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extrapenguinI've just finished up on Dathomir, so I'm most of the way through; just the climactic stuff to do on Bogano. (And I need to get every planet to 100%. Who cares about saving a record of every Force sensitive child in the galaxy, I have crates to open!)
The game is very obviously designed for console. Playing with mouse and keyboard, it feels like Cal is drunkenly stumbling through pea soup. The various map and galaxy map steering is also very much psychic damage inducing. I tried playing the game on normal difficulty, went "fuck it" when I realized how much I was fighting the controls, and downgraded the difficulty to Story. I also later turned off quicktime events, having come to the conclusion that I did not enjoy them. I'd still not recommend it for people with a slow reaction speed, since there are a few sequences where you slide down a slippery slope and have to angle yourself correctly + jump just at the right moment to not fall into an abyss. (One such sequence on Zeffo nearly had me ragequit.)
Storywise, I like that it's extremely thematically about grief and betrayal and how people move on from that or Fall to the Dark. Cal, Cere, the Inquisitors, Taron Malicos, all were Jedi once. The game is Cal working to move past his past and heal his connection to the Force, while the Inquisitors and Malicos instead choose to cling to the dark. Merrin, too, is the survivor of a genocide. (That leaves Greez as the only member of the crew with a normal past.) It's inevitable, given the time period, but I like that they included Malicos and Merrin there as additional examples of the theme. Characterwise, I like Merrin much more than I expected, and I am content with the extremely basic hetship of Cal/Merrin they seem to be setting up.
The character models are all reskinned actor mocap. Cal's model is nice and believable, which is good. Merrin is using the Force to keep her bangs in place but otherwise also good. Cere's is sort of on the edge of the uncanny valley, like they took all the features of her face and put them together a bit ineptly. Baby Cal from the flashbacks is an Eldritch abomination.
I'll report back after I've actually finished the game. And maybe play the sequel at some point.
The game is very obviously designed for console. Playing with mouse and keyboard, it feels like Cal is drunkenly stumbling through pea soup. The various map and galaxy map steering is also very much psychic damage inducing. I tried playing the game on normal difficulty, went "fuck it" when I realized how much I was fighting the controls, and downgraded the difficulty to Story. I also later turned off quicktime events, having come to the conclusion that I did not enjoy them. I'd still not recommend it for people with a slow reaction speed, since there are a few sequences where you slide down a slippery slope and have to angle yourself correctly + jump just at the right moment to not fall into an abyss. (One such sequence on Zeffo nearly had me ragequit.)
Storywise, I like that it's extremely thematically about grief and betrayal and how people move on from that or Fall to the Dark. Cal, Cere, the Inquisitors, Taron Malicos, all were Jedi once. The game is Cal working to move past his past and heal his connection to the Force, while the Inquisitors and Malicos instead choose to cling to the dark. Merrin, too, is the survivor of a genocide. (That leaves Greez as the only member of the crew with a normal past.) It's inevitable, given the time period, but I like that they included Malicos and Merrin there as additional examples of the theme. Characterwise, I like Merrin much more than I expected, and I am content with the extremely basic hetship of Cal/Merrin they seem to be setting up.
The character models are all reskinned actor mocap. Cal's model is nice and believable, which is good. Merrin is using the Force to keep her bangs in place but otherwise also good. Cere's is sort of on the edge of the uncanny valley, like they took all the features of her face and put them together a bit ineptly. Baby Cal from the flashbacks is an Eldritch abomination.
I'll report back after I've actually finished the game. And maybe play the sequel at some point.