DO NOT buy Star Wars Jedi - Fallen Order

Hello and welcome to my review of the new

Star Wars game, Star Wars: The Fallen Jedi

Order, or whatever it's called. So I don't

usually make video game reviews because I

don't play many games apart from Rainbow

Six, but I decided to get the new Star

Wars game mainly because I'm a bit of a

Star Wars fan and the new game did look

fairly interesting. Unfortunately, after

playing it for a few hours, I realized

that it was complete garbage, and because

I played for more than 2 hours, I was

unable to get a refund off of Steam,

which I'm a bit annoyed with, to be

honest, because it's quite expensive,

£55. So I'm going to make a video to try

and make some money back, and I'm going to

tell you what I thought of it and why you

probably should not buy it. It took me

about 40 hours to complete the entire

game, and I played most of it on the

highest difficulty level, Jedi Grand

Master, which I'm actually quite proud of.

There were a few moments in the game which

were just impossible to complete on Jedi

Grand Master, I must have tried several of

the bosses about 50 times before I just

nearly smashed my computer and had to turn

the difficulty down a bit. So if I were to

describe the game, basically it's a ripoff

of several other games all rolled into one

game. It's kind of like China, it rips off

a bunch of other things from other people

and doesn't really do anything unique,

special, or original. On its own.

There's 3 main components to the game:

action, platforming, and puzzle solving.

Number one, the action feels pretty much

like Assassin's Creed or Batman games,

or what's that game called— Dark Souls.

It's fairly typical third-person action

combat where enemies will just gather

around you and then usually take their

turns to attack you, and you have to block

and parry, counterattack and use special

abilities to defeat them. I thought that

the combat felt very sluggish and

unresponsive. The main character— I forgot

his name— he looks kind of weird. He's

very ginger. He kind of looks like that

YouTuber ImAllexx, but more ugly. What was

I saying? Yes, he feels very sluggish and

unresponsive to move, something you

wouldn't expect from a Jedi who's supposed

to be quick and agile. The game kind of

feels like The Witcher 3, which I also

hated because The gameplay, the combat

just felt so slow and clunky. I hated

moving the character around because it

just didn't feel good. There's a wide

range of different varieties of enemies in

the game. The most fun to fight are the

stormtroopers and the Empire, but they

also make you fight a lot of these

stupid-looking space monsters and

giant-sized insects like big slugs and

massive spiders, which is just not fun and

it's kind of irritating to fight,

especially when your enemy is this massive

monster and the camera keeps losing track

of it and then you get hit in the back.

There's just nothing really special about

the combat system. It's pretty standard,

bog-standard third-person action fighting

mechanics. When you're not fighting,

there's a lot of platforming, a lot of

wall jumping, wall running, jumping up

ledges, climbing up surfaces, swinging on

ropes. It's kind of like that game

Uncharted or Tomb Raider, and if you like

that stuff, that's fine. But for me

personally, I just don't really enjoy

parkour simulators. And because the

character feels so clunky and

unresponsive, it's just not satisfying to

do platforming when the controls just

aren't very reliable. Sometimes you think

you've jumped far enough to grab onto a

ledge, and then he doesn't grab onto the

ledge. Or sometimes you actually do grab

onto the ledge But for some reason he just

drops. And when you're not fighting and

you're not jumping from ledges and

climbing up stuff, the third part of the

game involves solving puzzles. You go into

these temples, kind of like temples on

Zelda, and they'll give you a bunch of

puzzles to solve using your Force powers.

And a lot of these puzzles revolve around

maneuvering a ball into a hole so you can

move on to the next stage, or so you can

open doors to gain access to more balls to

push into more holes. It did feel a lot

like some of the puzzles on the new Zelda

game on the Switch. Didn't really feel

very original. I didn't enjoy doing the

puzzles or the platforming. I kept

thinking to myself, I wish there were more

things to fight. I just want to fight

things and use my lightsaber and use my

Force powers to beat people up. I don't

want to jump around and be swinging from

ropes to ropes and maneuvering giant balls

into holes. It's just not something I

enjoy doing. But since that's what 2/3 of

the game consists of, unfortunately I only

found about a third of the game to be

actually enjoyable. There's also a skill

tree, so when you defeat enemies you gain

experience and you get skill points, and

then you can unlock new Force powers, or

you can upgrade your existing Force

powers, or you can get more health, or

more Force power, or you get more health

from your stimpacks. And at first I

thought this was a really good idea. I

thought maybe I could specialize my Jedi

into a certain type of Jedi. For example,

I thought I could make him really strong

with Force powers or make him really

strong with his lightsaber. But you don't

really specialize, you just end up

unlocking everything. The skill tree is

just really shallow. Yeah, you get a few

extra skills, lightsaber combos and Force

powers from the skill tree, but it just

feels very shallow and there's not really

this feeling of Hmm, I can specialize my

Jedi into a specific playstyle that I

enjoy. You don't really get that feeling.

