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Honestly, I'm not even a reviewer but this game pissed me off so bad I feel like I should write a review.
Good things about the game?
I guess for a low-spec PC like mine to run it at 60fps on epic settings means the game is pretty well optimized, also, the game looks very good. I guess the combat is okay? Feels fun at the start of the game. The intro is the best thing about the game but it falls off HARD. BD-1 is cute.
Bad things:
I have 8 hours recorded and 7 hours of them I've spent running through Crash Bandicoot ass puzzles and environmental hazards, only to fight 2 stormtroopers that dies in 2 hits. Hey, I've played Death Stranding and even walking and doing nothing on that game felt more rewarding than playing this game as intended.
Why make the map so big with these "little secrets" and alternate passageways if 90% of the time, i'm not gonna be able to progress them? I always need a skill that I won't even unlock until I'm on another planet, hours later, thinking about other things, progressing the "main" objective. Which is funny to call it the "main" objective, cause there isn't a secondary one, unless you count opening random boxes and a secondary quest.
Okay, so let's say I did unlock a skill needed to go through this alternative way, 5 hours later than when it was discovered: I waste 15 minutes if not more just to get to the location, to go through and open up a box, and be rewarded with like, a paint job for the ship and if I'm lucky, a dumb-ass dialogue that Cal will say after touching the air over some broken vase. Like what? The reward was so ass compared to the amount of effort to get it, and then, if theres not a shortcut for me to unlock, I will have to walk back that 15 minute path AGAIN.
The level design is so mediocre (to not say bad) that it feels like a lego game design but way worse, it just keeps breaking the immersion on how "videogamey" it feels. Honestly, the worst part about the game for me, It's a 3D Metroidvania that feels punishing instead of rewarding to go back. I will pray for all the completionists that will play this game.
Movement is clunky, too much climbing, enemies are braindead if not played at the highest difficulty. The map menu is trash.
About the story: boring and forgettable, don't care about any of the characters, corny as hell (can't expect much from star wars but cmon), hell, even Saw Gerrera feels completely different from the Saw in other medias, so why even put him in here? Maybe they explain it later but the story didn't make it interesting enough.
Also, going back to the actual gameplay part that relates to the story, why put so many of these "echoes" if they add virtually nothing? It pops up as an annoying notification to say that it was added to the database, only for the text to be the same thing Cal said when picked up, just worded differently.
I guess the database is not that useless because it shows the enemies weakness and strategy to kill it, but guess what? You only get that AFTER killing them, so you already know the strategy. I guess it's useful if you have short-term memory problems and forgot how to fight that enemy.
It baffles me that people will go and say this game is good, I think that if I play KOTOR blindfolded it will be more fun.
I feel like as a BIG Star Wars fan, I shouldn't have disliked it this much, but I guess its a perfect representation on what Star Wars is nowadays: generic and feels rushed.
This was very cheap for me, I guess its worth it if you get it on sale? I don't know, it cost me as much as McDonald's fries and I would have rather gotten the fries.