2/5 ★ – TripleLSupreme's review of STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™.
Dec 18, 2019
I am shocked by the many good reviews of this game, especially from publications.
I started playing the game on the second to hardest difficulty and had to lower it after I made it to the end of the second planet. The game puts you in unwinnable situations and I would be ok with this to some point of the resspawn times were not horrendous (on PS4) and take upwards of a minute. Controls can be clunky and are sometimes unresponsive.
The negatives of the game:
- Do you like snowboarding games with poor controls? Then you will like much of the beginning of this game as it has you sliding down areas repeatedly.
- Characters are few and boring. I think the Nightsister was the only one that had a personality.
- Story is weak and the parts that are supposed to enact some sort of emotion fall flat. Maybe this is Disney's influence. The ending is interesting but far too little to make up for the rest.
- "Metroidvania" is not an excuse for a confusing layout.
- As I said before the controls are clunky and sometimes unresponsive. They released a new patch for this but it has not improved.
- Lack of attention to detail. For instance when underwater it completely skips an animation when you open a chest. This just shows you how little they cared to polish this game. Graphical bleed through happens constantly.
Positives:
- The few boss fights exist are enjoyable.
- Art design is good.