Let's Play: Willow! part one
So, with memories of the movie fresh in mind (and a number of screencaps hopefully relevant to the game in hand), I set upon the magical journey that is Willow the NES game.
This is the first thing we see after booting the game, apart from a page
of legal stuff. "Licensed by Nintendo, product of Lucasfilm," etc.
Let's just imagine that line read by Maurice LeMarche using his Futurama
announcer voice, shall we?
TALES...
OF...
DREAMS! AND! IMAGINATION!
Here is the Crest of Spirits or something like that, which is a major
McGuffin fairly late in the game. It bears a vague resemblance to the
symbol shown on Elora Danan's arm in the film, shown below:
Feel free to hum along to Norman Greenbaum's hit song "Spirit in the Sky."
I wonder if they're distilled spirits...
Oh, oh, it's magic...
And we have title screen! Let's just press start and--
Oh, there's more.
Hey, it's Sara Kingdom! I guess she survived the rapid aging beam somehow.
10 bonus nerd points for anyone who gets that reference.
And here is how she appears in the film:
Fin Raziel:
Changed into an opossum! Man, almost anything's better than being forced
to live the outcast life of a North American marsupial D:
Okay, NOW we have title screen, complete with boiling lava flowing
through the letters!
Press start, it says, and so start I push!
And am greeted by this jolly screen here.
So, as you can tell, the story here is quite different from the film;
Bavmorda and Raziel, rather than simply being opposing sorceresses, are
here elemental forces personified. I have no idea if the game's plot was
written or approved by George Lucas, or if he just gave Capcom free reign
to change it however they wanted to make an interesting game.
That's as far as this update is going to go; I don't want to make these
too huge for easy consumption, so I'll end here and begin writing the
next update immediately.
This is the first thing we see after booting the game, apart from a page
of legal stuff. "Licensed by Nintendo, product of Lucasfilm," etc.
Let's just imagine that line read by Maurice LeMarche using his Futurama
announcer voice, shall we?
TALES...
OF...
DREAMS! AND! IMAGINATION!
Here is the Crest of Spirits or something like that, which is a major
McGuffin fairly late in the game. It bears a vague resemblance to the
symbol shown on Elora Danan's arm in the film, shown below:
Feel free to hum along to Norman Greenbaum's hit song "Spirit in the Sky."
I wonder if they're distilled spirits...
Oh, oh, it's magic...
And we have title screen! Let's just press start and--
Oh, there's more.
Hey, it's Sara Kingdom! I guess she survived the rapid aging beam somehow.
10 bonus nerd points for anyone who gets that reference.
And here is how she appears in the film:
Fin Raziel:
Changed into an opossum! Man, almost anything's better than being forced
to live the outcast life of a North American marsupial D:
Okay, NOW we have title screen, complete with boiling lava flowing
through the letters!
Press start, it says, and so start I push!
And am greeted by this jolly screen here.
So, as you can tell, the story here is quite different from the film;
Bavmorda and Raziel, rather than simply being opposing sorceresses, are
here elemental forces personified. I have no idea if the game's plot was
written or approved by George Lucas, or if he just gave Capcom free reign
to change it however they wanted to make an interesting game.
That's as far as this update is going to go; I don't want to make these
too huge for easy consumption, so I'll end here and begin writing the
next update immediately.