yeah like 90% of the time i do pretty good with parry's but then there's the 10% of the fights that become super frustrating because shit off screen is killing you or the mob gets you stuck in weird angle geometry and nothing you do seems to let you escape. One nice thing is you can "cheese" skill points just by finding a good spot where there are 4-5 mobs near a med point, killing them and stimming wildly, and resting to respawn them. Check your XP and if you get a nice chunk then its a good farm spot. I've found at least 7 or 8 so far so the game seems to totally be designed around it. Death really isn't a huge hit in this game either, there are very few points where I've gotten angry about dying unlike DS or Sekiro.
I'm nearing the end I think (gotten most of my skill tree filled up) and I think the first 4-6 hours of the game is fantastic and SUPER fun, then the next 5-10 hours is pretty good, then the game starts getting a bit of a slog and repetitive. You end up going back over the same routes a lot, a bit lost trying to figure out where to go next. Its not awful, the map is pretty good in 3D and it gives you green hints where you want to go but sometimes you run around in circles.
The game honestly I'd compare it most to is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is an awful comparison I know (because Shadow suuuucked) but it has a ton of lame collectibles (jesus christ how many tweak does a fucking lightsaber need, this is worse than Pimp My Ride), a lot of worlds to run around in, the maps are fairly large, your skills are honestly all pretty generic and you use parry/dodge/swing like 95% of the time. The bad guy is a bit better in this.
Whoever was raging about that Mad TV chick is spot on though, she is annoying as hell and she is your main NPC so that really sucks. her eyes bug out like a fucking alien too and that shit sucks. Why couldn't they give me a super hot weeb/twilek girl as a mission giver, every mission you complete she takes off an item of clothing.
I'll wait until the end for final results but right now its a 7/10, really fun for a while but doesn't really achieve the greatness of something like Uncharted, God of War, or Spider man and the story and characters are really meh. The environments and immersion are fantastic though. Its Star Wars through and through.