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LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy for Nintendo DS
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy for Nintendo DS takes you through the original film trilogy with Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and their allies. You fight with blasters and lightsabers, assemble loose pieces into useful machines and find your way through three-dimensional areas. Events from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi provide settings including Death Star corridors, the ice world of Hoth and encounters with Jabba.
Characters solve different problems. Jedi move objects with the Force, droids operate their own panels and small figures crawl through narrow passages. After the story, you can return in Free Play with other heroes to find secrets you missed. Between on-foot missions, you control vehicles and spacecraft. The LEGO humour also appears in the action: a defeated figure falls apart and reappears, costing you some of your collected studs.
You can play alone or cooperatively with two players, each with their own Nintendo DS and cartridge. The separate battle arena supports up to four local players. Here, one cartridge can be enough through DS Download Play, with fewer available characters and arenas. Every participant still needs their own DS; additional systems and cartridges are not included. The connection is local wireless, without a cable. Your progress is stored on the cartridge.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy was released in 2006 by LucasArts and TT Games. Traveller's Tales developed the versions for larger systems; Amaze Entertainment made the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance editions. For DS, the result was a three-dimensional action adventure based on the films that introduced Luke Skywalker and the fight against the Empire. The handheld version received its own local wireless multiplayer features alongside the single-player campaign.
The LEGO Star Wars formula connected film humour with actions involving building bricks. Damaged figures fell apart, piles of pieces became machines and another character could open a door that remained closed to your first hero. This sequel also gave players the ability to assemble their own figures from different body parts. The DS edition retained the original trilogy as its framework and alternated exploration on foot with vehicles and space battles.
Reviews from the release period noted both the adventure's scope and technical problems involving the camera and companions becoming stuck. Meanwhile, the cooperative campaign and arena showed how the DS edition used its wireless connection for different kinds of multiplayer. A year later, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga arrived on DS, with events from all six films then available. The Original Trilogy remains Amaze's earlier, separate adaptation, with its own missions and arena.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga covers all six films then available on Nintendo DS, while The Original Trilogy is limited to Episodes IV, V and VI. You will recognise switching between Jedi, droids and other characters to reach secrets. The Complete Saga has its own DS levels and adds the prequel stories. It therefore gives you a broader film journey, not simply Amaze's same campaign with just a few extra figures.
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures on Nintendo DS shares the combination of film humour, building puzzles and chapters you can search again. Indy uses his whip to tackle enemies and obstacles, whereas Star Wars assigns different tasks to the Force, droids and blasters. Both require the right character in the right place. Temples and archaeological searches give Indiana Jones a different rhythm from space flights and battles against the Empire.
LEGO Batman: The Videogame brings a similar alternation of fighting, building and discovering hidden routes to Nintendo DS. Batman and Robin gain extra abilities through their special suits; in Star Wars, these are more often tied to the type of character, such as a Jedi or droid. Batman also tells its own story with escaped villains and lets you play their side too. Star Wars follows the events of three existing films.
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 on Nintendo DS also uses a large group of familiar figures to solve puzzles in different ways. You collect studs and return with new abilities, just as in The Original Trilogy. Harry learns spells during lessons and draws patterns with the stylus. Star Wars distributes solutions among Force powers, technical panels and weapons, with vehicles providing a change between exploration on foot.
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game on Nintendo DS likewise turns familiar films into fights, building puzzles and a search for hidden objects. Jack Sparrow and the other crew members bring their own abilities, just as Star Wars divides tasks between heroes and droids. The pirate journey follows four films and revolves around ships, harbours and treasure. The Original Trilogy instead alternates its ground missions with familiar vehicles and spacecraft.
