Beating EVERY N64 Game - Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (47/394)
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This is one of the best series any gaming youtuber is putting out right now.
Thank you!
Not if dude hasn’t seen Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Not cool.
@@GatCat Star Wars is overrated but I agree about Indiana jones
Agreed!
@@GatCat seeing certain movies should not be a prerequisite for playing and beating every N64 game. This is possibly the dumbest attempt at gatekeeping I have ever seen.
I love how he got the genuine Shadows of the Empire experience we all got as kids. Only he didn't shatter his controller or a sibling in anger.
Whoa whoa whoa we weren't all kids. Slow down.
Whoa whoa whoa....we don't all have siblings.
Whoa whoa whoa!
Whoa whoa whoa we weren't all alive, slow down there
I once shattered my older brother after losing like 6 games in a row in a fighting game. I was 4 or 5, he was 9, and I swung my controller,, knocking out his tooth!
"it sucks when your enemy has the high ground" -Thab & Anakin
The sewer level scared the shit out of me the first time I played. I was walking down the hallway and then I dropped in the water and all those monsters were trying to get me. It was terrifying!
I found the boss after the trainride frightening as a kid.
Haha same
Not to mention it was dark as hell. Playing it on an old TV was a nightmare.
“Battle of Hoth, where ever that is…..”
You’re killing me smalls!
I wouldn't let many slide for not knowing star wars but thab is an awesome dude. This series is great 👍
Yeah, everyone knows it's the second star to the right, straight on til morning!
@@spoonMANfork It's ok for people to not like things just because you do.
@@ninja_tony it's a joke. When someone doesn't know a huge topic in pop culture it's common to making a friendly jab. Just trying to show some appreciation for thab.
Would love if he responded with "I've never seen The Sandlot" haha
The intended way to destroy Boba Fett's ship is to shoot the back of it, you're not supposed to damage it from the front, that's why the hitboxes seemed janky
took me forever to figure that out when I played as a kid. Hardest boss fight ever
@@countchoc90 i had an easy time with the ship as a kid, i quickly figured out to just keep getting behind him and shooting. boba himself is the fight that gave me a ton of trouble.
I remember beating it as a kid in exactly the same way as he showed here. I never figured out the back part, haha.
this is one of my favorite N64 games of all time. When it came out it literally blew my mind. Thank you for the video and the nostalgic feelings I got from it.
same man, loved seeing this one. Really enjoyed it as a kid, the last stage was fantastic
me too. i never understood why it got so much hate. i spent more time playing this than zelda, mario, or any of the other big name n64 games.
I mean, there is also the nostalgia of pre-episode 1 Star Wars as well, when the franchise was largely driven by talented novelists and graphic artists.
@@forthrightgambitia1032 I didn't like Star Wars and I was 8 at the time. I tried watching Star Wars with a friend twice as he tried making me hype for Star Wars as well, yet I feel asleep both times as a kid. Loved this game to death though. The gameplay was honestly good considering the time it was released and had plenty of great moments imo.
@@T3n50r , same deal with me. I've never been into Star Wars, but I really liked this game.
I can't even be mad that Thab hasn't seen Star Wars, because seeing people interact with SW media without having the context of the movies to draw on is such an interesting experience.
Seriously. It's like seeing a reflection of your naive self, the version of you that was unaware of what actually happens in popular media, but still has absorbed knowledge of it through pop culture osmosis
I don’t think that’s the original Wilhelm Scream, it’s probably a recreation.
That or it's so over-compressed it's unrecognizable. I agree that something sounds distinctly off about it though.
10:44 he learned of the high ground the hard way. Those of us who are previously indoctrinated would never underestimate the power of the high ground.
It's over Thebeast721!
I scrolled down looking for this comment as soon as he said it. 40/40 did not disappoint
U can say alot about this game, but back then it had an atmosphere unlike any other. The amazing soundtrack in combination with the admittedly sometimes barebones environment which gave it this liminal space quality. It gave it an uncanny vibe which really worked well with the derelict space theme. It's a true cult gem imo!
Damn good description
I loved this game so much as a kid. I found it in my dad’s sock drawer during the lead up to Christmas 1997 and decided to take a gamble and cut the cellophane near the box flap. I wound up beating it before Christmas playing when my parents weren’t home.
When they finally wrapped it I rented the game from Blockbuster prior to Christmas so I could practice finding the challenge points.
