I saw your vid in my side feed. Too much of this game is badly designed that you can't blame EA for it, and I do not mean performance because I played it patched on PC and it ran smooth. The devs just made a bad game. There was already too much bad design in their first game with the time wasting traversal. The worst thing is we may not get another force-using game for many years. The Outlaw game looks like a TERRIBLE waste. Finally a Star Wars open world (possibly open galaxy) game, but it is a limited little bitch. The really old 1st person Jedi Outcast is still the best SW action game so this franchise has been very mismanaged even before Disney.
Me after defeating oggdo boggdo: yippee what a challenging early boss Me after defeating spawn of oggdo: I will burn your entire bloodline to the ground you demon
@@criscris428 At the end you unlock a secret boss fight with all three Oggdos with the best AI in the game, full unblockables and all their attacks are one shots
What did you play on? I was on PS5 and while there was glitches I never had a drop in my frames, I’ve heard lots of pc users complaining but I figured most probably didn’t have the right hardware.
@zasque8302 Played on Xbox, had only 1 or 2 crashes playing through with a minimal amount of any in game perfkrmance issues during the story but definitely felt that crashes became more frequent doing side content.
No issues here. Played on PC 5600x / 3060 ti...On 4K epic settings with rtx off and was constantly getting 60 fps with just an occasional frame drop. Loved every second of it. Amazing story.. It really felt like a star wars movie.
Was worried about the Vader fight initially, but they did it justice. Only boss I died multiple times against. Especially helps that you get to mow through hoards of elite troops, experiencing how powerful Cere is, before you get to die against Vader. Really sells it.
I didnt struggle too much with it. Also, I think they should have made it so he didnt have so much visible damage after the fight, since I dont think Cere is nearly as powerful as she would need to be to deal that much damage.
@commander8625 I think it makes sense, Vader paid twice for being cocky in that fight, the final phase is basically him strapping his boots and getting to it. It's the classic "arrogance is your downfall" except Vader is the only sith who knows when it's time to stop fucking around.
@@retro2323 no way these are real people. Rayvis and tanalor man took me probably 2 hours each to beat in their final forms. Vader was by far the easiest its like the parry times were tripled and cere did way to much damage
36:00 Funny story. So on Koboh, sometimes you DO get a Rancor roaming around instead of a regular patrol. And in NG+, if you activate the Warrior perk, they let Spawn of Oggdo out his hole to go for a walk. As far as I'm aware this only happens after you beat the game, but MAN did I get a heart attack on seeing Spawn of Oggdo going for a walk.
I once witnessed oggdo take out an entire imperial squad alongside an ATST and 4 droidekas. It didn't even lose a 3rd of it's health...... that thing is from hell
One of the things I like most about Survivor is the implication of Cal continuing to work with Saw, even though I'm a bit disappointed we don't get to see it. It's clearly no coincidence that Saw was using Jedha as his base in Rogue One and I love that.
The bode twist was special because of the fact that I saw it coming, I think the secondary twist that he was actually a force wielded blew my mind even more
I played right at launch on PS5 and didn’t notice toooooo many issues, and it got patched pretty quickly. I couldn’t wipe the dumb grin off my face during the drill sequence with Merrin, and the excitement of beating the Rancor after like an hour of trying was amazing because it felt like I did it purely off skill and not because I got lucky. Definitely one of my favorite games ever
My favorite small detail from the game are the force echoes post main story. You can revisit old locations and find a bunch of echoes of Bode plotting behind your back and then subsequently Cal's thoughts on the matter. My favorite is revisiting the Imperial Base where you can sense force echoes OF YOURSELF and have Cal realise just how far he had lost it in his rampage.
I played through this entire game thinking the whole time "This is *exactly* what I wanted from a sequel" Shame about the performance people experienced. Really hamstrung what was a genuinely good game.
I was lucky enough to avoid any major performance issues beyond some stuttering before leaving Coruscant. I feel so bad for everyone who didn't get lucky though.
I played it on day one on PC. I have a 5800x and RTX 3070 and I had barely 40 fps on low settings with Ultra Performance FSR on Coruscant (1440p). Most of the game was dogshit performance wise and I was lucky when I hit 50 FPS and I only got to actually finish the game 2 weeks ago (performance still sucks but at least I get minimum 40 on medium settings) The story was great but I won't touch the game again until the performance is * actually * fixed
@@arftrooper44 I tried playing it with a RTX 4080 and a ryzen 9 7950 and I had about 10 crashes in the same spot so I gave up on it and I am so dissapointed that I won't pick it up again.
@@Ayyshaddyi got it on sale about two weeks ago and while the game is very playable at 60fps, there are visual bugs literally the entire time. Every single time (without exception) you unpause the game, the world streams in a second later. I see white flashing where objects aren't loading every time I move the camera. Its bizarre, never seen anything like it. No crashes or anything though.
I really like how throughout the game with most major bosses Cal really tries to talk them down, but also shows no hesitation when they dont back down.
I think the reason Bode killed Cordova specifically is because he was the only one who studied the compasses, and not only that, but bode was basically his trusty assistant everytime he needed help
Also at least to me he was expected to still be alive as when talking about how the empire questioned her before the game started she says that “they wanted to know about cordova and where he went”. Which to me at least showed that he was alive and as I enjoyed his character in the first game I was happy when you find him on jedha and heartbroken when Bode killed him causing me to feel the anger that cal felt
I also like to think Kata is going to have her own games after Cal's story ends Shes a jedi's daughter, so she has big chances of being force sensitive, and now that shes basically Cal and Merrins adopted daughter... Imagine if she is trained as both a jedi AND a nightsister by her new caretakers. Honestly having Merrin teleport around everywhere feels almost like a tease by the developers
God it reminds me if what could have been with the Jedi Knight series. You go through these games with Kyle Katarn, in the third you then get to play as Mara Jade. I the 5th you get to play as Jayden. It's such a great idea to just pass through the games and transition to new characters and stories.