I just really wish there was more

customization when it comes to different

playstyles. It would have been cool if

there was a really unique, special, fun

ability at the end of one of the skill

trees where you had to invest in either

Force powers, lightsaber, or survival in

order to reach that really powerful unique

ability. And I guess the reason why there

isn't this level of customization is

because this game is not a role-playing

game. It's not an RPG. It's a pretty

dumbed-down platforming action-adventure

game, and if that's what you enjoy,

that's great, but I prefer to have a

little bit more depth in my Jedi games.

Now, as for the graphics of the game,

they are pretty good, and the game is very

nice to look at visually. I think it's

pretty good, something you would expect

from a modern-day video game. Nothing too

fancy, but overall I think it looks very

nice, especially the lighting. I love the

way the lightsaber lights up the

character. There were quite a few glitches

in the game, and this usually involved

enemy models, enemy characters clipping

into the ground and then getting stuck,

which was quite funny actually. For

example, me and an enemy stormtrooper were

fighting on the edge of a mountain And I

try and force push him off of the edge,

and instead of him falling off of the

edge, he gets stuck in the ground and he

just carries on doing the falling

animation with his arms flailing around,

which was quite funny. And half of his

body was just stuck in the ground whilst

he carried on falling, and that just

stayed like that until I force pushed him

again, and then he eventually fell off the

edge. It's not really game-breaking, and

sometimes you can use these glitches to

your advantage and make enemies easier to

fight. For example, there's one type of

enemy, this very tall robot. He's in the

Rogue One movie, and sometimes they get

stuck at doors because they're too tall.

They can't, they can't get through the

doorway, and they just stop moving, and

then you can just carry on attacking them

and they don't do anything. I managed to

beat a lot of the more difficult enemies,

groups of enemies, on Jedi Grand Master

mode by taking advantage of these glitches

And just forcing them to glitch in

doorways and stuff like that to get around

them. Also, if you're lazy, you don't even

have to fight a lot of the enemies. You

can just run past them. You can run

straight past a lot of the enemies just to

get to the next stage, and they'll follow

you a bit, but if you jump over a ledge,

they'll just be stuck at the ledge because

they can't jump very far. There's a lot of

backtracking in the game, which is a bit

annoying. For example, you'd be at the

beginning of a map and you have to get to

your objective. And then once you get to

your objective, it tells you to go all the

way back to your ship. And there's no

teleportation feature, there's no quick

travel. You have to backtrack through the

entire map, and the enemies will respawn

every time you save the game or use a

meditation circle. So all the enemies will

have respawned. Instead of fighting all of

the enemies all over again, I would just

run past them all, and there wasn't really

anything they could do to stop me. And

lastly, let's talk about the story of the

game. The story is pretty bad actually.

The story is a lot like the new Star Wars

movies, which is pretty terrible.

Basically, the main character has to find

a holocron, which is like a cube which

contains names, a list of names of

Force-sensitive kids, and the main

character and his friends want to find

this list so they can rebuild the Jedi

Order after Order 66 was carried out. All

of the Jedi were executed and they

went into exile. So you have to find this

list of Force-sensitive kids to create the

new Jedi Order with. So at the end of the

game, you finally find the holocron with

the list of names, and instead of making

the new Jedi Order, they end up deciding

to destroy the holocron. It just made the

whole game feel completely pointless

because the whole point of the story was

to find the list of names to make the new

order. And then he just destroys it, and

then that's it, that's the end. You don't

even find out what happens next to the

characters, and I just felt like, wow,

that was anticlimactic. That felt like a

waste of time. So everything you just did

was a complete waste of time, and it

didn't really feel like you achieved

anything. Well, I guess one plus side is

the Empire can't get their hands on the

holocron and find these kids, and then get

rid of them. I guess that was the reason

why they destroyed it. Well, it was £55

for around 40 hours of entertainment. I

don't know if that's good or not. I

suppose it's quite good value for money if

you look at how many hours of

entertainment I got out of it. I don't

know if I can call it entertainment. I

didn't really have 40 hours of pure fun.

It was more like maybe 8 hours of fun

and then 32 hours of just frustrating,

irritating platforming and annoying puzzle

solving, which was not fun. Would I

recommend buying it if I could go back in

time? I would definitely not buy it. I

just don't think that the combat was that

much fun or unique, and everything else

about the game was just boring or

unoriginal or just not very good. I would

give it a 4.2 out of 10 for my

final score. Would not recommend.