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We’re back on that Lego platinum grind and I think it’s about time we finally tackle the IP that got
me into these games to begin with. That’s right, it's time to platinum some Lego Star Wars titles.
Now as I’ve said in previous LEGO videos, I love actually going out, buying and building Lego sets
to satisfy the child within who never really got any sets. Outside of some outliers though, my
collection is pretty much just all Lego Star Wars. I’m a lifelong Star Wars fan, I love the
pairing between them and Lego and yeah I love the games and have ever since I picked up Lego
Star Wars: The Video Game for the first time. I’ve played them all… well, except for one. For
whatever reason, I never played Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars and I don’t know why as I enjoyed
the film and the series this game is based on. So, I figured since at this point it’s tradition
I play some Star Wars games for May (I know I’m a little early) why not try and challenge
myself this year. Can I platinum all 3 Lego Star Wars games (that’s all that have platinum
trophies, sorry Complete Saga) before the end of May? This way I get both my Lego and Star
Wars fix and also, can completely cross out a category of Lego games I want to platinum. So of
course, if I’m going to start from anywhere it’s going to be the only game still stuck on the PS3.
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Now this is my fourth Lego platinum journey at this point so I figured I had this whole
thing nailed down… until I saw the guide over on PSNProfiles. Apparently, Lego Star Wars: The
Clone Wars ranks at 5/10 in terms of difficulty, requires the usual 2 playthroughs and takes
roughly 30 hours to complete… oh and apparently has a tonne of missable trophies. If you’re like
me this is red flags all over, as Lego games are usually pretty chill experiences. 2/10 difficulty,
no missables trophies type of affairs. But as I said, I’d never played the game before so I had
no clue what I was getting into and… yeah I’ll rip the bandaid off these numbers simply don’t add
up. There’s nothing missable, there’s nothing all that difficult. This is a pretty standard Lego
platinum experience, with some unique modes that I’ll touch on later. Anyway, guide and brief
panic aside we dusted off the PS3 once more, booted up the game and away we went.
Step one as always, was simply to beat the story mode. There’s 49 trophies in The
Clone Wars and for completing the story that begins with the battle for Geonosis and then goes
onto follow The Clone Wars film and episodes from the first 2 seasons of the show as we hunt down
Count Dooku, Ventriss and General Grievous we’re guaranteed to unlock 19 trophies, not including
the 3 bonus levels which I’ll get to shortly. As always this step you can kinda speedrun
through and just learn and enjoy the missions. If you want to try and grab the True Jedi status
in each level go for it, it is possible but much easier later down the line. Outside of the
story missions though, we did unlock a few more trophies for doing things like destroying an
enemy building with a proton torpedo, completed a story level without dying and not using the
invincibility red brick, mowed down 100 droids with the Clone Chain-gun and managed to deploy
our 500th Clone trooper. So make that 23 trophies done and dusted by the time we’d wrapped up the
story playthrough and made our way over to step 2 which… was a little more all over the place.
You see for step two I typically jump straight back into the levels and through free play go
for the remaining collectibles which are pretty simple here. All we need to do in each level
is obtain the 10 mini kits and reach True Jedi status for grabbing enough studs in every level.
Back to basics which I really like. However, I wanted to complete the bonus levels before
doing that. I then immediately got sidetracked by what I feel is The Clone Wars coolest feature,
the ground battles. Ground battles remind me of a blend between battlefront and an RTS where we
need to go around a map capturing command points, building up our bases and taking out all the enemy
buildings. These surprised the hell out of me in the story and I had a lot of fun with them there
but there is actually a specific mode in the game revolving around this gameplay mechanic called
Republic and Separatist Assault where we need to conquer the galaxy as both factions. First one,
then the other for two trophies. So, that’s where I went initially. Making my way through the
Republic side as you only need to capture 8 planets. This allowed me to unlock a trophy for
hijacking 20 enemy units but I quickly realised I hadn’t actually unlocked all the missions to be
able to complete this mode just yet. But trust me, we’ll get back to it. So, I went to our first
bonus level instead which is unlocked simply for beating the game and is available right
from the map. Then it was time to leave the comfort of the Republic to make our way over to
the Darkside, landing on the Invisible Hand for the first time and quickly finding and purchasing
Count Dooku so I could defeat Anakin. Now in the inbetween of completing missions or Republic/
Separatist Assault I was making sure to use those hard earned studs to buy the characters
roaming both ships, especially on the Invisible Hand as we were lacking on those baddies and
of course, we needed those 18 Red Bricks in particular trying to snag those stud multipliers,
invincibility and super speeder which I’ll get back to later. Anyway, outside of all that busy
work and exploring the Invisible hand we managed to find the final two bonus levels, grabbing
a miscellaneous trophy in Hostage Crisis for disguising all our characters as Senate Commandos.
