Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

About Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994) is the final SNES Super Star Wars, adding Leia and Wicket to the playable heroes and the Endor speeder bike chase to the Mode 7 sequences.

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Depth

Loosely following Return of the Jedi, with added scenes such as Luke fighting his way through the Death Star to reach the Emperor, it keeps the formula of the previous two games: selectable characters on certain levels, several playable heroes, Mode 7 vehicle sequences and the second game's controls and password saves. Luke, Han and Chewbacca are joined by Princess Leia and the Ewok Wicket. Bosses include Jabba the Hutt, the Rancor, Darth Vader and the Emperor, and vehicle sequences include the Endor speeder bike chase and a run in the Millennium Falcon.

Luke now has five Force powers rather than nine, recharges them more easily and can no longer use blasters. Leia changes look and fighting style with the plot, wielding a staff disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh at Jabba's palace, a broken chain as Jabba's escaped slave on his sail barge, and a blaster as a Rebel leader on Endor. Reaction was divided: GamePro praised the score but criticised frustrating controls, easy bosses and levels that felt like retreads of the previous games, while Electronic Gaming Monthly praised its "excellent" graphics and the need to move carefully through levels. IGN later ranked it 26th among SNES games for the variety its five characters bring.

Making Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

LucasArts and Sculptured Software developed it and JVC Musical Industries published it for the Super NES in 1994, completing the Super Star Wars trilogy. GamePro rated the Game Boy version "one of the year's most fun and challenging handheld games" thanks to its five playable characters, and said the Game Gear version's graphics were nearly as good as the SNES's. THQ re-released it in February 1997 to coincide with the Special Edition films, and it came to the Wii Virtual Console in 2009 alongside the other Super Star Wars games. Complex felt it was almost as great as its predecessors but less difficult.