Fun fact with the character creator: If you give your character a lightsaber but also give them Han Solo's legs, he can still do the jump/roll/triple blaster shot even with a lightsaber. I always used this for my saber characters so they can also shoot.
If you do that with a red lightsaber and jetpack you end up with the most powerful character in the star wars universe that can open all doors, bomb bounty hunter metal thingies and open dark side doors. It's so OP and broken, only limitation is that you can't fit into ewok spaces, though you could sacrifice the Han shooting legs and use ewok legs.
I remember getting this game to 92% completion (100% was impossible due to Europe having a version that couldn't be patched) and then getting stuck as the fricking MILLENIUM FALCON in the cantina after having a buggy vehicle multiplayer level.
I remember several hellish bugs playing this growing up, from unresponsive buttons to spawning ships in the hub, falling out of bounds and extremely broken camera problems, definitely was a sight to behold
@@Nostalgic9080Also, as broken and glitchy as this game was (including the fact that some of the levels in Free Play mode would often break leaving you unable to finish the level) I liked the DS sound system renditions of the soundtrack.
In the early 2000s, games based on IP were churned out (especially for handhelds) at minimal cost within a couple of months with as many reused code and assets as possible. I think it's more likely the devs just didn't have the time/resources/support to finish the game. If you're wholly inexperienced you don't get to do a succesful pitch to a big IP owner like Lucasfilm/LEGO
@@harry.t.radio95237 That thing about the game being unfinished is probably true. It was definitely rushed. Also, getting to play the Jedi Destiny level early is a bug that seemingly just happens when the game feels like triggering it
This game was such a weird experience that I've never forgotten. Getting lost on almost every level, especially Endor, and having events that are supposed to lead into the next area never trigger. It was so strange, but I kind of want to play it again.
@@etheoverman I remember going back and forwards so many times in some sections that I'd forget which way I even came from, and end up backtracking the whole level 😂
This game was my childhood. I love the heck out of it and then when I played it on the Xbox right realize how much better it was on that system compared to the DS
Fun fact: Getting hit by the Emperor's force lightning as a custom character will actually change the parts on your character. Unless I'm misremembering.
Getting hit by him as any character in Free Play instantly crashed my game. The last frame was always my character being replaced by Palpatine with Luke's hair.
Not quite. The first print run of the game is so buggy that it’s impossible to beat. The next printing of the game however had the game breaking bugs fixed. The fixed version isn’t rare or anything but pretty much everyone who got the game in the first month or two was screwed over.
I thought this game was a fever dream I had after playing The Complete Saga on DS but apparently it was real. I can’t believe I played this when I was a kid
Ykw same. I originally bought my copy years ago used (don’t have it anymore). It already had a completed save on it I honestly should’ve spent my money on something better
I used to own this game. My copy seemed to be a slightly more stable version, with less major bugs which meant it was actually possible to 100%. But there were still loads of glitches to be found, like how using the character creator would permanently mess up the draw distance until you turned off the DS. This game isn't good but it has a lot of bizarre stuff in it. For example the Hoth base level, there's this hidden room with mutated people in tubes. Releasing them kills the lights and makes each room have a fixed camera angle, like a weird Resident Evil parody. And of course the Sandbox which confused everyone, because it's just a test map they threw in for some reason. Very weird game.
This is basically the only thing I remembered playing with this game. This and Mario & Sonic winter games were the only single-pack multiplayer games me and my siblings had, which meant basically every long road trip involved a ton of time in both of those
This game was one of my favourite games to play on the DS when I was a little kid, and boy do I remember the difficult challenges in the game that I was never able solve, and the strange bugs that sometimes would occur in Jabba's palace room with carbonite Han. The most annoying thing that would happen often to me, was the slide glitch on Jabba's Sail Barge, where I would slide on the side of the ship and fall to my death over and over again, never being able to escape it.
I loved this game as a kid. The bugs were just a fun little bonus for me. Like spawning your free play characters in the middle of a cutscene or an infinite r2d2 death loop on Tatooine.
Wow, when you said that Vader and Leia cutscene was one of the better ones, you weren't joking. That Han Solo one on the Speeder Chase legit made my jaw drop. I have no clue what the hell that was.
You forgot the most important part. At least in the German/EU version I have, there is a Minikit that is entirely missing. So you could not even unlock everything. Unfortunately, that one vehicle you could not unlock had some special mechanics needed to unlock others, so I was blocked out of some unlockables. Back then I tried getting this Minikit for hours, but once I was old enough to look this up on the Internet, I finally got the confirmation that it simply was not there. What I liked a lot on this game was that in the free mode, I could access ALL charcters and not only 1 or 2 of each class like it is the case for other Lego games.
Same with NA version, I remember going crazy as kid with the mini kit detector on and being in the right area but it just wasn't there, was on Cloud City Trap.
Man, this game became so bugged at some point. I could get stuck in a pit on the death star. Could only play the final level by accessing it through story mode. „Play“ as vehicles in the hub for Episode 6. I still loved it since I didn’t have the console version and it was a step up from the previous GBA game.
