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Episode: 261
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Title: HPR0261: Force Unleashed
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0261/hpr0261.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 14:58:27
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Let's start with ...
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Welcome to another episode of HBR, I'm your host Enigma and today I will be giving something
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a little bit different, I will be doing a game review.
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The game that I'm going to review today for you guys is The For Sun Leashed and the platform
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I played on was The Wii.
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The reason that I got the game and the reason that every Star Wars nerd would get the game
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is the fact that you, with the Wii controller, can swing a lightsaber and do a force push
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against your target and do force choke and such things.
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Yes, you can call me a Star Wars nerd now.
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The gameplay actually wasn't that bad.
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I had mixed feelings about it.
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I do realize that most Star Wars games in the last few years have sucked royally.
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But I thought I'd give it a shot.
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I have this new Wii console in my as well.
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Get a game that uses the full features of the Wii.
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One thing I was disappointed in and when I opened it the first night, I began my girlfriend
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decided to check out the multiplayer and it's a little lacking.
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First off, you have to play the entire game to open up all the characters, which is crap.
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But even with all the characters open, it's only an arena-type game, like Ala, a super
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smart, a super smash brother's melee with just the arena beat each other up.
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There's no co-op mode or anything.
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So I thought that was lacking, but it's fun nonetheless to hack your opponent up into
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little pieces and force choke them and stuff like that.
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Other than that, the single player is actually pretty good.
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I was addicted to it there for a couple of weeks.
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I think I did it in like two and a half weeks or something like that.
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But the single player, just to give a little background on a single player, you're a
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Darth Vader secret apprentice and you start the game off, not giving out too many spoilers.
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But you start the game off, hunting down Jedi Masters on a few different worlds and you
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do that for a little while and then there's a plot twist, which I'm not going to tell
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you.
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However, it's fairly, fairly good story line.
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I did enjoy it and the only thing the ending is a little anti-climatic, but you kind of
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expected it if your Star Wars fan know the story of how there's only supposed to be
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two Sith and any one time, but anyway, I digress.
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I just don't want to give out that I'm a big Star Wars nerd, but anyway.
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So going back to the game, the only thing that I, another thing I didn't like was the
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fact that you have to push the controller, like there's sections of the game where you
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just go in and fight a boss, and this can be either like a big, you know, mechanical
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thing like an ATST or a Jedi or some other type of boss character.
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You have to, for the finishing move, you have to move your we-mote into the direction
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that it says, kind of like a, kind of, I don't even know what it's like, but anyway,
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you've got to move the we-mote in the direction of which direction it's pointing to.
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There's a green arrow on the screen, and you either, you know, point at left, point
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right, point up, and you also have to do this with a nunchuck in certain, certain boss
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scenes.
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And you have to go back and forth between the we-mote and the nunchuck moving it in different
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directions.
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The we-mote wasn't so bad doing that too, however, the nunchuck always gave me problems.
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I couldn't get it in the right direction at the right time, and you've got to do it in
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a certain sequence, and before, you know, your time runs out, or you have to do it over
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again, it's kind of like, it reminds me of a Simon Says game where you have to keep
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trying until the air is out, but anyway.
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That got difficult, especially when it was fast, like if, toward the end, it gets faster
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and faster as you progress through the levels, and it seemed to almost be impossible in certain
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areas.
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Like, I had to spin the freaking we-mote around in a circle to get it in the right direction,
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and it was just by chance I got it correct.
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So that was a little difficult to get grasped, and I still haven't grasped it entirely.
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And a lot of the scenes, like if you get in a saver lock, or if you get into, there's
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scenes where you shoot force lightning out of your hands, and the other target shoots
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the same, and then you have to turn the nunchuck in a certain way to break the, the, the
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light or the force lightning.
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It gets a little difficult in the higher scenes, but you know, it's, it's a challenge, and
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I didn't enjoy the game, however, I would give it, you know, four out of five stars if
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I was going to five star system, and it's a must play for any Star Wars fan.
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I would have liked to see a better multiplayer, and you know, maybe an online thing.
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There's a new one coming out.
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I think it's actually out in November with the Clone Wars lightsaber tools.
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So if I get a hand, if I get that one, I will do another episode.
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And the reason I did a game review today is it's getting close to season two, and I want
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to do some more things, a little bit different than I did for season one.
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So I'm going to open up game reviews as one of the series.
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So if anybody has a cool game that they've tried, or you know, that they want to let
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everyone know about, please send it in.
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I'm always looking for backup episodes, even if you don't want to be on the monthly
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rotation.
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And I have a few surprises and a few changes for season two that I'll be announcing.
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They'll be a, on January 1st, they'll be the first episode of season two, and it will
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be, I'll have a special guest, and I was supposed to have two, but one canceled on me.
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So you guys will just have to live with one special guest.
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Someone you probably haven't heard from on the show, he's new to the scene, relatively
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new to the scene.
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So check out that, it'll be on Thursday, I think that's the first.
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And there'll be a couple of new faces around the HPR scene, start next season.
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So look out for that, and check out the, if you haven't already listened to it, the
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train wreck of a, of a Christmas special that we did on Christmas Eve, that was a lot
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of fun.
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Too bad we didn't get a stream in, sorry about that guys.
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I, I fail, and you can, you can send all your hate mail to Klaatu, he was, he dropped
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the ball in the hat, but sorry Klaatu, I had to throw you out under the bus there.
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And now he, real life, unfortunately, does affect us, and we, we all try to work around
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that.
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So thanks to Klaatu for all his help, and, and you'll be seeing more of him in season
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two, along with the rest of the host.
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So this has been my HPR, and have a good day.
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Thank you for listening to HACR Public Radio, HPR is sponsored by Carol.net, so head on over
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