Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a game released in 1996 to coincide with the novels and comics by the same name. It takes place during parts and inbetween The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. As Bounty Hunter Dash Rendar, players find themselves having to battle with the Empire, but also against a Crime Syndicate known as Black Sun, lead by Prince Xizor. The game is 10 missions long, but each mission can be quite long, and there's also plenty of playability in the form of finding secrets, and collecting Challenge Points, which reward players with extra lives after every mission, and special rewards for completing the game with all Challenge Points.
I play through the whole game on the highest difficulty setting, Jedi. Differences in Jedi difficulty include lasers from Snow Troopers, Storm Troopers, etc. doing much more damage, able to kill Dash in 2 to 3 hits, and Dash's own laser pistol does much more damage as well (can kill Imperial Troopers in one hit when the laser pistol is fully charged). Other than that then maybe health and ammo placement being different, Jedi isn't that much different from Hard mode.
Ord Mantell Junkyard is an easy level, as long as you keep your footing and don't jump at the wrong time. Earlier difficulties gave you more warning of sharp turns, but even on Jedi, you can tell that the turn is very sharp just by the noise made during the sharp turn. Surprisingly, I don't get hurt once during the whole Hovertrain part, but really bomb against the IG-88 battle. Unavoidable I guess. I'll redo the IG-88 part at another time.
