LEGO Skywalker Saga: Better Call Maul - walkthrough LEGO Skywalker Saga guide, walkthorugh
This page of the guide to LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga contains a walkthrough of the Better Call Maul level from Episode 1.
Last update: 14 April 2022
On this page of the LEGO Skywalker Saga game guide, you will find the third part of the walkthrough for Episode 1 (The Phantom Menace). This page describes the Better Call Maul level and the related missions. You will learn, among others, how to defeat Darth Maul boss, how to use fast travel, and how to unlock the passage at Lake Paonga.
To the Senate!
After winning the pod race, you'll have to return to the crew's spaceship. It's the starting point where you started exploring Mos Espa earlier. Traditionally, stand in the blue circle and confirm that you want to advance in the main storyline.
On the galaxy map, you need to use the fast travel option to transport to another system for the first time. Select Coruscant from the galaxy map.
As a specific destination, you must select the Federal District, thanks to which you will automatically land on Coruscant and get to a new quest location.
After landing, stand in the another blue circle to talk to Senator Palpatine .
Follow the senator. You will reach a taxi stop and try a different form of fast travel. You have to interact with the taxi and travel to Coruscant Senate Building.
In the new location, go straight to Senator Palaptine's office .
New Allies
After watching cutscenes, you will be to return to Naboo to meet Nass. Start by using a taxi to take the heroes to the North Landing Pad.
Enter your spaceship and select Naboo from the galaxy map. Your specific destination will be Lake Paonga.
After reaching the lake, go towards it and use the passage leading to Gungan City. Go to the throne room . You won't find anyone there, but you will receive a new task to find a Sacred Place. Leave Gungan City and return to Lake Paonga.
Go to the area shown in the picture where you have to build something for the first time during episode 1 - locate the bouncing bricks and hold down the build button.
The constructed object will be a rotating mechanism. Use it to unlock a new passage (picture above). Reach Nass' whereabouts and get to the blue circle to talk to him.
You have to return to the Speeder. Using it wil; advane you to the Better Call Maul level.
Better Call Maul - challenges
This level features 3 challenges:
- Complete Maul-ing - You have to defeat Darth Maul in less than 10 minutes. It is best to completely ignore the optional exploration and searching for collectibles for this challenge. Also, try to complete the puzzles at the end of the level quickly.
- Forced Out - You have to push 5 droids over the walkway using Force. During the mission, you will meet several groups of droids in the breaks between fights with Darth Maul. Additionally, in several places, you will meet groups of motionless droids playing music (example in the picture) that are easy targets. Press the Force button to push the droids (you have to stand close enough), and there is a good chance that they will fall off the metal platforms into the abyss.
- Odds Stacked in Your Favorite Use the Force to find another way past the electrical hazard. The opportunity to get this challenge will appear after the second encounter with Darth Maul, i.e. after the boss destroys the path for the second time, creating electric discharges. The game will suggest that you use one of the side passages here, but instead, look at the crates shown in picture 1.
- You can use the Force on the crates and bring them to the area with electricity. Place two crates there (example in picture 2) so that you can jump on them and use the "shortcut" to the boss.
Better Call Maul - walkthrough
This level consists of duels with the boss, Darth Maul.
Ultimately, you have to deprive Darth Maul of a large health bar four times and subsequent fights with him will be separated by other scenes.
If this is your first boss fight, then the game will launch an additional tutorial. You can attack Darth Maul from a distance in two main ways:
- Use lightsaber throw - this is a simple and effective technique to weaken the boss.
- Use the Force - you can use the Force to pick up objects in the vicinity and throw them at the enemy.
In both cases, Darth Maul can start blocking your attacks. Help yourself by holding down the aiming button in order to lock camera on the boss and keep track of your enemy.
Also, some melee fights may occur. In the case of the latter there is a chance that one of several possible QTE scenes will trigger. All their variations involve mashing the indicated button in order to win an attempt of wrestling with Darth Maul.
An important element of this duel is to avoid strong attacks of Darth Maul, which are marked with red stripes. These include lightsaber throws and long jumps. In both cases, use dodge to avoid being within the range of the boss's attack.
Additionally, you can also rely on the option to block attacks . It can be especially useful during close combat.
The rarest attack of the boss is Force choke . If this happened then you have to protect yourself by waving the left analog stick sideways or pressing the side directional keys quickly and alternately.
Keep weakening Darth Maul until he depletes his first health bar. The boss will run away for the first time and you have to chase him. A group of droids will prevent you from catching the boss - you can use the Force and lightsaber throw abilities, or simply run to them and smash them.
Droids surrounded by a force field will also stand in your way and rely on the technique of reflecting projectiles to easily sabotage their barriers.
You have to reach the first elevator - the same one that Darth Maul used earlier. Defeat another group of regular droids on the upper level.
The second duel with Darth Maul will begin soon. Its unique feature is that the boss can block all attacks (example is shown in the picture), making it impossible to attack him from the front. In such situations, you have to switch to the other hero (or ask the other player for help while playing in co-op) to attack Darth Maul from behind.
After winning the second duel, Darth Maul will damage a fragment of the floor and reveal areas that emit electricity. The only solution to this problem is to jump on subsequent protruding elements and objects in order to avoid electric shock.
Defeat more droids and get closer to Darth Maul. The main path will be blocked again. You can deal with this in two ways - the first is to use the side passages.
While exploring the side area, you will come across new droids and a damaged elevator , which fortunately can be easily repaired - use the Force on the component that has fallen off the elevator and place it in the appropriate slot.
Reach the top and wipe out the snipers first. After eliminating them, jump down to the lower level
An alternative way of dealing with electricity is to focus on the crates that can be moved with the Force (the picture above). You can place them in the area with electricity and then jump on them.
Regardless of the chosen path, you will have the third duel with Darth Maul. He won't surprise you with new attacks. The most useful tactic is to often use the lightsaber throw.
Go to the tunnel with the force fields . You have to run between them when they are turned off in order to avoid taking damage.
You have to solve the Force-related puzzles two times:
- In the first puzzle, simply move the interactive objects to the slots of the same color.
- In the second puzzle, you have to place a blue object in the left slot (check the picture above). This will cause a green object to appear in the right slot . Only then you will be able to match all 4 objects to the different colored slots on the sides of the force field.
After completing all puzzles, you have to engage into the last, that is, fourth duel with the boss . Darth Maul will not surprise you with any new moves. Defeating the boss ends the level.