Instead of writing a long scrolling introduction to try and justify the game in the Star Wars universe, they should have been honest and wrote: "Yes, I know this is stupid, but just go have fun. - George".
I'd like to remind you all: Capcom approached LucasArts with the idea of making a 3D Star Wars Fighting game, and they turned it down to make this. That Capcom Star Wars project later became Star Gladiator.
Tokyo Movie Shinsha approached Lucasfilm to work on one of the Star Wars cartoons in the 1980s (Droids and Ewoks), but he went with Nelvana instead. TMS did create a short pilot animation that the public has never seen. I only know of this because Marc Scot Zicree mentioned it in this video about the cartoon Mighty Orbots.
Part of me really wonders what could have been if they just went with Capcom in the first place... and if Capcom would have included Ryu as a guest fighter, just because they could.
To be fair, a genre like Tekken was what people called a "beat-em up" back then. Which is what you are doing, beating people up. Today, a "beat-em up" is used for games like Streets of Rage, while Tekken is now referred to as a "fighting game".
This game really captured my imagination as a kid and was my first exposure to star wars expanded universe characters like Mara Jade. Also it was the first point i really became aware of Boba Fetts actual name. Also seeing Leia with a double bladed lightsaber was pretty mind blowing at the time.
All the secret characters made some great memories, and that final battle with Vader (and then Mara) will be cemented into my brain forever. Something about the horrible graphics made it iconic to my child self
Correction: It's a fighting game / fighter. Not a beat em' up. Beatemups are sidescrollers where you wail on mobs to progress, like Simpsons Arcade, Streets of Rage, or Alien vs. Predator Arcade. This is just a traditional fighting game.
Someone else who's bothered when a fighting game is referred to as a beat em' up and vice verse? Thank goodness I'm not alone there. Fighters and beat em' ups are NOT the same thing.
I remember looking at the cover of this game and thinking, "This looks interesting, I should play this on my PS2." I played it for 5 minutes and never touched it again.
Capcom actually went to LucasArts around this time with an offer to make a Star Wars fighting game etc But LucasArts declined, and instead went and made this. Oh what could've been.
Imagine if this game were like Tobal and had a plethora of SW characters like how the original action figures covered every little obscure alien and stormtrooper
As a devoted fan of the tekken series at the time, and a lover of Star Wars, I was honestly surprised, back in the ps1 era games, there weren’t many SW titles that really mattered aside of course my favorite The Phantom Menace or Jedi battles, so I had quite the fun playing it! Felt clunky sure, but it was always fun playing it with your friends and a breath of fresh air.. So for me, despite of its quality, and after all these years; it still holds a part of my heart, call me nostalgic 😝
Before we actually owned a PSX, we rented one from blockbuster with two games. This and Mega Man Legends. I have a fondness for both, but for VERY different reasons.
Your work is incredible and I wonder if one day, will you talk about the Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars playsets, to continue your exploration of Star Wars games in which you are very well engaged?
I loved this game as a kid. I think it was probably my first Star Wars game I played, when I went over to a friend's house. (Or it was Shadows of the Empire.)
This was in the 4 pack of games that we got for Christmas ‘97 when my brothers and I originally got a ps1. We were blown away! I’m very nostalgic it- easy to play, good sound, a totally inoffensive Star Wars game. To this day, to me, it’s at least a 7/10.
While I definitely don't think this is a good game I do have a soft spot for it in my heart and I still own my copy. It's definitely flawed and undeniably clunky but it's just so fun playing as Return of the Jedi era Star Wars characters whacking the crap out of each other with weak lightsabers and unfair long-distance weapons
I remember being flabbergasted when Teräs Käsi was name dropped in the Solo movie. I thought "did Disney just canonize that godawful PS1 game?!" Fun fact: all of the incidental characters were incorporated into what was official (now Legends) canon. Arden Lyn was an Emperor's Hand for a time, and Hoar, Thok and the random Stormtrooper (all of them Force sensitive) were her students. Lyn was also involved in the Zaarin Insurrection, boarding Palpatine's Star Destroyer over Coruscant and capturing him during Grand Admiral Zaarin's attempted coup before it was ultimately foiled by the arrival of loyalist Imperial forces headed by Darth Vader, Thrawn and Tie pilot Maarek Stele.