@@bleppybooi love Jedi Academy. Though i wish you could have more races in character creation menu, i still love how many planets we had in singleplayer, we even got Coruscant and Dooku's/Vader's/X1's Castle on Vjun, and not to mention force powers and lightsaber combat which you also can combine with sheer arsenal (and actually aim in 3rd person🗿). I wish this game had a sequel.
To give you an inkling on how good this game really is I had my Grand Master save get corrupted at 49 hours in. I had to restart the whole game and I did because the story, combat and exploration is just that good.
In all honesty I love this game it might be my favourite star wars game right next to the force unleashed. The gameplay was improved substantially with the use of different stances(my favourite being the dual wield) and force abilities. The story might be a bit more mixed but personally I really enjoyed it, can't wait for the sequel. Couldn't wait for a video covering this game, good job Aqua.
I had almost no glitches throughout my entire platinum run, I no others did but for me this game was stupendous i loved every minute of it even if the traitor reveal was obvious.
I actually really liked playing holotactics. It was really fun and wasn't random for me at all. I could always play the same thing and consistently get the same results. But maybe i just got lucky (:
Waited a month or two to play this on Series S, so glad I did. Minimal issues, loved every second. Cal now overtakes Starkiller as my personal favourite “After Rise of Empire but before the Battle of Yavin” Jedi. As per usual, excellent video dude. I agree the game launched pretty badly. That’s inexcusable, but all we can do now is wait and hope the publishers pay heed and notice how the backlash affected this game.
25:30 This boss seems to me like an homage to Durge from the animated clone wars 2003 series by Genndy Tartakovsky. Obviously there are some design differences, but the worm-y and gross regenerating body hidden under the armor looks veryyyy familiar. Just a nice little touch I thought I'd highlight for anyone curious
He's the same species as the comment above said, but he's basically just Durge if he got caught by Jedi rather than Mandalorians. AKA a more sane Durge.
I always saw people saying cross guard was their least used style but honestly, I used it probably second most. Shit goes crazy. You really do just need to know how to use it.
In all honesty, and even as rude as jt sounds, not being great with the Crossguard is more or less a skill issue. It’s a great stance for players who are patient, and it ends up being far better than every other stance if you are willing to wait.
Can we quit it with the elitist posturing. The crossguard is not “far better’”. Sure it does big staggers and damage, but you have to wait more to get your hits in, so dps ends up being the same. It just comes down to play-style preference. That’s it.
I bought and played through the game on launch, I crashed 3 times over 110 hours in the first two weeks. My GTX1080 that’s almost a decade old had almost no issues, I ran into no bugs (besides the occasional funny graphics issue outside of cutscenes) and had a blast. The frame rate was the only thing that tanked, but I’m used to playing games at 40 FPS back in the day. The game was great, I have no idea how people with computers 5x more expensive than me had so many issues.
Holo tactics wasn't as random as you make it seem. It's honestly a decent mini game and I can't wait for them to improve aping it in the 3rd installment. Great review by the way.
I was having a problem with holo tactics trying too get that trophy I kept on getting my #£€ kicked and till I finally figured out I had the droids destroyers the droids with 3 legs and a forcefield just having 3 of them on or 2 will absolutely destroy your opponent they are the best
I didn’t play Jedi survivor at launch but bought it months later, but still absolutely loved playing it the first few times and collecting everything but have a few issues with the story: - you didn’t get much time with Cal’s crew since they meant a lot to him I didn’t feel the connection to the characters -combat was better but shame you can’t block mid move - story felt too short on what it could’ve been -exploring planets felt very limited with only 5 planets, but nothing to do on Tanalorr even though it was the whole point of the game -Dagen and Ravis’s story felt like a side quest and they didn’t try to make it better -lightsaber customisation was good not great But my hopes for Jedi 3 is more planets to explore, longer story, more lightsaber customisation and please please PLEASE give us a Darksaber crystal and maybe a system where you make choices which determines a certain ending
They had enough planets/moons (6 I think?), there just wasn’t much to do on them. The majority of the game you’re on Koboh which was disappointing. On top of the story being short it was also a mess. Dagan wasn’t a good villain and came across as whiny, and Bode was a very obvious traitor so the betrayal fell flat (he’s literally introduced shooting someone in the back, telegraphed much?). Hopefully the next game is better.
For me, I don’t need a sequel to change the gameplay drastically if the first game worked perfectly. That’s why it didn’t bother me that Spider-Man 2 was so similar. But this game is one of the best examples I can think of of improving gameplay for a sequel.
The game is honestly one of my favorites in all of star wars, i just hate that it got treated the way it did over something that shouldn’t have been a problem
I am still waiting for a dueling mode like in Fallen Order. Replaying these boss fights would be so fun because I think a quite a few are better than those in Fallen Order. Some enemies like the saber wielding enemies in the game offer great saber fights which is something severely lacking in Fallen Order.
I played this game flawlessly on my xbox series-x without a single bug 100% all achievements. Incredible experience and probably one of the best Jedi games ever made next to Starkillers games. People really tried to make this game look bad for no reason other than a bad PC port.
