Huge group fights against multiple melee enemies coming from four different angles were the norm, often while a phalanx of Stormtroopers rained down attack-interrupting blaster fire. Huge maps with no fast travel - as you can guess from my intro to this review - were a major “why?!” thing, but the combat also felt phenomenally bad. To my surprise, I encountered many enjoyable characters, fun but rote story beats, reasonably engaging puzzle rooms, plenty of Uncharted-esque climbing, but also a parade of serious roadblocks. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a bought-on-sale game collecting proverbial dust in my PlayStation library, but in preparation for this review, I threw an entire weekend at it before I even touched Jedi: Survivor. Image: Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts There were story beats I genuinely didn’t see coming, and story beats so predictable that I groaned when they happened.Ĭal looks out upon the desert landscape of Koboh in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Sometimes I’d look at a room of 10 enemies I was expected to fight all at once while being pelted with blaster fire say out loud, “Nah, bro” and walk away for a while.

Sometimes I’d let out a piercing “WOO!” as I turned a grappling-hook vault into an air dash that literally took me through a Stormtrooper. At the end, you slump into a chair at home and go: “What the hell just happened?”Īt one point in my time with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t breathe at another, I turned off the game after beating my head against a boss fight for more than 30 minutes, then pointed at my PlayStation 5 and said, “Fuck this, and fuck you,” before storming off to bed in a huff. You and your new obsession cram an entire relationship into a really compressed time frame, and as a result, emotions can run a bit hotter than you’d anticipate.

Writing a video game review is a bit like having a whirlwind vacation romance: It all happens so fast, and you absolutely cannot gauge the experience by traditional metrics. Now that I’ve gotten the most important part of the review out of the way, let’s get properly started.

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