Han's victory dialogue combined with the dialogue Flandrew gave Luke... I liked the passive agressive vibes there. I'd also like to see Flandrew review the Capcom Star Gladiator games now, i.e the games Capcom made when Lucasarts turned down their pitch to make a 3D Star Wars fighter.
I still remember my friend's younger brother getting grounded after playing this with him. Kept telling me to not do anything, because he wanted me to be his punching bag while he tried random button combos. Whenever he used a super move, I would just side step away 😁 He got so angry he cursed me out, which his mother was not pleased to hear
I've always wanted to play this game as a kid. Had the demo when they gave out those like 16 game demos. Never got to it tho. But I did find Armored Core from those demos and loved that series since
Would love to see you cover Star Wars Pinball. I think it's one of the most underrated Star Wars video games, probably because it's "just pinball". But they're great tables with a lot of love for the franchise and something like 20 tables with everything from movie and show adaptations to character-based tables to some really deep cuts, such as a table based on Star Wars action figures.
I think the fact that they made a Star Wars fighting game like this is admirable, and the opening montage is cool. And it’s neat how many character were included
I thought I knew pretty much all Star Wars games. But I don't think I ever heard of this one. But luckily it seems like I didn't miss out on much growing up...
Ok but another shot at a Star Wars fighting game would be genuinely awesome, it could even go the Dragon Ball FighterZ route of like when you do a canon matchup like say Luke vs Vader on Bespin you get a small cutscene playing out scenes of that fight or stuff like that
It 100% is. Played this game on the ps2 via backwards compatibility back in the day. I nor anyone else could figure out how to use the lightsabers or the blasters. It was always frustrating.
At the time it was definitely a novelty. Having all the star wars characters in a 3d fighting game was a great thing to see. Fighting game wasn't anyone's obvious choice, but at the time, although virtua fighter it was not, it was a good enough time. Me and my friends put plenty of hours into it, and even today it has a lot more charm than many other worse star wars games.
I remember for my birthday when I was little I got this game and Star Wars episode 1 Jedi power battles. lol I had fun with this game as a kid but I eventually played Jedi power battles way more after a few days 😁
I had a love-hate relationship with this game. I loved the premise, taking our beloved characters and some generic characters and putting them into a fighting game. But the execution was poor: primarily with the game speed. I think the combo system was a little on the short end but I think the fact that inputs are so slow make them even worse. I loved this game because graphically the charcters and the environment looked good (at the time), I liked being able to switch Luke into his Return of the Jedi outfit by hitting select on his model. The difficulty is pretty high if you don't try cheesing the game (if you put it on hard), although you have to be ready for the computer to mercilessly try to juggle you or push you out of the ring. I do think they did try their best with this game at the time due to the detail and color of character models and the background, but also because the sound design was good. It may not have a story mode which would have enhanced it, but an arcade mode with unlockable cutscenes and characters was par for the course. They might have made more success with a game like this if it were strictly made for an arcade, with better hardware or at least hardware that they know how to code for, compared to just trying to jump into PS1's code.
I had this, Tekken 3, & Soul Blade growing up. My friends and I played the hell out of all of them, and at the time it didn't feel any worse than Soul Blade (which spawned the Soul Calibur series).
My first EVER video game as a child. Got it with my first ps1. I LOVED IT. Looking back I see objectively why it was terrible, but as a 90s child obsessed with Star Wars, this was epic.
It's kinda funny how I hate fighting games but grew up with and loved both Dragon Ball GT Final Bout AND Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi as a young lad.
For some reason watching this I was reminded of xmen mutant academy. I feel like that also stemmed from the same ilk of tekken clones. Man, lots of nostalgia with that one.
Yes, and that's why I love it. It's unbalanced, sluggish, cheesy...and an asthetic time capsule of awesome if you're an OG trilogy fan like me. The ad campaign for this produced some beautiful artwork back then, too...
Drew I’ve been working so hard I forgot to watch your last video I’m sorry. So hard I crapped my pants at work just so I could go home early and now all the boys call me shitty
There are plenty of much worse Star Wars games out there. But I think the reason this game sticks out so much is because of how much *potential* it had to be good. The graphics were great for the time it came out, the sound design was fantastic, and fighting games seem like such a no-brainer for a setting where all the biggest moments in the movies are big lightsaber duels. The fact that it plays so, so badly in spite of all of that is what makes this game stick in the memories of fans. And it honestly wouldn't take too many changes to make it a much, much better experience. If the controls were a bit more responsive, if the stun from when characters are knocked to the ground didn't last so egregiously long, and if the enemy AI were just a little more responsive, it could have been a fantastic game for its time. Instead, what we got was a barely playable mess. I'd honestly love to see another take at this concept, modernized and with tighter, more fluid gameplay. Because of this game's failure, we've gotten exceedingly few Star Wars fighting games. We're long overdue for Star Wars to get, say, the Dragon Ball Fighterz treatment.