I don't know what the f*ck my guy is talking about can ya'll just stop hating on every single new game. The story is amazing, customization too, the pannel of force ability is pretty good when we know what we had in the first opus. Graphics bugs doesn't define the whole game and telling people that jedi survivor is a tragedy is reallyyy misleading
This game is proof launching a game too early is a death sentence, only 2 games i know that came back from the dead is No mans sky and cyberpunk, this is not a east feat.
This is the first I'm hearing of the poor reception, because I live under a rock, but I had a near bug free experience with this game, I got it Day 1 for the PS5
One of my favorite things about this game was that they didn’t make up some dumb reason for him to lose his abilities. They just expanded upon his existing abilities, and made new ones.
@@adamtorske9236 It's not heavy Cal is just using one of the 7 forms of lightsaber combat. If you want an in-universe explanation and one of them is know for their lack of mobility.
I saw the Bode twist coming from the start of the game. But then it kept not happening, which threw me off. It kept not happening to the point where I thought it was an on purpose red herring, so I stopped expecting it. And then it happened. It was so obvious it managed to like triple twist me. These games, as journeys through trauma, are deeply affecting, and very good. I never really had the performance issues most complained about, so I guess I might have been lucky and treated to the intended experience at launch.
I used dual wielding and cross-guard as my light-saber options, and I have to agree that the issue with cross-guard is a matter of how people are using it. You can't just swing it whenever an enemy isn't actively attacking. You have to get a little bit of distance from them, too. Then, its hits can do a great job of stunning enemies off of attacking (large ones excluded). The extra heavy hits (skill upgrade reguired) can even stun "bear" enemies such as charging Rayvis, stopping their attack sequences so you get time to not die in punishment. (Concerning Rayvis, that move let me beat him on Grandmaster almost right after I realized it worked, and I clutched a fourth of the fight while out of stims).
The real trick to Rayvis is to forgoe difficulty challenges, but my brother demanded I restore our family honor by not dropping to Master. An hour or two well spent...
Bode always unconsciously set my alarm bells off, as far back as the beginning Couracaunt dogfight cutscene i unironicly joked “Bode should be dead the moment he split up from the rest of his squad unless he’s secretly an inquisitor spy!” 🤣 Which looking back now makes a 100% sense since all he had to do was turn away & the second Cal losses sight of him Bodes like “..& he’s gone.” Then switched to imperial coms to telling the imperial pilots following him “Alright, great job fellas you really sold it drinks are on me!” But in all seriousness in terms of exterminating all of the Jedi, Sheeve Palpatene doesn’t mess around or cut any corners. He’s not going to let just any Order 66 Surviving Jedi just roll down to his house Corasaunt the main capital planet of the Entire Galactic Empire & casually take shit on it without getting blown away the second he comes out of hyperspace to reach the planet since Good Old Sheeve can instantly detect another Force User’s presence through the force whenever they’re planets away, yes Sheeve is that powerful it’s why no other Force Users are dumb enough to ever try pull something since he’s always going to sense them coming. Unless it’s apart of a long game sting operation to exterminate all of the surviving Jedi’s at once.. So yeah that Sith Inquisitor who’d ambushed Cal was unknowingly sent to die so Bode could get Cals trust & eventually guide him to the hidden path..
There's just 2 things that I dislike about Survivors: - Uncharted climbing: WHY DO AAA GAMES KEEP DOING IT?!!? It's not fun! It's boring! - Sand planets: It's coarce, it's irritating and it gets everywhere.
Personally I would be interested in seeing Quinlan Vos show up in a sequel if we ever get one. His story paralells Cals in some uncanny ways(unorthodox jedi with the supposedly rare power of psychometry, dating a nightsister, nearly turned to the dark side, affiliated with the hidden path), and id love to see the respawn team take advantage of the storytelling potential there.
I loved the crossguard stance on Jedi Grandmaster, but that's because in Souls games I always opt for Strength builds and tend to gravitate toward the largest, slowest weapons I can find. As soon as I unlocked crossguard I just felt at home.
I was lucky enough to run it well enough on sub-par hardware that I was just happy it was playable and didn't care for lack of framerate, and mods to tweak performance were enough help. It is tragic others were not so lucky, and I hope they can later enjoy this masterpiece if they dropped it.
You did get relatively lucky but you can’t rate games based on the fact that you can use mods to make it good. Console players can’t use mods and they make up the majority of gamers. So if it runs bad on console and PC then the game is in rough shape. Obviously devs can really improve on games if they try. Imo you should base a game off of the first week of the launch. It’s not a very accurate depiction of the game if you recommend mods that actually make the game playable while reviewing a game.
Im super happy I had little to no bugs on my initial playthrough on PS5. This game became an obsession at release. Its genuinely everything I wanted from a sequel & then some.
43:30 No, you are taking that WAY out of context. She has 2 last words, she looks at cal, says "cal" then looks upward past cal and says "trilla". Thats not mutterings of revenge, Cere saw Trilla waiting for her on the other side and called to her, letting us know that even tho Cere is gone, shes okay and not alone.
Ah that makes a lot of sense too. I was thinking Cere was holding a grudge against Vader for what he did to Trilla (and the other inquisitors). After all, Trillas dying words were “avenge me”.
I couldn't disagree more on the holotacticts take. Maybe it's the gambler in me but the outcome not being certain adds so much suspense to every battle I love it.
