Just started this via Game Pass and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed so far. It's like some horrible mash-up of Uncharted, Dark Souls and Metroid but without any of the good parts of those franchises!
The opening sequence (basically everything up to where you fight Lady Darth Vader) was awful - literally just push forward to go through a straight line from point A to point B whilst presumably the player is supposed to be impressed by seeing Star Wars Stuff™ around them? The "oh no the train is falling!" climbing sequence was just
there are zero stakes, there is no challenge, there's no skill required of the player - it's just a cutscene where you have to occasionally press the buttons to keep things moving, I was tired of this gooseberry fool about halfway through the first Uncharted game - how are we still doing this crap 15 years on!?
And the combat. Oh man what the hell went wrong here?! It's awful - truly and utterly. They were clearly inspired in some form by Dark Souls but either didn't understand anything about why the combat in that game works so well or just simply they completely botched what they were going for. It's all too floaty - there is no weight or heft to anything, there is none of the good feedback or cues from animation that the Souls games give you. There is clearly a big skill tree progression thing to unlock so I guess there is some hope that this might improve things but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Finally I need to spare a few thoughts for the character animation. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to develop a third person game (where you spend literally all of your time staring at the player character) and not bother to put any effort into that character's animations? Seriously just walking/running around makes Cal look like he's got strawberry floating rickets or something!
So yeah, not a great start!