In the Death Star level, there's a point where you can choose to go the wrong way through, which makes the pits have a bottom if you fall down (meaning you get stuck) and causes the Falcon to disappear, so even if you aren't stuck in a hole at this point you can't complete the level anyway. It's also impossible to do the Palpatine fight in free play despite there being minikits you can't reach in story mode. Another fun thing to do was enter the vehicle selection screen of a ship level then quit back to the cantina, which meant you could change to a ship in the hub and effectively softlock your entire game unless you somehow got lucky enough to switch back to one of the minifig characters walking around. IIRC, if you chose a ship too big you'd be clipping through the cantina so much that you'd be too far away from any NPCs to do that. And you'd still be stuck as a ship even if you quit back to the menu lol
Ill never forget this game, as a kid on the emperor battle, the emperor actually managed to clip into the ground and completely softlock every single time I would play it, so i could not advance
This was my childhood game and I will always remember that horrid jumping on logs section on Endor. It was just an absolute nightmare when I was a kid.
Hearing that Endor music awoke something vile and putrid from the dark corners of my mind I had long wished to forget. You will be receiving the bill for the therapy I need as a result of hearing it again. Wish I still had my copy of this game to experience how strange it is first hand. Thank you for reminding me of its existence for the second time now.
This was one of my first DS games too and my favourite I had a Save file with 3,2 million studs (I am god damn proud of that number) game on 98% since I couldn't figure out what to do in that weird bonus level that is in between the minikit room and the multiplayer room. I then accidentally ruined it when I found a bug where if you try to enter a level in free play and then exit you had the free play character switcher available in Mos Eisley's Cantina. NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER DO THIS VEHICLES IT WILL SOFTLOCK YOU!
I couldn’t help but notice Luke fights left-handed in this game, which is correct in the movies because Mark in real life is left-handed. Granted in the movies he switches between both hands to fight, but I haven’t seen any other Lego Star Wars game get that detail right. But apart from that, this game sure confused me as a kid, growing up with the Xbox version then playing this was very different. I remember after playing Jedi Destiny and beating Palpatine, there was an extra part of the level that I got thrown into, and I couldn’t beat the level after that.
To be fair, the game was surprisingly ahead of it's time for a LEGO game. It had a sandbox mode, PvP multiplayer, and you can pick any character at any moment in free play like in the modern games. Shame that everything else just sucks, but hey, they had ambition.
At 7:30, That barricade to Han consists of 3 separate barricades, a yellow, a green, and a blue. At 7:37 you can see the 3 doors, each colored with either yellow, green, or blue. Each contains its respective switch. I belive that's how that works
i remember i was able to 100% this multiple times up to the point where speeder chase in episode 6 has that 1 glitched minikit that you could never get along with not knowing how you were ever meant to get into jedi destiny to do freeplay, so it was 100% minus jedi destiny freeplay and 1 glitched minikit
OMG this game was my childhood idk if it was just me but i remember a bugged minikit on the palpatine level that literally made the game impossible to 100%, not to mention a bunch of other game-breaking glitches (mostly in episode 6 free play) that basically softlock the game
Loved this game ! So much weird secret ! You didn t talked about the secret sandbox level ! It s definetly weirder than the boss fight of andor And there was also a multiplayer mode that was crazy broken
Yea I was going to make a mention of the Sandbox level but I decided to leave it out because I couldn't find a good way to put it in. Ill probably make a separate video about it one day. With the emulator I use there was no way I could record footage of the bounty hunter challenge.
The PSP version was identical to the home console one and it even had the boss fight levels ( Darth Maul, Count Dooku, Darth Vader ) along with every character from the first game as unlockables.😊
@@jesuspernia8031 Indeed, but pretty much every other LEGO game on the PSP are based on the DS versions, rather than on the home console versions. This was generally true for a lot of lower budget massively-multiplatform titles of the era. Yes, you could port the PS2 version to the PSP, but you might have to downgrade some assets or optimize your game a little for it to actually run well. Porting the DS version on the other hand takes basically zero effort. I also know of a couple of games that just had unique PSP versions completely different from the ones on PS2 or DS, for some reason.
in the vader obiwan fight level, if you play it in free play you literally can't finish it because it just softlocks you in the cutscene after the fight
I was actually surprised that this game has friendly NPCs at Echo base. Something that always bothered me about the original lego games was how empty and lonley Echo base felt. This at least has a couple friendly troops roaming. That's a good touch
It is pretty cool that in Free Play you have access to the whole roster unlike the console version and for whatever reason the 2 Player Bounty Hunter vs. was REALLY fun. But yeah this game is just weird, some of the things that happen in it are so out of place they were almost scary to kid me.
This was my first video game, I was six years old and despite all its flaws I was obsessed with it. Thank you so much for finally explaining that “puzzle” at 5:42 I remember I would literally just restart the level over and over again until they all happened to be green right at the start because I had no idea what to do. Thats so infuriating, how the hell would anyone know that R2 could do that??
I never completed the Cloud City Luke/R2D2 console puzzle legit. I just kept resetting until all the lights were green, because I never knew you could use R2 on the panels. One very distinct memory I have is about trying to get one of the minikits on Endor (the one shown at 13:28, iirc). You're supposed to use a Force character to build a bridge to jump over to the minikit, but either the force object was too far away, or it simply never prompted you to use the force. You couldn't jump the gap, even with a jetpack, because it was too far. I finally managed to get over to the minikit by using a jetpack character, jumping, then rapidly switching characters, which would reset your downward momentum, while maintaining your forward momentum.
