YMMV / Star Wars: Bounty Hunter

• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • All three of the boss encounters with Montross are insultingly easy (and anticlimatic, given Jango's rivalry with him);
    • Your first fight inside the Industrial Sector; Jango can just run in circles and whittle down his health without getting shot once.
    • After the tough Death Stick factory level on Malastare, you're treated to a very easy boss fight with Montross, who just flies around on a skiff, moving as slow as molasses as he shoots at you or occasionally fires a rocket at you, and can be quickly pummeled with your own rockets or even just your blasters.
    • On the Burial Moon, you fight him one last time, but this time, Montross has his Mandalorian armor fully equipped. Despite this, it's barely any harder than the previous fights, since Montross isn't that smart or resilient of an opponent, and if you do die during the fight and come back, his health will remain the same.
  • You'd think with all the buildup to it, the second Krayt Dragon fight would be a very hard boss encounter, but as long as Jango sticks to the ground (and out of the way of merciless rocket launchers surrounding Gardulla's chamber) it's a very easy, if tedious, boss fight, because the Krayt Dragon is just so slow and such a huge target, that you can practically walk circles around it while pummeling it with your rockets and blasters.
  • Same thing can be said for Sebolto once you reach his throne room in the second Malastare level. Given what a Smug Snake he was shown to be during his only cutscene, it was expected that he'd be a "Get Back Here!" Boss. What likely wasn't expected was him tripping and plummeting into his own death stick processing facility in the opening cutscene of the third level.
• Breather Boss:
  • After the brutal Oovo IV level, you're treated to a very easy boss at the final part, which you can just shoot into oblivion, since its lasers are easy to dodge and its rockets only sporadically fire and are likewise fairly easy to avoid.
  • The aforementioned Montross encounters, especially relieving since the second and third levels you fight him in are so tough.
• Breather Level:
  • After the one-two punch of Oovo IV and the brutal first level of Malastare, the second part of Malastare just has you escort Zam Wesell. Aside from the last stretch where you're at the mercy of rocket launching mooks, its a short and easy change of pace before you're thrown into the tough as nails death stick factory. Unlike most escort missions, Zam is in no real danger and just waits for you to kill all the mooks before she makes her move, which helps makes the level a big relief.
  • Gardulla the Hutt's Palace is a rather short and straightforward combat level, and while it can be annoying, it's much easier than the really hard desert canyon level preceding it. The Krayt Dragon is also a very easy boss to fight as long as you stick to the ground.
• Catharsis Factor: Jango leaving Montross at the mercy of the Bando Gora is gruesome but extremely satisfying, considering what a psychotic prick he was.
• Complete Monster: Montross is a ruthless Mandalorian Bounty Hunter with a love for murder and hunting. First introduced in the comic Jango Fett: Open Seasons, Montross is presented as a particularly vicious Mandalorian who takes extra time to shoot and kill fleeing enemy troops, and ultimately betrays his noble boss and leaves him to die so as to take control of their group himself. Exiled upon this act, Montross becomes a bounty hunter who kills for sport more than anything else, as seen when he smugly murders a man begging for his life, proclaiming that, even though the man is worth more alive, he's "worth enough dead". Commissioned by Count Dooku to hunt down a rogue Dark Jedi, Montross tortures and murders his way across the galaxy in his hunt, culminating in him torturing his Arch-Enemy Jango Fett's best friend, Rozatta, to near death, before using her as a lure for Jango. Once Jango arrives at Outland Station, Montross blows the entire station up, wiping out its thousands of occupants in a mad attempt at murdering Jango. A despicable sociopath with nothing but cruelty driving him, Montross stands out even among Mandalorians and bounty hunters as a vile individual.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • The Nexu on Malastare. They're highly resilient, strong, masters of the Deadly Lunge and they're completely silent. The only efficient way to slay them is to use the poison darts, otherwise they soak up a lot of blaster fire. Worst of all, the flamethrower doesn't even phase them and they're more than capable of attacking even while on fire (though it does still eventually kill them). The Tusken Raiders' massiffs on Tatooine are the same way.
  • Any enemy with an explosive weapon. Enemies that throw grenades have much more accuracy than you, while enemies carrying rocket launchers are even worse. Remember that rockets home in on you, too, and have a blast radius.
  • Any enemy with a rapid fire blaster cannon, E-Web cannon or a sniper rifle is guaranteed to make your life miserable, especially since Jango has no Mercy Invincibility and can be killed by their weapons in just seconds. To make matters worse. they frequently show up later in the game and are more than willing to attack you in groups—no Mook Chivalry here!
