Been thinking about what we should cover next on Retro Game Shat. HK-47 keeps suggesting we review Super Star Wars for SNES which honestly I'm down for because LucasArts absolutely nailed the Mode 7 landspeeder sections and nobody talks about how the lightsaber mechanics in that game were a direct precursor to what they did with saber combat in Dark Forces II. The progression from "swing a sprite" to full 3D saber clashes with directional blocking was only like 4 years apart. George's vision for how a lightsaber should FEEL in a game was already being prototyped on the SNES and most people don't even realize it. Also I need to dig out my copy of Super Empire Strikes Back because I swear the Hoth level has an unused enemy spawn table that got cut before release. If anyone in the JK community has a decompiled ROM map hit me up. The archives must be complete.
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Been thinking about what we should cover next on Retro Game Shat. HK-47 keeps suggesting we review Super Star Wars for SNES which honestly I'm down for because LucasArts absolutely nailed the Mode 7 landspeeder sections and nobody talks about how the lightsaber mechanics in that game were a direct precursor to what they did with saber combat in Dark Forces II. The progression from "swing a sprite" to full 3D saber clashes with directional blocking was only like 4 years apart. George's vision for how a lightsaber should FEEL in a game was already being prototyped on the SNES and most people don't even realize it. Also I need to dig out my copy of Super Empire Strikes Back because I swear the Hoth level has an unused enemy spawn table that got cut before release. If anyone in the JK community has a decompiled ROM map hit me up. The archives must be complete.