What is the Sandbox Level in Lego Star Wars 2 DS

I know you guys have wanted this video for a while so here it is. Lets see what this hidden sandbox level's all about.
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[@N0_1.]

This game was such a weird experience. I remember spending so much time in the sandbox just trying to figure out what to do

[@FirstPersonLife]

single player gaming was so eerie back then. i didn’t play this game but i can imagine how weird it probably felt discovering the sandbox

[@robertanderson9447]

The only reason to pick story mode here is to see the text crawl. It goes on about how the Creator breathes life into the barren land, the Lego people rise from the primordial sands and all that.

[@robertanderson9447]

@@corbenvanloosbroek Found it in text form on Gamefaqs, would've gotten it myself but I no longer own the cartridge. Here's what it says: Episode ?? SANDBOX An even longer time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.... It is a period of peace and tranquility. The galaxy sits in the throes of infancy as the CREATORS breathe life into the barren sand. What will rise from the primordial sand? What surprises await the intrepid explorers? The face of creation can be changed...

[@scopilio13]

so lego genesis?

[@lukej6636]

@@corbenvanloosbroekI’m playing the game now ‘Episode ?? a longer time ago in a galaxy far far away It is an era of peace and tranquility. The galaxy sits in the throes of infancy as the CREATORS breathe life into the barren sand. What will rise from the primordial sand? What surprises await the intrepid explorers? The face of creation can be changed…’

[@Munnwort]

@@lukej6636 thank you

[@joakimberg7897]

​@@lukej6636thanks

[@PeepIsAwesome]

I always found this "just make a game to get it out on shelves" era of video games to be hilarious. there was always some sort of charm to it... or could just be me who grew up on this port of lsw 2 while growing up poor lmao.

[@shardgunner4815]

Does this era ever end?? Asking for a friend (my sanity is the friend)

[@randomname8587]

@@shardgunner4815 hey friend! No.

[@VGLounge]

As a kid I was able to overlook all the weirdness, but even back then I thought this level was just broken.

[@StaffSergeantSigmon]

The Ewok should have been the final boss battle of the game

[@mh2120]

When Han and Leia are corned at the shield generator base at the end of Return of The Jedi, George Lucas originally wanted a 20 foot tall Ewok to come sprinting out of the trees, smashing them out of the way like tall grass, to demolish the Stormtroopers like a toddler tearing apart action figures. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the budget. 😔 Maybe next special edition...

[@asthmaticnightmare215]

@@mh2120 I can confirm this as my uncle was originally casted to play the Giant Ewok

[@mrinferno1571]

I’m 90% sure I didn’t 100% the game and was still able to play sandbox. This game was such a weird mess but i still love it

[@guillaumek3342]

Yes, you actually need to get "true jedi" on every level to unlock it, 100% isn't necessary.

[@crimsong8068]

I think this sandbox was a "debug" room that the developers added in to test various things. My guess would be they added it as a "bonus" because they ran out of time to make an actual bonus level. I don't really understand the default character choices either, why Salacious? He's useless. It adds to the games overall strangeness. P.S. 1:26 Can you really unlock Mace Windu? My copy has always kept certain characters locked no matter what I do, (ironically I can't unlock slave Leia either) I'd be fascinated to know.

[@Nostalgic9080]

That's what I think too, Yea they added some prequal characters in for some reason. Probably because the other versions had them

[@redaxe64]

How did you unlock mace windu? I never played the game but this video got me interested in it. Is unlocking him a cheat or an achievable accomplishment

[@wishbonefan]

@@redaxe64 you can unlock him by getting 10 mini kits in one of the levels but I forgor which one

[@crimsong8068]

@@wishbonefan Not on all copies. I have all the minikits in all levels and still can't unlock certain characters. No idea why.

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@crimsong8068It's probably as simple as the flag for unlock just Bugged out for you. Think about how many times you've seen broken achievements in your life, I'd imagine it's the same

[@SoupTheWise]

I'll never not be fascinated by how colossally broken the DS version of the game is, it's hilarious to think back how it was able to be released in the state it was in. In some strange way, it added a lot of charm to what would've been just another licensed video game port, in my opinion. I think the Sandbox level sorta encapsulates a lot of the weird aspects of the game into a single level. It's interesting, to say the least.