The secret bounty hunter level was my favorite part of this game! I played it up until my sister accidentally saved over my save and I lost everything. It was such a fun childhood memory that I had forgotten about until this video 😂
This game is humorous. I beat one of the new hope levels and when i went to continue story it took me to jabbas palace but jabbas palace was horribly corrupted and unplayable as textures kept glitching out or becoming discolored
I had this game as a kid and maybe my version was bugged but it often happened that the portraits in freeplay disappeared. Every time i entered the room with the searching lights in jabba’s palace they would go blank
This video unlocked memories that I didn’t even know I had. I loved this game when I was a kid because I too had zero standards, and strangely I remember the Ewok level being my favorite.
Thank you so much for talking about this game. It has been my roman empire ever since I was a little kid. The weirdness, the odd hidden things and off aura it gave definitely made a huge impact on younger me. It might be a mess but I will always remember it as the fever dream gem it is to me.
That first cutscene was an absolute joke. No way they actually let that through... Absolutely hilarious how dogsh*t it was, sound cuts off until vader swings and there's a full second where obi Wan does nothing before collapsing. Plus the lightsaber was already clipping inside obi wan
So glad to see somebody talking about this. I distinctly remember a glitch where if you went to select a character in the ship levels, backed out and went to a normal one, you'd still get to play as a ship in a non-ship level. It softlocks the game! You can play as a TIE-Fighter and be stuck flailing around in Mos Eisley Cantina forever!
Gosh damn, I remember breaking this game apart on accident by curiosity when I was younger despite not having nearly as much experience to playing games. This game was sort of like Security Breach levels of easily breaking the game to me.
I remember having this game. Apparently you can force-unlock Episode 5 by flying above it with a jetpack character, the locked door just immediately opens. I saw online that there's a test level that can't be accessed because the data isn't on the disc, but some users reported they'd accidentally load that test level. Very odd. Have you tried putting a lightsaber on a custom droid character? Weird things happen. Also, floating Wuher.... and Jango Fett is here somehow? Edit: forgot the free play glitch - bring vehicles into on-foot levels and vice versa!
My experience with this game got even worse. There’s an extra in this game called ice rink. Like the name suggests, it makes the floor slippery so that characters slide across it. But after turning it on, the game wouldn’t let me turn it back off. EVEN ON A NEW GAME. So imagine going through all that pain in the Endor level…WITH ICE PHYSICS.
I have no idea if that "play Jedi Destiny any time" thing is a bug or not. Mentioned this in a reply to someone else's comment but in my copy of the game, the Palpatine fight was an extra segment of the vehicle level where you blow up the DS2, and you couldn't do the fight in free play because it would only let you replay the vehicle bit. That's part of the reason I never got all the minikits, as well as one during IV that would never appear. Didn't get to play the "sandbox" level :(
My grandma gave me this game as a Christmas gift way back when, I don’t remember finding any major glitches except if you made a custom zack the Lego maniac character and used him in the palpatine fight the game would crash when you get hit
I played this game when I was younger. I noticed one of my favorite things about it that you left out. That was the local multiplayer matches you could have on the DS. I remember playing capture the flag with my brother and me playing as bounty hunters. I know on emulators, it can be hard to get footage of that, but I wish you would have mentioned it in the video
I remember seeing the weird knight character on Endor after doing the maze. I’m so thankful you showed him in the video (10:18). Because after I saw him once; I never was able to see him again. At a point I thought I was genuinely crazy. Thank you for the peace of mind. The pink stormtrooper was fun and a good nostalgia trip. EDIT: I paused the video to mention the Knight, only to see him get his own portion in the video. Actually made my day. It was such a weird boss fight.
It's fortunate that nowadays handheld versions of games are usually just the same game with worse graphics, it's funny to look at examples in the past where the handheld versions of games had little if anything in common with the original, just a completely unrelated game taking advantage of the same branding, the gameboy probably had the most egregious examples of this.
I was obsessed with the multiplayer bounty hunter vs game, that was the main thing i played. Always thought it was interesting that many bounty hunters would crash the game in that mode, and also that only the host could pick characters while everyone else was stuck as greedo. Im very curious about the sandbox door in the cantina though, i never was able to try it as a kid and no one seems to talk about it or what it is
I had this as a kid! Even back then I realised what a horrible mess it was. My favorite glitch that I found was that the Mos Eisley Cantina barman had the ability to…float. Like, he could just straight up levitate and move around like he had hover boots on. Intentional? Who knows. Incredible to witness? Absolutely
ahh I've got fond memories of screwing around in this game's bounty hunter multiplayer mode over download play and having to constantly avoid making the game crash lol
Oh boy, I watch this gameplay and I can hear my little brother shouting at his Nintendo DS. I remember how frustrating it was for us to beat this game, and at a point he gave this game up and then I went ahead and tried to beat it, ending in almost the same result.
