Star Wars: Jedi Energy Battles will get PC port, proving that the farce stays sturdy with this one

That nice disturbance within the Power you simply felt wasn’t 1,000,000 voices crying out in terror. It was, actually, me crying out in terror 1,000,000 occasions. You see, Aspyr have simply introduced that they are porting Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Energy Battles to PC and Steam. I’ve an advanced relationship with Jedi Energy Battles, within the sense that I feel I nonetheless have scars on my thumbs from once I performed all of it night time on a busted PS1 controller. I’ve bled for this recreation. I would shut my eyes after every six-hours session and see fields of lightsabers flickering and dancing like luminous leeches, chasing me by means of the Dagobahnian jungles of my goals.

Jedi Energy Battles is not even all that tremendous. Initially printed in 2000, it simply occurred to come back alongside at a time when myself and a good friend had been obsessive about Jedi Knights and the seven lightsaber duelling kinds. It was an atrocious interval in my life, nestled squarely between my liverish profession as a Trekkie and my later, extra forgiveable spell within the labyrinths of Tolkien and Warhammer. I had a devoted Jedi title, I feel. Evaed Paleee? It is vitally necessary that I do not bear in mind this period in nice element, so I will be watching the under PC port trailer by means of squinting eyes and parted fingers. Right here you go:

A fast overview: Jedi Energy Battles is a scenic, pretty punishing 3D platformer-brawler that follows the occasions of the Phantom Menace film, besides that I do not bear in mind Liam Neeson tumbling into pits fairly so commonly, or Ewan McGregor being unable to hack by means of a Pilot Droid’s forearms, or Samuel L Jackson getting launched by somewhat inexperienced man. The most effective factor about it’s that you just get a bunch of properly animated Jedi movesets to, because the case could also be, argue about until 3am, at which level it belatedly happens to you that you have by no means been kissed in your entire adolescent life, and that your bed room smells of mortality.

What are Aspyr doing with all of it? Properly, you may anticipate a selection of contemporary or basic controls, secret areas unlocked from the beginning, Vaselined visuals, cute thrives comparable to Large Head mode, and a complete of 13 returning and newly playable characters, together with the Rifle Droid and Tusken Raider. It is out twenty third January. Here is hoping they provide it a bit extra time than they did the latest Battlefront port, which was a planet-sized shambles.

If you happen to’re thirsty for extra of my midlife remorse, or need my ill-informed tackle film choreography, I went lengthy for Eurogamer about JPB a yr or so again.