Review: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (PlayStation 4)

A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn Entertainment. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber – all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.

Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 41.64gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• 3rd person action gameplay.
• Tutorial tips/videos as you play.
• Classic Star Wars soundtrack.
• Gameplay-mix of Dark Souls/Tomb Raider and Uncharted.
• Powerful opening sequence.
• Four difficulties-Story/Jedi Knight/Jedi Master/Jedi Grand Master. Difficulty affects parry time, enemy damage and Ai aggression.
• Meditation spots-here you spend skill points and rest. Rest resets enemies, heals you and your stim packs. Can use meditation and NOT reset enemies.
• Performance mode-limits the game to 1080p.
• Earn EXP and level up to earn skill points. You earn EXP from kills, story progress, scanning and finding collectibles and chests.
• Customisation-skins for BD1/Mantis/poncho.
• Mantis is your ship and acts as a hub, you use the Mantis to travel to planets, tend to plants, meditation spot and lightsaber bench.
• Lightsaber bench-here you can fully customize your lightsaber with found parts like lightsaber light color/handle/grip etc.
• Chests-contain new skins and lightsaber parts.
• BD1-new unique partner droid. He scans enemies/relics, holds your stimpacks, hacks, helps with guidance, holds the holo map and helps you use zip lines. Oh, and he can give tips when doing a puzzle.
• A lot of puzzles sprinkled in.
• Holo map-shows unlocked/locked doors can zoom in/out, change levels and spin the camera.
• Dark Souls style combat. Lock-on, parrying, force moves and stance break like Sekiro.
• Tomb Raider style tombs and dungeons to explore.
• Uncharted style world and traversal.
• Fast-paced gameplay.
• Play how you want, go where you want when you want once out of the opening sequence.
• Galaxy map.
• Every planet feels and looks unique and opens up over time.
• So much fun to play.
• Plants-find and cultivate rare plants on the Mantis.
• Secret areas.
• In-game cutscenes.
• Powerful worthy Star Wars story.
• Planets start small but as you get new powers you open the world up more and show off just how big it is.
• A lot of lore to collect.
• Boss encounters.
• Excellent set of characters.
• One of the best examples of a Star Wars game.
• It just looks incredible.

Cons:

• Slowdown and stuttering plenty regardless of performance mode on a Playstation 4 Pro.
• Audio glitches.
• Slow starter.
• Chest loot is just cosmetic stuff and feels empty after a while.
• Lock-on goes a bit funny a lot of the time like locking onto nothing or after killing a guy it will stay in place.
• Pop up and pop in especially with characters in cutscenes.
• Shortcuts are too obvious.
• Not the best loading times.
• Always hangs when changing areas.
• Wookies look straight-up weird.
• Scanning is just a pain.