I actually would love to see another crack at a Star Wars fighting game. Especially since the movies/shows have expanded on the characters and locales on offer. As for worst Star Wars game, definitely not. Perhaps most wasted potential, but not the worst.
I can't share my memories of this wretched game. That would make the 1000s of hours of therapy I spent learning to repress them meaningless. This is right up there with yodas desktop adventures levels of ick.
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi what could have been a cool Star Wars fighting game but we wouldn’t have that till Star Wars episode III Revenge Of The Sith and Soul Calibur IV.
I remember going out of school, seeing this pirated game on a street peddler, buy it and play it with a friend. We laughed our ass off and never played it again.,
100%, it's been my dream for awhile. Smash bros style would be perfect for Star Wars with Jedi Double jumps and Jetpacks... Could have some awesome stages. Anytime I play Smash Bros I wish it was Star Wars.
When they were making this game, they wanted a secret language to use for the Teräs Käsi and then a Finnish person working there said that they should use Finnish as the secret language (its a good secret language because its not related to other European languages other than Estonian and to Hungarian but not as much at it is to Estonian. It is also related to some very small languages.) Then they used what the worker said. Teräs Käsi translated to English means Steel Hand. You didnt say it right at all, i understand because Finnish is finno-ugric language and very different to English but you could look the words up and lookup how it is said in future videos and also look up what it means. Im Finnish if you didnt already get it lol.
@@dibblidyy I know that but some Finnish people are good at it. Also it's easy to learn one word not a whole language. He didn't even try, he just did it with English accent
@@gordonfreeman2634 Does the game tell you that these are Finnish words? Otherwise, they probably just assumed that these were made up words and not something from a real language on Earth, so why would they even think of looking up how to pronounce it in Finnish?
As weird as this sounds, I still want to try this. It checks the two boxes for me: Star Wars. Check. Fighting game. Check again. I always thought, “this’ll suck” but I still wanted to try it. Why do I do this to mystlf
I played it recently on my PSP which has a PS1 emulator installed into it. Let's just say the game was too frustrating for me to play that I deleted it 😅
I feel like a Star Wars fighting game could be really fun if done right. A SoulCalibur-esque weapon-based fighting game letting you play as all of your favorite Jedi and Sith as well as other characters from throughout the Star Wars universe who wield melee weapons, with each character having their own unique set of special moves. I think Bandai Namco had the right idea including Star Wars characters in SoulCalibur IV, even if some parts of it could have been thought out better (*cough* *cough* Yoda *cough*)
Before I even clicked on the video I thought "Oh, Masters of Teras Kasi".
Same
I mean the thumbnail is a dead giveaway
@@joehanchoi I didn't know what the cover art for this game was before watching this video, I just knew the game
@@P5kr same here on both comments, I didn't know the artwork, but I knew it's the game :D
Same
Instead of writing a long scrolling introduction to try and justify the game in the Star Wars universe, they should have been honest and wrote: "Yes, I know this is stupid, but just go have fun. - George".
But then he would have to repeat that with The Clone Wars novels, Rebels and the sequels, the joke would be lost quickly
@@MsAmber82Rebels is Disney canon, has nothing to do with what George made.
Leia with that Bastilla-looking double-bladed yellow lightsaber makes me want to boot up KOTOR and burn through yet another playthrough
Never a bad time for a KOTOR or KOTOR 2 replay
“DO IT!”
I remember asking my dad if he remembered this game, and he'd just get really angry.
I think the funniest thing about this is that Teras Kasi is now canon to the movie universe because it was mentioned in Solo
It wasn’t. Either I have bad memory or you mix it up with War of the Bounty Hunters.
The technic Teras kasi is canon, this game isn't.
