I tried this since it´s on gamepass now. I played I bit of the first but got bored with it pretty quickly, and I was hoping this one would have fixed the issues I had with the first.
First of all it looks gorgeus and have a nice star wars feel. I like the design of Casper or whatever his name is and his robot. During the tutorial fighting sequence I thought the fighting felt awesome with all the awesome lightsaber animations. But pretty soon after that I felt pretty much as I did about the first game.
The game and levels look very real but are designed and plays very gamey which I feel conflicts with the cinematic presentation and what I want the game to be. The levels feel like something from a platform game, and if you take away the gorgeous visual thats what they are. I dont feel like Im exploring a real place.
Other stuff slows down the flow of the game, especially the souls inspired systems:
-meditation points, which seem to be the only way to get new health items, but these respawn enemies. This also takes away from this feeling like a real place
-back tracking to open new doors, having to use the minimap
-missing a jump and dying takes away from your health which you can only get back by meditating. Sometimes its unclear if you can make a jump or not.
Combat seems rather clunky. Maybe Im spoiled from games like Tsushima, but I thought fights were too chaotic. I could loose most of my health in a few seconds, and with all the stuff going on with lots of enemies you have to read, people blasting at you from afar etc, it felt more like luck. I didnt feel like I was in control and being an awesome jedi.
I think they should skip all the souls inspired crap, take notes from Tsuhimas fighting and just do star wars in space.
