After spending about 10 hours in the full-blown Enhanced Edition of Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge on a shiny new PlayStation VR2back to the past 2 meta quest version feels a lot like falling down stairs backwards in slow motion. With fun and undeniable necessary The Last Call DLC in addition to a host of enhancements that take advantage of each new headset’s ultimate tactile bells and whistles, plus movie-like color depth, I found the droid I was looking for. Be forewarned, though, that you’ll have to keep an eye on the first three hours of the average initial campaign and its really bad writing, but after that it’ll pick up speed and put on a show Real Star Wars.
Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge begins on a soft note. When you wake up in the precinct of a cargo ship, you’ll play as a faceless, faceless robotic mechanic who also happens to be smuggling illegal goods as a side job. Its early moments have you tripping over the ship while the characters talk to you through your transmitter. But at least you get a good shot of interstellar travel from your ship’s observatory before everything goes dark.
An emergency landing will bring you to the surface of the planet Batuu, a backwater world marked by a small settlement that you can recognize as the setting of a Star Wars themed episode. in real-life Disney theme parks. Here you meet Seezelslak, the sole owner of the cantina, and Mubo, the robot repair shop owner, who is your main smuggling client. At first glance, they seem frustratingly cheesy, with blasphemous public dialogue as if they were straight out of The Phantom Menace – and you can’t skip any of them. The droid store and cantina are considered the two central areas of Galaxy’s Edge, although it’s disappointing that you can’t explore any more of the settlements.
Right from the opening, there are plenty of opportunities to feed your Star Wars imagination with fully modeled blasters, satisfying shotguns, throwable lightsabers, launchers Missiles and obscure weapons can be comfortably used with two hands or with two hands if you wish. They all look so lifelike up close, it’s almost as if you’re holding authentic Star Wars props. The additional arsenal feels particularly powerful thanks to the Sense controller’s haptic feedback and trigger drag, and each explosion can push your trigger finger away with impressive force. The All-Kit makes otherwise trivial interactions like solving basic puzzles to open doors or treasure chests like you were a kid playing with a buzzing toy. or shoot out fire or sparks.
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If you’re wondering if you’ll ever get to play as a Jedi: there you are! But that chapter is more of a side adventure than a main course. Most of your time is spent making your way through Batuu’s visually impressive yet linear and simple levels, the first several of which are the real offenders in the catalog that guide you to die. They’re all almost entirely made up of a series of corridors that occasionally have a nook containing a treasure chest or randomly generated audio log – almost like Final Fantasy 7 remakethe world of. It helps to make the content of Galaxy’s Edge all the more important as you can return to these levels anytime you want to farm the same respawn enemies for loot and have a quest log there is enough space for some material rewards despite the monotonous side quests.
It’s only when you watch The Last Call’s DLC content, which seamlessly expands the original three-hour story into a 10-hour arc, that the final characters become enjoyable to spend time with. Surname. Seezelslak became the star of the show, with a head filled with stories told so intricately that you thought you were living them for yourself. In fact, you really get: you play through three short but much more satisfying chapters in which you step into the shoes of a Jedi and the killer droid IG-88 from Empire Strikes Back. These new chapters appear exactly as they should, clearing the palette and expanding the story scale between missions as you progress towards the legitimate final mission of Galaxy’s Edge.
You move around the world by tilting the left joystick and teleport by pushing the right joystick inward and pointing at your destination. This is a pretty standard price for anyone who’s used a Quest 2 or other room-size VR headset, but still a huge step forward for anyone with a mainstream VR experience with a non-deterministic Move controller. the initial direction of the PSVR. It’s disappointing that you can’t move around while holding the crouch button, but of course this is VR so you can still crouch in real life and move. Also, pressing the O button will activate your jetpack. It doesn’t feel great at first and needs an upgrade in the middle of the game before you can move up there instead of just hovering, but after that, gliding around the battlefield smoothly is quite enjoyable when I don’t. Embarrassed run into invisible boundary.
Despite that, it’s fun to go head-to-head with pirate gangs, mercenaries, combat cyborgs, the local villainous fauna, and the First Order itself. Their AI isn’t very smart, but unlike when I played the original Quest 2, the PS VR2 can put enemies at a great distance without obscuring too much detail, making killing bad guys at long range becomes much more interesting. Confrontations are intense because it only takes a few precise shots to kill you or anyone else, but the combat is balanced enough to remain entertaining enough in the face of danger. It makes it possible to summon up to three cyborg allies to follow you around and fight on your side, making battles easy to win even if you’re outnumbered and overwhelmed by all sides. – but fixing them with your all-in-one can be a pain.
Speaking of tools at your disposal, there’s also a neat scanner activated with a button on your left wrist, allowing you to catalog points of interest into a codex and control system. The convenient drag-and-drop counter allows you to place your loot directly in your pocket to pick it up. easy management. Heal yourself simply by placing a canister of bacta in front of you and pressing the trigger to spray it, and at the same time, you can pull out your bag, reach into your inventory and throw droids or floating grenades into battle. war.
And it all sounds great. Especially if you’re using 3D audio, it’s exciting to hear the iconic dynamite of Star Wars reverberating across the environment in all directions. Combined with a catchy original soundtrack and the vibrations of the headphones simulating the lightning bolts that flashed past my face and the explosions that erupted in the vicinity, I found myself completely transported into the universe of War of the Ages. Why. The only major crack in the illusion is due to occasional glitches, such as when a weapon falls through geometry, not to mention: most objects you interact with aren’t fully simulated physics so they’re not. reacts to your every movement.
