Necro bump, just finished this, wanted to get it out of my backlog before Series X. Only took a year? Played here and there.
Too be honest it's one of the few campaigns I really enjoyed. There is tons and tons of jank of course, but I found the overall explore/reward loop to be really fun.
I dont know, I'd estimate the campaign took at least 40 hours? I dont know if that's just how long open world games are nowdays. It took a long time! I did take extra long on the opening planets screwing around and learning the games systems.
I also really enjoyed the kind of Dark Souls extremely light aspect to it, with cool boss fights you had to learn a little dueling strategy for.
One disappointment is I actually wanted to go back and screw around with new game+, maybe pick up some of the life enhancements I missed on Zeffo (only found 4/14). But you start from the VERY beginning, with no open world unlocked and forced to play the linear prologue. That sucks.
So much great and varied graphics, cutscenes, and just cool stuff in this game. Lots of fantastic variety. Played on One X. The way you are constantly learning about the world is just so great and rewarding unlike 99% of games where I could give a flip about the lore they put in. The fact you get a dollop of precious XP for scanning new things for example, just genius IMO, because it gives you a tangible in game reward for lore.
I do like the cosmetics system, but I do have some big complaints. You can never really make your guy look cool/badass IMO. And a lot of the game is pushing you to customize your lightsaber hilt. While OK and fun, at the end of the day it's a small thing you barely see! Seems silly.
It's interesting in reading about this game EA doesn't really like you to make games about Jedi, they are sort of sacred lore. Some offshoot like Squadrons is more acceptable to them. So basically EA/Respawn had to convince them to let them make this (I assume Respawns reputation helped). And I think they really hit a home run.