I mostly remember this version having some fun extra and you could activate disco modes or make people dance or do some custom stuff with the cantina band. I don't remember the specifics but i remember ot having some different things you could do
It’s starting to make sense to me why I’ve never heard about or even considered there being a Lego Star Wars 2 in 18 years when I played 1 and 3 as a kid and still own them
Even as a kid, I noticed that this game was of much lower quality than TCS. I remember the cantina music, the character creator and the funny mash-up names as well as being able to glitch the cutscenes to regain control of your character and just kill everyone mid-cutscene lol
Hey, I had this as a kid! I also had Complete Saga. Even then, I preferred CS. This game has pretty dreadful graphics (even for the DS), unsettlingly canned music (there was a song that actually scared me as a kid, I think it was called Runner's Blockade or something), and boring gameplay. It's so good to see someone tear it to shreds.
Leia was obviously dancing to distract Vader while the droids got away
@@Cdr2002 it obviously make no sense. They could’ve done better. But they didn’t. That was lazy work when it came to making the gameplay.
@ it’s a DS game for ten year olds
@@Cdr2002 I don’t think a ten year old would enjoy this. Would he/she?
@@Cdr2002 I don’t think a 10-year-old would enjoy that game. Or would he/she?
@@Cdr2002Ten year olds are old enough to enjoy video games. You don’t have to just give them shovelware and say “Good enough.”
Fun fact with the character creator: If you give your character a lightsaber but also give them Han Solo's legs, he can still do the jump/roll/triple blaster shot even with a lightsaber. I always used this for my saber characters so they can also shoot.
Luke Skywalker's Dagobah outfit could do the same thing.
That brings back memories, I always used to do that with the gun that fires bombs, you'd triple shoot the bombs
If you do that with a red lightsaber and jetpack you end up with the most powerful character in the star wars universe that can open all doors, bomb bounty hunter metal thingies and open dark side doors. It's so OP and broken, only limitation is that you can't fit into ewok spaces, though you could sacrifice the Han shooting legs and use ewok legs.
Incredible
Ezra's lightsaber be like
I remember getting this game to 92% completion (100% was impossible due to Europe having a version that couldn't be patched) and then getting stuck as the fricking MILLENIUM FALCON in the cantina after having a buggy vehicle multiplayer level.
custom character creator goes crazy
I’m so glad I’m not the only one got stuck with the millennium falcon in the cantina lmfao
i had an xwing stuck in the cantina and couldn't play it
My eternal ship hell is a Snowspeeder in the cantina
@@rocketmanmanStar Wars is amazing right!
Can't believe Princess Leia hit the griddy to save C-3PO and R2-D2.
What does that mean?
@@fshoaps 90% of Time I have no idea what I'm talking about. I just don't remember what I'm talking about. I don't remember posting this.
@@MommyMintyah I arrived just at the right time to witness this an hour later
@@MommyMintydo you have adhd
@@fshoapsIt means she had to rely in prostitution to pay for her robot friend's medical bills
I remember several hellish bugs playing this growing up, from unresponsive buttons to spawning ships in the hub, falling out of bounds and extremely broken camera problems, definitely was a sight to behold
I remember somehow ending up as a TIE Fighter in the cantina, and that just permanently screwed up my save file.
This was on The Complete Saga, but every so often I’d get this bug where the graphics were totally fucked up. Freaked the hell outta me as a kid
@@The_JustJoshingI got a similar bug on the Indiana Jones game where everything turned brown and yellow
@@Rocco049 Yeah, it was kind of like that. Like every pixel was a random color. It was really freaky.
Spawning ships in the hub was awesone
bro has some serious beef with this game
Cringe bro comment
@@brandonnitro4029 you upload fortnite clips. Opinion invalidated.
@@brandonnitro4029you do NOT know what cringe is
@@brandonnitro4029in what way is this cringe lmao ?
This entire thread is cringe, you're all gay. The video is funny, though.
This game was a weird part of my childhood that I often think was a dream
So much of the imagery and sounds are burned into my brain
YES
That one weird flute/harpsichord track lives in my brain eternally
Yes! I guess it’s an objectively not well made game looking back but damn do i appreciate the memories i made playing this game 😭
It's almost like a fever dream
This game’s devs are laughably inexperienced. I still can’t believe this is an officially licensed product
Yea its really bad
@@Nostalgic9080You can play “Jedi Destiny” straight away? How? I could Never get it working.
@@Nostalgic9080Also, as broken and glitchy as this game was (including the fact that some of the levels in Free Play mode would often break leaving you unable to finish the level) I liked the DS sound system renditions of the soundtrack.
