Star Wars - Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace | Gameplay [PS1/4K]

This is one of the biggest piles of garbage with the name Star Wars on it.
This is only a gameplay of the first few levels, I wasn’t able to take it anymore after the Naboo escort mission…

I haven’t finish it but this game is certainly not above a 2/10.
- Janky AF control, you are a Frigidaire not a Jedi. I know it’s on the first gen of 3D games but it still control like shit.
- Switch that you need to turn on almost out of your FoV, good game design right there…
- The 45 degrees angle of the camera that point to the floor, the guy who thought of that have a high IQ.
- Escort missions with characters that run to the enemies and stay in place when they get shoot by them, another high IQ move from the devs.
- If you try to clear the way before letting the NPC go forward, you get a mission failed because you can’t be too far from them either.
- Unfairness of the game overall, really hard to ricochet the enemies lasers and even just fighting them because they start running if you are too close of them while you follow like an idiot and get shoot by the other ones.
- Way way too many enemies for the control scheme and the gameplay mechanics of the game.
- Over powerful enemies, the destroy droids are just a joke, I understand that they are powerful in the movies but this is a game.
- Trees randomly falling over your head, spaceship randomly exploding and killing you even if you are far far far away from the explosion, a lot of cheap deaths.
- Enemies spawning behind you and attacking you while you have a conversation with a NPC, this is great…
- On the positive side, the musics are really good, Episode 1 have the best SW musics after the original trilogy. But it is created by John Williams, not one of the dev of the game.
- Big positive point for the fact that you can "Order 66" the kids in this game. It is the only game to my knowledge that you can do this. The next Fallout or TES should add this.

Too bad because I really like Star Wars and really liked the style of the game, a TPS adventure with useless dialogues and the world/level design was nice. It looks and sounds like Star-Wars. If it wasn’t for the ridiculous escort missions, I would have probably tried to finish it, but "cheesing" the game is kinda hard when you are not in control of the characters that is getting shoot at it.

If it wasn’t for the janky control, the shitty angle of the camera, a fair amount of enemies and no escort missions, this game would have been decent. The game designer for the gameplay mechanics pretty much ruined the entire game from the start, every other devs working on this game doing a good job can thank him for that.

Watching the awful Episodes 7,8,9 is a better idea and better waste of your time than playing this game.


I started playing Metal Gear Solid 1 for the first time right after this shit and holy crap, what a difference.
From a piece of shit to the best game of the 5th gen of consoles and one of the greatest game ever made.
The difference between someone who understand how to design a game vs someone who have no clue what a game is.


*The emulator have some problems with transparency, that’s why it lag sometimes during rooms transition.


If you understand french and want to know what I thought about the game.
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