well the game is finally over, with all its DLCs and most of the side quests (almost).
nix, nd-5 and kay are a great trio and whenever they had a interaction with each other it made me smile. couldn't help it. when a game evokes these feelings, i can't help but be biased towards liking that game more
atmosphere of the towns and the amount of NPCs and detailed animations they have is just astounding. they really have crafted an incredibly immerse star wars that I could just wander around, walk around and not be bored. it just feels so natural. arcade game, the table game, and so on. really added a lot to the world. i really enjoyed treasure hunting mechanic as well. reputation system was a great motivation to do contracts, earn money, maybe get some crucial parts to improve your chances of survival... trying to survive... but surviving isn't enough, as ND-5 would put it. you need something more... and that's friendship.
gameplay... well it was simple, basic and didn't get in the way (if it was worse at launch or something, no idea then). i actually had fun clearing levels as kay and nix are really powerful in stealth and you have lots of tool you can use to spice things up and at times it really felt cool doing some stealth things. I actually enjoyed the ship combat too funny enough, probably because I really liked the way ship upgrades were designed. instead of straightforward things like 20% damage increase or something, you get different abilities you can use with your ship to increase your power against multiple enemies in the space. same goes for most of the speeder upgrades. ultimately i never felt like I was forced to go after upgrades. instead I just wanted to do them naturally because I just liked exploring... and when that happens... the gameplay experience, aside from the actual gameplay mechanics, becomes a solid 9/10
and story was decent enough for me to push forwards. i just can't say it was bad or anything really. maybe it was to my liking. i will call it average. if this was a movie or something i would give it a 6.5/10 score or something.
as such i'm giving the game a 8/10 overall. only bad thing I can say about it is that it just doesn't have that much of a powerful story and Kay's character development is really not that great. i also feel like the ending is a bit rushed but it is better than having no proper culmination (see ac shadows)
as a final bonus
and some screenshots I've gathered over 50 hours of gameplay
some notable characters from star wars universe