In the early 2000s, games based on IP were churned out (especially for handhelds) at minimal cost within a couple of months with as many reused code and assets as possible. I think it's more likely the devs just didn't have the time/resources/support to finish the game. If you're wholly inexperienced you don't get to do a succesful pitch to a big IP owner like Lucasfilm/LEGO
@@harry.t.radio95237 That thing about the game being unfinished is probably true. It was definitely rushed. Also, getting to play the Jedi Destiny level early is a bug that seemingly just happens when the game feels like triggering it
This game was such a weird experience that I've never forgotten. Getting lost on almost every level, especially Endor, and having events that are supposed to lead into the next area never trigger. It was so strange, but I kind of want to play it again.
hahaha yeah now you mention it I remember weird stuff like that, it was fun though idc
like there was a level on Hoth that I could never get out of it sucked so bad 😂
@@etheoverman I remember going back and forwards so many times in some sections that I'd forget which way I even came from, and end up backtracking the whole level 😂
This game was my childhood. I love the heck out of it and then when I played it on the Xbox right realize how much better it was on that system compared to the DS
"strike me down and I'll become more powerful than you imagine!" while he forgets to do the dissapearing trick
Fun fact: Getting hit by the Emperor's force lightning as a custom character will actually change the parts on your character. Unless I'm misremembering.
Yep swaps model with a skeleton
I had a custom jedi Jawa character and my game froze every time palpatine zapped me
Getting hit by him as any character in Free Play instantly crashed my game. The last frame was always my character being replaced by Palpatine with Luke's hair.
From what I heard, the game’s beta was accidentally released instead of the full retail product, and the full product is a rare sell.
Idk if that's true
Not quite. The first print run of the game is so buggy that it’s impossible to beat. The next printing of the game however had the game breaking bugs fixed. The fixed version isn’t rare or anything but pretty much everyone who got the game in the first month or two was screwed over.
@@geeboysgamesandmore49 that's hilarious
@@geeboysgamesandmore49 My mistake. Thank you. Just misremembering shit.
So how can you tell which version you get if you want to buy it now?
9:30 when I was young and I played this game, that part with the swinging logs literally made me break my DS in half in rage
The developers should've given you a better DS as compensation for how bad their game is💀
I thought this game was a fever dream I had after playing The Complete Saga on DS but apparently it was real. I can’t believe I played this when I was a kid
Ykw same. I originally bought my copy years ago used (don’t have it anymore). It already had a completed save on it I honestly should’ve spent my money on something better
On the real tho TCS for the DS is fucking great and might be my favorite version.
BRO SAME
Mental illness pfp check.
my mind is blown because in all the hours i put into this game as a kid i NEVER saw that endor hidden boss
I used to own this game. My copy seemed to be a slightly more stable version, with less major bugs which meant it was actually possible to 100%. But there were still loads of glitches to be found, like how using the character creator would permanently mess up the draw distance until you turned off the DS.
This game isn't good but it has a lot of bizarre stuff in it. For example the Hoth base level, there's this hidden room with mutated people in tubes. Releasing them kills the lights and makes each room have a fixed camera angle, like a weird Resident Evil parody. And of course the Sandbox which confused everyone, because it's just a test map they threw in for some reason.
Very weird game.
Yea they re-released this game and kind of fixed it but its still not good. And yes that part on hoth is super weird.
That part in Hoth with the test tube people genuinely scared me as a kid. Mixed with the music choice for that level, it was unnerving to me
This is my favorite ds game 😭
@@killercat6252 Good. Genuinely, own that. Don't let me saying it's bad take that away from you.
@@robertanderson9447 We don't talk about that one Bespin minikit (the last level in EIS that I don't remember the name)
Loved this game as a kid. The multiplayer bounty Hunter mode was a fun addition.
Same my fellow Gonk
The funniest glitch in the multiplayer mode was Lando's game breaking ground pound.😂
@@solorowry9683I remember if you used download game, it would crash when a bounty hunter died
This is basically the only thing I remembered playing with this game. This and Mario & Sonic winter games were the only single-pack multiplayer games me and my siblings had, which meant basically every long road trip involved a ton of time in both of those
@@Budderman18 Wow, same here, except we also played the New Super Mario Bros. multiplayer. Good old days.
This game was one of my favourite games to play on the DS when I was a little kid, and boy do I remember the difficult challenges in the game that I was never able solve, and the strange bugs that sometimes would occur in Jabba's palace room with carbonite Han. The most annoying thing that would happen often to me, was the slide glitch on Jabba's Sail Barge, where I would slide on the side of the ship and fall to my death over and over again, never being able to escape it.
I loved this game as a kid.
The bugs were just a fun little bonus for me.
Like spawning your free play characters in the middle of a cutscene or an infinite r2d2 death loop on Tatooine.
I remember getting softlocked in this game
I also remember having a bunch of fun with the in-game cheat codes and character creation
"Mark today in the history books, for today lego starwars 2 hits shelves"
-Ethan CTRL+Alt+delete 9/11/2006
Wow, when you said that Vader and Leia cutscene was one of the better ones, you weren't joking.
That Han Solo one on the Speeder Chase legit made my jaw drop. I have no clue what the hell that was.
I was so young when I got this game I always thought it was my cartridge that was damaged
You forgot the most important part. At least in the German/EU version I have, there is a Minikit that is entirely missing. So you could not even unlock everything. Unfortunately, that one vehicle you could not unlock had some special mechanics needed to unlock others, so I was blocked out of some unlockables.
Back then I tried getting this Minikit for hours, but once I was old enough to look this up on the Internet, I finally got the confirmation that it simply was not there.
What I liked a lot on this game was that in the free mode, I could access ALL charcters and not only 1 or 2 of each class like it is the case for other Lego games.
