SPOILERS BELOW, SPOILERS ABOVE, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE
It’s that time again, a new AAA Star Wars adventure is here. My pre-downloaded copy Star Wars Jedi: Survivor became playable at midnight on Friday EST and as of this writing I’ve spent hours and hours playing this game. (My PS5 lives only in my house upstate with the fancy TV, so when I return to Brooklyn the game will have to wait for me. I am burying my face in this game like it’s my last meal.)
So, a few thoughts inspired by my time as Cal Kestis, Jedi Survivor:
I have been playing video games since I had an Atari 2600. That’s like forty years of playing video games. Why am I dying so much? I’ve fallen off of a lot of things. Ropes. Pipes. Spaceships. Walkways. Is it me? Am I just bad at this now? .
I just wrote a whole thing about jetpacks and who flies when in Star Wars. There are a lot of jetpacks in this. It’s a video game. Jetpacks abound! There’s something almost comic about a video game where all the characters display powers that are far beyond anything displayed by their real-life counterparts, but that’s also somehow considered - that pesky word - canon. You kind of have to treat it on a canon sliding scale - like all the cut scenes are canon and everything else is Having Fun Changing Your Lightsaber Stance. It’s kind of canon. Canon-esque. Canon-y.