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Game Overview

Star Wars: Yoda Stories is this weird little Game Boy Color gem where you play as Luke Skywalker running errands for Yoda between training sessions on Dagobah. Every time you start a new game, it generates a random mission—sometimes you're rescuing rebels on a desert planet, other times you're sneaking into an Imperial base on some frozen moon. The first thing you'll notice is how oddly satisfying the item chains are—you start with just one random thing (maybe a grappling hook or a blaster), and suddenly you're trading with NPCs to get the exact wrench needed to fix a broken droid so it'll open a door for you.

Combat's simple but has this janky charm—you've got your lightsaber for melee, but stormtroopers drop rifles and thermal detonators if you want to fight dirty. The worlds feel surprisingly big for a procedural game, with hidden caves, blockades that require specific items to pass, and these weird teleporters that make backtracking less painful once you find the locator device. Half the fun is just poking at everything with R2-D2 (yes, you can drag him around like a living hint system).

It's definitely a product of its time—the mouse controls feel clunky now, and some puzzles rely on moon logic—but there's something cozy about how bite-sized each adventure is. You can finish a whole mission in 20 minutes or get stuck because you forgot to pick up that one ration three screens back. The Windows version even threw in a random Star Wars documentary as a bonus feature, because late '90s LucasArts just did whatever they wanted.