Finished Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back SNES, one of hardest and most frustating game i've played, seriously fuck this game, i have played castlevania 1/3, Mega Man 1/2/3, Ninja Gaiden 1/2/3.. none of them comes close to the amount of bullshit this game have, thankfully the game have passwords so you don't need to redo the entire game so Battletoads is technically harder(could not beat this one, having to redo everything again gets old with this amount of trial and error).
Even with passwords i spent hours in 5 min long levels, trying to just get through it. in the first level you ride these white kangaroos and there's some Ice Caves you need go through, in the second Ice Cave i spent hours trying to beat that level, dying a hundred times+, i did not die this much in the battletoads turbo tunnel level, not even close. There's some fucking Yeti-looking enemies that will freeze you for 5 seconds and then kill you (sometimes not if you're lucky), they do it randomly and too fast to dodge it, if you go melee against these fuckers it's a gamble either you'll die or not:
Honestly this game is just annoying and bad designed, there's too much enemies and stuff that damages you everywhere, it's impossible to avoid damage. Too much RNG too! in one of the level there's green flying robots that go invulnerable, their movement is all random and fast and you can't kill them, yet if they bump on you, you lose 1/5 of your health, you have no control over it. I think Battletoads it's a bad designed game as well, because all the difficulty comes from 'gotcha!' level design with no continues, but in Battletoads at least you have control over the game, i can get to level 6, the retarded ride snakes coming from walls 'gotcha!' level, without dying once, because it's all memorized and i have control over it, here in Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back i have none. The game have these fake 3d levels as well which runs at 5 to 10 fps:
I actually thought it was cool the way you kill walkers, you throw tow cables on them, fly in circles to tie them and take them down. Impressive, but sucks to play at 5 fps, enemies ships will randomly collide on you, removing half of your ship health. There's also this first person ship mission in the Millennium falcon:
which plays like a poor man Tie Fighter, but it's a lot better than the other ship mission in Hoth, it runs at better and stable FPS, it still challenging, you have to take down 20 enemies, dodging their shots and the billions of meteors coming at you.
I beat the first game as well before playing this one, and i thought it was a lot more reasonable and better designed, still hard a fuck and not the peak of good design, but you can memorize it and make a strategy to go through the levels, i reached the final level without using continues once, with a lot of extra lives to spare, i can not even think of doing that in the second game:
However this one does not have passwords, if you lose your continues, back to the beginning again. But there's a lot less bullshit in the first game than the sequel. The only one left it's the third one which i heard it's the easiest.
If you want challenge play these games, on normal or hard difficulty. Just a warning it's not good or fun difficulty, it's less Contra and more Ghost and Goblins.
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