![]() ![]() The environments look fantastic, the story is decent, and you meet some interesting characters. Though it's derivative, it's good entertainment. As you rummage around in boxes hidden on each planet, you can unlock new poncho colours, new spaceship paintjobs and-brilliantly for Star Wars fans-bits of lightsaber that you can use to customise your weapon. Customisation options are simply rewards for exploring. There are no loot boxes or microtransactions or games-as-service promotions. It's also a self-contained single player game, which is a novelty in 2019. Fallen Order mixes up its interactions just enough to keep up a reassuring pace. The game segues smoothly between a jumping section, a fight, a wall-run, a puzzle, another fight. It's a very old fashioned third person action game in many respects. There's a nice variety to traversal otherwise, however, and it's particularly fun to force-pull vines into your hands as you sail across yawning gaps. Cal mostly wall-runs, jumps, and swims his way through the maps, but sometimes-too often-you'll find yourself scooting down a massive bendy slide, which Cal rides like a surfer. I started to feel a bit silly as I force-pushed giant gold balls into switches in an ancient Jedi temple. The levels can be quite contrived at points. This is another good decision-it's hard to feel like a cool Jedi if you keep getting completely lost. On your map passable doors are marked in green, impassable doors are marked in red, and unexplored areas are marked in yellow. Here, again, Jedi: Fallen Order smooths over the experience for you. As you learn more powers, new routes and shortcuts open up on each level.Ĭhallenging metroidvanias often test your memory by giving you a power and leaving you to find the unexplored route yourself. ![]() Each planet is essentially a massive tangled dungeon with a good mix of gorgeous exteriors and atmospheric Imperial bases. The Jedi experience is somewhat undermined by some of the contrived puzzles and paths of exploration, though not enough to completely break the experience for me. It serves the fantasy, which if you're a Star Wars fan is likely enough reason to play the game. If you time your left bumper press well, you can parry enemies and send blaster fire hurtling right back at the trooper shooting you. You hold left bumper to block incoming blaster fire and most enemy melee attacks. You can combo together light strikes by tapping the square/X button, and activate special attacks with the triangle/Y button. ![]() It cracks to life when you press left on the D-pad. It's one of the best weapons in fiction, and Respawn has done a great job of emulating the look and feel of the Jedi's signature weapon. Agents of the dark side are after it too, of course, and so begins a breezy, entertaining third-person action adventure with a fantastic lightsaber. Cal's mission, once he realises he should probably get off the junk planet and follow his destiny, is to seize a 'holocron' data cache that contains a grand list of every force-sensitive child in the galaxy. The story is set between the prequel trilogy of films and Episode 4: A New Hope, after the Sith has enacted Order 66 and turned the Republic's clone army against the Jedi. There's a red one, a green one, an ice one, and so on-common videogame fare. If you concentrate on main story missions, this is about a 20-hour adventure set across a cluster of themed planets. ![]()
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