I feel like lightsaber withdrawal has really lowered people's standards. I gave it a shot for a few bucks despite all the peripheral cancer in the companies involved. And mechanically it's just felt like a passably acceptable game so far, nothing special. It's got some satisfying sound effects for a rather uninspiring combat system with ok but kinda janky timings/hitboxes. The group combat is bland and tedious and doesn't hold a candle to stuff like the classic Arkham games, and the boss fights are not nearly as polished as the mainline soulslike games or as entertaining as classic GoW fights.

It's not baaad, it just felt like a disproportionate amount of praise for a slightly-above-mid combat when I have a backlog of genuinely good games still to clear. This game's greatest relative strengths are it's cinematic storytelling and spectacle, except the writers are still current day underperforming babies and 5-minute walking sim interactive cutscenes bore me.