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I was in the middle of downloading it when I posted before.

my advice. don't bother.

climbing is glitchy, there's no rhyme or reason to what you can or can't climb, the game will just leap you off cliffs at random while walking/climbing.

the save/respawn mechanism is not just shit it's rage-quit inducingly shit. enemies respawn if you want to recover your health, the save points are infrequent and often miles from any difficult sections so you spend more time reloading and back tracking to get to the point where you died than actually playing and usually you just die in a few seconds while feeding yourself into the meat grinder of how the fuck do you beat this thing.

the last thing that killed you keeps all your xp and some life force and every enemy between you and the point you died respawns. I just spent over an hour fighting through a gauntlet of 14 basic enemies because I could only get 3 health packs and the combat is bollocks. only to finally make it through only to reach a shortcut back to the same save point and a dead end because I wasn't advanced enough to go any further.

then there's the combat. imagine dark souls, but the enemies can attack again mid parry, being hit once usually stun locks you into being hit 3 or 4 times until you die, enemies track you through your dodge and hit you where you stop, there's no fluidity to your actions as each animation pauses for a beat between moves and your cool jedi powers use up your force meter so you can only use them about once per fight.

as someone who isn't a fan of dark souls, this is just a pile of nonsense. what story there is gets ruined because you'll be playing the exact same minion encounters 20 fucking times in a row every time you get to the next checkpoint.

and inb4 git gud messages, it seems universally accepted that in order to 'fix' some of the attack timing issues you have to enable a performance toggle to limit the graphics rendering or else combat is basically unplayable.