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A remaster of the original game that came out on the PS1 and Dreamcast. This remaster is based on the dreamcast.

TLDR: The game is fun especially in coop and is overall enjoyable even with some jank here and there.

ProCon time! I'll be mostly talking about the game which is mostly intact and point out anything I noticed in the remaster that they did or could have done. I've only played the original playstation and it's been a long time ago, I don't remember much.

I also have not fully played every aspect of this game yet, but will add more to the review. But for now here are my thoughts thus far.

Pro:
- Combat is pretty enjoyable. Playing the original jedis slicing through enemies is a lot of fun. it's not a button masher beat'em up per say. it's a little but of a fighting game where you do combos to shred your enemies and you want to use the right one at the right time. there's a lot of combos for the main cast and you want to master their moves to be effective. My favourite moments are pulling off a combo and instantly eviscrating an enemy, and pressing your block at the right timing to deflect shots back at range enemies. And going ham on a boss with your friend is awesome as you pummel them to death.
- Easy mode, the original game was brutal. having an easy mode to help you out is very helpful and will easy players in. They give you more lives to start with than the original 5. I have not seen how difficult jedi is but will try after beating it on easy. Even on easy the game still provides a challenge.
- Level Select, originally as I recall there is no level select and you had to play and beat the game from start to finish with 5 lives plus whatever extra lives you may. Having level select is much appreciated.
- Levelling up, as you destroy your enemies you score points which is used to level up your character to get new combos, stat boost and bonuses. Giving you incentive to slay and pick up everything.
- Different characters to use, they play differently and is essentially the replay value, and with the levelling up mechanic you would want to max out some of the characters.
- Bonus characters, in addition to the original cast, you can play with even more characters that are from within the game like the enemies.
- Extra levels, there's some extra levels you play after beating the Darth Maul final level.

Meh:
- Combos are queued and not based on reaction, I was not fond of the fact that you have to queue up your attacks to perform your combo, it's not react to what your character does and then press the next attack button to continue the combo. BUT it's not a big deal. THOUGH I would have liked it if there was an option to tweak the gameplay a bit to where it's reaction based.
- No Online coop, That sucks but so is running online and servers and what not. fortunately there is steam remote play and when I played it with a friend everything seemed fine.
- Camera, it was the 2000 where the camera doesn't always point to important set pieces. can't be helped.

Con:
- No button remapping, there's modern and classic controls only. Every game in existance after the NES should have had the option for button remapping or more control options. Kind of a fail, but not the worst con.
- No run button, instead(if playing on a controller) you have the d-pad for walking and the joystick for running. This forces you(no pun intended) to play this on a controller only. I would have liked to have played this on an arcade stick but you can't. Aspyr needs to make it so you can set a run button.
- No Playstation button layout, I'm playing on a PS4 controller and the display is ABYX only. this is awful. How hard is it to just have playstation button control display? Why do game devs feel the need to not include it just in case.
- a few bugs I encountered, audio disappearing and a boss causing the game to crash. enough said.

Overall, I really enjoyed the game despite a few of my cons. It's a fun beat'em up game, got the star wars music fitting the mood, there's coop to play with something, the levels are fairly done well, the nostalgia is strong with this one. I would recommend it for some good fun.

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