With all the hype of the next entry in the series I thought I'd try out the first one and I don't like it at all. Before I even mention anything about the gameplay I want to say the PC port isn't great, lots of stutters on a system that should be more than capable of running it smoothly. I'll also say I'm not a huge star wars fan, I've seen a couple of the movies and they were good but nothing incredible imo.

I'll start with the good.

I like the idea of remembering abilities you were trained in before as a way of improving your character, it's interesting and unique as well as fitting the universe well.

Music is great like every star wars property.

Being a jedi is just cool.

And the bad.

I feel it goes completely against what a lightsaber is to have enemies take multiple hits to kill. Soulslike combat makes sense in the souls series because a sword won't kill a knight in 1 hit and the enemies in the world are often huge so hitting them with a sword naturally wouldn't kill them easily but a lightsaber is supposed to cut through almost anything with ease, a system like sekiro where you break their poise to land the insta kill would make more sense imo.

The bosses aren't good. The first boss ogdo bogdo is a big frog thing. Shouldn't a lightsaber be able to kill him really easily? (No more lightsaber should be stronger from here I promise) I died to him the first time after landing a couple hits then on my second attempt I used the slow on him and killed him before he could really move. I know I just complained about it being too tough and too easy in the same point but it isn't fun to just kill a boss before he can move.

Another boss later on is a flying bird thing (I don't remember the name) when you get him low he flies away and you get on his back to chase. You fall off and then he flies back so you can fall back onto him, ok, weird but whatever, then you fall off again and your character says something like "I have to do this again?" And you jump onto his back again then he dies. You control when you are in the air falling into him but it's super easy and the rest is a cutscene, this is just dumb.

The climbing and platforming is just boring imo. Climbing is a good mechanic for exploration in an open world game but in a linear game like this it's just boring climbing the vines or walking along the pipes to get where I'm going. The ambient music also gets very quiet after a while so if you explore around then try to go forward you will just be climbing vines to whatever in mostly silence, I was tempted to just look at my phone holding forward the whole time during these. It also sounds like it could be a settings issue but the music everywhere else was good so idk.

Lack of variety. There's a few interesting force powers and ways to use your lightsaber but not enough. Sekiro has extremely little weapon variety but it allowed them to balance everything and make the system almost perfect. Jedi fallen order didn't do this.

I also personally didn't enjoy the story much but some people did so your mileage may vary.

Overall the game is just fine, nothing memorable or interesting but not a pain to play. I feel if this was an original fantasy ip and the star wars skin was taken away this game would be clowned on for being a bad souls rip off a lot like Lords of the fallen (although it's not as bad as LotF) I won't be playing the sequel.

Anyone who did enjoy this game please share why, I feel I'm being a bit too negative and I want different viewpoints