[@adrianno5128]

I remember getting to this level and my child mind was creeped out by it, I was trying to rationalize the story behind these random objects when I selected story mode and was kinda scared when the Ewok chased me haha

[@21shanks]

This game was like a weird fever dream as a child

[@FlakDraakon]

I remember this level frustrating me as a kid, because I thought that there were minikits to find (it says 0/10 minikits when you go to play the level, even!) and I could never find any, making me think there was some obscure thing you had to do to find them.

[@hussarzwei6223]

You’ll believe an AT-ST can fly.

[@artemisarrow179]

Lego Star Wars 2 for the DS is one of those textbook; “Even broken games can be fun but you never want your game to be boring.”

[@unoriginalperson72]

I was a DS complete saga player for years, played it so much that I discovered that if you fly as bobba or jango and switch character back and forth quickly you can get infinite hight and fly over large areas of the map

[@unoriginalperson72]

In free play mode I should add

[@lukej6636]

you don’t need to 100% the game. you just need true jedi in every level.

[@ryancurtis5425]

This definitely seems like a test room they left in. Kind of reminds me of the "cheat" in M&M's Kart Racing that lets you skip tracks. What's funny is if you keep doing it after the last track, you're warped to progessively more screwed up versions of the character select screen.

[@OldBenKenobi2318]

Dude M&MS Kart Racing 😂. I remember finding that game on the floor of my school bus and being so excited to get home and play it. I also found another game with it but I forgot what it was.

[@7p7m7]

@@OldBenKenobi2318What a score

[@iamyew2525]

i remember going to this level after unlocking everything with an action replay. I can also remember the confusion i had wandering around. This was one of the first games i had as a kid where i actually realized games could even be "bad".

[@GrammarGaming]

it’s a literal sandbox aswell, just a big plain of sand with walls forming a box shape

[@bananas8779]

One thing that I found weird about the Lego Star Wars 2 DS port is that all the Lego sets featured are the early versions (ie 2000-2003 waves of Original trilogy sets) while the regular ports have the more conventional mid 2000s versions of the Lego sets (2004-2006 waves).

[@nevathemouse9437]

I actually think i unlocked this area as a glitch when i was a kid because i had an incompletable copy where i couldn’t get some of the collectables in the final missions yet i remember messing around in this area a lot.

[@randomprotag9329]

this is likely a debug and testing room. given the strange choice of free play characters, which only make sense if it was not designed to be played as an actual level and the nothingness of it makes a prime test the basics of the game. given the how it ended up, it was likely put in as an easy bonus when time was ran out off.

[@rydenhope3602]

This level is such a fever dream from childhood. Glad to see someone documented it and made sure that there was no real objective, as kid me was certain there must have been some purpose and was confused how to finish this level

[@stickingaround_]

It makes sense to have a debug/test room but having it be so public is super weird, having it be a secret cheat code input would’ve made a lot more sense.

[@exzardoz3532]

It would me amazing If we could contact the developers or testers to ask why this game is the total madness we know

[@ilovemonkeyos]

This game might be bad, but man if it isn’t unique. It’s almost in the “so bad it’s good” category. It has its own super jank charm.

[@Toast4690]

Did you ever check out the hangar in the cantina? My memory is a bit fuzzy but I remember there being ships in an area and inspecting them would show the irl Lego box that the ship would be in. Was pretty cool.

[@Nostalgic9080]

Interesting going to have to look at that

[@painlesschunk]

Yeah there were lego set ads in the cantina hangar. I also remember they used the same millenium falcon object for the death star hangar so you can get the lego box in that level.

[@VezonWireless]

My copy of this game is bugged so that certain Free Play levels are impossible to complete, several Minikits are impossible to collect, and several characters are impossible to unlock without cheat codes. Despite all that, the Sandbox level unlocked for me upon beating the story mode without needing to 100% the game. I did hear that there was a later released version of the game with some bug fixes, so I wonder if yours is the "patched" version and mine is the "day one" version of the game. However, my version of the Sandbox is much more... barren than yours is. The tank controls, the desert skiffs, dancing skeleton, the space worm, the various switches, and the giant Ewok are all here. But there's no elevator to the skiffs (the only way up there is to use the giant switch); there's no switch to spawn Stormtroopers; the switch that spawns your custom characters does nothing; there are no tiny ships or a turret to shoot them down; and the giant Ewok and second player character's behaviors are bugged so that they just keep running into the far wall. Because there's even less to do in my game, I spent years wondering what the purpose of Sandbox was, since the only thing you can really do is become giant and kill the Ewok. This game is a terrible mess. A beautiful mess. A beautifully terrible mess. And I can't help loving it.

