Modern Gaming: Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon (GBA) Review · 3:06am May 21st, 2018
A new edition of Modern Gaming is up as I will check out a Han Solo game titled Flight of the Falcon. Despite the Solo movie debuts in a few days, I won't check it out since the Mouse Empire started messing with the original canon. Let's talk about Han Solo and some of his tidbits from Lucas' canon. I found a few things interesting from the Original Trilogy of Episode 4. In the original cut, Solo flirted with some human woman in the Cantina scene when Luke and Obi-Wan came to their table. Of course, it got taken out from the original cut as I'm assuming Lucas didn't want to discourage 21st Century Fox for its rating. Honestly, he should've kept it in as this made Solo a moreinteresting character because of him acting like some womanizer. Of course, Lucas started moving Solo to a comedic character in Return of the Jedi and having the former smuggler speaking obvious dialogue.
As for this edition, Flight of the Falcon got released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance and published by THQ. Surprisingly enough, this game wasn't produced or published by Lucas Arts but instead by THQ. I had no clue Lucas Arts let their licenses out to other publishers. Usually, they were the publisher most of the time with games like the Super series and Rogue Squadron. The game is under the rail shooter genre as I have already covered one from Sega. I can see why THQ wanted to use this genre since it has seen previous success during the 90s. However, Ifind it a bit odd that they would pick a system like the GBA to have a rail shooter. The genre has always been dull on portable systems of any kind. I just find it strange they would pick a portable to release a Star Wars game.
