% (the other being LEGO Rock Raiders), the maximum percentage is 99%. The remaining 1% is obtained after purchasing the Extra Vehicles extra and purchasing the Probe Droid and Slave 1 vehicles, but since the game does not detect them as purchased, they do not count towards the 100%. It's a bug in the game.
- This marks the only version of a lot of things:
- The only LEGO Star Wars game that does not include a playable character whose first appearance was in a prequel trilogy film. This is because the original trilogy was made first so the characters in the prequel trilogy who also appeared in the original trilogy are considered as having first appeared in an original trilogy film. As a result, this makes it the only LEGO Star Wars game to not have Jango Fett. Despite that, statues of Jar Jar Binks can be seen in some levels.
- The only version of the game to not have a character creator.
- The only version of the game to not have a multiplayer mode.
- The only LEGO video game from TT in which codes only utilize numbers and no letters.
- The only LEGO Star Wars game until LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to show Yoda's death.
- The only LEGO Star Wars game to not have a playable character bearing the word Anakin as the game does not have a spirit version of Anakin.
- The only LEGO Star Wars game to not depict a purple lightsaber.
- The only LEGO Star Wars game to have gameplay of all four stages (Battle of Yavin, Battle of Hoth, Endor Ground Battle and Endor Space Battle) and both bonus stages (dueling Boba Fett and Darth Vader) from Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. This is because the console/PC/PSP/DS versions have gameplay of five out of those six scenes which also applies to LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga while LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens has gameplay of only two of those scenes (Endor Ground and Endor Space).
- Not counting the GBA version of the previous game, this is the only LEGO Star Wars game where the player cannot use Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, a Stormtrooper, Boba Fett, R2-D2, Tusken Raider and C-3PO in the hub world.
- The only version to not have any spirit versions of characters, likely due to the Jedi Spirit extra.
- The only LEGO Star Wars game until LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to have the Cantina Music extra.
- The only version of the game to have a single bounty hunter as a playable character which is Boba Fett.
- The only version of the game not to show the final scenes of both A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
- The only version of the game to allow the player to only control one character in Free Play while in character-based levels.
- The only version of the game to not let the player switch vehicles in Free Play.
- The only LEGO game from TT in which multiple playable characters appear onscreen during Story Mode, but not during Free Play.
- If the player excludes the GBA version of the first game, then this is the only LEGO Star Wars game in which the player cannot depict Leia with her father as playable characters in neither the hub world nor in levels.
- The only version of the game to not allow the player to use a Y-wing or a TIE Interceptor.
- The only LEGO Star Wars game to have a Baby Rancor as a playable character as the normal Rancor would later be playable via Extra Toggle in the Tatooine Minikit Bonus level in in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga and by normal means in both LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
- The only version of the game to have the extra Silhouettes after it was featured in the original LEGO Star Wars game, but it returned in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
- R2-Q5 is the only playable character in this game to not appear in any other version, but to later appear in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
- The only LEGO game to have the build ability, but to not allow every normal character to use it since lightsaber characters cannot build.
- The only version of the game in which blaster characters do not have melee attacks.
- The only version of the game to not have any bonus levels.
- This version is a lot less glitchy than the DS version.
- This version uses parenthesis a lot more than the DS version which only uses it for extras in the pause menu.
- Unlike the first game on GBA, lightsaber characters keep their lightsaber out while using the Force.
- This is one of two LEGO games from TT to limit the player to just two characters in the hub, the other being the handheld versions of LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues.
- Due to being developed by the same company as the DS version, both games share the same sound effects and music and the same number of levels and settings for each, but only three level names are the same between both versions.
- This was the first LEGO game from TT in which attacks from AI controlled characters can damage characters which would not become reality in one on console/PC until LEGO Batman: The Videogame.
- The "Bite" SFX that plays when a protocol droid activates an panel comes from a trailer of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game.
- As with both LEGO Harry Potter games, only a handful of characters are unlocked for free and most of them have to be purchased.
- Had this version supported Co-Op, it is likely that it would have involved connecting two Game Boy Advance systems with a link cable and two Game Paks would have been required.
- This version can be played with a GameCube controller via the Game Boy Player.
- Tusken Raiders are the only enemies in the game to also be enemies in the GBA version of the first game.
- Like the first game, the player can easily complete a character level without dying by mostly sticking to a lightsaber character as they can easily die when using a blaster character.
- If the player excludes characters from the Use Old Save extra, the PSP version, and variations of characters, both this version and the console/PC version are tied for the fewest number of lightsaber characters in any LEGO Star Wars game with five.
- Not counting the GBA version of the first game, this is one of only four LEGO games from TT where the player can have a number other than zero as the ones digit for the stud counter, the others being LEGO The Hobbit, the handheld version of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
- K-3PO is the only character in both this version and the DS version to not be playable in any other version, only to be later playable on console/PC in both LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
- If the player uses the Invincibility extra, their hearts will turn metal which did not happen in a LEGO game on console/PC until LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
- The maximum number of playable characters onscreen in Story Mode is three, one fewer than the DS version with four.
- If the player were to merge the variations of the characters into one, then the game would have 26 playable characters, the same number of characters as the GBA version of the first game when characters with cheat codes are counted.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, R2-D2, Tusken Raider and C-3PO are the only playable characters in the game to also be playable in the GBA version of the first game. Out of all those, Obi-Wan is the only one who looks different.
- Just like the original game on console/PC, both helpful extras in the game are the most expensive extras and things to purchase where in both, Invincibility costs one million studs while the other helpful extra costs 750,000 studs.
- In earlier builds of the game, the font for the onscreen text was going to be the same as the first game which would later be used for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the stud counter only had five digits.
- The pictures from the instruction manual appear to be of earlier builds of the game.
- All five lightsaber special moves in this game are also in the first game where in this game, Obi-Wan can mind trick, Luke can throw the lightsaber, Yoda can Force Push, Darth Vader can Force Choke & Emperor Palpatine can use Force Lightning.
- This, the first game & LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga are the only LEGO Star Wars games without a character creator.
- This version has the same number of extras as the console/PC version of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars & the DS version of LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga with 18.