Summary
Star Wars Jedi: Survivorcan be as tough or as easy as players like thanks to available difficulty settings with Grandmaster surely testing players’ resolve. The golden path has moments that are tremendously grueling on Grandmaster, to be sure, but nothing inStar Wars Jedi: Survivoris as tedious as its Force Tear challenges on the hardest difficulty.Fallen Orderarguably balanced its own hardest difficulty option better thanSurvivordid, and there is a lot Respawn can learn before it launches the thirdStar Wars Jedigame, especially if it’s fortunate enough to come out afterHollow Knight: Silksong.
Apart from clear Soulslike influences—like the number of times players are caught ingank ambushes as if it’sDark Souls 2’sScholar of the First Sin—Star Wars Jedi: Survivoris practically a 3DHollow Knightin many ways, chiefly with regard to howSurvivor’s meditation points mirrorHollow Knight’s benches and how perks/charms can be equipped while resting at them.Survivorhas clear areas where it’ll need to improve or refine established features, such as customization, lightsaber stances, and Force ability skill trees, but waiting to see whatSilksonghas in store could be its greatest boon.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is Poised to Be a Massive Metroidvania
Hollow Knightis incredibly content-rich and its indie Metroidvania sequel looks to be eclipsing it sinceSilksongwas announced five years ago with no clearer picture now of when it might launch. Of course, as long as nothing troubling is going on internally at Team Cherry,waiting however long forSilksongsimply means that even more content, quality, and polish will likely be the reward for players’ patience.
Anyone whose favorite game isHollow Knightwould probably argue thatSilksongdoesn’t have anything it needs to improve or iterate on from the original, and withHornet asSilksong’s protagonistit’ll be neat to see how gameplay has transitioned to a new protagonist with her own abilities and equipment. Not everything will be the same as it was inHollow Knightand the extent to which it’ll go to be distinguishable may make it feel more like a fully fledged sequel than anything else.
Meanwhile,Hollow Knight’s beloved art style and subterranean bug aesthetic will be present regardless. Whatever featuresSilksongintroduces will almost assuredly be lifted by other developers if they’re popular and emergent, and seeing them inRespawn’s nextStar Wars Jedigamewouldn’t be surprising at all sinceSurvivordrew heavily fromHollow Knightamong other Soulslikes, Metroidvanias, and action-adventure games.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s Sequel Should Take from Hollow Knight: Silksong as Much as It Can
UnlikeHollow Knight: Silksong, it’d be fairly drastic and unexpected forStar Wars Jedi: Survivor’s sequel not to reprise Cal Kestis as its playable protagonist.Survivorestablishes a firm throughline that is intimately tied to Cal, and suddenly upending that to feature someone else would be alarming.
Still, there’s an equal chance that Bode Akuna’s daughter Kata could be playable since Cal might end up teaching her how to wield the Force andSurvivoralready experimented with a newly playable protagonist inCere Junda’s epic swan song sequence. Nonetheless, whichever pathSurvivor’s sequel takes will most likely have an opportunity to closely examine whatSilksongis able to achieve and maybe adapt or iterate on that.
This all depends onSilksongactually releasing before the nextStar Wars Jedigame, which in itself is a tall order due to how longSilksonghas been in development and how little has been shared about it lately. It’d be absurd to assumeSurvivorwill have a sequel launch beforeSilksongsince it’s likely a few years away at least, but anything is possible given how enigmatic, fleeting, and unprecedented the development ofHollow Knight’s sequel has been.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
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The story of Cal Kestis continues in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor™, a third person galaxy-spanning action-adventure game from Respawn Entertainment, developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. This narratively-driven, single player title picks up five years after the events of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order™ and follows Cal’s increasingly desperate fight as the galaxy descends further into darkness. Pushed to the edges of the galaxy by the Empire, Cal will find himself surrounded by threats new and familiar. As one of the last surviving Jedi Knights, Cal is driven to make a stand during the galaxy’s darkest times - but how far is he willing to go to protect himself, his crew, and the legacy of the Jedi Order?Explore an Untamed Galaxy – Discover new planets and familiar frontiers in the Star Wars galaxy, each with unique biomes, challenges, and enemies. Master new skills, equipment, and abilities that will augment the ways you explore, fight, and roam. With larger areas to explore and more to discover off the beaten path, players who adventure beyond the horizon will find hidden rewards.