With the bonus levels finally complete, that meant free play was finally on the board… but Hostage
Crisis unlocked some more side content with the Bounty missions which we need to complete for
another trophy. So, straight into it I went and I like this mode a lot. You get a time frame to
find certain targets, you’re thrown into a level and on the clock you need to try and figure it
out. Some of these are tough and in the beginning I was struggling but once you get the general gist
these are cool little speedrun like missions that are a welcome mix up into the formula. But with
our Bounty’s taken care of and our new dark side characters under our belt, it was time to free
some more villains from lock up on the Resolute, making sure to buy each one as you free them.
After that we went back to the ground assaults because I’d finally unlocked all planets through
completing the bonus levels and freeing those prisoners. So what does it take to… well take
over the galaxy as both the Republic and the Separatist? Well the easiest way to go about
this is to complete the Republic side first. That way we just need to win 8 battles to snag
the trophy and at this point I just had those final two planets. Simple enough, even managing
to finally get Yoda to take down 5 enemies with a single saber throw. On the Republic side,
8 planets that’s fine… on the Separatist end though we gotta double it and after that back
as the republic we gotta complete the 8 planets we didn’t do just to make sure we don’t miss any
of the Gold Bricks. Which side note as I haven’t touched on them yet, Gold Bricks are just for
completing… well everything. Complete a level, find all minikits, all true jedi’s and each ground
assault on both sides on each planet. So in total we need to play through all 16 planets twice for
ground assault and this is where the mode lost me. It just feels so tedious to the point that without
the super speeder red brick, you’ll be doing this for hours! It’s a great mode that I really enjoyed
but they overused them for the 100% and they don’t change enough from mission to mission. At least
on my way through the Separatist side of things I managed to use the Radio ability 50 times, which
I thought meant 50 commands but you just need to have a squad follow you 50 times which should
have happened a lot sooner. After that headache, I needed some quick and easy trophies to soothe
the soul so in goes the second controller, loading into the Arcade battles and with the
second remote, destroying their own base for a quick and easy win. Do that three times and boom.
Then going out into space and performing 5 of each trick in a ship and there goes another one.
I finally managed to buy all the droid characters, collected the final Red Brick and with all those
stud multipliers, went to the remaining levels that were missing a True Jedi check, loaded
in and within seconds had enough studs to tick them off the list and it was from this point I
went back to the story missions, in free play to find all 220 minikit pieces. I did have some
miscellaneous trophies to keep an eye out for, like using the force on a Super Battle
Droid to take out 50 other droids which for some reason in certain missions these
fools do not lock on to nobody and somehow only just overheated and destroyed 50 gold
items. But free play is always a good time, fully exploring each level. Seeing what secrets
are hidden around, how they’ve hidden the minikits in unique ways and some of these are seriously
awesome. But after 4 or 5 hours with the help of the minikit detector of course, we finally
found all 220 minikits and the end was in sight. The Clone Wars might have some of the best
minikit rewards to boot because each level is a character you can purchase upon completion and
I love that most are the classic old school lego star wars figures. This was dope. But with
this we unlocked all the clone characters, bought Lando Calrissian and went out into space…
only to come right on back and land for a quick trophy and now for the final collectible to grab
our glorious 100% status and platinum trophy. It’s time to talk about the Gold Bricks of which there
are 130 to acquire and as I said they’re basically for completing something in the game and at this
point I was still missing 16 of them, so what was left to do? We still needed to complete the
space missions which saw us travel to each planet and with the right ship in hand go into the space
between the two Cruisers and gather studs through destroying shit. Most of these are a piece of cake
but you need to know which ship to take out to avoid the pain of leaving and then coming straight
back. But again, most can be done in less than a minute… some though, some of these can suck an
egg. But with our final mission in space complete, we got our last gold brick and with all 130
we made the final ship to notch us up to 100% and The Clone Wars platinum trophy was ours.
So, after 24 hours in total; 6 hours better than the guide I am just in the elite of the elite
at this point. What’d I think of Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars platinum and the game in general?
Let me talk about the game real quick because as someone who had never touched the game before
now, I’m so glad I finally played this game. It adds unique modes, the story was actually
unique not focusing on just the movies for once, the collectibles are actually worth collecting
and there’s so much content here that just feels fresh for Lego Star Wars and I loved it. Now
the platinum is pretty good as well but what really lets this one down is how much tedium is
involved in those ground assault missions. Again, the mode I actually think is awesome and a
fresh spin especially level wise in the story that breaks up the standard formula. But doing
it 32 times just with a different coat of paint, yeah that ain’t it. Outside of that though and
some finicky space controls I had a lot of fun with this platinum and I’d love to see another
Lego entry in The Clone Wars especially now that, that series is complete. Like a Skywalker Saga-esk
game but taking us through the highlights of all the seasons. But for now that’s one down 2 more
to go so make sure to stay tuned for the next one. Thank you so much for watching if you made it
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