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This review has no plot spoilers.
TL;DR - Improves on the first game in all aspects massively. I hope the 3rd instalment currently in the works is aiming for the same quality (or even better) of this game.


I need to start this review by saying I adore this game. I love the story line, the characters, their individual plots and developments, and the lightsaber customisation. These points I go further into in this review.

It took me near enough 50 hours to complete the game, however a lot of that time was spent hunting for chests to unlock more lightsaber customisations. And I do not regret a single moment. I reckon however that one can finish the game comfortably within 30 hours.

The combat is much the same as the first game. In my review of the first game I likened it to a mix of Dark Souls and the newer Zelda games (e.g. Breath of the Wild). However, in STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor they knocked it out the park with the difference Stances it introduced. I found myself excitedly rotating through the different stances to give myself different flavour of the "being a Jedi" fantasy.

My main grievance of not being able to slice enemies in half was rectified by the introduction of droids, also giving the game the opportunity to flesh out lore otherwise not seen in mainstream adaptations of Star Wars. This made the story and new enemy faction(s) feel more canon and solid. There was more limb severance of storm troopers, but not quite enough in my opinion - there can never be enough. I want to be able to slice a trooper's arm off, and force push it into his buddy's chest next to him.

The facial CGI/MoCap is also much improved. I felt a connection to Cal in this game, which was missing in the first. I could read his face, I could feel his emotions, which made me really fall into the story and his strife. The audio in some of the cutscenes lagged a second behind or so, however I'm putting this down to performance on my machine, and not a failing of the game itself.

I was pleased with the lightsaber customisation in the first game, however they blew it out the water for this one. There are more sets and individual parts of the lightsaber to swap out and thousands of colour combinations, which give the player full freedom and creativity to build a lightsaber fitting to the player's head canon or jedi fantasy. I just wish there were more close up in cutscenes that showed off the player's creation more, and the ability to save/share designs and presets. I resorted to writing down all the components of setups i liked on a discord server so I don't lose them.

The worlds are essentially somewhat linear and backtrack-ey, making the player return to planets once unlocking a new movement ability. This was also present in the first game. I was excited every time to travel to a new destination, but eventually you run out of new destinations and new areas to unlock, but that's how it goes.

The story of the first game left a sour taste in my mouth. The ending of this game and the tease at the end fill me with pure excitement for a third instalment, as long as they manage to hit the same quality of story and character writing, and appealing to the ability to build one's own jedi fantasy.

Because I mentioned price in my review of the first game, I think it fair I mention here as well. Very worth €50. 70€ I find a little steep, however bAcK iN mY dAy I grew up used to AAA titles being no more than 30€. The typical sale price goes to around 32€. When it does, grab this game.

When it was released and stable, it was one of my favourites. Only a few years later and its an absolute shell.
Ubisoft's direction has been an absolute car-crash, that I'm not even going to mention anything good.

You cannot play the game.

The server's are totally buggered meaning you are forced to play in offline mode, where ONLY free-roam is available. You load up and are greeted with a notification that you are in offline mode. You cannot manually force a connection attempt. You may lucky in receiving a message saying "Steep servers are available!", but in my experience this has never led to actually being connected.

You cannot access any DLC zones in offline mode. So any extra money you have spent on DLC is a literal waste.

♥♥♥♥ you Ubisoft.

I just finished the Cairn Demo and I have never felt so captivated and excited from a demo before.

The mechanics I think still need to be fleshed out. The stamina feels a little bit whack - I'm not sure how fast it is depleting, I only know for certain once its already too late, which leads to taking very frequent stamina breaks, which slows down player progression. Which although is a fine mechanic to have, when its somewhat invisible and neccesary for gameplay, can get frustrating.

I am a little worried about the food/resource aspect - Aava needs to keep food on her for when she keeps to keep up her strength - i love the aspect on the surface level, however without being able to kill mountain goats, I can't imagine a lot of substantial food resources can be picked from the side of a mountain.

The negatives already being said, I'm still very excited for release. The art style feels to me fresh, the micro mechanics are something new to get your head around and understand, the character's sense of panic that comes in once limbs start to shake feel very reminiscent to being stuck on a climbing wall and the story certainly has promise.

All in all, very excited. Vive le game bakers!

It took me about 30 hours on easy difficulty to complete the story.

I really liked the story and the art style.

The upgrade progression felt a little slow for my liking; you are not rewarded for doing chill "farming" runs - it really pushes you into progression.

20€ is incredible value for the title. But I do have to say, now that I've finished it, I have no desire or motivation to continue playing or replaying it for a long time. There just isn't much replay value in it, in my opinion.