When I finally got the game officially I beat it on all difficulties with all the challenge points. Then a few years later I ended up buying the PC version so I could see the new cut scenes and did it all again.
Switching to 1st person helped a lot in the shooting levels. And also the swoop bike level.
*I was in middle school when this came out. Middle school was troubling times, so this game was a wonderful escape. Great video, man!*
4:30 --
That stupid crack in the floor made me die sooooooo many times back in the day.
For the gladiator you should be using R to aim and c buttons to move around.
Most people don't know this is an option in this game, but it's how you can aim and hit small targets but also keeps you moving around to avoid getting hit too. Conkers also has this feature if you play that!
I played this game a lot when I was a kid, it was tough but I enjoyed the atmosphere, music and the feeling of overcoming a tough boss. Great video!
An absolutely iconic N64 entry. One of my faves. The baster fire was so satisfying lol
I loved this game. The only way I beat Boba Fett's ship was with the same cheese. I loved trying to explore and find all the secrets. The sewer level freaked me out too!
Every so often I subscribe pretty much in an instant. No screaming, no cliché TH-camr nonsense. Just simple narrative and gameplay. Good stuff.
Thank. You. So. Much. For. This. I played this game so much as a kid and loved it, totally blacked it out from my mind and as you were playing it I kept saying “dang, I think I used to play this game.” The still frame with the second boss after the train confirmed it and I had a full blown nostalgia blast. Love this series. I was a huge N64 fan and user.
Tip: you can change the control scheme and be able to strafe when running. This makes it easier when you need to Dark Souls the bosses: face in backside, attack attack attack.
Changing the camera is a useful tool at times as well. The space stages offer an in-cockpit view.
Love the series dude. N64 was my first console as a kid. Crazy to see all these games I have never played, or heard of. XD Good luck sir.
It’s mind blowing to me thinking that this came out BEFORE the 90s rereleases of the original trilogy and all of the prequels. I was probably playing Dark Forces and Tie Fighter around this time which were my Star Wars video games of choice lol
I remember I got this with my N64 along with Mario 64 for Christmas the year it came out and what a joy it was. It was like a whole new world of gaming! It’s a shame people today won’t get to experience the jump forward from the previous console cycle to the N64
Yep, that leap forward into 3D gaming was astonishing at the time. I will say that the introduction of open-world gaming with stuff like Grand Theft Auto III was also astonishing at the time, but I was a little older by then (high school). Ocarina of Time felt like such a huge open world, though, at the time.
Yeah Super Mario 64 blew my mind as a kid, especially since I didn't own a SNES and went straight from NES to N64.
@@chambeet I totally agree! Jesus the memories with GTA 3! My best friend has ps consoles while I had Nintendo. This is awful but I remember in high school we would be drinking at his house and if we needed to leave for a party we would decide if we were ok to drive if we could drive on GTA3 without crashing or getting a cops attention. Looking back at how stupid that was we’re lucky we never got hurt, hurt someone, or got arrested
@@Tomn8er haha me too! I didn’t have a SNES, went from NES to N64. What a jump it was!
@@UnwrittenSpade I will say, that's an interesting story, haha. I wasn't drinking or using drugs back at that point, but I'm a recovering addict, so yeah, I've definitely done many things that were stupid and I regret over the years.
Getting as many stars as possible was always fun in GTA 3. My friends and I put so very many hours into that game, mostly just doing dumb shit.
Love this series. And Shadows of the Empire was my first N64 game!
My older brothers and I got Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Christmas 1996 alongside Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey with the console..the latter game of which was a rental from a neighborhood video store.
I remember this game being insane on the hardest difficulty. Also, this game had tons of cheat codes which were very cool.
Yes! I think playing as a wampa was one?!
This one is insanely nostalgic for me, epecially the music. I loved this game. I'm sure I would suck now, but I don't remember having that much trouble with the bosses.
Who else did the wampa stompa code to play as the yeti guys?
i kicked this games ass as a kid and even played it on jedi difficulty eventually, but replaying it pretty recently i couldn't even beat it on normal. all these modern, handholdy games have softened us so we're not used to this kind of difficulty like we were back then.
Modern games are too easy nowadays
Droid solders... do we tell him they were humans? If only thab had learned the strafe button the game would have done a lot better lol
"Laser gun"
Only Star Wars game I had on N64 was Pod Racer, but I remember playing that game so much, it was great.