Same with NA version, I remember going crazy as kid with the mini kit detector on and being in the right area but it just wasn't there, was on Cloud City Trap.
@@t58beare It was Speeder Chase for me, and for most people
Probably the same with the Japanese version. I wonder if there are any rare revisions for the European and Japanese versions.
@@Supersonic992 I spent hours trying to find the one in speeder chase.
Man, this game became so bugged at some point.
I could get stuck in a pit on the death star. Could only play the final level by accessing it through story mode. „Play“ as vehicles in the hub for Episode 6.
I still loved it since I didn’t have the console version and it was a step up from the previous GBA game.
In the Death Star level, there's a point where you can choose to go the wrong way through, which makes the pits have a bottom if you fall down (meaning you get stuck) and causes the Falcon to disappear, so even if you aren't stuck in a hole at this point you can't complete the level anyway.
It's also impossible to do the Palpatine fight in free play despite there being minikits you can't reach in story mode.
Another fun thing to do was enter the vehicle selection screen of a ship level then quit back to the cantina, which meant you could change to a ship in the hub and effectively softlock your entire game unless you somehow got lucky enough to switch back to one of the minifig characters walking around. IIRC, if you chose a ship too big you'd be clipping through the cantina so much that you'd be too far away from any NPCs to do that. And you'd still be stuck as a ship even if you quit back to the menu lol
@@AutomatonArchiveyeah I've always wondered about the mini kits! How are you supposed to get them!!
Ill never forget this game, as a kid on the emperor battle, the emperor actually managed to clip into the ground and completely softlock every single time I would play it, so i could not advance
The lego handheld games are a warm yet frightening core memory for me
Mark this day on your calendars for todays lego Star Wars 2 hits the shelf!
This was my childhood game and I will always remember that horrid jumping on logs section on Endor. It was just an absolute nightmare when I was a kid.
I never finished the game because i didn't know how to beat that
Hearing that Endor music awoke something vile and putrid from the dark corners of my mind I had long wished to forget.
You will be receiving the bill for the therapy I need as a result of hearing it again.
Wish I still had my copy of this game to experience how strange it is first hand. Thank you for reminding me of its existence for the second time now.
This was one of my first DS games too and my favourite I had a Save file with 3,2 million studs (I am god damn proud of that number) game on 98% since I couldn't figure out what to do in that weird bonus level that is in between the minikit room and the multiplayer room. I then accidentally ruined it when I found a bug where if you try to enter a level in free play and then exit you had the free play character switcher available in Mos Eisley's Cantina. NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER DO THIS VEHICLES IT WILL SOFTLOCK YOU!
I think I remember that one it was super funny
I found that bug too. Had to say goodbye to my 98.2% save file
@@Idonthaveausernameyet RIP
Same
I remember having this game as a kid. I always wondered why it felt so jank.
I couldn’t help but notice Luke fights left-handed in this game, which is correct in the movies because Mark in real life is left-handed. Granted in the movies he switches between both hands to fight, but I haven’t seen any other Lego Star Wars game get that detail right. But apart from that, this game sure confused me as a kid, growing up with the Xbox version then playing this was very different. I remember after playing Jedi Destiny and beating Palpatine, there was an extra part of the level that I got thrown into, and I couldn’t beat the level after that.
To be fair, the game was surprisingly ahead of it's time for a LEGO game. It had a sandbox mode, PvP multiplayer, and you can pick any character at any moment in free play like in the modern games. Shame that everything else just sucks, but hey, they had ambition.
I come back to these older videos of Yours once in a while, the details You go into is awesome!
At 7:30, That barricade to Han consists of 3 separate barricades, a yellow, a green, and a blue.
At 7:37 you can see the 3 doors, each colored with either yellow, green, or blue. Each contains its respective switch.
I belive that's how that works
i remember i was able to 100% this multiple times up to the point where speeder chase in episode 6 has that 1 glitched minikit that you could never get along with not knowing how you were ever meant to get into jedi destiny to do freeplay, so it was 100% minus jedi destiny freeplay and 1 glitched minikit
OMG this game was my childhood
idk if it was just me but i remember a bugged minikit on the palpatine level that literally made the game impossible to 100%, not to mention a bunch of other game-breaking glitches (mostly in episode 6 free play) that basically softlock the game
Loved this game ! So much weird secret ! You didn t talked about the secret sandbox level ! It s definetly weirder than the boss fight of andor
And there was also a multiplayer mode that was crazy broken
Yea I was going to make a mention of the Sandbox level but I decided to leave it out because I couldn't find a good way to put it in. Ill probably make a separate video about it one day. With the emulator I use there was no way I could record footage of the bounty hunter challenge.
@@Nostalgic9080 i understand :) your video was really great by the way
The PSP version was identical to the home console one and it even had the boss fight levels ( Darth Maul, Count Dooku, Darth Vader ) along with every character from the first game as unlockables.😊
Well, the PSP is a far more powerful device that can handle ps2-like games.
@@jesuspernia8031 Indeed, but pretty much every other LEGO game on the PSP are based on the DS versions, rather than on the home console versions.
