SWJFO sure FEELS short at least.
This, like much of everything else I spew, is a rant. Sry.
Oh and there will be spoilers ahead for the game, so: sry.
Finished Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order yesterday (2019-12-01) and am now in the regular post-playthrough depression that always hits when finishing a game with no replay-value. Ooooh! Yeah I know some are gonna be mad at that, but itâs MY truth! The fact that the game doesnât even have a new game or new game plus mode really drags. I bought it 2019-11-18, but because I was busy it wasnât fully downloaded until 2019-11-22 and then I didnât start playing until the next day and letâs say I then played maybe 3 hrs per day, letâs say everyday...then the game is around the 25 hrs mark, however: did I feel like it was time well spent? No. Did I feel satisfied with the ending? No.
Did I want to keep playing? For no reason? F*ck No! I mean I already got every secret and collectible before the final mission, so there is literally no reason to keep playing! This is the reason why dark souls has new game and new game plus modes, there is nothing to explore and do if you have already done it all! But if you get to play the game again, while keeping all outfits and weapons: you get some damn fine looking shots of your character looking awesome during boring-ass scenes youâve already seen before! Honestly, the story was kind of meh in the end and the outfits were too few and the ponchos didnât make any sense and the fact you donât get to customize the colour of âyou know whatâ until basically the end of the game just sucked all in all! Why wouldnât you implement a ânew gameâ mode in a game like this?! (Iâm pretty sure the first one is just called ânew gameâ and then the one after that is called ânew game plusâ, I think that was how dark souls did it at least, I canât speak for the other games in the series tho it could have changed).
Seeing Cal wearing the outfit I chose and using the lightsaber I customized throughout the entire games cutscenes would be a much needed alleviation of a moderately boring story honestly... (But why canât I change Cereâs saber piece on the other side?! I had to pick her piece for the other side too to make it look cohesive, and I didnât like that, I didnât want that, but it looks dumb otherwise!)
Yeah yeah, it isnât as short as a usual indie-title, but it isnât a Fallout game for sure, I mean I am still playing Fallout 4 every now and then because of all the shit you can do and all the different perks that can change your playstyle too... and because you can customize your character to look how you want and say kind of what you want and have it kind of matter and... *sigh*.Â
Why is this Star Wars game so good but so bad at the same time?
I liked that you could change the buttons... I didnât like that you couldnât re-bind all things to new buttons. I mean having the shoulder button be block/parry only works in dark souls where the shield actually felt like it was there and oh itâs hard to explain, but it didnât work for me in this game, so I re-bound it to the B-button and made dodge the Y-button. However, I didnât know that the game f*cked itself and took away the âdrop ledgeâ-button as well when I changed B. Luckily I, through my massive brainâs incredible problem-solving skills, managed to figure out I could manually re-bind the drop-button to my dodge-button (Y). I did google it first tho and got no useful information: instead I got a f*ck-ton of same-y sounding whining about pc-keybindings, which, for a console-user like myself: is f*cking useless! Apparently not a single other soul had had my issue! In the end, like I said, I figured it out, but still: The fact that the game didnât warn me that I had consequently un-bound another command as well when changing the dodge-button was really shitty. Oh well. ...the game making X and B (because of my changed buttons no doubt, but still), the way to do double saber attacks was f*cking hilariously dumb tho and the fact that I couldnât change that attack to other buttons really irked me let me tell you! I had to release the camera and steer sticks both during the fight that the game wants you to do it to push both X and B at the same time to perform the stupid attack! I literally could never do it again after because it was a hassle to let go of the left stick to awkwardly hold the controller somehow and push X and B down at the same time, my word! A useless attack since I could never do it smoothly. Not really the games fault, but still. Anyway...
