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We arrive on the spook-world of Dathomir. In the past I’ve said that SWJFO has a little Dark Souls in its veins. This place is the most Dark Soulsian location in the whole game. The enemies here are a little trickier and a little less forgiving in their attack patterns. The place is all mournful ruins, knotted roots, giant spiders, bones, and dust. Also the place is wall-to-wall with empty pottery that you can smash for no reason.

I’m not saying this part of the game plays exactly like Dark Souls. I’m just saying this is as close as it gets, in terms of trickier foes, the atmosphere, and general pacing.

So let’s talk a little more about the combat in this game. And to do that, let me introduce you to…

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While we’re in the tomb on Zeffo, we get access to another TikTok from Master Cordova. He rambles about the amazing Zeffo civilization and then mentions that he’s going to speak to some Wookiee leader named Tarfful. 

That’s it. That’s our lead.

I thought we were following him on a pilgrimage to tombs? Keep in mind, Cordova is (presumably) dead and this is a recording he made for an unknown person (us) in the future. And he gives us a lead to talk to somebody? It didn’t occur to Cordova that maybe some people might die in the coming conflict? He didn’t think it might be hard for a random stranger to talk to a Wookiee head of state? He didn’t think to give us more concrete goals? Like, planets are big and we don’t even know what we’re supposed to ask Tarfful if we find him. 

Damn it, Cordova. You are terrible at this. 

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Our adventure brings us to Zeffo, which is a planet and not a lost member of the Marx Brothers. This is the homeworld of the now-extinct Zeffo civilization. We’re here to explore the local tomb so that the droid – which we brought with us – will show us the next holo-vlog from the late Jedi Master Eno Cordova. This is a very roundabout way of doing things, which becomes even more roundabout when we realize the Empire is here, digging for Jedi treasure or artifacts or whatever. 

The only real risk in our plan is having this droid fall into the hands of the empire. And now we’re dragging the droid with us into an Imperial outpost. If Cordova hadn’t been so cute and decided to play Ready Player One with this galaxy-changing data, we would currently have the thing we’re after and we’d be totally safe from the Empire.

I know it’s basically the mission statement of the Republic-era Jedi to create more problems than they solve, but I still roll my eyes when Cere feels the need to remind us what a brilliant guy he was. 

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