They don’t make games like these anymore. It isn’t overly complicated or terribly pretty by today’s standards, but that’s the source of it’s charm. It is exactly now what it was then: a desktop game, a way to fill an hour or so between Star Wars as it used to be, as so many of us grew up with. 5u381i
As part of Lucasarts’ Desktop Adventure Series, players take control of Jedi-in-training time that you play.
The graphics have a cutesy big-headed anime look and feel to them, and you will frequently run into various friends and enemies of the game more of a South Park look as characters push that one frame of animation to its limit. Still, the overall look of the graphics showcases a fairly respectable amount of detail within its familiar characters and settings.
Control is simple, either using the keyboard’s arrow keys or the mouse. If you know how to use one or both, you’ll master the game’s controls within minutes.
Now for the heart of this game: the playability factor. As stated above, each adventure is approximately an hour long, so this is more of a pleasant time-er than anything else and it’s more fun blasting Stormtroopers and game is the fact that each world and mission is randomly generated, so playing the same mission over and over isn’t commonplace.
The game also included a few freebies that further round out the package: A Yoda Stories desktop wallpaper, a few character icons, and Making Magic, a behind the scenes look at the making of The Special Edition.
Yoda Stories doesn’t claim to be anything else than what it seems to be: A short, entertaining time er that focuses more on the brain than an itchy trigger finger. The game can be found sold by itself or packaged with the multi-media Behind the Magic. While Jedi Knight is by far a more adventurous and exciting path to becoming a true Jedi, the words of Master Yoda: “A Jedi craves not these things”.
The games today, or even the “real” games of the time, Yoda Stories may seem really lame, but this was never meant to be a “real” game. It has always been a “desktop” game, a diversion you can enjoy in less than an hour’s time when you want to take a break from homework/chores/whatever. As a replacement for, say, Solitaire, Yoda Stories truly shines.