...why was Cal a ginger?! You canât have a ginger wear a red or pink outfit! It clashes! Couldnât they at least have made his hair more of a brow-ish shade to ensure it would go with most colour-schemes. Ginger doesnât go with red or orange because it is red-ish or orange! Then again: colour-wise most of the ponchos didnât work with the under-outfits either so, gah! Who designed the cosmetics in this game!? It never quite looked right to me.Â
...why was Anakin in it? I fail to imagine Anakin letting the empire murder children for no reason, yeah yeah: he murdered the kids in the temple that one time, but... he came back to his senses to rescue his son in the end tho right, so... Yeah ok, maybe not, but... I just donât understand how torturing the kids make them inquisitors either, wouldnât they just kill themselves right when they had the chance instead of actually doing the empires bidding after all theyâd been through because of it? If Trilla was so angry at Cere for letting her get captured at all by giving up her potential location, why did she join and why did she stay? She couldâve killed her at practically any point, but didnât and then she ended up dying in the end while kind of maybe kind of âforgivingâ Cere anyway... I am confused as to how murdering force-users and kidnapping them and torturing them is even a viable plan at all, but then again I ainât evil so... Sure sure, less potential jedi and all, but if one can turn to âthe dark sideâ at any point then you can get off of it too at any point canât ya? and if the kid was tortured to join you and stay, wouldnât they be more likely to just f*ck off your âdark sideâ-shenanigans the moment you are out of earshot? Yeah, they make it sound hard, but I have no idea how this shit is supposed to work in the first place so what the heck do I know! Why is the âdark sideâ a thing in the first place? I thought the force was an all powerful omnipresent-kind-of-thing that moves through everyone and everything, why/how does it have a âdark sideâ if it is everywhere at all times? Technically, wouldnât the ppl NOT force-sensitive and the ppl NOT using the force be the ones on the âdark sideâ of the force? They are the ones that donât affiliate with it and canât âfeelâ it after all... Technically the ppl on the âdark sideâ arenât actually on a âsideâ of anything, they are just happening to use the force for evil. I can perhaps understand why the idiots in charge want something to blame, like our religious ppl inventing the devil, but the ppl that actually feel the force would know that thereâs no such thing as a âdark sideâ of the force, right? And yet everyone, even Luke in that second new movie was all like âOh my gawd Ray, you went immediately to the dark side, whine whine whine!â But the whole thing with you Luke was that you embraced balance, right? I mean you were all: green lightsaber but all black outfit and was so badass when ya rescued Han! It wasnât Anakin that brought balance to the force like the prophecy Obi had had said: it was his son that managed it, right? Or was that retconned? ...anyway.
I feel like swjfo was so short and for the amount I paid for it, it sure as shit doesnât feel worth it in the end. I mean, I was so shocked when I started up the game and was gonna load my save and saw that we were 54% or something through the game and the main story had barely picked up any pace!
This definitely felt more like a prequel to another, better, more story-rich and exploratory game.Â
I hope that they are making the next installment where we as Cal explore balancing the force and get to use force-lightning! (I was so disappointed you never got to learn that in this game, it would have been cool... if the game was longer and there was more to do and more things to fight and such!) The fact that Merrin joined so late in the story was dumb, but a hope that they will make the next installment where we together with her and the other crew get a bigger cooler ship and get to explore the world to get rid of the empire together and learn about the force and such too together and maybe romance her or something too I guess, but a male option for the rest of us that donât want to see that straight shit would be nice too of course. But if their story progresses nicely and their chemistry grows naturally, I wouldnât necessarily mind in the end if they go steady with each other.Â
Seriously tho, a warning from the game that there would be no more perks to be unlocked when Iâd unlocked all of them wouldâve been nice! At least an option to sink the extra points you could still get into health or force-meter or lightsaber attack strength, (kind of like in Asscreed Ori where ya could add points into increased arrow-damage or melee-damage of a small percentage indefinitely almost. I was literally expecting that to be the case with this game but nope!). Anyway, the second game should focus on us and the crew expanding our operation of defeating the empire by: gathering allies and tools and experience too I suppose and it should also focus on Cal beginning to research mastering all aspects of the force, maybe together with Merrin. Merrin herself should learn about the world and also learn it really wasnât the jedi that were the cause of her loss and pain and grow as a person and grow closer to the og crew too. Not sure how to end that game tho.
The third and last installment should be one where we actually get to eradicate the empire and actually rebuild the world and potentially the order too. One where we get to actually find balance and get to use a red lightsaber and use force-lightning too without being evil! (That might be more of an end-game goal for the second game tho: Cal masters some of the many aspects of the force and gets to use force-lightning, but not enough to satisfy us maybe, so thereâll be a reason to play the third one or something lol). So: use a red lighsaber and more cool force powers including force-lightning and âmaster the forceâ, all the while also working to finish eradicate the empire. Maybe some world-building choices where we decide if or how the new jedi order should be and we become a council member and do council business and such. It could end with the entire world open too us, with little quests of minor significance but itâs something to do scattered around the planets and places on the planets, we get to âbuild bridgesâ with the ppl were are to protect as part of the new jedi order and heck, let me decide what should happen and then you just make the game for me yeah Respawn?
...anyway, final thoughts:
I am done with the game and have no reason to keep playing it. This makes me kind of sad, but in the end: the story was unsatisfyingly short and uninteresting and the ending left much to be desired. But! There is very minimal hope (knowing EA) that there will be more to come. Let us hope.
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