Played the first level of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 with Luke Skywalker in it, and it is, as far as I can recall, one of the worst single levels of a game I’ve ever played.
And it’s not just that mechanically, it sucks. But oh my god mechanically, it sucks. Swat flies with lightsaber. No actual skill involved. Do it for a long time. Have to do it again. End level. From a gameplay perspective, it’s garbage.
But the early parts of the level and the narrative are even more jarring. You’re Luke Skywalker. You’re on a weird planet, so you go exploring. You feel something in the Force. You run into a bunch of Stormtroopers. You mow them down without a second thought.
At some point midway through the level, you come across a member of “Inferno Squad”, the squad the main character is part of. This guy is one of her close compatriots. He’s trapped. So you free him. Luke doesn’t kill this guy. And he asks, “Why didn’t you kill me?” and Luke says basically “I killed those Stormtroopers because they didn’t give me a choice. You did.”
And it’s *insane*. Luke just killed dozens of soldiers literally without a second thought. And then for purely plot reasons, he not only saves this guy, but teams up with him, and then expresses “We’re not getting out of this without each other,” which is *nonsense*. Luke’s an incredibly powerful Jedi. This guy is basically a badass TIE fighter pilot and nothing more.
The whole story is so off the rails and Luke’s behavior is so nonsensical that it’s really disconcerting to me that this is a canonical story. And then for the last half of the level after meeting that guy, you swat bugs. For 10 minutes. It’s terrible.