For better or worse running around with a lightsaber and a force push is worth a full star to me in any game. Otherwise just a mediocre kindergarten Souls crossed with a mediocre AAA action game, but one where the enemies range from one-note to genuinely janky (especially the non-human enemies)...the encounters are repetitive, the boss fights are dull, the puzzles are boring and too long (exacerbated by extremely awkward movement). Doesn't commit to being open-world and doesn't commit to being a linear action game, leaving you often with the worst of both worlds. The sliding portions are very stupid. The cutscenes are unskippable, with writing and facial animations that are really tough to sit through. You lose all of your abilities in NG+, where in most games like this the only reason to play NG+ is so that you can experience the full game with all of your abilities. This game sucks without your abilities! But it's Star Wars crap, and it's the closest we have to a sci-fi Souls game, which sadly is the kind of slop I crave. Maybe I should just go back to Jedi Outcast.

Reviewed on May 21, 2023


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