Not that much harder than the other Super Star Wars games in retrospect, but it likely is still the hardest and they already set a pretty needlessly high bar difficulty-wise. Feels a bit more thought out for the most part in terms of polish and such but because it's so obtuse it doesn't really end up feeling like much of a better experience. The lack of variety in music isn't really improved upon, the stage design is a bit weaker, and now there are required Chewbacca levels that are extremely fucking agonizing. The real advantage here is the somewhat improved variety, and just barely enough to boost it from a 4 to a 5. I also quite like the bullshit Darth Vader fight at the end for some inexplicable reason. It sucks so bad but there's really something about it.

There's definitely a charm to these games in spite of everything, but I'm not really convinced they're particularly good anymore. I'll do Super RotJ just so I can have all three rebeaten but I doubt I'll have much more to say.

Ah, man. Really not as good as I remember. Still too hard for its own good, which I had already been well aware of, but it also just feels like a very blah experience past that. It spends 75% of its time on Tatooine, and while A New Hope certainly does more than enough to get by with only two or three main locations, it feels unvaried and kind of shit when padded out to 12 stages. Around the second half of the game you get the option to play as Han or Chewbacca, but there's never really any reason to play as Han since Luke retains his blaster after receiving his lightsaber anyways, and Chewbacca plays poorly and doesn't really feel suited to his surroundings. Also around this point, many levels seem to use the same song in a row and it gets really grating. One of my friends ended up just muting the stream until it was over, and honestly I can't blame him.

It's really only the graphics and presentation that shine here in retrospect, and everything else needs a bit of work. Having to pull teeth to complete the game even on Easy isn't really worth it when there's already not as much to appreciate. The sequels are a little more varied if my memory serves me well, but even harder. I don't even know if I can endure them again.