@@CC-1138_DS I think it was mentioned by Qi'ra during one of the fight scenes
If I'm not mistaken Mara is also mentioned as having it at some point
The movie with the awful activist droid played by the even more awful Phoebe Waller-Bridge? Yeah, "canon"...sure. XD
I'd like to remind you all: Capcom approached LucasArts with the idea of making a 3D Star Wars Fighting game, and they turned it down to make this.
That Capcom Star Wars project later became Star Gladiator.
Genuinely a huge missed opportunity. What a shame.
@@bigfatchubbybritboy9445 Biggest choke in SW History second to Disney buying Star Wars
Tokyo Movie Shinsha approached Lucasfilm to work on one of the Star Wars cartoons in the 1980s (Droids and Ewoks), but he went with Nelvana instead. TMS did create a short pilot animation that the public has never seen. I only know of this because Marc Scot Zicree mentioned it in this video about the cartoon Mighty Orbots.
Nostalgic memories from both
Part of me really wonders what could have been if they just went with Capcom in the first place... and if Capcom would have included Ryu as a guest fighter, just because they could.
Worst game ever? Thats fighting words
Fighting words about a fighting game, the irony
@@aamirrazak3467 that's the point.
Not to be confused with *Them's Fighting Herds*, which is a completely different (and much better) game.
Maybe worst fighting game (there's a lot of candidates here), but not worst game in a world where Superman 64, ET, and worse exists.
Fun fact: Teräs käsi is Finnish and it means iron hand
And Tekken means iron fist in Japanese.
Hmmm....
FLANDREW NO THIS IS A FIGHTING GAME NOT A BEAT EM UP FLANDREW THEYRE GONNA KILL YOU IN THE COMMENTS 😭
Yeah I caught that too, totally different types of games lol
To be fair, a genre like Tekken was what people called a "beat-em up" back then. Which is what you are doing, beating people up.
Today, a "beat-em up" is used for games like Streets of Rage, while Tekken is now referred to as a "fighting game".
And years later, Bandai Namco showed how this idea *could have worked* when they put Yoda, Vader and Starkiller in Soulcalibur IV.
I rented this from blockbuster when I was like 7 or 8 in 2001-2002. Also got Star Wars Demolition…. Good times man I miss those days
Jedi power battles was super hard and I could barely get past the first level.
Oh hell yeah Demolition is my jam! 🎉 played it for the first time last year.
That’s the great thing about the rental days, a game like this might not be worth owning but I got my $5 worth for a weekend of dumb button mashing
This game really captured my imagination as a kid and was my first exposure to star wars expanded universe characters like Mara Jade. Also it was the first point i really became aware of Boba Fetts actual name. Also seeing Leia with a double bladed lightsaber was pretty mind blowing at the time.
“Lord Raiden’s lightning powers”, I’m in stitches lol
Ha, it reminds me of the prequel and I quote "help me I'm too weak, Uhh Ultimate Power"
All the secret characters made some great memories, and that final battle with Vader (and then Mara) will be cemented into my brain forever. Something about the horrible graphics made it iconic to my child self
I liked the video before it started
Correction: It's a fighting game / fighter. Not a beat em' up.
Beatemups are sidescrollers where you wail on mobs to progress, like Simpsons Arcade, Streets of Rage, or Alien vs. Predator Arcade.
This is just a traditional fighting game.
Thank you. I hate when the two are conflated. I like fighting games, but I'm not a big fan of Beat'em ups.
Someone else who's bothered when a fighting game is referred to as a beat em' up and vice verse? Thank goodness I'm not alone there. Fighters and beat em' ups are NOT the same thing.
I remember looking at the cover of this game and thinking, "This looks interesting, I should play this on my PS2." I played it for 5 minutes and never touched it again.
Capcom wanted to make a Star Wars fighting game but Lucasarts said no, so they made the Plasma Sword games.
It's a shame Namco never made a fighting game based on Star Wars, imagine SoulCalibur with more than 3 Star Wars characters.
Capcom actually went to LucasArts around this time with an offer to make a Star Wars fighting game etc But LucasArts declined, and instead went and made this. Oh what could've been.
Imagine if this game were like Tobal and had a plethora of SW characters like how the original action figures covered every little obscure alien and stormtrooper
As a devoted fan of the tekken series at the time, and a lover of Star Wars, I was honestly surprised, back in the ps1 era games, there weren’t many SW titles that really mattered aside of course my favorite The Phantom Menace or Jedi battles, so I had quite the fun playing it! Felt clunky sure, but it was always fun playing it with your friends and a breath of fresh air.. So for me, despite of its quality, and after all these years; it still holds a part of my heart, call me nostalgic 😝
Always look forward to these every Sunday 😌
Before we actually owned a PSX, we rented one from blockbuster with two games. This and Mega Man Legends.
