I played this game a ton as a kid on N64, but I could never beat it. Each boss was scarier than the last, and I don't think I ever got past that giant dionaga in the sewer level. I'm glad to have finally beaten it. Aside from the first phase of the last level, there's some pretty fun and rewarding gameplay late in the game. It's definitely clunky and doesn't feel like it's designed for a mouse and keyboard. Still, I was impressed at how vast and open some of these levels are, especially once you get the jetpack. It's a pretty short game, only took me a few hours. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for some good old-school Star Wars action.

Shadows of the Empire, which was a fully fledged Star Wars marketing cycle minus the movie, is unjustly overlooked nowadays. This would-be Episode 5.5 is absolutely SICK for a number of reasons. It goes deep into the criminal underbelly elements of the original trilogy and features characters like Boba Fett, IG-88 and some freaky green dude named Prince Xizor. Since Han is down for the count in between Empire and Jedi, we get a different renegade gunslinger type named Dash Rendar, a guy so cool he had to be disappeared immediately after the events of Shadows so as not to distract too much from the main event. This game has everything you could want in a Star Wars game in '96: OG trilogy vibes, jet packs, a Hoth stage, a Boba Fett boss battle, space battles, blowing up a Death Star type thing. Yes it's on the N64, so everything looks like garbo by today's standards but man what a time.