[@MilkenGamer42]

I grew up primarily playing the DS and I remember having The Complete Saga on it, and played the crap out of it. One day I some how got my hands on this game, and noticed it was quite the downgrade. I got to this stage and was very confused of what its purpose was. I appreciate this video for giving me clarity lol

[@narnianninja4964]

Wait how'd you get to this stage? Did you seriously 100% it or did it just glitch and let you in?

[@MilkenGamer42]

@narnianninja4964 yeah. I've always been a completionist, even on a game as wack as this lol

[@alexandrinawilson5766]

@@narnianninja4964 I never completed the game 100% (because my copy wouldn't let me do the last level in free play) but I remember playing through the throne room duel in Story Mode but walking around during the cutscenes to get into inaccessible areas; I got a few extra minikits and the Sandbox door unlocked

[@buffnipz]

Seeing this made me realize the version I played, on Gameboy Advance, was the biggest downgrade of all

[@nb-mf1tw]

one of those “ships” is like a swimming at-st😭😭

[@toasterwaffleowen4709]

"You have to 100% the game before this door unlocks" *Laughs in R4 disk cheats*

[@StevenReviews]

I would love to see a video covering the multiplayer mode it has a more solid framerate and the manual camera change is cool with some new maps/areas to see

[@Nostalgic9080]

I really want to but not sure how yet

[@StevenReviews]

@@Nostalgic9080 2 copes of the game with 2 systems unfortunately, Maybe melon ds but I think that emulator only works for wiiumfi

[@mdpl-05]

on the PAL version you can't 100% the game because the final level of rotj's door in the hub doesn't unlock after you complete it and thus you can't play it in free play and get the minikits

[@warthogvanguard7292]

As someone who never even touched this version of the game (I only played the GameCube version) this was super interesting to me!! I mean, isn’t it cool that they added a test level that included just a couple interesting test features (like the worm, or being gigantic)? It’s very interesting!

[@revido735]

This level scared the shit out of me when I was a toddler. The freaking giant worm gave me nightmares

[@HNezlxrd]

100% sure this is a debug area that devs used while making the game, and after they were finished with it, they wanted to make it into something but didnt have the time.

[@bloodhound1182]

This is such an obscure ass feature from an obscure game

[@mitchellbambam5926]

Ah yes, this and Mariokart DS were my favourite games as a kid. I loved this a lot and always wanted to try out the bounty hunter arena but never figured out how. I also fondly remember getting LSW3 and getting stuck on the second or third level! Good times.

[@DatMentalGamer]

this video has made me want to play this emulated. loved this back in the day, thank you

[@rosstigane]

This game was unironically the first piece of Star Wars media I ever experienced.

[@Manperson7]

When I was a young kid I saw a single screenshot of Lego Star Wars 2 DS at a target on the back of a Nintendo DS cover. When I got Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for the Nintendo DS, I started wondering where that scene from the cover was, not knowing that DS Complete Saga was not like LGSW 2 DS at all, despite the console version of Complete Sage being the same stuff as its 1st and 2nd counterparts on console, except modified to be more fun. So it gave me a sort of Mandela effect thing growing up in which there was a Lego Star Wars game on the DS that was unlike Complete Saga DS, and lemme tell ya, it was wild.

[@cosmicjenny4508]

As far as I’m aware, the sandbox is (supposed to be, at least) unlocked after getting True Jedi in all missions of the game. At least, that’s what I assume this game’s Superkit is.

[@birdsheep4369]

the multiplayer mode is unironically super fun

[@RobH1093]

In the copy I had, the giant Ewok didn’t do anything - it was just permanently running into the wall

[@bug-eater7722]

cant believe i just spent 10 minutes listening to a guy walk around a secret level saying "there's really no point to this"

[@jakobjohannessen583]

I never figured out how to actually 100% this game and when i came back to the game years later i just used a code to unlock everything. Never knew Mace Windu was in the game, no idea how he would've been unlocked

[@thankbot]

Is such a weird idea for a lego level but it's actually one of the few things that I actually liked about this game,for some reason...

[@johnmonteiro5825]

This game was like the sort of dreams I had while feverish as a child

[@MaxineThe2th]

This game was such a trip. I remember playing it as a child on a hacked TTds card my Dad had cracked, and this was actually my first Lego level. I was completely and utterly lost because I had no idea what Sandbox meant. This video is great because I thought I might've dreamt this weird debug looking level up - I can't believe it's real 🤣

[@FredChuck64]

Whenever people ask what’s wrong with me, I tell them: “Lego Star Wars on DS.”

