I'm going to play more later, but I've had a bit of a sleep after playing for another hour or two last night. I tried a few more of the games on offer, including Blaster Training, Lightsaber Duel and Force Perception. I wouldn't say they're excessively buggy, but I felt that they were a bit poor quality, especially Force Perception.
Blaster Training is basically like the duck shooting mini-games at fairs. Targets pop-up and you've got to hit the targets (As long as they're droids, that is! No shooting Anakin in the face!), with "head shots" resulting in a critical hit, taking them out in one go. It bases your score on how many droids you hit and what your accuracy is at the end. For the most part it's fairly simple and I managed to get a chain of roughly 20 critical hits, but it's also quite easy to miss, especially when you're aiming in the rear rows of targets.
Lightsaber Duel is more in line with beat 'em' up games like Tekken and Street Fighter, albeit with a Star Wars twist. You have to press the arrow keys in the right combination of four (Such as Up Down Left Down) before the timer empties to execute an attack. If you do so successfully, you contribute to your combo meter. After a few attacks, your combo meter fills and if you do the correct combination then you execute a much stronger attack against your opponent. Sadly, this game is prone to bugging out. You can press the keys too fast and it seems to pause for a second or two before registering them. I've also had situations where I'm using a combo move and the opponent attacked me before I finished, although it wasn't possible for me to "type" any quicker. I would say it's one of the least forgiving games in CWA, and I only went against three opponents (Obi Wan, Ashoka, Barriss Offee) before the game reminded me to stump up some money.
Force Perception is the worst game out of the lot. It's buggy, it's very unforgiving and it's frustrating. You have to find five differences in the two images, but the two images are never the same, there's always a subtle difference. I had one of Aayla Secura, and whilst the difference in her pose was minimal, it was still there. You've also got a small area to click on for a difference, and each incorrect click docks 1000 points. Yes, if you miss by a pixel you lose 1000 points. I basically gave up with this game because it's just so infuriatingly broken.
I also played around with the SC store last night, and found an option to switch between items which are bought with SC and those with Credits. The amount of items to buy is still rather small, but I found some nice pieces that really tempt me into getting a membership.
More to come later...
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