So my fiancee and I just rented Lego Star Wars for the Wii, and we’re a bit puzzled. We’ve played through the first level of episode 1, in which Qui Gon, Obi Wan and TC-14 wandered around a bit and killed some random droids and assembled some lego things. However, as we rented the game, we have no instructions, and I’m a bit confused about one thing. So there are some doors that only R2D2 (or a similar droid) can get through. Are we supposed to be able to get through them right now, and we just need to figure out how? Or is this one of those things where we’ll unlock R2 later on and come back?
Similarly, there are some rooms with plasma walls we can’t get past. Is it just a puzzle we should be able to solve with the resources and knowledge we currently have? If so, we’ll solve it, please don’t tell us how. Or are we supposed to come back later? Or is there a plasma-disabling power button that we would know about if we had read the instructions that we are just missing? Or maybe is it a puzzle we can only solve playing with 2 players at once or something (where one uses the force on the other, or something)?
Please don’t tell us solutions of puzzles, just the general guidelines under which we’re supposed to be solving them.
Thanks!
The idea is that you keep unlocking new characters, Jedi’s Robots and bounty hunters
Each of these classes has special abilities and some doors only open for that class.
This is supposed to give you an incentive to revisit the levels with a different Lego toon, so you can find the special Lego blocks and find the hidden secrets, but to finish the story these are not necessary
Just to add to that: Each level can be played either in “Story Mode” or in “Free Play Mode”. You need to play the level through in Story Mode once before Free Play mode is unlocked.
In Story Mode you are stuck with the characters that they give you. In Free Play mode, you have the choice of using any of the characters that you have unlocked from playing other parts of the game. In many cases, there are puzzles in the levels that can only be solved if you use characters with certain special abilities, and you can only bring those characters in if you’re doing Free Play mode. For example, there may be doors that can only be opened if you have an R2D2 robot with you, or blocks that can only be blown up with a bounty hunter’s grenade.
Free Play mode lets you rotate through any of the ten characters that you’ve “brought with you” at any point in the level. So you could switch to a Jedi to do a force thing, then switch to a guy with a gun to shoot some enemies, then switch to R2 to fly over a chasm, etc.
The idea is that you go through Story Mode once for each level, then you go back in Free Play mode to try to get all of the extras, including minifig parts and other rewards.
I also think that only in Story Mode do you get all of the cute cut scene animations.
The plasma wall does sound like something you can get through on the first try, though. Basically stack everything you can and jump off it. If that doesn’t work, blast everything in sight, even things that don’t look like targets.
Thanks, everyone. I really really hate puzzles that can only be solved later, but which don’t clearly specify that. I’m such a stubborn completist that I’ll sit there for hours trying every last trick I can possibly think of, which I’m happy to do if there is just a particularly tricky solution I haven’t come up with yet, but is super frustrating if it turns out (without any notification) that the puzzle can’t be solved yet.
Yeah, Story Mode is not the completist mode; that’s Free Play. When I played through Lego Star Wars, my objective in Story Mode was just to finish the level so I could go back and really start getting into the nooks and crannies. Fun game, but requires a certain tolerance for repetition.
Yeah, but you only see them in story mode, and you only have to play story mode once, so it works out to about the same thing.
Also, for the OP, keep in mind that this game is for kids. The puzzles aren’t going to be all that hard. If you can’t figure something out pretty quickly, it’s probably something that you have to beat in Free Play mode.