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I just have to disagree with almost everything here. Really liked the game from start to finish.
- 3 years ago
unfortunately, the combat is one of the things that's definitely worse about this game, it was clearly designed to let you use all 5 stances and they seemed to only limit it to two to avoid changing the stance-swapping method from the first game. in the original you have access to all of your stances, albeit only two at the time, with more combo variation, plus two additional dual-wielding attacks, and a stance-switching attack to encourage fully using both stances. When you run the same stance in Survivor, single+double, it's extremely noticeable how watered down the combat is compared to the first one, as if it was meant to be complemented by 3 other styles. Ironically giving this game with 5 stances less combat depth than Fallen Order's 2.
and that's not even getting into how immersion-breaking and time-wasting it is to have to go to a save point to change the configuration of an all-in-one lightsaber, or even draw your blaster.
and for how worse it makes the game across the board, it doesn't even balance combat to limit you to two. the differences in the lightsabers are negligible in comparison to the Force powers allowing you to lift heavy enemies that you would normally fight for a minute or two off the ground and launch them off of cliffs. no lack of lightsabers counterbalances the fact that i can grab a guy with Gatling gun, hold him in the air and have him fire at other enemies. when you can slam an entire group of enemies and pin them to the ground, it matters very little which lightsaber you use to wail on them. and even if having all stances did make you overpowered in melee all that would do is bring it to being on par with how overpowered the Force is.
which is a shame because besides that I don't have a lot of those other problems aside from momentary performance issues. it would be the most fulfilling Star Wars experience I've ever had if they had just finished the stance-swapping.