Licensed franchised games were often a mess when they made it to a home console from their success of the motion picture. Like The Wizard of Oz that was just god awful and don’t even get me started with
There are a couple of different game modes, Easy, Brave and Jedi. We’ll I’m not brave enough to choose the Jedi or brave mode so I put it on easy and wow this game puts hard Super Nintendo games to shame. Even the easy mode is harder than some quote un quote hard SNES games. There are ways to farm health since the enemies respawn so be careful and take it slow while picking up hearts along the way. So yeah, Empire Strikes Back definitely improves on the first super star wars game with the addition of the double jump and giving you the blaster and light saber right off the bat. I also really liked how the game is broken up between the platforming stages to the shoot em up stages as well as the flying stages. The reviews were always great back in the day and that was really nice to see. I would say that Super Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back is a top 100 Super Nintendo Game of all time. If you can somehow manage getting through the bosses, Super Empire strikes back is definitely worth playing today!