Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review
What does it mean to simply survive? This is a question that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor asks through almost every interaction. Is surviving enough? How does one cope with loss, trauma, failure? Jedi: Survivor picks this theme up from its excellent predecessor, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and expands on it, telling a beautifully emotional story along the way that feels right at home in the Star Wars universe.
Set five years after the events of Jedi: Fallen Order , Survivor picks up the story of Cal Kestis as he’s making himself enemy number one of the Empire. Carrying the weight of the entire Jedi Order on his shoulders, Cal is caught up fighting the Imperials as the galaxy continues to fall under their thrall.
His crewmates from the Stinger Mantis scattered around the galaxy, Cal fights as part of the resistance movement led by leader Saw Gerrera. Jedi: Survivor opens with Cal and his new crew pulling off a heist on the central planet of Coruscant, tasked with recovering some military intelligence that could help the Resistance fight the Empire more effectively. However, Cal and his companions, including newcomer Bode Akuna, hit a snag that sees Cal needing to flee in the Mantis itself. Alone with the ship damaged, Cal crashlands on the Outer Rim planet of Koboh, eager to fix up the Mantis and get back into the fight.
Cal and BD-1 make a discovery there that changes everything, one that has its roots in the High Republic days of the Jedi Order: Tanalorr. This hidden planet could be used as a refuge for those fleeing the Empire, as well as a place to re-establish the Jedi Order itself in Cal’s mind.
That throughline — the restoration of the Jedi — seems to eat away at Cal. And it’s something that Greez,
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