I have a fondness for both, but for VERY different reasons.
Your work is incredible and I wonder if one day, will you talk about the Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars playsets, to continue your exploration of Star Wars games in which you are very well engaged?
This was one of my first Star Wars games, the lightsabers were great for chaining combos to knock someone out of the arena.
I loved this game as a kid. I think it was probably my first Star Wars game I played, when I went over to a friend's house. (Or it was Shadows of the Empire.)
This was in the 4 pack of games that we got for Christmas ‘97 when my brothers and I originally got a ps1. We were blown away! I’m very nostalgic it- easy to play, good sound, a totally inoffensive Star Wars game. To this day, to me, it’s at least a 7/10.
While I definitely don't think this is a good game I do have a soft spot for it in my heart and I still own my copy. It's definitely flawed and undeniably clunky but it's just so fun playing as Return of the Jedi era Star Wars characters whacking the crap out of each other with weak lightsabers and unfair long-distance weapons
Nice - new Flandrew video :)
Mara Jade as a playable character is absolutely wild
but neat that she was included. iirc, she was a playable character in the mysteries of the sith expansion for dark forces 2
So when are you doing Rebel Assault?
I always thought that a lightsaber fighting game in the style of Bushido Blade would be really cool.
I remember being flabbergasted when Teräs Käsi was name dropped in the Solo movie. I thought "did Disney just canonize that godawful PS1 game?!"
Fun fact: all of the incidental characters were incorporated into what was official (now Legends) canon. Arden Lyn was an Emperor's Hand for a time, and Hoar, Thok and the random Stormtrooper (all of them Force sensitive) were her students. Lyn was also involved in the Zaarin Insurrection, boarding Palpatine's Star Destroyer over Coruscant and capturing him during Grand Admiral Zaarin's attempted coup before it was ultimately foiled by the arrival of loyalist Imperial forces headed by Darth Vader, Thrawn and Tie pilot Maarek Stele.
Han's victory dialogue combined with the dialogue Flandrew gave Luke... I liked the passive agressive vibes there.
I'd also like to see Flandrew review the Capcom Star Gladiator games now, i.e the games Capcom made when Lucasarts turned down their pitch to make a 3D Star Wars fighter.
I still remember my friend's younger brother getting grounded after playing this with him. Kept telling me to not do anything, because he wanted me to be his punching bag while he tried random button combos. Whenever he used a super move, I would just side step away 😁 He got so angry he cursed me out, which his mother was not pleased to hear
I've always wanted to play this game as a kid. Had the demo when they gave out those like 16 game demos. Never got to it tho. But I did find Armored Core from those demos and loved that series since
I loved that game. You have also hurt my childhood
Would love to see you cover Star Wars Pinball. I think it's one of the most underrated Star Wars video games, probably because it's "just pinball". But they're great tables with a lot of love for the franchise and something like 20 tables with everything from movie and show adaptations to character-based tables to some really deep cuts, such as a table based on Star Wars action figures.
As bad a reputation as this game had. 90s Star Wars aesthetic in unrivalled imo. The new games just dont have that grit. Great video!
Used to see ads for this in comic books way back in the day. Always wondered what it was like lmao.
Mortal Kombat meets Star Wars. 😂
I think the fact that they made a Star Wars fighting game like this is admirable, and the opening montage is cool. And it’s neat how many character were included
Crap controls but damn the SW universe was really brought to life in this game for me as a kid. Unlocking Mara Jade and Scout Trooper was hype
Do Force Commander next please!
Nice review man, I shared it.
Hans LinkedIn & Tinder photos. Man that got me 😂😂
Hope you make a vid on Empire at war one day
If you knew how much time I spent as a 4 year old hearing "ring out, you lose" over and over again
Omg its flandrew!! talking about a game i played as a kid!!! :D
Would love to see a video about star wars demolition which was the twisted metal star wars game
I thought I knew pretty much all Star Wars games. But I don't think I ever heard of this one. But luckily it seems like I didn't miss out on much growing up...
