The highly anticipated sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is finally here! Jedi: Survivor released on April 28 with a hefty 130GB+ demand for storage. Although the game has been hyped up since it was officially announced, early PC performance issues and game breaking errors on all platforms have resulted in user review scores dropping harder than a youngling at the Jedi Temple during Order 66.
Jedi: Survivor is the sequel to Jedi: Fallen Order, a story which introduces us to the main protagonist, Cal Kestis, a survivor of the Great Jedi Purge, working in a scrap yard of Bracca. Kestis would go on to explore the galaxy to discover the ancient beginnings of the Jedi Order and finish with finding a holocron containing the location of Force-sensitive children across the universe. Kestis’ journey picks up a few years later with a beautiful shot of the capital planet of Coruscant, which happens to be neatly decorated in Imperial colors and symbols. The story of Cal’s journey is very captivating as we learn what happened to the original crew from Fallen Order and what’s next in Cal’s journey. The graphics, when they work, are stunning and help to transport the player deeper into the Star Wars universe.
Mechanics-wise, Cal Kestis has survived the plague that is squeal-amnesia, or in plain terms, Cal remembers all the skill moves he learned in the first game and the player now gets to build on top of those remembered skills. The in-game combat is smooth and pleasant to the eye as Cal’s lightsaber slashes through his enemies with ease. On top of lovely lightsaber mechanics, many argue there is nothing more satisfying than using the improved Force attacks to absolutely dominate a poor Stormtrooper that just happened to have bad luck and met face-to-face with the last Jedi in the galaxy.
The main issue so far hasn’t been the Empire blowing up any planets, but rather bugs that cause the game to misbehave and in some rare cases, crash the game, or even prevent progression. The PC version of the game is a port of the console version, which means it was doomed to have countless performance issues. These issues have caused gamers on most platforms to give negative feedback and reviews. On Steam alone, Jedi: Survivor sits at a 6/10 stars with over 14,000 reviews and a “mostly negative” rating at the time of this article. EA and Respawn have announced patches to be rolled out this week to fix performance issues on PC and console. The speed at which these patches come out will be critical to saving Jedi: Survivor in the eyes of gamers. Help us EA, you’re our only hope!
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