Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Unfortunately, on most platforms, the game had a really shaky launch. Sub-30 fps consistently, buggy cutscenes, just poor performance altogether. Note that I'm playing on an Xbox Series X.

Now that that's out of the way, THE STORY. I am 12 hours in and I have been swallowed by this story. Don't worry I won't spoil.

And the graphics are superb, and the worlds detailed and expansive. It is every bit as great as the first game, but is better in every aspect. It is a perfect sequel, which is quite rare in the gaming world.

It adds shopping, fishing, and farming. It has companions that fight alongside you. It has new lightsaber fighting styles and everything down to BD-1's parts are customizable. Truly the greatest game in the Galaxy.

This game is fantastic. It takes the foundation of the first game and really builds upon it. Improving on gameplay variety, customization, side content, etc. I also found the overall story in this game to be much better and more gripping then it's predecessor. The story is emotional, awe-inspiring, darker and overall just really strong. From a 'video-game' standpoint there's so much to love with overall fun, exhilarating and challenging gameplay with plenty to do. From a 'Star Wars' perspective this is a welcome addition that has awesome lore, immersive worlds and super memorable cameos from iconic characters.

I could easily see myself giving this a 10/10 but the game just unfortunately struggles performance wise. The frame drops on performance mode on my ps5 were jarring and not on par with other next-gen games that run dang near flawlessly like God of War: Ragnarok, for example. Also, there is an entire bounty hunter mechanic that gives you access to 18 additional boss fights and my game is bugged out resulting in me not even being able to partake in that entire part of the game.

The writers if the story should win something. It has a lot of emotion and you are rooting for the good side characters. As an expert in Star Wars, I can say the developers of the game know Star Wars better than the makers of the new films. Even the short film sequences are better than any fight scenes that we saw in the sequels.

Spoiler esque: Some negative points: too many collectibles. What I miss is also a visit to the jedi temple on Coruscant, a jedi cloak. Jedi Starfighter flying would have been epic. What I think is unnecessary are the puzzles to gain sonething which takes place in a dream world.

Moreover, I need to say the game is the best Star Wars Game I ever played even above The Force Unleashed and KOTOR (sry Kotor fans).

I've played it on PS5, so I can't complain about performance and there were only minor bugs and framerate drops. I've heard on PC the launch was way worse but this is not going to be part of my criteria.

To get to my major complaints: This is actually the first time you will ever hear me say that a game would've been better if it was more condensed + linear.

Why? Because Jedi: Survivor wanted to be something of an "open world" game but ended up being a terribly mediocre in-between, with no reward in exploration really and no meaningful sidequests a la Witcher 3 or GTA / Red Dead Redemption. It feels like a parkour simulator, and you are locked out on a lot of free exploration while being pushed from story point A to B...with invisible walls and a frustrating "you can't jump here" slap on the wrist. And my god, did I get tired of wall running.

Cut all the traversing and same-y puzzles out, you'll end up at 5-10 hours of combat + story. Which is really not a lot, I had hoped for more.

Was the combat decent and the story good, including the characters? Yes.

Especially towards the end, it really picked up in strength (despite a very obvious twist).

But the in-between is severely lacking, and quite frustrating + repetitive the majority of the time.

The worlds / environments also went more in the direction of the movies, we get a lot of sand and barren landscapes until the end pretty much - the first game did so much better in this regard. Dathomir was unique and such a welcome change of pace!

For me, it has no replayability to be frank and I hope the next game improves and makes up it's mind what it wants to be.

This game is the absolute definition of what a Star Wars game should be like. I'm not usually someone who gives reviews on games but AJ felt this one deserved one. There is soooo much to like about this game it's difficult to figure out where to start. The visuals and the graphics of the game were amazing and do not even get me started on the story. It was funny, it was sad, it was entertaining and so much more. The combat performed flawlessly and was a very nice challenge. This is exactly what a sequel should look like because they took everything from the first game, which was already amazing in itself and then improved it and made it 100 times better than it already was and did a phenomenal job doing so. Honestly, don't listen to any of the bad reviews that you see here because they clearly don't know what they are talking about. Being a huge Star Wars fan myself since I was young, I can honestly tell you that this game, the story, the characters, all of it is a true heart throb and worth every single penny. If Respawn can keep releasing masterpieces like this, they might very well be one of the best game developers I've ever seen!!!!