Star Wars: Episode I - Jedi Power Battles Review (Saint Wolf)
Ok so, big bummer, first of all it has almost no modern day amenities.
First: So you may understand, it's based on the Dreamcast version which a minority of people have played but it looked prettier which to me amount to a grand total of nothing.
Second: Run isn't a separate input, it's based on the tilt of the analog stick... which if you know this game, means you always run-attack and worse, when you're locked on a target and I tilted the stick to move towards them, I would side-step bakwards and away from the enemy. Running on the PS1 version was bound to you holding one of the L2/R2 buttons.
Third: Your abilities (bomb and 3 abilities) are bound to the same button you use to BLOCK, which means you'll probably be 400 hours deep in this game and still drop a bomb or use an ability you didn't mean to. Same here these abilities were bound to one of the L2/R2 buttons.
Honestly, it feels... bare minimum, like more thought was put on putting playable characters for new game+ than solving these fundamental gameplay issues that are the core of the experience that were a non issue in the PS1 version. I don't even know if these will ever be solved given that they seem to be endemic issues to the Dreamcast version.
Honestly if it wasn't because my PC for some reason can't run the PS1 emulator right I'd go play this game on a PS1 emulator since Darth Maul is the same, it's just that on the PS1 version it didn't have the double lightsaber version, and also you kinda had to remember combos by memory unable to see the list of them.
Again, could have been perfect. Real sad.
Instead let me offer you this in these trying times
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⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⢎⣻⡦⠀⢂⡏⢠⠇⡸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠢⡀⠀⠀⢏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡌⠠⢀⠁⡈⠺⢧⣝⢦⡀⠀
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