  • The Bando Gora you encounter late in the Death Stick factory on Malastare, and again in Gardulla's palace—and they're everywhere in the final three levels. They're quiet as a mouse and very good at sneak attacking and swarming Jango, and can chew through his health in seconds. And then there are some that can shoot very accurate, rapid fire poison darts at you from a distance. Fortunately, they have a glaring weakness to the flamethrower.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Montross wound up as one of the game's best-remembered characters, largely thanks to Clancy Brown's delightfully ham-tastic performance, his killer theme, and being an efficient Foil to Jango. It also helps that he gets most of the memorable moments in the Hilarious Outtakes. Brown evidently had fun with that role.
  • Also Rozatta, for mostly averting the Annoying Video Game Helper trope, her funny bantering with Jango, and being the first likeable Toydarian after the controversial Watto in The Phantom Menace.
  • Smootie the eldarly convict Jango encounters on Oovo IV is foundly remembered by players of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter due to his friendly personality, gravely voice, and for recounting the haunting tale of Komari Vosa's fall into madness. Even Jango developed a soft spot for him in the brief time they knew each other, asking after him as he's about to escape the asteroid, to which Smootie assures him he's fine cashing it all in.
• Funny Moments:
  • The blooper theater you unlock for completing chapters is hilarious with the entire game being treated like an actual movie they were filming. Aside from a few Take That! moments making fun of how much CGI was used in the prequels there's also things like Jango dancing for Jabba as his "payment" for information, Vosa slapping Jango silly in a cartoonish fashion and Montross just completely chewing every scene he's in.
  • The game has cheat codes that allow you to, among other things, unlock levels without clearing them. Generally the codes are amusing messages about the stage, such as the last three level codes being "MONTROSSISBAD", "VOSAISBADDER", "JANGOISBADDEST".
  • Roz compliments Zam's good looks in front of Jango, who then deflects saying that Zam has nothing on her. Roz takes the compliment but immediately calls Jango out, knowing that he's just buttering her up because he wants something, something Jango doesn't even try to deny.
• Game-Breaker: The flamethrower. Any humanoid enemy hit by this will promptly stop attacking you and begin running around on fire until they die. It is perhaps the best approach for dealing with melee enemies - not even the Bando Gora can stand up to it. In fact, the last few levels can be almost effortlessly passed with the flamethrower.
• Goddamn Bats: Many enemies, especially snipers and artillery men.
• Karmic Overkill: Most of the primary targets you encounter have most of their crimes informed rather than shown, and the ones who are indeed killed die a horrible death (Groff Haugg is tortured and eventually frozen in carbonite by Montross, Senator Trell is thrown off his balcony by Jango, Bendix Fust is tortured presumably to death by Sebolto, Sebolto himself is boiled alive in his own death stick factory, Gardulla is Eaten Alive by her own pet, Montross is gutted and likely devoured by the Bando Gora, and Vosa has the living Force sapped out of her before being Force Choked to death by Dooku). While the game presents most of their fates as deserved, it can be hard for some players to see their death as cathartic (with the possible exception of Gardulla and Montross).
• Moment of Awesome: Jango manages to defeat Komari Vosa alone using only his pistols against her lightsabers.
• Memetic Loser:
  • Meeko Ghintee. The guy gets a bounty placed on his head by the Republic, which earns him a life sentence in prison, and then gets another one while escaping, which gets him killed in prison. To rub salt on the wound, both bounties are collected by the same guy. His dopey Smug Snake demeanor only makes him more pitiable.
  • King Sebolto, after boasting that he would kill Jango himself, flees in terror from the bounty hunter and trips on a ramp and is boiled alive on his own death stick processing faculty after slamming against the wall in a manner that wouldn't be out of place in a Looney Tunes skit. It doesn't help that absolutely everyone forgets about him afterwards.
• Moral Event Horizon: Those who read Jango Fett: Open Seasons should already know what a sadistic bastard Montross is, but him torturing Rozatta to death and killing thousands by destroying Outland Station in a failed attempt to kill Jango officially pushes him into irredeemable monster territory.
• Nintendo Hard: The whole game from Oovo IV forward becomes this. The biggest reason is that Jango has no Mercy Invincibility and the mooks are frequent, show up in groups, often carry heavy firepower and show no display of Mook Chivalry. And the game is not above blindsiding you with occasional respawning enemies or sneak attacks from an enemy out of nowhere, such as the snipers from the Tatooine level. This is a game that will mop the floor with you if you let your guard down.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Bando Gora followers are quite scary. Must be their glowing red eyes or the fact that they barely look human at all (or whatever they were before they became Bando Gora).
  • The Moon of Bogden level. It's a planet-wide graveyard, filled with massive tombs and shrouded in a thick poisonous mist. As an added bonus, it's where the Bando Gora have their headquarters, so expect to see hordes of black-hooded creatures leaping out at you.
  • Montross's ultimate fate. After being beaten by Jango, he's left for the Bando Gora to finish off. Though there's no blood or gore, the sound effects of him being ripped apart coupled with his screams of agony more than makes up for that.
