It is hard for me to evaluate this game. I can confidently say I did not enjoy playing it, but I think I I might just be a lost cause for console action RPGs--I cannot get the hang of the modern controller with all of its buttons. Navigating all of the different powers and "combos" with four face buttons and four should buttons just does not strike me as fun (I am having a similar issue with the Avengers game). Midway through the game I had to resign to playing on "easy" difficulty. But I also think that the designers are culpable for at least a small portion of my difficulty; Starkiller's movement felt clumsy and when he attacks he has dramatic forward movements so it is easy to have him fall over a ledge to his death. I also think I am not alone in having tremendous difficulty with the power to grip objects and move them through a three dimensional space, and I think that I would have been required to use that power more had I remained on normal difficulty. Aesthetically the game is underwhelming; the modal environment seemed to be some ugly junk planet with shades of brown and the shrieks of the Rodian and Jawa enemies was just annoying. I am glad I am done with with this game.

Reviewed on Jul 11, 2021


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