Only approaching the very end are you given a chance to spend your credits in a shop, which feels like a missed opportunity. You may also find one of 12 mini-droids, the main collectible item. Because there aren’t many key items or any one-off weapons to search for in the game, more often than not secret areas are momentary detours housing crates with health packs, grenades, basic guns, and target droids, and plenty of junk to salvage. Levels are one-way journeys with discrete entry and end points, however they offer up secret areas to explore too. Oftentimes you’ll need to unweld an access panel, unlock a mechanism with your screwdriver, and bridge two circuits with your spark tip just to open one locker.
It’s most useful in opening weapons lockers, which require multiple steps. The pistol-like device has three interchangeable tips you can cycle through: a screwdriver, a flame torch, and an electric spark. The multitool was another pleasant surprise. You can only use three of any type at a time, but you can also repair damaged shooter droids with your multitool, which I thought was a nice touch. Oftentimes I would toss out three seeker types that would bomb out a level before going in, or toss out either shielded and unshielded shooter types to act as support fire. In addition to guns and a single thermal grenade type, there’s also three types of flying droids that you can deploy to help you automatically take down enemies. 'Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Last Call' Paid DLC Releases on Quest Today It’s a nice VR-native reload style I haven’t seen before, and although arcadey, it’s a sci-fi world of magic and talking robots, so it fits pretty well considering. A handy color-coded display near the grip tells you how much juice is left until you need to throw it away and look for a new one. Each shot from the gun moves the slider a bit further away until you need to pull it back again to reload. Instead of fumbling for a mag and reloading, each gun comes with a charging slider on the top rail, which also acts as the gun’s rear iron sight. Image courtesy ILMxLABĪll weapons are consumable, with some depleting their batteries more rapidly than others. In Galaxy’s Edge, weapons include a variety of single-handed blasters that you either scavenge from downed enemies or find in unlockable weapons crates. Basically you blast until everything falls over, and walk to the next section of the map with little variation.Īs unexciting as enemy encounters felt, I enjoyed the overall shooting experience. That’s not to say there aren’t some high points to the campaign-you get to meet some familiar characters and wield iconic Star Wars weapons-but I can’t say I was ever wowed by a single encounter, the sole boss fight at the end included. Having that mix of flying and ground enemies is good, but all of them are essentially bullet sponges, which unfortunately dumbs down gameplay overall. Moving through a few of the pirates bases on the edge of the Outpost-making for a half dozen standalone levels-you’ll find a mix of bipedal baddies, flying droids, and wild creatures abound to blast away at. Galaxy’s Edge’s campaign is fairly basic shooter fare. At launch, it’s a significant chunk of the game, with post-campaign DLC designed to serve up more of that diverse mix of Jedi thrills seen in Vader Immortal. I’ll talk more about DLC below, but first the main campaign. Unlike Vader Immortal, Galaxy’s Edge pushes its theme park-style smorgasbord of adventure experiences to its ‘Tales’ DLC, instead offering up a shooter-based campaign for the game’s main course. The First Order is offering up serious cash for some mysterious cargo in your ship’s hold, but under the threat of death you jettison the precious cargo and flee the ship, finding yourself back at Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost where you battle the pirates in your search of the cargo.
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge puts you in the shoes of a droid technician whose ship is boarded by a band of Guavian Death Gang pirates while in orbit above the desert planet Batuu. Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge Details:
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Galaxy’s Edge does an admirable job of approaching the sort of visual richness we tend to see in PC VR games, and the surrounding story is well orchestrated, but the meat of the game’s VR shooter campaign was a bit too basic to truly fall in love with. Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge marks a clear departure from ILMxLAB’s Vader Immortal series, bringing gameplay to the forefront and using its campaign as a platform for further narrative-driven experiences, which will be available on a rolling basis in successive paid DLC packs.
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