Pros
-great storytelling, cinematic in many areas
-level design S tier
-fair amount of checkpoints + shortcuts.. whenever I was going through a rough path and found myself low on stims, I'd immediately find a waypoint or shortcut to one
-a loooot of side content and unlockables
-does a great job of keeping progression from previous game while giving you additional abilities in this one so you are not feeling like you're a baby jedi all over again starting this one
Mixed
-Not too difficult, though higher difficulties and new game+ exist for a reason
-the encounter designers erred on the side of "let's throw 50 annoying enemies at the player" than make a smaller more challenging encounter. At the same time, it feels really good to go jedi-ing around a horde.
Cons
-Unable to specify 2 different colors on staff saber - borderline unplayable
-Having so many saber stances that work really well in certain situations but only being able to equip 2 of them at a time is very sad. There should've been a way to just toggle between all of them in real time
-Dodging enemies can be annoying to deal with as I've watched many times my light saber swings go completely through someone's body and "missing" because they sidestepped a tiny bit
-The devs working on the actual game engine itself really missed in some ways in terms of making things run well but I guess that's not news. I didn't really encounter TOO much lag in my playthrough, but efficiency issues definitely existed. I even crashed at the very beginning on Koboh first time entering. But no other crashes after at least
-Speaking of lag - the map on the mantis is extreeemely inefficient. I don't know what is going on there, but the holomap was extremely slow and difficult to navigate. It is sad how much dev time must have went here when it really could have just been a png with smaller pngs
Overall worth playing if your PC can handle it.. certainly not at the full price it was on release, but it's a very solid 30-40 dollars-ish game at most.
