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It's definitely the best Star Wars game I've ever played, purely through the fact it distances itself from it in a sense and is free to give it a more traditional game structure (the "getting various artifacts from various places marked on your map device" thing, with a couple of surprises thrown in) as well as having all the really awesome things about Star Wars they seem to usually try and avoid in games (my own ship! My own crew! Strangely like the Millenium Falcon! etc, they really capture those key things, and it's great because of it).
The thing I found most annoying about the game was just hoooow much I was having to run around! Although I was simultaneously impressed with how large the game world was, or seemed. It certainly succeeded in sucking me in, at any rate (although at first, I almost fucked the whole thing of, the starting sections didn't do anything for me at all and I died on what I thought was the tutorial!).
I was most surprised by the combat, because I had no idea it was like that and had imagined it was a more Zelda-like interface. I'm still not sure I ever got the hang of it fully.
The dialogue trees actually reminded me of Monkey Island, with the Dark Side purely being a temptation to snark and insult people all the time. I accidentally went off a bit dark, and then back to the light when because I just had to make the girl fall in love with me with my hilarious flirting. I couldn't help it. I am weak. (There's certainly not much wiggle room involved with those choices, in how you play it, but thinking about that... to put such programming on such a hugr world must be a feat of programming of such boggling proportions I can kind of see why it is the way it is). I kept thinking something would be more comple than it was (for example, I kept thinking people were double crossing me at the Sith academy, but they never were).
I think the game looked pretty nice in parts, too. I don't know where graphics are at now, but it seemed to do what it was supposed to, with some nice light effects, and some nice foliage and grass. The other annoying bit - for me - was people kept side tracking me when I just wanted to GET ON WITH IT, but thats just a lack of patience really.
I have no chibi robo? Do I need it? Do I? Did you ever get mario DS? I think you might have been right about it. It feels a bit like a greatest hits nostalgia package with no real... like it's empty. |
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