Idk I had no problems playing Jedi Survivor on Xbox Series X I thought it was a great game, just as good as fallen order and better in a lot of ways. Especially the movement in Survivor is so much more fluid from the combat to the wall running
Idk man, I have a 3080ti and a i7-13700k and it runs freakin amazingly on my rig, and while I am blessed to have a decent rig, I do agree the requirements are too high, but the story stands for itself IMO
I found the crossguard to be viable especially during the more difficult boss fights but mainly thanks to the game's insistence on having the player wait out the enemies' attacks. While some stances offer opportunities to be more active, I found it most consistent to just wait out the boss attacks, get two powerful swings in, repeat. The good damage evened things up enough. Then I got plain lazy and didn't even bother to switch for crowd control and instead spammed force powers a bit more. Kinda worked. I do admit it kind of flattened the experience of fighting the bigger enemies and the stance would've definitely benefited from being able to absorb ANY hits as you wind up so it's difficult to really recommend. If you're like me and just happen to like the idea of wanting to learn the slow methodical way of playing then go for it.
i almost immediately quit when I saw both oggdo and the spawn. happy to find out they were wayy easier...or at least more squishy than their individual fights
I played on ps5 and know that the pc port was real bad but for the main game I had zero issues, I did have a game breaking bug for side content though. I had the bounty Hunter bug where the sequence broke and after the 10th bounty I couldn’t do any more. They did eventually fix this and I went back and got the platinum. This was one of my favorite games I’ve played in a long time and I couldn’t put it down. It also revitalized my interest in star wars and now I’m working though the newest Lego Star Wars, the mandalorian, and soon the other Star Wars shows. I really loved everything about this game
I honestly had no issues with it and just finished 100%ing the game. I sorry to hear others had such issues as I absolutely love the game, story, gameplay, and visuals
Played since day one. My game crashed twice before it was smooth sailing. 100 in one playthrew. This game should have baked longer, we would have waited.
I’m very happy to have gotten and played this game on PC months after release. For me it ran very well aside from occasional visual glitches and 2 or 3 crashes. Overall this is one of my favorite games ever
I personally was busy so I couldn’t play the game right away for 2 weeks and by the time I played it I never experienced the things I had heard about and my Xbox ran it almost perfectly. I’m very thankful for that otherwise I doubt Jedi Survivor would be one of the favorite games because of the launch state of the game.
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I saw your vid in my side feed. Too much of this game is badly designed that you can't blame EA for it, and I do not mean performance because I played it patched on PC and it ran smooth. The devs just made a bad game. There was already too much bad design in their first game with the time wasting traversal. The worst thing is we may not get another force-using game for many years. The Outlaw game looks like a TERRIBLE waste. Finally a Star Wars open world (possibly open galaxy) game, but it is a limited little bitch. The really old 1st person Jedi Outcast is still the best SW action game so this franchise has been very mismanaged even before Disney.
Me after defeating oggdo boggdo: yippee what a challenging early boss
Me after defeating spawn of oggdo: I will burn your entire bloodline to the ground you demon
Can’t wait for the finale with Oggdo supreme
This is why we need a third ogdo
@@jessemach5817 the third ogdo is force sensitive. wait why am I giving respawn ideas.
@@criscris428 At the end you unlock a secret boss fight with all three Oggdos with the best AI in the game, full unblockables and all their attacks are one shots
there are always 2 oggdos, just like the sith code.
It kinda sucks it has such bad performance issues, I seriously loved the story, honestly and I love the characters.
@WildWoldGod how is the gameplay?
@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674it’s amazing, new skills which are useful, stances which are so badass.
What did you play on? I was on PS5 and while there was glitches I never had a drop in my frames, I’ve heard lots of pc users complaining but I figured most probably didn’t have the right hardware.
@zasque8302 Played on Xbox, had only 1 or 2 crashes playing through with a minimal amount of any in game perfkrmance issues during the story but definitely felt that crashes became more frequent doing side content.
No issues here. Played on PC 5600x / 3060 ti...On 4K epic settings with rtx off and was constantly getting 60 fps with just an occasional frame drop. Loved every second of it. Amazing story..
It really felt like a star wars movie.
Was worried about the Vader fight initially, but they did it justice. Only boss I died multiple times against.
Especially helps that you get to mow through hoards of elite troops, experiencing how powerful Cere is, before you get to die against Vader. Really sells it.
Did you not struggle against Ravis like at all?
I didnt struggle too much with it. Also, I think they should have made it so he didnt have so much visible damage after the fight, since I dont think Cere is nearly as powerful as she would need to be to deal that much damage.
@commander8625 I think it makes sense, Vader paid twice for being cocky in that fight, the final phase is basically him strapping his boots and getting to it. It's the classic "arrogance is your downfall" except Vader is the only sith who knows when it's time to stop fucking around.
@@retro2323 no way these are real people. Rayvis and tanalor man took me probably 2 hours each to beat in their final forms. Vader was by far the easiest its like the parry times were tripled and cere did way to much damage
@@thekey1175vader took me 5+ tries and rayvis and "tanalor man" took me two. everybody's different.
36:00 Funny story. So on Koboh, sometimes you DO get a Rancor roaming around instead of a regular patrol. And in NG+, if you activate the Warrior perk, they let Spawn of Oggdo out his hole to go for a walk. As far as I'm aware this only happens after you beat the game, but MAN did I get a heart attack on seeing Spawn of Oggdo going for a walk.
fr bro i got jumpscared
same
Literally I was running around koboh the other day trying to get 100% for the area and went “is that a fucking rancor”
I honestly thought it was just a glitch. Cause I fought him with ease
I once witnessed oggdo take out an entire imperial squad alongside an ATST and 4 droidekas. It didn't even lose a 3rd of it's health...... that thing is from hell
One of the things I like most about Survivor is the implication of Cal continuing to work with Saw, even though I'm a bit disappointed we don't get to see it. It's clearly no coincidence that Saw was using Jedha as his base in Rogue One and I love that.
