Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)

This game is really good considering the fact that it's an EA game.

Story is good, mostly loyal to the lore.

Gameplay is so enjoyable if we're talking about saber fights. Dİfferent types of enemies, boss fights.. all are really detailed and fun to play.

But you need to play through up to 8-10 hours to get all the updates required to discover the semi-open world maps. Double jump, wall walking, climbing etc. That cuts the flow because some planets are not that interesting enough to go back and discover over again and again.

Characters are cool. A fallen jedi, a young jedi, a witch, and our one and only seed crazy pilot Greez Dritus, anndd our cute little BD-1. All are balanced and have nice backstories.

Graphics are awesome. But game is badly optimized. Sudden fps drops all over the game. But that may not be a problem if you have very strong GPU like 2070S or like 5700XT. Open V-Sync, set shadows to medium because it's really a fps killer, everything else is on Epic. These are helped me a lot.

So overall, it was an enjoyable 20-22 hours if you are into Star Wars.

Got this for my birthday (around June) but didn't plan on playing it in the foreseeable future (backlog yo) so I lent it to a friend. Then it came to Game Pass and supposedly plays quite well on the Series X and Ghost of Tsushima is getting a little repetitive (hitting every question mark will tire anyone out - I accept full responsibility) so I decided to download it and give it a whirl.

It's a lot of fun so far now that I turned the difficulty down. I'm not a huge fan of Souls games so the combat feels unfair at times. I died a stupid amount of times to the first real boss because I forgot about my force powers and couldn't seem to time my rolls/pivots. I'll get better as I learn from my mistakes but that was damn frustrating.

Anyway, when I finish Ghost of Tsushima I'll likely put the majority of my time into this one until Cyberpunk 2077 comes out.*

*If it comes out

Good Things:

• Production quality. Amazing art direction, graphics, cinematics, sound, etc.
• Consistently fun combat.
• Combining soulsborne with some metroidvania and modern 3d platforming (uncharted / tomb raider) works pretty well.

Meh Things:

• Never achieves the depth that either the soulsborne or metroidvania genres are known for.
• The platforming can be finicky at times, because of both awkward programming and level design that sometimes feels like it didn't get enough time in QA.
• The collectibles are totally meaningless to the gameplay, huge missed opportunity here to add some depth.

Started playing again after that stealthy May 4th DLC hit, revisiting planets to finish exploration and doing a bit of achievement hunting after putting it down for a few months.

Gotten to the point where I now really appreciate the jankiness of the experience. It can still be frustrating at times but this low stakes exploration with no story beats to hit is probably a better experience than the first run.

Might do a new game + since I'm enjoying revisiting all these maps right now! Anyone else revisiting?

Finally finished this. Took a break because of the holiday weekend (working retail is hell).

This game just gives me even more faith in Respawn. This shows they can take a franchise that isn't their own and still do it justice. The game feels like if Uncharted and a Souls-game had a weird George Lucas baby. It's cinematic when it needs to be, and will kick your ass other times.

Can't wait for the (hopefully) inevitable sequel.

Okay, I'm officially sunken into this game. When adding more lore into an already lore-rich universe, it's super easy to trip and fall on your face, but Respawn KILLS it as always. I knew it was good to have faith in them.

Now I just wish they'd get the chance to pull a Bungie and use the good will they've garnered to go indie.

I enjoyed this game, but the pacing was off. Every level had to be repeated twice (once in, once out), and I felt it was a bit too much tomb-running for me - I wanted more star wars! Most of this game's levels would be better placed in an Indiana Jones game.

However, the ending made up for a lot. The voice acting is incredible - maybe the best I've ever seen in a game. Ever character was incredibly well done. It did add a lot, once you got into the game a bit.

In the end though, I found the game a fairly linear tomb-raider game with star wars trappings. Somehow ... I wanted more from a great star wars game. It's the best star wars game since SWTOR MMORPG, which was a long time ago. But, I want more. Less Tomb Raider - more space opera!