[@ATthemusician]

This is the first game I ever recall giving up on. A level in episode 6 legitimately was just unbeatable, idk if it was a glitch or what, but I just was not able to progress further into the level.

[@miabbqpitgrill]

first game i played on my ds lite. playing this in summer 2007 was an experience as they like to call it. lego indiana jones made up for it and so did the complete saga port. also in the PAL version of the game you couldnt mount turrets as shown at 7:15 for some reason. weird game

[@legospy]

i respect anyone who has gotten all the minikits on the endor level

[@realestg7032]

My game was bugged and that last minikit on the speeder chase never spawned.

[@Lil_Valor]

This sandbox mode felt like the developers mocking you for actually completely their game💀

[@sheevpalpatine7436]

The weirdest part of this level is even as a kid it came of rather fetishy with the slave leia story mode one and the empty sand with growing and shrinking, still odd how slave leia is the defult for it

[@alastairingram5904]

This was my first ever DS game and the things I saw hiding behind broken walls will confuse me forever.

[@JaycodaJr]

I remember just how broken this game was, yet I still beat it multiple times.

[@Nemmy72]

Whenever Im reminded of Lego Star Wars, I always had a long lasting memory of playing this game a level with seemingly endless sand and a giant worm on a relatives ds This not only confirms what level I had actually played on (I couldnt ever find it again, until now) But it also confirms said relative had 100% this game

[@pokejoseph]

1:41 I was one of those people who owned the worse version. I could only complete some levels in Free Play by Action Replay (Said levels are Rescue the Princess, Jabba’s Palace, The Speeder Chase, and Jedi Destiny)

[@WatchVidsMakeLists]

This is like when Patchy the Pirate finds the lost episode of spongebob and it's just a bunch of cheap walk cycles

[@darthpepo1]

You just need to get true jedi to unlock that level, I know because the Pal version was impossible to 100% but I still have that level unlocked in my old cartridge. That said, I now realize how much more broken that version was, because there, the levers on sandbox that were supposed to spawn characters did nothing at all lol, there were no ships and the ewok was running against a wall

[@realestg7032]

Sandbox was bugged like that for me too. I am just finding out about the ships and random characters all these years later.

[@MesouseUsagi]

Don't you dare disrespect the mighty, the omnipotent, the all-important Salacious B. Crumb.

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Speaking of the story mode characters in Sandbox, the only two characters that can't be unlocked in the DS version of Lego Star Wars II by normal means is Mace Windu and Slave Leia, as they can only be unlocked via cheats. Same goes for the extra Character Editor parts and weapons that can't be unlocked through the extras at the Cantina either, as those can only be unlocked via cheats.

[@noword7618]

This game was weird even for me when i was a child, but hey playing multiplayer with friends was fun as hell

[@rocketpg_9532]

My favorite lego star wars 2 ds moment is when I came out of the hoth battle level and ended up stuck as a snow speeder in the cantina completely unable to leave, thus softlocking the save

[@quadstar4382]

The worm here is definitely a dune reference

[@snowboardvip]

I gave up on this game at the end of Empire Strikes Back as a kid because it was literally broken, but every time I see something come up about it, it makes me want to find my copy and try to complete it...because I honestly don't believe the devs ever sat down and playtested a single portion of it lmao. It's so terrible that it loops back around to finding amusement in all of it

[@CocoaMilka]

I thought a video about sandbox mode would answer my questions but it just leaves me with even more lmao great video!

[@mediumsuspect]

I love videos like this that explore absolutely bizarre aspects of games, good stuff man :)

[@bigdingdong22]

Loved bounty hunter deathmatch on my DS with the boys on the bus! Man I forgot about that must've been 3rd grade 2007-08.

[@joaobarosa7854]

I was thinking of some like idk actual sandbox mode where you can spawn stuff maybe even create your levels, but not an actual "sandbox" lol

[@mikemallon1065]

I’ve been wondering for a while what’s in there, but haven’t looked until this popped up in my recommended. I had assumed my experience was different because my game was broken. Many thanks for sharing. Young me destroyed Lego Star Wars 2 DS with one of those Action Replay cheat cartridges, which I used to open the sandbox room. I also loaded the game with every available cheat, and as a result quite a few of the maps had floors you’d fall through, textures wouldn’t load, and scripted events could get glitchy.

