Parents' Guide to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Having learned how to be a Jedi in the previous game, former Padawan Cal Kestis continues his education in this action-packed adventure game. In the five years that have passed sine the end of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal clearly didn't just sit on the couch drinking caf and watching vids. Not only does he start this epic adventure with all the skills he had at the end of the previous game -- hence, why he can still use the Force to shove or pull enemies, run along walls, or do a mid-air double-jump -- but he has also learned new skills in the interim. He can briefly slow time, and use that finger-waving brainwashing trick that Obi-Wan is so good at. He can even duel lightsabers proficiently.

But, as they say, one should never stop learning. So as Cal continues to try to rebuild the Jedi Order and take down the Empire, he learns some new abilities over the course of this new adventure -- like how to use a grappling hook to reach out-of-the-way places. Or how to wield a cross-like lightsaber that's slower and heavier but more powerful. This game also corrects one of the few annoyances of Fallen Order, as you no longer have to walk all the way back to your ship and can instead instantly move between meditation points, of which there are many on every world. But the best thing about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is how, despite all the ways this installment expands upon the previous game, it's still very much the same in how it effortlessly mixes smooth hack-and-slash combat, clever problem-solving, and inventive exploration into an epic sci-fi story worthy of the name Star Wars.