HIGH The platforming is only slightly tedious now!
LOW The final fight with Darth Maul is still basically impossible.
WTF Someone at Lucasfilm Games keeps approving these things.
HIGH The platforming is only slightly tedious now!
LOW The final fight with Darth Maul is still basically impossible.
WTF Someone at Lucasfilm Games keeps approving these things.
HIGH Adorable adventure. Clever minigames as combat. Robot dog!!!
LOW A bit too much backtracking for an experience so short.
WTF Did I just dress up like a pinball machine?
HIGH Star Wars: Bounty Hunter finally has a PC port, 22 years later!
LOW The live system is still included, despite like a dozen other, more questionable changes?!
WTF When an emulator is better at remastering a game than a professional studio.
HIGH Solid open-world gameplay set in the Star Wars universe.
LOW An overly-familiar gameplay loop.
WTF I was recognizing different alien languages, like a nerd.
If the Jedi way is defined by personal growth and straying away from the dark, I’d like to think that going back to videogames I didn’t initially enjoy counts as my grand journey towards becoming enlightened. Dramatic? Sure, but it seems like an apt comparison when talking about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
HIGH Expands on everything that made its predecessor great, while adding much more.
LOW Getting eaten by the same Rancor over and over.
WTF I think I’m back to loving Star Wars again.
EA and Respawn gave GameCritics a chance to preview Star Wars: Jedi Survivor last week, and we were happy to accept since the sequel to 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a hotly-anticipated title coming up on the heels of several major media pushes from the Star Wars universe. It’s the perfect storm of Star Wars synergy right now, and despite my own lapsed fandom, I was curious to see what Respawn was bringing to the table this time around.
HIGH Kreia remains a high point of writing and voice acting in videogames.
LOW Launching without the cut content restored.
WTF Several crashes resulting in lost progress!
HIGH It nails the power fantasy of being a Jedi or Sith.
LOW Button prompts for every single boss battle.
WTF Erm… it seems that Starkiller is the most powerful force user ever?
HIGH A charming, jam-packed game that retells the Star Wars saga.
LOW No online co-op.
WTF Quick Skywalker Saga ranking: V, VIII, IV, VII, VI, I, III,II, IX