Yeah, I'm quite confused by all the comments here saying how "good" the game is.

It was from the edict that made it where lightsabers could no longer dismember, so none of the flashy, technical, devastating ligthsaber combat from Jedi Academy or Return of the Sith on PS2/Xbox is present in the newer games. I can't remember if it was LucasArts or Disney who said "no more dismemberment" in the games, but that was one of the dumbest rules they passed down. So combat in these new Jedi titles is like some wanker swinging around a toy bat that makes "whoom" noises but barely does any damage.

There is only one memorable stage and that's the ship junkyard, which actually had a very cool atmosphere, but wasn't explored much as it was just a set-piece for the tutorial and then it was on to lame dungeons and repetitive jungle areas.

I just don't get what people here see in these two Jedi games??? Kal is one of the lamest, soy-filled characters ever with zero personality, and it was obvious EA had him plastered as the lead as a sort of pittance to bring back the straight White gaming audience after they had a string of DEI-filled crap stinking up their digital libraries in recent years.

Maybe I'm just out of touch and missing something, but people giving any praise to these bland, mechanically-mediocre, soulless, by-the-numbers outings just makes it more depressing to see how gamers are just eating up derivative slop and thinking it's decent. There isn't one thing that these new Jedi games have done that wasn't already done better a decade or two earlier either with the Jedi Knight titles or the Star Wars Battlefront games.

I've been watching channels covering retro games from the 80s/90s and rekindling a lot of stuff I used to play back in the day, and it really hammers home just how far the industry fallen. Even the janky, broken, busted games like King's Quest VIII, Omikron and Messiah were still more enthusiastically designed and original than the qausi-polished AAA slop we get today.