I hope we get to do missions for Saw and talk to him in a 3rd game.
The bode twist was special because of the fact that I saw it coming, I think the secondary twist that he was actually a force wielded blew my mind even more
Why was that opening so well done 😭💀
Cuz aqua is a certified G
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it made me feel young again
Dope sick narration right?
Some questions are better left unanswered
I played right at launch on PS5 and didn’t notice toooooo many issues, and it got patched pretty quickly. I couldn’t wipe the dumb grin off my face during the drill sequence with Merrin, and the excitement of beating the Rancor after like an hour of trying was amazing because it felt like I did it purely off skill and not because I got lucky. Definitely one of my favorite games ever
The game had massive issues tho
@@inyourgranmaass3605 True but still a great game. I played on PS5 as well and never faced issues that wanted me to stop playing.
@@Gimli8621me as well. Played launch day on PS5 but didn’t see any noticeable issues when I played through it and especially after the patch
I played at launch on ps5 too, only issue I had was the game crashed while in an elevator on coruscant, once. Nothing else. And I played a lot!
@@inyourgranmaass3605The game was so good to me that the bugs were minor annoyances
My favorite small detail from the game are the force echoes post main story. You can revisit old locations and find a bunch of echoes of Bode plotting behind your back and then subsequently Cal's thoughts on the matter. My favorite is revisiting the Imperial Base where you can sense force echoes OF YOURSELF and have Cal realise just how far he had lost it in his rampage.
I played through this entire game thinking the whole time "This is *exactly* what I wanted from a sequel"
Shame about the performance people experienced.
Really hamstrung what was a genuinely good game.
I was lucky enough to avoid any major performance issues beyond some stuttering before leaving Coruscant. I feel so bad for everyone who didn't get lucky though.
I played it on day one on PC. I have a 5800x and RTX 3070 and I had barely 40 fps on low settings with Ultra Performance FSR on Coruscant (1440p). Most of the game was dogshit performance wise and I was lucky when I hit 50 FPS and I only got to actually finish the game 2 weeks ago (performance still sucks but at least I get minimum 40 on medium settings) The story was great but I won't touch the game again until the performance is * actually * fixed
i was on p5. no casualties at all. i also paid it in june tho
@@arftrooper44 I tried playing it with a RTX 4080 and a ryzen 9 7950 and I had about 10 crashes in the same spot so I gave up on it and I am so dissapointed that I won't pick it up again.
@@Bearodon on launch or recently? I played it a week ago and it was a stable 50 fps experience
@@Ayyshaddyi got it on sale about two weeks ago and while the game is very playable at 60fps, there are visual bugs literally the entire time. Every single time (without exception) you unpause the game, the world streams in a second later. I see white flashing where objects aren't loading every time I move the camera. Its bizarre, never seen anything like it. No crashes or anything though.
I really like how throughout the game with most major bosses Cal really tries to talk them down, but also shows no hesitation when they dont back down.
I think the reason Bode killed Cordova specifically is because he was the only one who studied the compasses, and not only that, but bode was basically his trusty assistant everytime he needed help
Also at least to me he was expected to still be alive as when talking about how the empire questioned her before the game started she says that “they wanted to know about cordova and where he went”. Which to me at least showed that he was alive and as I enjoyed his character in the first game I was happy when you find him on jedha and heartbroken when Bode killed him causing me to feel the anger that cal felt
I also like to think Kata is going to have her own games after Cal's story ends
Shes a jedi's daughter, so she has big chances of being force sensitive, and now that shes basically Cal and Merrins adopted daughter...
Imagine if she is trained as both a jedi AND a nightsister by her new caretakers. Honestly having Merrin teleport around everywhere feels almost like a tease by the developers
God it reminds me if what could have been with the Jedi Knight series. You go through these games with Kyle Katarn, in the third you then get to play as Mara Jade. I the 5th you get to play as Jayden. It's such a great idea to just pass through the games and transition to new characters and stories.
@@bleppybooi love Jedi Academy. Though i wish you could have more races in character creation menu, i still love how many planets we had in singleplayer, we even got Coruscant and Dooku's/Vader's/X1's Castle on Vjun, and not to mention force powers and lightsaber combat which you also can combine with sheer arsenal (and actually aim in 3rd person🗿). I wish this game had a sequel.
I doubt that would happen. It heavily focuses on Cal. If he dies, I see the ending of the game series
@@alexwegner9614 its not like series gonna get more than 3 or 4 games at best.
@@mrzirak792 it may be a game trilogy, it may be more than a trilogy. We'll find out in the future.
i love jedi survivor... i just wished it had another year of dev time for polish
To give you an inkling on how good this game really is I had my Grand Master save get corrupted at 49 hours in.
I had to restart the whole game and I did because the story, combat and exploration is just that good.
In all honesty I love this game it might be my favourite star wars game right next to the force unleashed. The gameplay was improved substantially with the use of different stances(my favourite being the dual wield) and force abilities. The story might be a bit more mixed but personally I really enjoyed it, can't wait for the sequel. Couldn't wait for a video covering this game, good job Aqua.
i did not personally have performance issues, so i loved it
sucks that performance issues ruined it for many people
So is it fix?
I had almost no glitches throughout my entire platinum run, I no others did but for me this game was stupendous i loved every minute of it even if the traitor reveal was obvious.
