Absolutely loving the game so far. It's definitely more enjoyable than most games in its class at an equivalent time in, with exception to maybe the Horizon (Zero Dawn/ Forbidden West) series.
I didn't get it on day one, partially due to its reception at the time, but mostly the fact it utilized a season pass system while being an offline game. I felt that was a cheap way to ask for money, so the only way I could rationalize buying it was by "sticking it to the model" and buying it at $30...no matter how long that took.
I was also slightly put off by the protagonist, who looked more like a human-hybrid Koala bear with Joan Jett hair, instead of Humberly, which many games just usually decide to stick with the actor. Not sure why they went out of their way to make her only partially resemble the actress. Admittingly I am using an appearance mod that gives the actress back her face and ditches the Joan Jett hair, in favor of her mother's hair and without which? I probably wouldn't have bought the game. She just didn't look human... But then again? It is Star Wars and so maybe that works for some.
Gameplay is as you might expect. It does remind me a lot of Tomb Raider 2013 but a little "rougher" in the climbing/ traversal and running/ sprinting animations. The stealth system could be a tiny bit more laxed. In some games, like Assassin's Creed, if someone sees you and goes aggro? It's not an instant alert on every mob in the vicinity. You generally get a half a second or so to take them out before they alert others/ shot, scream... they might just go "hey- ..." and you can silence them without alarm. It seems like this game throws the red flag to all surrounding enemy as soon as the icon goes red. They need to allow that buffer period, where from the time of the icon going red, to full-alert is increased, instead of the enemy having a telepathic hive mind.
Graphically the game is stunning. A product of the later release era as I understand it. I don't think the game originally released with RT. It pushes my system a little harder than something like Assassin's Creed Shadows but it looks darn good. In some ways better than AC Shadow and in other ways not as much.
I'm glad I didn't pay the full Ultimate price, as all one needed to really spend was the $70 price point to get the best content-to-price ratio. Anything above that is lunacy, at the original $100+. The game was neither online and nor did it have seasons. Maybe there was originally a planned multiplayer mechanic that would have justified a season pass (?). It's not to say there isn't $100 worth of playable content in the base game. It's just to say that there is a $60 at all, and each extra story add-on is maybe 6 hours and so? Why would you spend $120 for some customizations and a few extra hours? $70-80, sure. Maybe. Anything more would have warranted a 15-20 hour expansion, or two. Like the Witcher 3's Heart Of Stone and Blood And Wine. Both of which are closer to 20-30 hours.
