Recent reviews by Pesky Romanian

Please buy this game. Support these devs. They're doing amazing work, FMV games have fallen by the wayside in recent years and Not For Broadcast brings them right into the contemporary spotlight.

This game literally makes you feel like you're the editor in a news room. At the audiences' every whim. I can only imagine playing in VR would be one of the best VR experiences ever.

PLEASE BUY THIS GAME. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS, WE NEED MORE LIKE THIS!

TL;DR: If you liked the first game, you'll like this one too. But, wait for a sale.

The Good:

- The writing has taken a step up from the previous game. It's still very "Star Wars" ("I hate sand..") but the acting performances come through much clearer and with the relationships we've already built with the characters from the first game, it's very nice to see some character development.

- It took me ~30hrs to 100% explore all planets and complete the game on Jedi Master difficulty. There's a good amount of content to explore in the three main planets, and those open worlds are huge. Much less linear than in Fallen Order.

- The game settings are much more accessible (FOV slider lets gooooo).

- The enemy diversity is a big plus, between the Empire, Bedlam Raiders, and Fauna there's close to 30 different enemy types, excluding bosses.

- The worlds feel much more like they exist in the star wars universe, rather than separate ideas forced to fit into the star wars mold.

- The Force Tears are a very fun mechanic, like Subsistence missions from the MGS games. The one where you fight two rancor at once made me pull my hair out

The Meh:

- The majority of the game is spent bouncing around two planets. While it makes sense for the story, I personally would have enjoyed a bit more varied locations to explore.

- While Survivor uses the same engine as Fallen Order, Unreal 4, it does look better in the some of the lighting and animation departments. A lot of work and polish obviously went into that. However, the textures fall short. Plastic-y textures and blown out sunlight are the biggest complaints. Even with brightness at 25%, many times when standing indoors or in a cave, looking out a door, window, etc. the sunlight would completely blow out the visibility outside, which isn't normally a big deal, but makes some puzzles or locations hard to see. One type of the collectibles are only found by finding floating green particle effects, which are very tough to see in bright environments, like outdoors in direct sunlight.

- Speaking of collectibles, there are so damn many. Over 500 including Echos, lightsaber parts, cosmetics (most have a color pallet found seperately), and trade resources, makes most of the game play loop somewhat grading. That being said, if you don't care about picking up every little thing it wont affect your play experince.

The Bad:

- I personally didn't have many problems with consistent crashes, Throughout the game however I had constant visual bugs. Such as artifacts and fabric stretching.

- The game altogether made my PC a space heater, from when I launch to probably 10 minutes after the game closes.

- Hitboxes and input timing can be wonky at times. All the way from dodging un-blockable attacks by dashing into an enemy to my block inputs being ignored. (Partially a skill issue, but worth a mention for how many times it wasn't)

- A few locations are very sparse with the save point locations, generally not an issue, but makes a couple places frustrating.

- The EA App integration is absolute doggy doo-doo. Launching the game signs me out of EA, the "background service" does not close when the game does, EA is just generally a scummy company and it's on full display here.

The Spoilers:

- The Bode twist was some masterful storytelling, big plus, never saw it coming.

- The Cal/Merrin love story would've felt forced in the first game, but their relationship development felt natural inside Survivor's (and Cal and Merrin's) story

- The High Republic tie-ins were cool, but it still makes me wish for The Old Republic.

Conclusion:

Jedi Survivor, at it's bones, is a really great game. If it had a different publisher and was given more time to optimize, it would have been game of the year. But EA's money grubbing hands killed most chances of that. With time, updates, and hopefully expansions, Jedi Survivor could be a really, really great game.

Overall, I recommend Jedi Survivor, with the exception to wait for a heavy sale before you buy..

10/10, would sink my life into again.

take two? more like take back my mods please, im desperate

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