This might be the worst game I've played in a very, very long time. The camera is terrible. All you ever do is walk around big, samey looking open areas that have as many popups as this scene from Free Guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHwdLBxz7E4). The combat ranges from annoying to boring. It seems like it wants you to be able to do big combos, but every enemy dies in 2-3 hits except bosses who just stop taking damage whenever the game thinks they should be walking around now. I beat Darth Maul by repeatedly mashing the throw lightsaber button. He did not move until the game said I did enough damage that it was time for a cutscene to play where he moves somewhere else. Every level (the rare times that you get to engage with actual gameplay) is short, riddled with cutscenes and obnoxious dialogue, and is a flat out slog. Before a lot of levels you get to walk around the bland open areas, sometimes doing an "escort mission" where you hear the characters talk about The Plot and crawling at a snail's pace. The cutscenes aren't even remotely funny despite trying as hard as they can to be. The dialogue is ripped straight from the films with no deviation at all (no matter how boring), except that lines are re-recorded by the actors from The Clone Wars TV show. This game feels like exactly what it is: a Star Wars made by Disney in 2022. There are loading screens out the wazoo, and hoo boy do they take a while even with a beefy Gamer PC like I have. There are a billion menus with submenus that navigate slower than molasses. Do not buy this game.

Reviewed on May 28, 2022


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