Ok but another shot at a Star Wars fighting game would be genuinely awesome, it could even go the Dragon Ball FighterZ route of like when you do a canon matchup like say Luke vs Vader on Bespin you get a small cutscene playing out scenes of that fight or stuff like that
It 100% is. Played this game on the ps2 via backwards compatibility back in the day. I nor anyone else could figure out how to use the lightsabers or the blasters. It was always frustrating.
That title scroll at the beginning should just say "ONE ON ONE ME, BRO" with the John Williams score in the background.
0:16
“B mindful ov the living farce”
At the time it was definitely a novelty. Having all the star wars characters in a 3d fighting game was a great thing to see. Fighting game wasn't anyone's obvious choice, but at the time, although virtua fighter it was not, it was a good enough time. Me and my friends put plenty of hours into it, and even today it has a lot more charm than many other worse star wars games.
I dont need to talk when I have the force 0:16
4:39 OW! lol 😂 poor Han. Call the cops, Leia committed domestic violence lol 🤣
Seeing this game actually reminded me of "Star Wars Demolition" on the PS1. Also a terrible game but man did I waste a lot of time on it as a kid.
I remember for my birthday when I was little I got this game and Star Wars episode 1 Jedi power battles. lol
I had fun with this game as a kid but I eventually played Jedi power battles way more after a few days 😁
I had a love-hate relationship with this game. I loved the premise, taking our beloved characters and some generic characters and putting them into a fighting game. But the execution was poor: primarily with the game speed. I think the combo system was a little on the short end but I think the fact that inputs are so slow make them even worse.
I loved this game because graphically the charcters and the environment looked good (at the time), I liked being able to switch Luke into his Return of the Jedi outfit by hitting select on his model. The difficulty is pretty high if you don't try cheesing the game (if you put it on hard), although you have to be ready for the computer to mercilessly try to juggle you or push you out of the ring.
I do think they did try their best with this game at the time due to the detail and color of character models and the background, but also because the sound design was good. It may not have a story mode which would have enhanced it, but an arcade mode with unlockable cutscenes and characters was par for the course.
They might have made more success with a game like this if it were strictly made for an arcade, with better hardware or at least hardware that they know how to code for, compared to just trying to jump into PS1's code.
I had this, Tekken 3, & Soul Blade growing up. My friends and I played the hell out of all of them, and at the time it didn't feel any worse than Soul Blade (which spawned the Soul Calibur series).
My first EVER video game as a child. Got it with my first ps1. I LOVED IT. Looking back I see objectively why it was terrible, but as a 90s child obsessed with Star Wars, this was epic.
It's kinda funny how I hate fighting games but grew up with and loved both Dragon Ball GT Final Bout AND Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi as a young lad.
Love how the game has Mara jade in it, considering the backtracking Lucas and Disney have done over recent years trying to pretend she never existed
For some reason watching this I was reminded of xmen mutant academy. I feel like that also stemmed from the same ilk of tekken clones. Man, lots of nostalgia with that one.
I enjoyed Masters of Teras Kasi. It was interesting. If it continued on, it could have been like Soulcalibur but only with Star Wars characters
3:23 when you don't realise you were the clone all along
Oh please add this to PS plus!!!
Hope you cover Empire at war one day
Yes, and that's why I love it. It's unbalanced, sluggish, cheesy...and an asthetic time capsule of awesome if you're an OG trilogy fan like me. The ad campaign for this produced some beautiful artwork back then, too...
Drew I’ve been working so hard I forgot to watch your last video I’m sorry. So hard I crapped my pants at work just so I could go home early and now all the boys call me shitty
There are plenty of much worse Star Wars games out there. But I think the reason this game sticks out so much is because of how much *potential* it had to be good. The graphics were great for the time it came out, the sound design was fantastic, and fighting games seem like such a no-brainer for a setting where all the biggest moments in the movies are big lightsaber duels. The fact that it plays so, so badly in spite of all of that is what makes this game stick in the memories of fans. And it honestly wouldn't take too many changes to make it a much, much better experience. If the controls were a bit more responsive, if the stun from when characters are knocked to the ground didn't last so egregiously long, and if the enemy AI were just a little more responsive, it could have been a fantastic game for its time. Instead, what we got was a barely playable mess.