  • Just the fact that several of the secondary bounties are completely innocent people targeted for unfair reasons. A Jawa beggar is wanted dead for luring customers away at a cantina with his begging, several Twi-leks are freedom fighters wanted by Hutts to be enslaved, and one mission on Malastare has someone place a bounty on a family of Dugs for being family members of one of their enemies. One of the bounty-posters flat out refuses to give in a reason for wanting his victim dead. It goes to show just how dirty the bounty hunting business truly is.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: It's on the repetitive side and can be a little too hard for its own good, but it's a fairly solid game with an excellent story and some great voice acting, as well as some above-average level design. In short, it won't be winning any Game of the Year awards, but it's an enjoyable action romp.
• Player Punch: Roz gets tortured and killed by Montross. Keeping this in mind, his ghastly demise is far more enjoyable.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The inverted x-axis controls fly in the face of every shooter ever.
• Scrappy Weapon: Thermal detonators are not just useless, but an active danger to poor Jango's health! In theory, they can instantly kill a cluster of enemies, but in practice they usually just bounce of uselessly in to the distance or straight back in to your face. Made worse by every other weapon in the game being able to either lock on to a target or being the flamethrower.
• Squick: Gardulla being swallowed whole by her own dragon.
• Tear Jerker: Roz's posthumous message shows how much she really cared about Jango. Considering it comes from a Toydarian, a race known for greed and selfishness, this is quite surprising. Her final words are also implied to be what motivated Jango to have Boba created.
• That One Boss: While most of the boss fights are a cakewalk, Longo Two Guns is no joke. His level is frustrating enough as it is, but it tops it off with a cramped room stuffed to the brink with heavily armed mooks trying to distract you from going after Longo, and they will mop the floor with you if you don't stay on your toes and avoid trying to take on their boss head-on—Longo is also astoundingly resilient, drawing out the fight even longer. To add insult to injury, you don't have access to your jetpack or flamethrower in the fight. As if that wasn't enough, there is also a secondary bounty (necessary for 100% competition) wanted alive in the corner of the boss room, and it's a Jawa (one of the weakest NPCs in the game alongside the Ugnaughts).
• That One Level: Starting from the second level on Oovo IV, damn near all of them.
  • "The Break Out" is stuffed with an overwhelming number of enemies armed to the tooth, and throws a very tricky chasm late into it that requires perfect timing with your jetpack to cross—and even if you find the jetpack power-up, you still have to contend with killing most of the enemies across the bridges to open the door at the end, and some of them are armed with rockets.
  • "Jungle Trek" is a long level loaded with enemies, including snipers, and throws in some Nexu, some of the nastiest enemies in the game, just to make your life miserable. And then after a relieving escort level (excluding the sudden difficulty ramp in the final stretch), you're tossed into the underground Death Stick Factory, which is filled with some of the toughest platforming segments in the game, and even throws in some Bando Gora mooks in the second half of the level, some which shoot rapid fire poison darts at you, just to make your trip even more miserable.
  • The difficulty really ramps up by Chapter 5. "Longo Two-Guns" sees you put up against packs of heavily-armed thugs without your jetpack, your flamethrower, or your missiles. Oh, and there are also snipers everywhere, ready to pick you off at a moment's notice. At the end, you square off against Longo himself, who is far from a slouch in combat and easily one of the toughest bosses in the game. "Tusken Canyon" is a Marathon Level full of Demonic Spiders and nightmarishly hard platforming. Then there's "Gardulla's Palace"; while not as bad as the previous Tatooine levels, you still have to fight large waves of enemies in extremely tight quarters, and later Bando Gora, before facing Gardulla's Krayt Dragon.
• That One Sidequest: Collecting all the Secondary Bounties and all the Mandalorian Golden Feathers.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Senator Trell. Yes, he's a Corrupt Politician allied with The Cartel... but other than that, his dirtiness is mostly an Informed Attribute — and he even tries to back out altogether (albeit out of cowardice instead of altruism, but still...). And yet he's ultimately given a long (due to his penthouse's elevation) Disney Villain Death by Fett even after telling him what he wants to know — and for no given reason other than "He won't be missed."
  • Bendix Fust. Yes, he's a cowardly drug-dealer, but he's nevertheless stuck in a maximum-security Hellhole Prison while having to live in fear of his Bad Boss managing to get him. And when Zam shows up and proves him Properly Paranoid, he even begs her to just shoot him instead of dragging him off to a Cruel and Unusual Death by said boss. She doesn't, instead forcing him through a riot to cover their escape, and then Fett shows up to partner with her — basically sealing Fust's fate. And later on, the last thing you hear of him is Zam's casual comment that he's being tortured by said boss — exactly what Fust was afraid of.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: As seen under Darker and Edgier on the main page, definitely one of the less-kid friendly games in the franchise's otherwise fairly sanitized library.

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