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Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles is often Y2K movie gaming at its most frustrating, and yet it charms in a way that defies logic
A quick look at Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles, a game that's frustrating and charming by turn.
Aspyr's on the remastering duties and the top-line notes are: the game looks clean and it's lovely that everything's unlocked from the start, but there's also still a fair amount of rough edges and bugs. Watch on YouTube Combat is about combos and managing multiple enemies and knowing when to stop swinging the lightsaber and use it to block and deflect in-coming laser fire. If your TikTok stream is filled with '00s vibes and club flyers and old print ads for pre-smartphone phones and digi-cams and whatnot, if you know about Y2K Futurism and all that clean-edged, bubble-rounded jazz, you're going to be quite happy here.
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