Regardless, very good game. Marvellous writing, got very caught up in the story and the character's emotions. Thoroughly good experience.

This review has no plot spoilers, nor mentions the plot at all. Opinions are subjective.

This is not a good game. There are so many awful aspects to this game.

From a technical standpoint, it's trash. This is a rubbish port to PC, and horribly optimized. You can load up the game and within 5 minutes have a random crash, regardless of where you are. Further crashes seemed to happen like clockwork on a 4-5 hour timer.

The writing is lazy and inconsistent. It feels as if each chapter was written by a different person, meaning the developments the main character(s) makes feels very forced, and not organic. The dialogue options are pure "illusion of choice". It does not matter emotionally or thematically. There are no true consequences that you care about, because all the supporting characters are introduced very lacking in detail, and shoved out of the way just as quick, leaving no time to build up any emotional connection. You have the choice to play as female or male Eivor, which inherently is a good idea, more of this. HOWEVER, if such a mechanic is implemented, you need to make sure that the lines of dialogue and pronouns used, also fit with the gender version of the MC. This has nothing to do with gender identities, purely the technical mistake of implementing the wrong pronoun in dialogue - which ruins immersion.

This is an awful Assassin's Creed game. The main hallmark, the iconic aspect of AC is the hidden blade. In AC Valhalla, it's so heavily discounted, you forget you have. The hidden blade is THE sign of the AC franchise, but in this game, its demoted to an insta-kill mechanic, which sometimes isn't an insta-kill.

Its a Ubisoft game. Enjoy running all over the empty and rough feeling open world to climb towers to reveal the map. Oh and the utter milking of further DLC's and MTX.

There is lots of Testing in this game. I don't mean that they spent a lot of time on QA, they didn't. Testing in this sense I mean by testing out gameplay mechanics and features. Which inherently is good. However, they shoehorned far too much, and the prizes and rewards are too shallow, meaning they're over and forgotten about too quickly; like the River Raids, and the Niflheim Odin Rogue-Like gamemode.

The only redeeming aspect of AC Valhalla in the big picture is the viking fantasy. It's not great, but it isn't egregiously bad either. Axes, tattoo's, braided hair. Raiding, pillaging, building up the clan. The combat finishers are cool and add to the badass viking raider fantasy, but this does not redeem the failings of this title.

I have no desire to re-play this or investigate the DLC'S. Seeing how the newer AC's have gone, this might be the last new AC title I ever buy.

Great fun little game.
I initially wrote it off as just a mobile game, and to be fair I still hold that opinion, but regardless of that I really like it.
Cute graphics, sweet art style. You can do a multitude of different builds, the characters and their specs really help you lean into them, but don't make it super easy for you so once you get to that stage of feeling godly, it doesn't feel like it was spoon fed to you.
Each run takes somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour depending on luck and stats.
Perfect for Steamdeck and not rubbish and boring for you desktop when you just want to busy yourself while watching or listening to something on the side.

Took about 20 hours to complete Jedi: Fallen Order.
Gameplay is lovely. Mix of Dark Souls and Zelda.
Graphics are pretty.
Quite liked the story, hated the main protagonist for the reasons of just pure character, but also either animation did the actor (they morph suited CGI'd an actor and put him in the game) a misjustice, or the actor was just ♥♥♥♥. In almost all the closeup cinematics I had no idea what he was feeling.
Ending was the correct ending to have, but its still a naff ending - but the correct one for canon lore.

Disturbing lack of being able to slice stormtroopers in half.
Worth getting on sale, not worth more than 30€ I'd say.

The gameplay is fantastic.
The actual game is a little lacking in that one can finish the story within 12 or so hours, easily.
The end game as it stands at the moment is running the same uninspired side missions to complete the factions bars.
However, NOT worth more than 25€ or so.

I've had the highest highs and the lowest lows playing this game. The feel of teamwork with your mate or randoms that make you go "well done lads, good job" at the end of the game is what drives most.

However some people just enjoy being toxic ♥♥♥♥♥. The biggest problem is the ♥♥♥♥♥ that ruin the community and grief games. At the moment the reporting system is totally wack and doesn't work. So the problem doesn't get fixed.

If you get a nice 5 stack, then this game is brill. However if you solo Q to any EU servers, you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥ unless you are a russian diplomat..

Pretty much what you would expect a game called something so close to call of duty; silly gun toting ballocks. level up your skills to get more out of the guns, and the abilities in game. The game is a cakewalk but has ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good story telling. ♥♥♥♥ you, BOB.