I'd honestly love to see another take at this concept, modernized and with tighter, more fluid gameplay. Because of this game's failure, we've gotten exceedingly few Star Wars fighting games. We're long overdue for Star Wars to get, say, the Dragon Ball Fighterz treatment.
Fun fact: ”Teräs Käsi” is Finnish and actually means Iron Hand
I actually would love to see another crack at a Star Wars fighting game. Especially since the movies/shows have expanded on the characters and locales on offer. As for worst Star Wars game, definitely not. Perhaps most wasted potential, but not the worst.
I can't share my memories of this wretched game. That would make the 1000s of hours of therapy I spent learning to repress them meaningless.
This is right up there with yodas desktop adventures levels of ick.
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi what could have been a cool Star Wars fighting game but we wouldn’t have that till Star Wars episode III Revenge Of The Sith and Soul Calibur IV.
I'm surprised that there wasn't an Ithorian with a chainsaw named Fuchs in Masters of Ter-ASS Ksai
Lol Han Solo's face in the charecter selection looks like he heard something really sus
A new Star Wars fighting game in this style would go so hard.
Luke on the thumbnail looks like Zac Efron. Ironically, Zac Efron is my fan casting of Ben Skywalker in my take on the sequel trilogy
Clone luke was named Luuke, for some reason.
I loved playing this game at my friend's house, but mostly just because Star Wars
Ubisoft be like...hold my beer
4:39 lol 😂
I saw the thumbnail and immediately knew what game y'all were talking about
I remember going out of school, seeing this pirated game on a street peddler, buy it and play it with a friend. We laughed our ass off and never played it again.,
A Super Smash Bros style Star Wars fighting game would be fun
That would be amazing especially if it included expanded universe characters
100%, it's been my dream for awhile. Smash bros style would be perfect for Star Wars with Jedi Double jumps and Jetpacks... Could have some awesome stages. Anytime I play Smash Bros I wish it was Star Wars.
@@stravblardo2624 yeah a Star Wars Smash bros game would be v fun
great idea bad excusion (soul Calibur 4) kinda makes me want an updated game like this
I played this as a kid on the PSI
The problem that the moves in the Manuel were XXdown up triangle or square traingle back forward square. 🤣🤣🤣
It's not a beat-em-up. That would be more like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Golden Axe, Double Dragon, etc.
Brits call 1 on 1 fighters beat-em-ups for some odd reason.
At least there were no loot boxes or micro transactions.
Now you have to make a video about Star Wars Demolition
When they were making this game, they wanted a secret language to use for the Teräs Käsi and then a Finnish person working there said that they should use Finnish as the secret language (its a good secret language because its not related to other European languages other than Estonian and to Hungarian but not as much at it is to Estonian. It is also related to some very small languages.) Then they used what the worker said. Teräs Käsi translated to English means Steel Hand. You didnt say it right at all, i understand because Finnish is finno-ugric language and very different to English but you could look the words up and lookup how it is said in future videos and also look up what it means. Im Finnish if you didnt already get it lol.
It's not like us finns are the textbook example on how to pronounce english words either. Ä is literally a letter english doesn't have.
@@dibblidyy I know that but some Finnish people are good at it. Also it's easy to learn one word not a whole language. He didn't even try, he just did it with English accent
@@gordonfreeman2634 Does the game tell you that these are Finnish words? Otherwise, they probably just assumed that these were made up words and not something from a real language on Earth, so why would they even think of looking up how to pronounce it in Finnish?
@@KasumiKenshirou That's actually true lol, i didn't think about that.
As weird as this sounds, I still want to try this. It checks the two boxes for me: Star Wars. Check. Fighting game. Check again. I always thought, “this’ll suck” but I still wanted to try it. Why do I do this to mystlf
I played it recently on my PSP which has a PS1 emulator installed into it. Let's just say the game was too frustrating for me to play that I deleted it 😅
Hoar was a absolutely mad name.
Mean people die pretty quick down here.
I feel like a Star Wars fighting game could be really fun if done right. A SoulCalibur-esque weapon-based fighting game letting you play as all of your favorite Jedi and Sith as well as other characters from throughout the Star Wars universe who wield melee weapons, with each character having their own unique set of special moves. I think Bandai Namco had the right idea including Star Wars characters in SoulCalibur IV, even if some parts of it could have been thought out better (*cough* *cough* Yoda *cough*)
Lol I still can't get over that the title litelary means "steel hand" in Finnish :,D