Recent reviews by leia

ghost lesbianism meets bullet hell meets time management

this is an explosively good game. please let me pay for this game.

One of the greatest single-player experiences of all time, I'd say.
Meta as ♥♥♥♥, with graphics that HAVE NOT AGED ONE BIT, I'd say.
A 200% must-buy please-get-this-game-because-you-will-not regret-it title, I'd say.

If 2K didn't mess with a nine-year-old singleplayer title for purely monetary reasons.

2K, reverse this, please. I don't have a 2K account and frankly I don't think I ever will, especially not after this.

Would not recommend at full price or on sale unless you like waiting longer than you reasonably should to play a game

(P.S. The game renders even when paused, and even when it's minimized, and does not limit framerates beyond your monitor's framerates. Don't run with a 3080 without VSync on (which, by the way, is actually called "Limit Framerate".) God, 2K is giving the wrong kind of attention to this game.)

made me sad

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Fantastic game! It's 100% clear to me that TT Games has made this with the old games in mind; not as a replacement, but as a successor, a game that kindly respects them rather than ignorantly bypassing them. (It even uses the original minikit collection sound as it's build complete sound! I have too many hours on The Original Trilogy and Complete Saga to ever forget that satisfying bit of audio.)

The game has taken to a completely different set of levels. Instead of raiding the Jedi Temple in Episode 3, you'll be fighting Sidious in the senate chamber. Instead of fighting a bounty hunter mid-flight in the first level of Episode 2, you'll be exploring, trying to figure out what that dart thing really is.
Frankly, it's a much more immersive way of going about the story. In LGS (The Prequels), you'd finish fighting Grevious then immediately transition to running and fighting clones on Kashyyyk, with little to no story explanation; it was a bit of a mess. Don't get me wrong, the levels were fantastic (and specifically levels 1 and 6 of Episode 3 had some of the best design of many of them.)
Even in The Original Trilogy, you'd go from murdering Jabba the Hut to going around in speeders; the games seemed to be picking specific points to hit from the movies rather than retelling them, and that resulted in games that weren't all that immersive; games that really were a bit scrambled.

This game is different. While the levels may be short, they're very involved and combat-filled. And, when you finish a level, you don't teleport to the next level automatically, you're still within the relative area of where you finished it; you have to travel to the next level yourself (or stay where you are and get Kyber Bricks, a fantastic part of the game that I can't stop participating in), really showing off the fantastic galaxy TT has made. The more story you complete, the more planets you have (and you can go anywhere anytime!)

The game is a bit of a fabricated experience, though; it shows you what to do, and actively directs you towards that goal. You're always able to go your own direction, but you cannot 'untrack' the story mission, it is always tracked. You'll always have a tiny orange exclamation on your screen, nearly 24/7, adding to the odd smattering of UI elements the game's dropped on your screen.

Of course, a fabricated experience isn't a bad thing; it's a kid's game, after all, meant for a very wide audience, not just 20-30 year old gamer nerds. The game does let you tune these to an extent (you can disable or enable consequence-free falling, for example, reducing stud loss to 0 when you fall into the void), but not everything can be turned off or skipped. For example, the game will give you a tutorial when it deems you should be shown it, locking your controls and forcing you to do what it's asking. You can't turn them off, either; just do what it's telling you to do. It's a little infuriating, to be honest.

That's all nitpicking, though. In it's entirety, this is a massive, beautiful game, with a ton of massive, beautiful environments, and a ton of massive, beautiful levels (that are short in a linear sense, but have so much exploration to them that more than makes up for it!)

I highly recommend this game, it IS worth the price. (For reference, I can count the times I've paid $60 for a game in the past 10 years on my left hand.)

This was worth the price.

I love this thing.

THANK YOU TT GAMES YOU ALL ARE FANTASTIC

Absolutely fantastic game; programming robots is super fun, and automation is even moreso.

H O W E V E R:
I want a way to drag and drop blocks of code into my programs, instead of having to teach every single robot. Please. I need this.

Great for thinking. Factories are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ complicated, though, so prepare to spend hours upon hours on a single factory.

Worth it.

its team fortress 2. it's a classic. its fun. it's got a neat-ass community. play it or die of not having played team fortress 2 before