There’s a community on Koboh that will hook you up with upgrades and gameplay hints. Koboh, a rocky world that resembles something between Tatooine and one of those lush, cliffy garden planets of the prequel movies, acts a sort of homebase. Here’s Jedi: Survivor's setup: you have your spaceship, crew, and a planet that improves every time you return from your adventures. Goes down easy.Īs you plunge deeper into the strange and legitimately unexpected rabbit hole of Survivor, a bizarre new side of the franchise begins to present itself. Especially after I clocked in an embarrassing number of hours grinding my way through the uncaring void of Elden Ring, the world of Survivor feels friendly. This time around, the developers at Respawn seem most interested in exploration and community-building. The combat isn’t the main attraction of Survivor, though.

Especially not when the game drops you in a pit with a Rancor, or unleashes an army of little crab monsters. But it’s not always this straightforward. But what about the flying troopers who are out-of-reach on jet packs? Now that you can equip a blaster stance, you can shoot the troopers out of the sky AND cut through the grunts on the ground. The double-bladed setup may do the trick.

You’re going to be facing a lot of laser fire, so a single lightsaber blade may not be enough. Say you have to breach an Imperial outpost, but there’s a battalion of Stormtroopers in the way. The lightsaber stances aren’t just cosmetic changes-they’re kind of the whole thing.

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And rewards! But it’s really the stances that change the game here, and make the combat in this sequel finally feel as deep as its Soulslike influence. Now, you have a handful of lightsaber (and blaster!) stances at your disposal. This time around, it’s not all just: dodge, deflect, attack. Survivor, which releases on Playstation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S this Friday, is right in the sweet spot. That said, Fallen Order was a spectacularly bold approach to lightsaber combat-albeit a bit too difficult for its own good. So, unless Kathleen Kennedy is going to go full George Lucas and digitally insert Cameron Monaghan into the background of a movie from 1977, we can safely assume that Cal is going to die soon. And… Cal is nowhere to be found in A New Hope. But these games exist in the period between Revenge of the Sith and the original trilogy. Cal Kestis, the resilient padawan who somehow survived Order 66, became a Jedi knight in the first game of the series, Fallen Order. “Why fight when you can’t win?” This line of dialogue from the opening hours of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor may seem inconspicuous, but it stuck with me.

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