I enjoyed Jedi: Survivor’s story far more than Fallen Order’s. Where Fallen Order felt like a journey I was forced to go on, I felt a strong desire to keep going with Survivor – I wanted Cal to succeed, and I wanted him to have hope and be happy. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网🗹:Fallen Order made Cal feel lik🅷e a blank slate, going along with whatever he was asked to without a single critical thought. Survivor ha🔯d him struggling with himself at every turn, question꧑ing if he was doing the right thing. He seemed a little no thoughts he❀ad empty in Fallen Order, but Survivor brought him to new, painful places. Spoilers follow, so proceed with caution.
When I say the ending, I do not mean the reveal about Bode. That particular plot twist made my jaw drop. I’d expected some kind of pushbac💜k from Bode, as he was so obviously unhappy with Cal’s choice, but I didn’t expect a full-blown betrayal, nor that he was a spy, and especially not that he was a Jedi. I think Cal’s grief and betrayal in this scene were incredibly well performed, and it was a high point of Survivor. When I say the ending, what I mean is that Cal’s struggle with the dark side should not have been won.
It’s not that I wanted him to turn to the dark side, but I wanted a more complex resolution. I’ve previouslꦇy complained about how Cal’s struggles in Fallen Order were too easily resolved, especially the ending where he was freezing to death in a cave and all it took for him to get back up was a well-timed pep talk from BD-1. Survivor repeats this mistake almost exactly when Cal is rampaging through an ISB Station, having embraced the dark side, and is about to kill the man who 🧔sent Bode to infiltrate his team. He has this man levitating in the air and choking to death, then Merrin says about three short lines to him about not wanting to lose him, and he stops.
It’s an incredibly anti-climactic way of defusing what could have been a huge turning point for Cal’s character. Sure, I guess you could see it as a testament to his affection for Merrin and his emotional control, but it sapped the life out of that ▨entire section of the level – his rage made him unbeatable, and he wanted to exact revenge on the man that had caused the deaths of his friends. Yet all it took for him to change his mind was Merrin saying a version of “Stop babe, this isn’t you”. Be serious. We’ve seen him struggle so much with his motivations and his feelings, and at the emotional height of the third act, he simply shrugs his shoulders and says, “You’re right, this isn’t me”?
This is far from a death knell for the game’s quality. I was worried that Cal would be just as boring in Survivor as he was in Fallen Order, but Respawn surprised me with the sequel, and it can surprise me again. Cal continues to reach for the dark side to supplement his combat abilities 🦩after his ISB rampage, and I wonder if this indicates he’ll become something of a Gray Jedi, leaving behind the code of a lost Order and creating his own. It’s certainly been hinted at already, with his acceptance of his love for Merrin. Regardless of what the third game in the series brings, it’s still an incredibly weak scene and any tensiꦇon or doubt we have about Cal’s convictions evaporate, reducing its emotional complexity to nothing. I was sold on Cal till then, and I’m still rooting for him, but it’s hard to ignore this huge writing misstep.