Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Full 100% playthrough including all Trophies/Achievements.
Review – I really loved the first game of this series and this game doesn’t disappoint. It took me a very long time to get through this game. I was originally halfway through playing it for free as it was on the PSN plus pass, but then they decided to remove the EA Play games from the service and I was almost forced to buy the game to finish it off – shocker! But fortunately, EA were doing a deal where you could get a 1-month trial of EA Play for £1, so I had a month to finish it off. This was about 6 months later. But man, was it worth finishing off. I absolutely love this game.
There is just so much love for the Star Wars universe put in here. It feels like an RPG with so many characters and areas, but its more like a Metroidvania – which is far better. Almost everything is a puzzle or somewhere interesting to explore. In fact, the only criticism I would have about this game, is that there is a bit too much of it. My OCD with Metroidvanias means I wanted to explore everything, and the game did drag on a bit near the end after 50 hours of gameplay.
The graphics and music in the game are absolutely top notch and it oozes the Star Wars charm throughout. The controls are great, with loads of moves to learn throughout for some top-quality platforming, and great combat. The combat is similar to Dark Souls where you have to be a bit more cerebral in thinking about when to attack and to wait for a chance to block or parry, instead of flailing about wildly. I learned the hard way how to really fight when I got to the Darth Vader boss fight. The difficulty ramps up significantly and it’s not helped that you fight as a character with limited health boosts and no way of levelling up. You can’t escape this fight and I was so tempted to lower the difficulty as it was taking so long. Not only did I have to memorise the unblockable attacks for when to dodge with a tiny window to do so, I had to parry every single attack, rather than holding block so that he would eventually stumble so I could get an attack in. It’s a very arduous fight where you have to grind for the chance of getting a single hit in but easily get killed for one mistake.
I found it strange that they made this one fight so difficult. Much harder than the last boss fight which I did in one go.
There are a few challenge levels too where you get transported into a holodeck type area and have to do either a platform challenge or fight waves of enemies. Most of these are easy, but some of them can get really hard, and I was only able to do them once I powered up my character completely.
The platforming holodeck sections are surprisingly tricky with multiple microsecond button presses needed without mistakes.
My favourite art of the game, however, is the exploration. There are so many things to find, most of them are useless, like costumes or haircuts, but it’s just fun to explore the map and try to 100% it. The most useless prize for exploring is parts for your lightsabre and colour sets. You can customise the look of each part of the lightsabre which is completely pointless as you can never see it close enough to notice. The only thing worth customizing is the colour of the blade itself.
The other collectables that I disliked collecting were the seeds for the garden. They are collected by slashing plants that have a green aura surrounding them, but I missed half of them as I ran past them. They just aren’t noticeable enough so I had to return to areas after I got the Seed locations upgrade near the end of the game and realised I was missing loads from the map.
I appreciate that you can unlock the locations of all the collectables eventually so you can 100% the game without a guide (as long as you find the upgrades). They aren’t easy to find, but when you unlock them, it’s great going back to areas and finding the bits that you missed that you thought you had definitely finished exploring 100%. Some of the items are so well hidden that it would be impossible to find them all without the map upgrade. It still doesn’t make them easy to find though as you still need to work out the puzzles and the way to get to tricky locations.
Another UI quality of life feature I appreciate is the reminder to use the health restore. During combat, it’s hard to keep track of your health bar so a nice reminder on the screen saves you from dying unexpectedly.
Overall, I loved this game and even after I played Metroid Prime 4 in between this game, I came back to this and decided it was better. How times have changed.
Rating – 9/10
Played on PS5
No Cheats used
Deaths cut out
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Full 100% playthrough including all Trophies/Achievements.
Review – I really loved the first game of this series and this game doesn’t disappoint. It took me a very long time to get through this game. I was originally halfway through playing it for free as it was on the PSN plus pass, but then they decided to remove the EA Play games from the service and I was almost forced to buy the game to finish it off – shocker! But fortunately, EA were doing a deal where you could get a 1-month trial of EA Play for £1, so I had a month to finish it off. This was about 6 months later. But man, was it worth finishing off. I absolutely love this game.
There is just so much love for the Star Wars universe put in here. It feels like an RPG with so many characters and areas, but its more like a Metroidvania – which is far better. Almost everything is a puzzle or somewhere interesting to explore. In fact, the only criticism I would have about this game, is that there is a bit too much of it. My OCD with Metroidvanias means I wanted to explore everything, and the game did drag on a bit near the end after 50 hours of gameplay.
The graphics and music in the game are absolutely top notch and it oozes the Star Wars charm throughout. The controls are great, with loads of moves to learn throughout for some top-quality platforming, and great combat. The combat is similar to Dark Souls where you have to be a bit more cerebral in thinking about when to attack and to wait for a chance to block or parry, instead of flailing about wildly. I learned the hard way how to really fight when I got to the Darth Vader boss fight. The difficulty ramps up significantly and it’s not helped that you fight as a character with limited health boosts and no way of levelling up. You can’t escape this fight and I was so tempted to lower the difficulty as it was taking so long. Not only did I have to memorise the unblockable attacks for when to dodge with a tiny window to do so, I had to parry every single attack, rather than holding block so that he would eventually stumble so I could get an attack in. It’s a very arduous fight where you have to grind for the chance of getting a single hit in but easily get killed for one mistake.
I found it strange that they made this one fight so difficult. Much harder than the last boss fight which I did in one go.
There are a few challenge levels too where you get transported into a holodeck type area and have to do either a platform challenge or fight waves of enemies. Most of these are easy, but some of them can get really hard, and I was only able to do them once I powered up my character completely.
The platforming holodeck sections are surprisingly tricky with multiple microsecond button presses needed without mistakes.
My favourite art of the game, however, is the exploration. There are so many things to find, most of them are useless, like costumes or haircuts, but it’s just fun to explore the map and try to 100% it. The most useless prize for exploring is parts for your lightsabre and colour sets. You can customise the look of each part of the lightsabre which is completely pointless as you can never see it close enough to notice. The only thing worth customizing is the colour of the blade itself.
The other collectables that I disliked collecting were the seeds for the garden. They are collected by slashing plants that have a green aura surrounding them, but I missed half of them as I ran past them. They just aren’t noticeable enough so I had to return to areas after I got the Seed locations upgrade near the end of the game and realised I was missing loads from the map.
I appreciate that you can unlock the locations of all the collectables eventually so you can 100% the game without a guide (as long as you find the upgrades). They aren’t easy to find, but when you unlock them, it’s great going back to areas and finding the bits that you missed that you thought you had definitely finished exploring 100%. Some of the items are so well hidden that it would be impossible to find them all without the map upgrade. It still doesn’t make them easy to find though as you still need to work out the puzzles and the way to get to tricky locations.
Another UI quality of life feature I appreciate is the reminder to use the health restore. During combat, it’s hard to keep track of your health bar so a nice reminder on the screen saves you from dying unexpectedly.
Overall, I loved this game and even after I played Metroid Prime 4 in between this game, I came back to this and decided it was better. How times have changed.
Rating – 9/10
Played on PS5
No Cheats used
Deaths cut out
DONATE
buymeacoffee.com/retro2vr
paypal.me/Tinkstonten
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