My game only crashed once quite early on (before greez) and i played day 1
I actually really liked playing holotactics. It was really fun and wasn't random for me at all. I could always play the same thing and consistently get the same results. But maybe i just got lucky (:
I've had no issues on PC. Loved the game. Played through twice. Ryzen 5950x, 64GB DDR4 RAM, 3070TI, and 1TB NVME.
Waited a month or two to play this on Series S, so glad I did. Minimal issues, loved every second.
Cal now overtakes Starkiller as my personal favourite “After Rise of Empire but before the Battle of Yavin” Jedi.
As per usual, excellent video dude. I agree the game launched pretty badly. That’s inexcusable, but all we can do now is wait and hope the publishers pay heed and notice how the backlash affected this game.
They didn't fix performance on any console with patches.
@@whodatninja439they don't say it in the notes but my game runs 5x better on my ps5, I rarely see it drop under 55fps
@@whodatninja439 its night and day on ps5 now. pc is still a mess because they treat it as a second class platform
@@barrysmithhy1583 no it still runs like shit with screen tearing and ugly upscaling. And i have it on ps5
@@whodatninja439 your ps5 needs an RMA then
I played it on ps5, minor issues and I love this game. Still playing it, so much to do, never bored.
I think my favorite part was all the memory points you can find after beating Bode that gives you context to what he was thinking and feeling
25:30 This boss seems to me like an homage to Durge from the animated clone wars 2003 series by Genndy Tartakovsky. Obviously there are some design differences, but the worm-y and gross regenerating body hidden under the armor looks veryyyy familiar. Just a nice little touch I thought I'd highlight for anyone curious
He’s the same species as Durge called a Gen-Dai
He's the same species as the comment above said, but he's basically just Durge if he got caught by Jedi rather than Mandalorians. AKA a more sane Durge.
I always saw people saying cross guard was their least used style but honestly, I used it probably second most. Shit goes crazy. You really do just need to know how to use it.
I love this game, even more than the first, there were some bugs, but it didn’t ruin the game for me.
In all honesty, and even as rude as jt sounds, not being great with the Crossguard is more or less a skill issue. It’s a great stance for players who are patient, and it ends up being far better than every other stance if you are willing to wait.
Not sure it’s far better but it’s definitely viable in one v ones the problem lies in the gank fights
Agreed, but most players who play souls likes have a brain that runs at 120fps. And anything slower is basically not moving at all.
Can we quit it with the elitist posturing. The crossguard is not “far better’”. Sure it does big staggers and damage, but you have to wait more to get your hits in, so dps ends up being the same. It just comes down to play-style preference. That’s it.
I bought and played through the game on launch, I crashed 3 times over 110 hours in the first two weeks. My GTX1080 that’s almost a decade old had almost no issues, I ran into no bugs (besides the occasional funny graphics issue outside of cutscenes) and had a blast. The frame rate was the only thing that tanked, but I’m used to playing games at 40 FPS back in the day. The game was great, I have no idea how people with computers 5x more expensive than me had so many issues.
5x the price 5x the nit picking
Holo tactics wasn't as random as you make it seem. It's honestly a decent mini game and I can't wait for them to improve aping it in the 3rd installment. Great review by the way.
Why not implement it in the sequel tho?…
I was having a problem with holo tactics trying too get that trophy I kept on getting my #£€ kicked and till I finally figured out I had the droids destroyers the droids with 3 legs and a forcefield just having 3 of them on or 2 will absolutely destroy your opponent they are the best
I think the coolest final boss in the third game would be star killer, having cal not be able to beat Vader, but his apprentice
I didn’t play Jedi survivor at launch but bought it months later, but still absolutely loved playing it the first few times and collecting everything but have a few issues with the story:
- you didn’t get much time with Cal’s crew since they meant a lot to him I didn’t feel the connection to the characters
-combat was better but shame you can’t block mid move
- story felt too short on what it could’ve been
-exploring planets felt very limited with only 5 planets, but nothing to do on Tanalorr even though it was the whole point of the game
-Dagen and Ravis’s story felt like a side quest and they didn’t try to make it better
-lightsaber customisation was good not great
But my hopes for Jedi 3 is more planets to explore, longer story, more lightsaber customisation and please please PLEASE give us a Darksaber crystal
and maybe a system where you make choices which determines a certain ending
They had enough planets/moons (6 I think?), there just wasn’t much to do on them. The majority of the game you’re on Koboh which was disappointing. On top of the story being short it was also a mess. Dagan wasn’t a good villain and came across as whiny, and Bode was a very obvious traitor so the betrayal fell flat (he’s literally introduced shooting someone in the back, telegraphed much?). Hopefully the next game is better.
For me, I don’t need a sequel to change the gameplay drastically if the first game worked perfectly. That’s why it didn’t bother me that Spider-Man 2 was so similar.
But this game is one of the best examples I can think of of improving gameplay for a sequel.
The game is honestly one of my favorites in all of star wars, i just hate that it got treated the way it did over something that shouldn’t have been a problem
Kudos to the bad ass editing job. Especially that trailer-like cut around the 11-13 minute mark.
I am still waiting for a dueling mode like in Fallen Order. Replaying these boss fights would be so fun because I think a quite a few are better than those in Fallen Order. Some enemies like the saber wielding enemies in the game offer great saber fights which is something severely lacking in Fallen Order.
My personal GOTY. I played in fidelity mode on PS5 - didn't notice any FPS drops and the graphics were stunning.
this is one of those games that you pick up 2 years after its release for a fiver
I played this game flawlessly on my xbox series-x without a single bug 100% all achievements. Incredible experience and probably one of the best Jedi games ever made next to Starkillers games. People really tried to make this game look bad for no reason other than a bad PC port.
