Finally a single player Star Wars game!! And it's quite good too... It's been nearly ten years since we had an enjoyable single player Star Wars game (Force Unleashed, which wasn't actually that good..) but the crazy guys at Respawn (Titanfall devs) took their shot and yeah, it's good.
The game is led by Cal Kestus, played by the younger brother of Shameless fame as a young man who survived the purge of the Jedi by the sacrifice of his tough-but-fair master, played by Travis Willingham. The game itself is an odd mix of Sekiro + Souls + Uncharted with a splash of Metroidvania. The combat is fairly tough and focused on dodging/blocking/parrying, and has a checkpoint and health system ripped straight from Souls games. Unfortunately as this is the developers first real go at this kind of game, it doesn't quite have the polish and feel to it that Souls manages in their games and there are more than a few times where you will die because the controls and animations weren't quite as good as you might expect them to be. There's a fairly good amount of enemy variety in the planets you traverse and most things are enjoyable enough to fight once you get the hang of things. Your expanding repertoire of force abilities also expands your combat options as well, though I'll admit I didn't use them that often... Once I got the double-bladed saber I pretty much just cut people to pieces haha
Speaking of Force powers, this is where the metroidvania stuff sets in. Each planet (or major section at least) has some force power that will unlock as you progress that will allow you to find more secrets on other worlds in addition to advancing the plot. This is an interesting tool that certainly helps pad out the run time and for folks who enjoy seeking every nook and cranny (and the map is just damn helpful in showing you where you can and can't go) but to me felt like more reason to just wait until near the end of the game and just do it all at once? But normally I'm not a huge fan of these games so maybe that's not what you're intended to do. The other major gameplay pillar is the Uncharted-style exploration and puzzle solving. There's MANY jumping and climbing sections which all look very nice and are generally straight-forward, but unfortunately I feel like some of them are pretty finicky and too easy to fail at in the first few attempts and it gets reeeeal frustrating.
For the story, it tells a Fine-Enough tale of a padawan trying to find his place in a galaxy gone mad. He starts an expedition to find a mysterious holocron with the location of new force sensitives
The game is led by Cal Kestus, played by the younger brother of Shameless fame as a young man who survived the purge of the Jedi by the sacrifice of his tough-but-fair master, played by Travis Willingham. The game itself is an odd mix of Sekiro + Souls + Uncharted with a splash of Metroidvania. The combat is fairly tough and focused on dodging/blocking/parrying, and has a checkpoint and health system ripped straight from Souls games. Unfortunately as this is the developers first real go at this kind of game, it doesn't quite have the polish and feel to it that Souls manages in their games and there are more than a few times where you will die because the controls and animations weren't quite as good as you might expect them to be. There's a fairly good amount of enemy variety in the planets you traverse and most things are enjoyable enough to fight once you get the hang of things. Your expanding repertoire of force abilities also expands your combat options as well, though I'll admit I didn't use them that often... Once I got the double-bladed saber I pretty much just cut people to pieces haha
Speaking of Force powers, this is where the metroidvania stuff sets in. Each planet (or major section at least) has some force power that will unlock as you progress that will allow you to find more secrets on other worlds in addition to advancing the plot. This is an interesting tool that certainly helps pad out the run time and for folks who enjoy seeking every nook and cranny (and the map is just damn helpful in showing you where you can and can't go) but to me felt like more reason to just wait until near the end of the game and just do it all at once? But normally I'm not a huge fan of these games so maybe that's not what you're intended to do. The other major gameplay pillar is the Uncharted-style exploration and puzzle solving. There's MANY jumping and climbing sections which all look very nice and are generally straight-forward, but unfortunately I feel like some of them are pretty finicky and too easy to fail at in the first few attempts and it gets reeeeal frustrating.
For the story, it tells a Fine-Enough tale of a padawan trying to find his place in a galaxy gone mad. He starts an expedition to find a mysterious holocron with the location of new force sensitives