This was generally true for a lot of lower budget massively-multiplatform titles of the era. Yes, you could port the PS2 version to the PSP, but you might have to downgrade some assets or optimize your game a little for it to actually run well. Porting the DS version on the other hand takes basically zero effort. I also know of a couple of games that just had unique PSP versions completely different from the ones on PS2 or DS, for some reason.
hearing the soundtrack again gave me so many deep rage memories playing this with my brother as a kid omg
in the vader obiwan fight level, if you play it in free play you literally can't finish it because it just softlocks you in the cutscene after the fight
Yea its a very annoying bug
trying to get all the mini kits in this game was damn near impossible as a kid.
I was actually surprised that this game has friendly NPCs at Echo base. Something that always bothered me about the original lego games was how empty and lonley Echo base felt. This at least has a couple friendly troops roaming. That's a good touch
It is pretty cool that in Free Play you have access to the whole roster unlike the console version and for whatever reason the 2 Player Bounty Hunter vs. was REALLY fun. But yeah this game is just weird, some of the things that happen in it are so out of place they were almost scary to kid me.
Kid me would play this all the damn time. I was like 8 and I remember bringing my damn DS everywhere playing this game lol.
I remember playing this game as a kid and liking it, but I also remember the Complete Saga being infinitely better.
I remember not being able to progress past Jabba's Palace because there was a section where everyone's character models would simply disappear
Endor level is my childhood trauma
I forgot I had this but you totally unlocked all my memories. Literally all I can remember is how broken it was
I remember never being able to beat the endor level with the logs simply because I couldn't tell if I was above them or not
Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga for ds is however, a masterpiece
Funnily enough, i remember the worst part about this was that it only used parts of the JW score that wasnt iconic.
Far from "the worst part." Every part of the John Williams score is iconic to some extent.
This was my first video game, I was six years old and despite all its flaws I was obsessed with it. Thank you so much for finally explaining that “puzzle” at 5:42 I remember I would literally just restart the level over and over again until they all happened to be green right at the start because I had no idea what to do. Thats so infuriating, how the hell would anyone know that R2 could do that??
I never completed the Cloud City Luke/R2D2 console puzzle legit. I just kept resetting until all the lights were green, because I never knew you could use R2 on the panels.
One very distinct memory I have is about trying to get one of the minikits on Endor (the one shown at 13:28, iirc). You're supposed to use a Force character to build a bridge to jump over to the minikit, but either the force object was too far away, or it simply never prompted you to use the force. You couldn't jump the gap, even with a jetpack, because it was too far. I finally managed to get over to the minikit by using a jetpack character, jumping, then rapidly switching characters, which would reset your downward momentum, while maintaining your forward momentum.
As an 8 year old i remember being stuck on the cloud city map cus of the awful camera bug.
The secret bounty hunter level was my favorite part of this game! I played it up until my sister accidentally saved over my save and I lost everything. It was such a fun childhood memory that I had forgotten about until this video 😂
This game is humorous. I beat one of the new hope levels and when i went to continue story it took me to jabbas palace but jabbas palace was horribly corrupted and unplayable as textures kept glitching out or becoming discolored
I had this game as a kid and maybe my version was bugged but it often happened that the portraits in freeplay disappeared. Every time i entered the room with the searching lights in jabba’s palace they would go blank
The Obi wan cutscene legit made me laugh out loud.
Back in Catholic church camp, we had a camp counselor who said that he wrote the IGN guide for this DS game. He said 100%-ing this was awful lol
IK this is a year old, but I found out the DS game / version of a Phineas and Ferb game is legitimately unbeatable, I know because I have the game.
This video unlocked memories that I didn’t even know I had. I loved this game when I was a kid because I too had zero standards, and strangely I remember the Ewok level being my favorite.
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video
I remember trespassing the walls of Jabbas Palace when I was 7 and not knowing that wasn't suppose to happend.
Your voice has such a great vibe for retrospective/review videos honestly was really chill
Thanks glad you enjoyed
Thank you so much for talking about this game. It has been my roman empire ever since I was a little kid. The weirdness, the odd hidden things and off aura it gave definitely made a huge impact on younger me. It might be a mess but I will always remember it as the fever dream gem it is to me.
That first cutscene was an absolute joke. No way they actually let that through... Absolutely hilarious how dogsh*t it was, sound cuts off until vader swings and there's a full second where obi Wan does nothing before collapsing. Plus the lightsaber was already clipping inside obi wan
So glad to see somebody talking about this.
I distinctly remember a glitch where if you went to select a character in the ship levels, backed out and went to a normal one, you'd still get to play as a ship in a non-ship level.
It softlocks the game! You can play as a TIE-Fighter and be stuck flailing around in Mos Eisley Cantina forever!
Gosh damn, I remember breaking this game apart on accident by curiosity when I was younger despite not having nearly as much experience to playing games. This game was sort of like Security Breach levels of easily breaking the game to me.
I remember having this game. Apparently you can force-unlock Episode 5 by flying above it with a jetpack character, the locked door just immediately opens. I saw online that there's a test level that can't be accessed because the data isn't on the disc, but some users reported they'd accidentally load that test level. Very odd. Have you tried putting a lightsaber on a custom droid character? Weird things happen. Also, floating Wuher.... and Jango Fett is here somehow?