It's Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
@@KillTheLamb1 Yeah, that one
To this day one of my favorite games ever. I must have been 11yrs old or so, and a huge Star Wars fan. The pure joy of having a 3D Star Wars game was something special that can’t exactly be put into words.
When I replayed some of my childhood games, such as this, I was like "How the hell did I manage to beat all these games so easily before?" lol I was rusty :o like REALLY rusty
I remember getting this game when I was like 8 or 9 years old. It took me a LOOOOONG time to actually beat it but when I did it was one of my proudest early gaming moments. That game and Ocarina of Time, I will never forget certain moments in both of them. Beating the Sewers in this game and like beating the 3rd boss as child link in Ocarina because I knew that I could unlock adult Link, and by extension Epona. I remember being excited but then I realized I had forgotten to get Epona's song (well, not really "forgot" but I didn't know I needed it) THEN I had to beat the first temple as Adult Link to go back in time to get it. Games just had more of a sense of wonder back then.
honestly dude, you are pretty good at playing games. You are cruising through some pretty difficult games that took me years to beat playing on and off lol
IT'S OVER, THAB. I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND.
This was one of the few games as a kid that I could beat on the hardest difficulty. I swear jedi was easier than very hard.
The mid-90s was a pretty cool time for Star Wars fans - Lucasfilm launched several projects to draw attention to the 20th anniversary of Star Wars and Shadows of the Empire was a cross-media experiment that not only included this game but also a pretty good novelization, comic books, and bunch of toys. People like to shit on Disney for a few of their missteps w/ the IP but for those of us OG Star Wars fans we remember a time when Lucasfilm released NOTHING to move along the story or expand the universe and we fans only had semi-officially licensed fan-fiction in the form of comics, video games, and novels like Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy.
So it was pretty cool that Lucasfilm actually released an officially licensed addition to the franchise after more than a decade but I don't want to return to those days where the EU represented the vast majority of any new SW material. Disney's batting average hasn't been stellar but they gave us Andor so I count the current era as a W on the whole...
This was the game that sucked me into the N64. My uncle had it along with Super Mario 64, Wave Race 64, Cruis'n USA, Killer Instinct Gold, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy, but I gravitated towards this because the story was super interesting to me, I loved the music, and it felt manageable because it had a linear level structure instead of seeming like an endless open-world like Mario 64 did. I have the PC version of this on my backlog. IG-88 was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in a video game before. Gosh, experiencing the N64 when it was new was so amazing.
me: *subscribes*
Thabeast: "Apparently there's a battle at Hoth, wherever that is..."
me: *unsubscribes*
As a little kid I just did the first mission over and over. I loved flying around. Now I fly fpv drones for fun so hey, some thing never change.
I'm not sure if "they have the high ground" was a joke or not. Your deadpan delivery is spot on thab. 👍
It’s nice to see the latter levels of this game. I don’t think I ever got beyond the train as a kid. I got to know the first 3 levels very well.
19:33. Seeing that head by itself made me laugh. Though I was really hoping you would keep in the "This is stupid! What is this boss?!", line.
I was never really a huge Star Wars fan, but this was my first N64 game and I really loved it. Please come to NS0
It's a shame he never figured out that you're supposed to damage Slave 1 by shooting its engines, and that melts Boba's ship.
I bought a N64 on release but didn't want Mario or Pilot Wings, so I just had a system until Christmas when I got Shadows of the Empire as my first game. IG88 and his level gave me so many problems when I first started. Became quite adept at the Hoth level!
I'm here two years late but man... this was one of the two games I got with the N64 on Christmas morning. It's a classic. I beat it as a kid, and I tried again last year when I found my old video game stash... couldn't beat the first AT-ST fight on foot. I'm a disgrace. Hahaha this series is awesome man, so many memories.
Only people who played this as children can understand the visceral fear of fighting IG88 and the giant dianoga. I remember turning my game off when I got to the sewer level because I was afraid. Lol
He keeps talking about the high ground advantage but he has never watched the movies and has no idea haha
He has must of seen the memes?
@@alexnelson8 What memes?? It's just common sense that there's a high ground advantage, that idea didn't even come from Star Wars, but people always act like it's something that only exists in George Lucas's head lol
@@ninja_tony but it’s a Star Wars game
this is such a sick series. Really hope you stick it out!
"apparently theres a battle at hoth, wherever the hell that is..." lmao as a SW fan i died there already ^^
This game is one of those fever dream games from my childhood. My cousins had it at their house and we would visit often but only play it there and not all the time as it was 1 player. I distinctly remember the Hoth speeder and base lvls, and the train lvl, the rest is real fuzzy though lol. Such nostalgia.