I don't know what the f*ck my guy is talking about can ya'll just stop hating on every single new game. The story is amazing, customization too, the pannel of force ability is pretty good when we know what we had in the first opus. Graphics bugs doesn't define the whole game and telling people that jedi survivor is a tragedy is reallyyy misleading
star wars jedi survivor sucks
Melodramatic much? Plenty of new games are great, Survivor isn’t one of them. Get over it.
im still playing jedi survivor and im loving it tbh. it has such a good story.
love the vids and the effort u put in ur videos keep it up man
The game could have run flawlessly at launch, I'll still never spend $70 on a video game.
Would’ve bought this if EA didn’t have their name on it. The story is probably the best we’ve had in SW since Mando (⚠️Seasons 1 & 2)
This game is proof launching a game too early is a death sentence, only 2 games i know that came back from the dead is No mans sky and cyberpunk, this is not a east feat.
For the Holotactics, it was consistent for me. At least most of the times I died and had to start over, the same attacks won me the round again
Jump dash cancelling was my main way of traversing this game.
This is the first I'm hearing of the poor reception, because I live under a rock, but I had a near bug free experience with this game, I got it Day 1 for the PS5
One of my favorite things about this game was that they didn’t make up some dumb reason for him to lose his abilities. They just expanded upon his existing abilities, and made new ones.
Survivor was an amazing sequel and it hit home for me at a few points. Can't wait for Dark Jedi Master Cal in the next game
@@DrivableNoteYep. Cal will be a master to Bo's daughter, while fighting the pull of the dark side
It’s really stupid that the cross guard stance is swung like it’s heavy. It is not heavy…
What makes you think that? Who says it’s not heavy to swing the cross guard saber
A focus on heavy 2 handed strikes sound like Cal is experimenting Djem so a style knownfor its lack of mobility supplemented with Shii cho.
@@adamtorske9236 It's not heavy Cal is just using one of the 7 forms of lightsaber combat. If you want an in-universe explanation and one of them is know for their lack of mobility.
Another great video from the homie aqua
I saw the Bode twist coming from the start of the game. But then it kept not happening, which threw me off. It kept not happening to the point where I thought it was an on purpose red herring, so I stopped expecting it. And then it happened. It was so obvious it managed to like triple twist me. These games, as journeys through trauma, are deeply affecting, and very good. I never really had the performance issues most complained about, so I guess I might have been lucky and treated to the intended experience at launch.
I played the full story of jedi survivor and it never crashed on me. And I didn't notice any frame drops.
same, worked perfectly on my PS5, finished the story and i love it
same for me loved the gawm
I used dual wielding and cross-guard as my light-saber options, and I have to agree that the issue with cross-guard is a matter of how people are using it. You can't just swing it whenever an enemy isn't actively attacking. You have to get a little bit of distance from them, too. Then, its hits can do a great job of stunning enemies off of attacking (large ones excluded). The extra heavy hits (skill upgrade reguired) can even stun "bear" enemies such as charging Rayvis, stopping their attack sequences so you get time to not die in punishment. (Concerning Rayvis, that move let me beat him on Grandmaster almost right after I realized it worked, and I clutched a fourth of the fight while out of stims).
The real trick to Rayvis is to forgoe difficulty challenges, but my brother demanded I restore our family honor by not dropping to Master. An hour or two well spent...
Bode always unconsciously set my alarm bells off, as far back as the beginning Couracaunt dogfight cutscene i unironicly joked “Bode should be dead the moment he split up from the rest of his squad unless he’s secretly an inquisitor spy!” 🤣
Which looking back now makes a 100% sense since all he had to do was turn away & the second Cal losses sight of him Bodes like “..& he’s gone.” Then switched to imperial coms to telling the imperial pilots following him “Alright, great job fellas you really sold it drinks are on me!”
But in all seriousness in terms of exterminating all of the Jedi, Sheeve Palpatene doesn’t mess around or cut any corners. He’s not going to let just any Order 66 Surviving Jedi just roll down to his house Corasaunt the main capital planet of the Entire Galactic Empire & casually take shit on it without getting blown away the second he comes out of hyperspace to reach the planet since Good Old Sheeve can instantly detect another Force User’s presence through the force whenever they’re planets away, yes Sheeve is that powerful it’s why no other Force Users are dumb enough to ever try pull something since he’s always going to sense them coming. Unless it’s apart of a long game sting operation to exterminate all of the surviving Jedi’s at once..
So yeah that Sith Inquisitor who’d ambushed Cal was unknowingly sent to die so Bode could get Cals trust & eventually guide him to the hidden path..
There's just 2 things that I dislike about Survivors:
- Uncharted climbing: WHY DO AAA GAMES KEEP DOING IT?!!? It's not fun! It's boring!
- Sand planets: It's coarce, it's irritating and it gets everywhere.
I was lucky enough to have 0 performance issues and I absolutely loved the game
Personally I would be interested in seeing Quinlan Vos show up in a sequel if we ever get one. His story paralells Cals in some uncanny ways(unorthodox jedi with the supposedly rare power of psychometry, dating a nightsister, nearly turned to the dark side, affiliated with the hidden path), and id love to see the respawn team take advantage of the storytelling potential there.
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I played this on a dying GTX 1060 day one and it ran extremely smoothly for me with no glitches, bugs, or crashes.
I loved the crossguard stance on Jedi Grandmaster, but that's because in Souls games I always opt for Strength builds and tend to gravitate toward the largest, slowest weapons I can find. As soon as I unlocked crossguard I just felt at home.