Edit: forgot the free play glitch - bring vehicles into on-foot levels and vice versa!
My experience with this game got even worse. There’s an extra in this game called ice rink. Like the name suggests, it makes the floor slippery so that characters slide across it. But after turning it on, the game wouldn’t let me turn it back off.
EVEN ON A NEW GAME.
So imagine going through all that pain in the Endor level…WITH ICE PHYSICS.
Damn why am I not surprised to hear the game did that
I have no idea if that "play Jedi Destiny any time" thing is a bug or not. Mentioned this in a reply to someone else's comment but in my copy of the game, the Palpatine fight was an extra segment of the vehicle level where you blow up the DS2, and you couldn't do the fight in free play because it would only let you replay the vehicle bit.
That's part of the reason I never got all the minikits, as well as one during IV that would never appear. Didn't get to play the "sandbox" level :(
I live how in freeplay you can change characters and move around during cutscenes, I would always kill Darth Vader during cutscenes
Your voice would work perfect for sleep compilations dude it puts me right to snoozevill
My grandma gave me this game as a Christmas gift way back when, I don’t remember finding any major glitches except if you made a custom zack the Lego maniac character and used him in the palpatine fight the game would crash when you get hit
“When we buy video games we expect them to be complete and mostly bug free”
-Fallout 76 “do I look like a joke to you ?”
I played this game when I was younger. I noticed one of my favorite things about it that you left out. That was the local multiplayer matches you could have on the DS. I remember playing capture the flag with my brother and me playing as bounty hunters. I know on emulators, it can be hard to get footage of that, but I wish you would have mentioned it in the video
I remember seeing the weird knight character on Endor after doing the maze. I’m so thankful you showed him in the video (10:18). Because after I saw him once; I never was able to see him again. At a point I thought I was genuinely crazy. Thank you for the peace of mind. The pink stormtrooper was fun and a good nostalgia trip.
EDIT: I paused the video to mention the Knight, only to see him get his own portion in the video. Actually made my day. It was such a weird boss fight.
It's fortunate that nowadays handheld versions of games are usually just the same game with worse graphics, it's funny to look at examples in the past where the handheld versions of games had little if anything in common with the original, just a completely unrelated game taking advantage of the same branding, the gameboy probably had the most egregious examples of this.
That swinging log level cause me constant rage as a child
Fun fact: if you switch character during a cutscene you'll spawn in the cutscene and can run around and kill the characters in the cutscene
As soon as I saw that first cutscene, I knew this game was going to be cursed in the best way.
I was obsessed with the multiplayer bounty hunter vs game, that was the main thing i played. Always thought it was interesting that many bounty hunters would crash the game in that mode, and also that only the host could pick characters while everyone else was stuck as greedo. Im very curious about the sandbox door in the cantina though, i never was able to try it as a kid and no one seems to talk about it or what it is
Yeah it didn’t work without two games
I remember playing this game so much as a kid, but watching this video I don't remember anything that's being shown, which is crazy
I had this as a kid! Even back then I realised what a horrible mess it was. My favorite glitch that I found was that the Mos Eisley Cantina barman had the ability to…float. Like, he could just straight up levitate and move around like he had hover boots on. Intentional? Who knows. Incredible to witness? Absolutely
ahh I've got fond memories of screwing around in this game's bounty hunter multiplayer mode over download play and having to constantly avoid making the game crash lol
still have my copy of the game, the intro is always a huge shot of nostalgia for me
Oh boy, I watch this gameplay and I can hear my little brother shouting at his Nintendo DS. I remember how frustrating it was for us to beat this game, and at a point he gave this game up and then I went ahead and tried to beat it, ending in almost the same result.
World's calmest angry game reviewer.
I mostly remember this version having some fun extra and you could activate disco modes or make people dance or do some custom stuff with the cantina band. I don't remember the specifics but i remember ot having some different things you could do
It’s starting to make sense to me why I’ve never heard about or even considered there being a Lego Star Wars 2 in 18 years when I played 1 and 3 as a kid and still own them
This may sound really weird but your voice is relaxing ngl bro
I grew up with the DS version of the complete saga and seeing the footage for this game feels like DS complete saga from an alternative, evil timeline
My man here is the AVGN ASMR edition
The ghost characters taking damage pissed me off. I saved up so many studs to unlock them only for it to not matter.
I remember that one of the pins on my lil bro's ds was mangled, so the game got all scratched and thus, got even buggier
Even as a kid, I noticed that this game was of much lower quality than TCS. I remember the cantina music, the character creator and the funny mash-up names as well as being able to glitch the cutscenes to regain control of your character and just kill everyone mid-cutscene lol
Hey, I had this as a kid! I also had Complete Saga. Even then, I preferred CS. This game has pretty dreadful graphics (even for the DS), unsettlingly canned music (there was a song that actually scared me as a kid, I think it was called Runner's Blockade or something), and boring gameplay. It's so good to see someone tear it to shreds.
8:55 I’M DEAD😭😭😭plus the commentary🤣😭
Man I remember even with all of bugs and general lack of polish I still liked this game as a kid, but man this video is a real eye opener.
The ds version is the superior creepypasta backrooms version and a true masterpiece for nostalgia