Star Wars: Jedi Survivor takes what was already great and made it amazing. Before I get to praising it the only two parts holding it down for me are one the performance issues and this made it hard to stream sessions of it, so bad in fact I decided to start recording content. And the second reason being the antagonist makes no sense to me, without getting into spoiler territory, he lacks a SOLID motive. And nothing he said really struck me as interesting or moving. Just DARK side. I might be biased or looking at it trough the wrong lens, but neither of these factors diminished my enjoyment of the game enough to hate the game. The story is an epic joy ride and I don’t think even that does it justice. We got our amazing Cal Kestis back and he’s better than ever. Along with the customization, but before I get into that, I need to stress the preem mocap work they did for all of these characters adding not just a better slam of graphics but not too much to make them look like real people. I don’t know in a world full of realistic looking people it’s nice to see that they didn’t go all in on making it look EXACTLY like a movie and more like a game that looks really pretty (don’t get me wrong I absolutely LOVE to realistic graphics and mocaps). The side characters get a better a deeper root in our story, instead of us running around as Cal meeting people on the way, we run around as Cal collecting friends and foes along the way almost in a gotta catch em all type way (not really I just wanted to throw that silly little haha in there). It’s a nice change of pace putting more of a personal toll on the story making it feel like you adventures made a difference in your experience. Now finally, the CUSTOMIZATION gohly if you read my last review you already know I loved that first set of customization now missing the Mantis customize option but the game all but makes up for it by giving us so much freedom in expression and customization with the lightsaber with Cal and with BD. Although I will say, what were they thinking with that BD animation, poor guy looks like he’s getting violated anytime you decide you want to revamp his looks. It might just be me but I am not A-ok with droid harassment. All jokes aside, Jedi Survivor does exactly what a sequel should do and does more (were you aware of the secret feature with the zip lines? You can slow or make yourself go faster, go try and find which buttons they are!). I definitely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys overarching stories

Reviewed on Jul 24, 2023


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