The snowy Chewbaccas-you let them out of their cells and then run out the door. You hear them struggling with each other and then you hear a long growl or something. You reopen the door and one comes at you but it’s close to death. You can just run backwards and fire your blaster at it and it will go down with a little effort.
Strafing also makes easy work of them. Strafe to the side, run and turn to shoot them. When they get close again, give them another juke and run to the other side of the room.
I beat this game on Jedi. It was my greatest achievement in video games. Don’t play anymore, too addictive for me. But watching nostalgic TH-cam videos is also addictive. What a time to be alive
I just hard binged this whole series... Now I have to be patient 😭😭
Wow until I watched this I remembered not beating this game but apparently it’s way shorter than I remembered so I guess I did beat it. Good memories
When I was a kid, the sound that IG 88 makes when you fight him used to scare me. I was legitimately, afraid the whole time I was fighting him.
as someone who knows EVERYTHING about Star Wars and about Shadows of the Empire, it's interesting and refreshing to see someone play this blind. "this little robot" = IG88, etc. it's good to see if a game like this can stand up even without side knowledge.
Freaking loved this game. The final level has cheat codes to change you ship! And it wasn't just cosmetic, they flew and fired differently. Loved it
Back in the day there was the infamous n64 gold club. Open to those who had 100% completed around 20 games. You had to send in your video tapes to prove you have done it.
Dude IG-88 (the "robot guy/boss" as you called him) took me so many tries. I was just a kid back then when I was trying to beat it. But yeah, I could do that train section blindfolded by the time I finally did beat him. The most memorable boss fight of all besides the first one where you learn you can press Z to manually aim (the AT-ST walker thing) is Boba Fett of course. THAT was one of the best boss fights on the N64 IMO.
N64 has argually best line-up release games simultaneus with the console.
Mario 64, Wave Race, Star Wars: SOTE, Pilotwings, and more... - You name it.
I wish there would had no cap between releases later on, like it was on first half of - 98.
I like this guy because he looks like everyone’s idea of a gamer and he is totally invested in winning good games and crap ones no matter what.
The swoop bike is so difficult. Especially if you want to 100% the game and get the secret rabit ears medallion.
that mission is complete bs for completionists. as a kid i got at least most of the collectables in that stage, possibly even all of them, but trying to replay it recently i could hardly get any of them. no idea how i was able to do it as a kid but it seems nearly impossible now.
This is the beat part of my Friday morning
This game, is the one that started it all for me, came home from school one day, with mom telling me and my brother my dad had a surprise for us at home, he had the N64 set up and was already playing Shadows of the Empire in the living room when we got home. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
This is one of my fav Star wars games, the music in Xizor's palace is goated
That fucking speeder bike ring jump thing gave me PTSD flashbacks.
Thank you for beating this game. When I was young I wanted to play the bike mission which was described on back side of game package, it looked like so fun, but I could not reach there and always failed to pass the Boba Fett mission. Now I know the mission I wanted to play is the next mission of the Boba Fett`s...
I remember playing through that game once, and only ever once. That being said I have some pretty good memories of it.
You fight 2 at sts later on in the game, and I was worried at first because the one at the beginning of the game was difficult, but I beat them both pretty easily and kinda went like go figure
20:15 iirc there is a method to cheese just about every boss in this game, but it's been so long i don't remember any of the techniques. cool to see someone discovering them fresh.
It's kinda funny you went through the whole game not realizing you could go into first person.
I got this game with my N64. I loved it. I lost track of how many times I played the Hoth mission. It was always the level I showed impressed relatives.
This game could be one of the goats if it was not for some of the jankiest controls ever and so many cheap deaths.
Also, you should have tinkered with the control schemes, there are ways to circle strafe in this game that help a lot with bosses and turning corners.
"Your character will jump as if you're going straight rather than accounting for the turning."
Yes, that's how physics works.
This is Star Wars. There is no place for physics
Between the one-on-one AT-ST fight and the train level, this feels shockingly like a really primitive Jedi: Fallen Order in places. The parallels can't just be coincidence, considering all the things you _could_ include in a Star Wars game... It's like whoever made that game liked those sequences and said "Remember that? What if we did the same thing, but better?"
I remember playing this. But I don't think I finished the game, it was too hard.
@Wiegraf wow you're so cool.
