It's a book for young adults. Pretty meh story and writing. I re-read it a few years ago, circa 20 years after my first read of it, and I understood why it didn't stick with me. The Thrawn books are so much better.
Anyway, timely thread. Just yesterday I played through Super Star Wars and Super TESB for the SNES.
I played SSW dozens of times as a kid. Probably almost all of them on Easy, since even the equivalent of Normal mode is hard as balls - or rather pretty cheap, seeing that increasing the difficulty makes enemies spongey as hell and makes your character as frail as paper. Still a cool game, a very good way of reliving the movie.
Meanwhile, I'd never played STESB and holy shit, this one is pretty bad. The level design is horrid, the performance is terrible, the difficulty is out of this world even on Easy. The Mode 7 levels are particularly bad - it's like they were "should we have low resolution or bad framerate?" and opted for "yes". Some bosses are absolutely impossible unless you come in with full health and a fully-powered blaster and just shoot the boss into oblivion before it does it to you. The later platforming levels are so badly designed, they'd be hilarious if they weren't infuriating. The final Vader battle is impossible if you don't come in with the right Force powers, which of course I didn't find. The bastard has a life bar that would put Cave shooter bosses to shame, and the most convenient collisions I've seen in a while. I think I tried to beat him for like three hours straight, trying at least 50 times, but to no avail. I guess whoever beat this game as a kid must be scarred forever. Even on Easy, beating this shit with three continues must have taken months to the average SNES player.
I had half a mind to complete the trilogy playing Super ROTJ today, but I won't have time for that.