I just finished the game on my ps5 and had no problems, one of my favorite games I’ve ever played
Best game since last game 🥱
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703 😔
Just played the game with no performance issues and it was amazing in every way
I was lucky enough to run it well enough on sub-par hardware that I was just happy it was playable and didn't care for lack of framerate, and mods to tweak performance were enough help. It is tragic others were not so lucky, and I hope they can later enjoy this masterpiece if they dropped it.
You did get relatively lucky but you can’t rate games based on the fact that you can use mods to make it good. Console players can’t use mods and they make up the majority of gamers. So if it runs bad on console and PC then the game is in rough shape. Obviously devs can really improve on games if they try. Imo you should base a game off of the first week of the launch. It’s not a very accurate depiction of the game if you recommend mods that actually make the game playable while reviewing a game.
Had basically no problems from day one on xbox. Pretty much loved it from the start and played it for about a month straight.
I didn’t get around to playing this for a whole year pretty much, so by the time I played it everything ran smoothly.
Besides from the bugs and other stuff, IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING AND ARGUABLY THE BEST STAR WARS SINGLE PLAYER GAME OF ALL TIME
Im super happy I had little to no bugs on my initial playthrough on PS5. This game became an obsession at release. Its genuinely everything I wanted from a sequel & then some.
12:29 That sync between the hits and the music. Beautiful
43:30 No, you are taking that WAY out of context. She has 2 last words, she looks at cal, says "cal" then looks upward past cal and says "trilla". Thats not mutterings of revenge, Cere saw Trilla waiting for her on the other side and called to her, letting us know that even tho Cere is gone, shes okay and not alone.
Ah that makes a lot of sense too. I was thinking Cere was holding a grudge against Vader for what he did to Trilla (and the other inquisitors). After all, Trillas dying words were “avenge me”.
It really was baffling how this very anticipated sequel had little talk about it, such a waste.
I love this game and I’ve nerves had any performance issues (except like two crashes and a glitch that was only ascetic)
7:21 I had a fun time playing the game, but Cal's hand phasing through a desk *in a cutscene* was indeed jarring.
Bro did the intro so fucking well 😭
I couldn't disagree more on the holotacticts take. Maybe it's the gambler in me but the outcome not being certain adds so much suspense to every battle I love it.
Idk I had no problems playing Jedi Survivor on Xbox Series X I thought it was a great game, just as good as fallen order and better in a lot of ways. Especially the movement in Survivor is so much more fluid from the combat to the wall running
Good story. Shit textures and ran HORRIBLY on pc. Still does. I paid $70 usd to experience pain.
Every boss had cut scenes in them, that's my #1 complaint.
Idk man, I have a 3080ti and a i7-13700k and it runs freakin amazingly on my rig, and while I am blessed to have a decent rig, I do agree the requirements are too high, but the story stands for itself IMO
I found the crossguard to be viable especially during the more difficult boss fights but mainly thanks to the game's insistence on having the player wait out the enemies' attacks. While some stances offer opportunities to be more active, I found it most consistent to just wait out the boss attacks, get two powerful swings in, repeat. The good damage evened things up enough. Then I got plain lazy and didn't even bother to switch for crowd control and instead spammed force powers a bit more. Kinda worked.
I do admit it kind of flattened the experience of fighting the bigger enemies and the stance would've definitely benefited from being able to absorb ANY hits as you wind up so it's difficult to really recommend. If you're like me and just happen to like the idea of wanting to learn the slow methodical way of playing then go for it.
mine worked perfectly on ps5. Loved the story even though the combat could be a little challenging.
This video was so good man. Keep it up
Bring back starkiller as the final boss if there's a third game
i almost immediately quit when I saw both oggdo and the spawn. happy to find out they were wayy easier...or at least more squishy than their individual fights
I played on ps5 and know that the pc port was real bad but for the main game I had zero issues, I did have a game breaking bug for side content though. I had the bounty Hunter bug where the sequence broke and after the 10th bounty I couldn’t do any more. They did eventually fix this and I went back and got the platinum.
This was one of my favorite games I’ve played in a long time and I couldn’t put it down. It also revitalized my interest in star wars and now I’m working though the newest Lego Star Wars, the mandalorian, and soon the other Star Wars shows. I really loved everything about this game
This game and the first game is so much fun to play
I honestly had no issues with it and just finished 100%ing the game. I sorry to hear others had such issues as I absolutely love the game, story, gameplay, and visuals
When I clicked the video, the exact opening played in my head. I am having a great time!
Bro I had no issue playing on launch day if only y'all were playing on Xbox
Played since day one. My game crashed twice before it was smooth sailing. 100 in one playthrew. This game should have baked longer, we would have waited.
Man had this in the vault for a while
I missed all of this. I bought it on PS5, played it and enjoyed it. I heard the PC launch was unplayable but I didn't have issues on PS5
And this tragedy is mostly felt by just the PC players. Who we know the industry doesn't give a crap about, the big money is in console sales.
Even with the bad performance issues, I really love this game
That intro gave me chills
I’m very happy to have gotten and played this game on PC months after release. For me it ran very well aside from occasional visual glitches and 2 or 3 crashes. Overall this is one of my favorite games ever
31:50 Did you forget that swap attacks were in Fallen Order? Holding Square would perform a swap attack between single saber and double bladed
I personally was busy so I couldn’t play the game right away for 2 weeks and by the time I played it I never experienced the things I had heard about and my Xbox ran it almost perfectly. I’m very thankful for that otherwise I doubt Jedi Survivor would be one of the favorite games because of the launch state of the game.