Funny story: my friend and I got stuck on the Boba Fett level when we were kids so we called Nintendo Power for help. I guess we spent over $100 on that phone call and his parents were quite upset.
Growing up I had a friend who begged me to beat the boba fett level for him. Problem was he had a strict Chinese mom that only allowed 30 minutes of video game time. Took a few visits but we got it done.
the Gladiator has different hit boxes. if you can land headshots in phase 1 you would see it does a lot more damage. it's just like the 2 leg walkers (AT-ST?) where if you hit the black column in the center that the upper half turret rotates around it will do more damage.
This one was super fun to play growing up in the early N64 days. The Canyon maze took forever to me back then and Xizor's Palace was also super difficult. And yes, Sewers were gross and scary.
Oh god, I remember this game. I never tried to play it without cheats because it was way too difficult and unfair.
Watching someone who's never seen Star Wars talk about it with irreverence is the best thing in the world.
Boba Fett's ships hit box is the turrents and the back of the ship where the thrusters are if I remember right. Loved this game as a kid and the fight with IG-88 was the toughest part imo
So when I played that game, I didn't spoke English.
Imagine how long it took me to figure out that cable thing?!?!
I think it took me a full day to figure it out and it was only by accident 😢😅
For real dude, you having watched South Park, Indy, Star Wars, god knows what else. Mad like, how rare
For the speeder bikes, slower is better, they all stay slow if you're slow. And if you pick the easiest difficulty you don't even get the final level, like Castlevania. Yet compared to Superman, still fun!
This game had the coolest and most comprehensive cheat / debug menu which allowed you to modify many parameters like shaders, gravity in addition to all the standard suff. Getting into the menu involed pressing almost all buttons on the pad and holding the analog stick halfway to one side for a few seconds. Almost impossible to access. 😂
2:42 the hoth level I can pick up and ace to this day. Frustrating af initially, but the motion necessary to trip the walker eventually gets internalized, forever.
Unless you are not playing on an N64 controller, that might throw me lol
This game actually has a debug cheat that was revealed in an old issue of "Nintendo Power" in which you have to hold down a series of buttons on the controller, and then move the control stick halfway to the left, then right, and repeat. It basically breaks open the game and allows to you to make any alterations you want. You can get infinite ammo, permanent invincibility, change the planet's gravity, and even get the jetpack from the very first level. Makes the game incredibly fun.
Also, the Swoop Bike level CAN be beaten if you treat it as a race. Yes, the game wants you to take out all of the gang members, but it is possible to beat the level by just getting to Luke first.
7:19
Thab encounters Physics, and is not pleased
Man, not seeing Star Wars nor Indiana Jones is pretty wild. They were always on TV when I was a kid, and they were hugely popular!
Hey @thabeast721. The last few weeks have been very difficult and I let your videos playing into the night while I am working with my engineering stuff. You are actually doing my childhood dream and I am thankful that someone will finish all the N64 games. Therefore, I just wanted to say thank you.
I have a question, do you play the in the original N64 or do you use emulators?
Cheers and stay healthy.
Spent so much time in this game. My favorite part was using cheats to possess enemies like stormtroopers and wampas. I'd just use enemies to clear the path and not waste any lives.
But the bosses are indeed brutal. I was actually anxious and scared in the sewer level as well.
That gladiator boss reminds me of a similar boss in Donkey Kong Country 3 of all things. That had a very similar looking head that eventually detaches and shoots lasers.
This game was one of my favorites as a kid. I loved the gorge level and actually really enjoyed the speeder bike level as well - those two are the main ones that still come to mind when thinking of it. There was also some pretty cool cheat codes, if I remember correctly, that allowed you to do all kinds of weird stuff, like controlling some of the enemies. I wish I had an easy way to play it again.
I laughed out loud at "Albino Chewbacca's" Star wars fan here, they're called wampas, lol.
I thought I could handle Thab not seeing any Star Wars movies but then he says he doesn't know Hoth and I lost my mind.
And Robots, not droids.
can you imagine? i see the first three movies multiple times, i don't remember about hoth either, i guess it is not so importantant to remember every single event or name. yes they were funny movies but that's it.
Use L to put the brakes on while you wrap the tow cable around
I used to rent this game alot lol the at-st on foot part was always hard as a child
I feel like I remember doing that in empire strikes back for snes.
That's not the Wilhelm Scream
"Depending on how you approach it you die"
ThaB *flies in the middle of the group of enemies n dies*