[@kalsder]

This was one of my first ds games and it confused me so much as a kid. The amount of bugs in this game is absolutely ridiculous, but they can be very entertaining at times. I remember not being able to finish the game 100% because the very last level was bugged. It is a combination level with a starship section and the final fight against the emperor, but in free play you can only play the starship section and then the level just ends. For some reason i unlocked the sandbox nonetheless. Its a very weird game, but the character creator is the best in any lego game. You can build characters like a stormtrooper with a jetpack, force lightning and the yoda combat animations all in one. I remember having an op build with a droid wielding a fully automatic grenade launcher that could finish any boss instantly. This video made me feel so much nostalgia.

[@walterboyd1965]

Glad to have found your channel, pretty niche but good content about stuff nobody really talks about. Looking forward to more videos.

[@Half-light]

There's alot of nostalgic dreamish atmospheric moments in The TT Lego star wars 2 but this straight up feels like a fever dream, beyond it probably used for asset testing i love the strange way they put it together

[@sweatyylemonss5237]

I remember this so vividly from my childhood, and trying to explain this to my friends and they didnt believe me

[@ur_wrong1209]

Brooooooooooo I legitimately spent what feels like half of my childhood trying to unlock this level. When I finally did, I was so disappointed and confused. 😂

[@friendlysperg1372]

This game was my first ever exposure to star wars when I was like 2 years old and I remember it so vividly lmfao

[@xtrwombat4876]

This secret level is amazing.

[@aryaozeroch]

i vividly remember noticing a bug that would let me return to the hub as a land speeder. i had to do it to see what happened. it was really funny for like 2 seconds until i realized i softlocked my game and i cried so much

[@ryanbartz7776]

The cloud city guards are something else

[@tomdeneen4880]

I saw this thumbnail and said to myself "the sandbox? *gasp* the sandbox!!"

[@andrewweber9930]

The new one is beautiful open world

[@pinkraven4402]

This level is literally a fever dream

[@fallyangy413]

I had this level unlocked but i never saw the ships flying and i explored that level a lot as a kid since its soo buggy and bugs as a kid were features😁

[@insertsomememereferenceher8483]

I was one of the unfortunate few who 100%ed the game back in the day, and this level was always a mystery to me. I was hoping there was some secret that I had never figured out because I was a dumb kid, but oh well.

[@GibsterBoy5]

I remembered playing LEGO Star Wars 2 on pc back in the late 2000s. Eventually I realised that the DS version is just full on bizarre, I knew it was different, but I didn’t find out how unfinished this game was.

[@longgone8397]

Great video! I remember playing lego harry potter and finding some obscure sandbox levels there, luckily you don't have to 100% the game to see those

[@smokeybanjoboy]

Alot of people couldn't even 100% the game! Me laughing with my cheatcode explosion book: You underestimate the power of the dark side!

[@Hadras7094]

Thanks for making this video. I was wondering about this room for a while

[@Nostalgic9080]

No problem glad you enjoyed

[@maximilianfranz2158]

yo this brought back so many memories, thank you!

[@THENikNak]

This was my childhood Lego Star Wars game. This combined with my childhood Spyro game being Enter the Fragonfly for the GameCube led me to believing that glitches wre just how the game was intended to be played. To this day when exploring a open world I find myself occasionally without thinking just trying to jump at clearly impassable areas thinking that the intention was to hit them at exactly the right angle. When in reality what I was doing at best would result in a sequence break.

[@FreakDeagle]

this game was my childhood... finally a video about the ds version

[@WekBenHelix]

This is cursed. Like some little pixelated fever dream.

[@aidandubois9698]

I swear to all that is good and holy, that stupid ass Endor level with the logs was the death of me at age 7-10

[@linklink3069]

The custom character creator in this game helped me come up with a silly goofy name and profile picture for my socials (not this one), it's great.

[@DeebzUwU]

And I thought lego city was a bizarre bonus level

[@JamesTDG]

Finally, proper documentation on this! I accessed it via cheats once and was absolutely dumbfounded

[@JohnSears]

4:06 I played on the bugged version as a kid, and even with custom characters, this lever never did anything for me. Good to see what it's supposed to do

[@asthmaticnightmare215]

This is the best description of the Sandbox level I’ve ever watched 😂

[@xander1O1O7]

Soooo...you 100% the game and are rewarded with an empty test level... that is a slap in the face