DO NOT BUY Star Wars Jedi： Survivor

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Star Wars Jedi Survivor, and as an avid

fan of Star Wars and also Star Wars games,

I knew I just had to play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's been kind of

lacking in luster. So obviously, as you

may know, I played the original Jedi game,

Jedi Fallen Order I think it was called,

about 4 years ago when it first came out,

and it was an okay game. It wasn't the

best Star Wars game I had ever played,

but it was not a bad game, and I'd give it

a 6.2 out of 10. But unfortunately

Unfortunately, I don't think I can say the

same for Jedi Survivor. It's just not as

good as the first game. It's actually kind

of just the same as the first game, but

with a different story and different

levels. If you played the first game,

then you're pretty much going to know

exactly what the second game is about

because it's basically a copy and paste of

the first game, but with just a few new

extra things added in there to justify it

being a sequel. So obviously, I think a

lot of you know about the optimization,

poor performance things that people have

been talking about recently, and it's true

the game is really badly optimized. And

I'm running this game on a pretty fairly

new 2-year-old 17-inch Razer Blade Pro

gaming laptop with an RTX 3060 graphics

card with 16GB of RAM. And my system

is actually struggling to play this game

even on low settings. Usually I can play

AAA modern games at ultra-high settings

mostly, but this game, even on medium, I

have really bad and low FPS. I don't know

what they've done to this game, but the

optimization is so bad that even on decent

rigs— I've heard that decent rigs are even

struggling to run this game at good FPS.

I just think it's kind of ridiculous that

we live in 2023 and a big publishing

company like EA still doesn't know how to

release a game that isn't full of bugs and

has poor performance and bad optimization.

Why didn't they think of these things

before they released the game? But no,

they rushed the game out hoping to get an

early release date to get people excited

about the game, not forget about it. And

in the results you can see that the game

just performs really, really badly. And

yeah, it's day 1 of the release,

obviously there's going to be some bugs

and glitches, no game comes out 100%

perfect, but this is just kind of taking

the biscuit at this point because they're

gonna have to release so many patches.

Maybe a week or a month later they'll

finally have this game patched so it can

actually run properly on decent computers.

But as it is right now, it is kind of a

mess and it's not really an enjoyable

experience. I noticed very low frame rates

per second and I felt like the game was

very stuttery shuttery and not very

smooth. Moving the character around gave

me motion sickness because the camera

would swing and sway so much every time

you made a turn. And blocking and doing

anything that requires timing like

parrying and counterattacking is just very

unpleasant to do because the game just

wasn't playing smoothly. Now optimization

problems aside, because they can probably

patch that after a few weeks of doing some

coding and fixing some stuff, and then

it'll be fine I guess after a while. But

even if they fix the poor optimization

problems, I still find the game to be

boring, inspired and rather bland. If you

played the first game, then you know

exactly what I'm talking about. This game

is kind of like, well, you just run

around, you do some basic lightsaber

combat action where most of the time just

spamming the mouse button 1 and trying to

do some rolling, some blocking, some

dodging. Maybe if you put the difficulty

level up, you have more of a Dark Souls

kind of experience where dodging and

timing actually matters. But if you're

just playing on normal mode or story mode,

you'll just be spamming the attack button

over and over and over again. The enemies

face— pose no real challenge, and the game

is really easy. Even the bosses are very

boring and bland and kind of lacking in

luster when it comes to a boss battle.

Apart from the fighting, you'll be doing a

lot of platforming and some basic puzzle

solving. So you'll be using your Jedi

skills to push and pull stuff and freeze

stuff in the air to manipulate objects and

platforms and stuff, so you can jump over

edges and over gaps and ravines and holes

and stuff and make your way around the

map. Now I find the map to be very

annoying because when you press M and open

the map, there's like multiple levels in a

level and it doesn't really tell you which

way to go. You've got to kind of— it's

kind of like a 3D maze and you've got to

find your way to get to the objective

point. It does give you some tips if you

get too lost, but for the most part you'll

be looking at your map, trying to study

it, trying to figure out how do I get

there from here using my Jedi powers and

that kind of stuff. And I just found it

kind of frustrating because I kept getting

lost, kept getting frustrated because I

didn't know where to go, or I had to like

use this very specific skill on this very

specific object to make progress. The

puzzles are very boring. It's usually just

moving a box with your Force powers, or

using the zipline, or using the Force to

pull down a piece of pipe so you can grab

onto it. I don't really find the puzzles

or the platforming elements of the game to

be enjoyable. They just seem like kind of

annoying things you have to get through as

quickly as possible so you can get to the

next part of fighting. The fighting can be

quite enjoyable, you know, it's quite

funny, gives me a bit of a chuckle when I

force push a stormtrooper off an edge,

but after doing it 100 times, it gets a

bit tedious and the combat just doesn't

really feel that in-depth. You get a few

lightsaber styles like one-handed

lightsaber, the double-ended lightsaber,

the dual-wield lightsaber, and that's it

really. And you can kind of specialize

talent points into the different

lightsaber fighting stances, but really it

all just boils down to spamming and

smashing the mouse button 1. I feel like

in a way they're trying to copy Elden Ring

as well with this game with the meditation

sphere. So between fighting and jumping,

you'll find these little glowing blue

circles on the ground, and they're kind of

like Graces of Sight in Elden Ring. And

basically it does the same thing— you can

rest there, you can upgrade your skill

points as stuff like that. And the thing

is, when you rest there, you get all your

health potions back and you can heal

again. But the catch is all the enemies

respawn in the level, and then you have to

fight them all again, which is basically

just like Elden Ring. I feel like it's

trying to be Elden Ring, which would be

really cool. It would be really cool to

have like a Dark Souls kind of Star Wars

game where dodging and swordplay and sword

fighting was really important. You had to

have like a good mastery of the combat.

But this game just doesn't really feel

like a, like a Dark Souls game. It just

feels like a cheap wannabe Dark Souls

game, and they really need to give the

license to maybe FromSoftware so they can

actually make a Dark Souls, real Dark

Souls Star Wars game that could be

actually good. As for the story, I'm not

really impressed with it. I do like Star

Wars, and I like the universe and the lore

of Star Wars, but you know, with the

recent Disney movies and the recent Disney

shows, Star Wars doesn't really feel the

same like it used to. It just feels like a

dumb kids show now, and this game is no

different. The story in Star Wars Jedi

Survivor does feel like a Disney show,

and the enemies in it, like the Ninth

Sister and the evil Inquisitors, are not

scary or menacing at all. They just seem

like lame Disney villains, and I don't

really care about them in any way. So

unfortunately, even though the game looks

like it could be promising and I was a bit

excited about the game, I won't be able to

give this game much higher than a 6.2 out

of 10. I was very disappointed with it,

didn't really like it, didn't do anything

differently or very differently compared

to the first game. And I feel like after I

finished the first game, I didn't really

care about playing more of this type of

game. I might be tempted to buy this game

if it's on like 70% discount, but it's way

too expensive. £60 for this game is like

¥10,000. ¥10,000, I can get a crab, or you

could eat buffet for 90 minutes, which I

think would give my Thai girlfriend much

more value for money than this game would

ever satisfy me with or pleasure me with.