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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Makes a Case for More Nonlinearity

Written by Jared Stewart
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor broadened a couple of its planets to wider Metroidvania exploration and its sequel could achieve a lot with more of the same.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order found itself neatly snug in its 3D Metroidvania corner whereas Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is much more complicated to parse out in terms of its gameplay genre identity. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is an action-adventure game perhaps first and foremost, but it retains 3D Metroidvania designs while also widening some of its explorable environments to create sweeping vistas on two planets in particular: Koboh and Jedha. Both planets are large and content-dense enough to sustain their own remote open worlds, and how that could be extrapolated in a third game is exciting to consider.

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