by Cellsai » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:19 pm
This is the spoiler topic, so I'm not going to put any of my comments in spoilers. Movie and game spoilers will be everywhere in this thread, so it's your own fault for coming in here.
@Johnny Madman - It took me a bit to figure out how to get Finn to use the lightsaber too. You actually don't need to equip it or anything, it just adds an extra hit onto Finn's standard Melee attack combo. I think it's the fourth hit of his combo that becomes a lightsaber swing.
That was a pretty cool thing to do - unlock abilities over the course of the story. I was really shocked to see it happen even in this limited capacity.
It was pretty funny how they avoided any of the really sensitive spoilers for the story mode even though this is the direct tie in game. Supreme Leader Snoke? Nah. Kylo Ren's identity? Not important. The death at the end of the movie? Who needs it?
Speaking of Kylo though, his boss battle was friggin awful. Jeez that was one of the worst, most boring fights I've played in a video game in a while.
The scavenging/repair mechanic was paradoxically both annoying and not used enough. After I bought the Falcon I had so much scrap I never had to even think about it anymore. I think I ended the playset with 6 digits of extra scrap. They should have let you trade it in for something.
Despite those three complaints I did enjoy the playset though. It was pretty fun over all, looked really nice and had a good variety of things to do. The minigames on the holo-table were a really unexpected bit of fun! I'll likely boot up the playset a few times just to play those again.
The characters were okay to play as. Poe was kind of boring, but I really liked Kylo and Finn. Rey has some great animations on her melee attacks, though she's not terribly exciting to play as.
re: Lightsaber Rey? I will be completely not shocked if she gets a new figure for Episode 8 in a couple of years ;D