Combat looks ROUGH. Too bad the game is so heavily tied to the move controller. Getting a lot of Red Steel vibes with this. Maybe they can iron it out, but it'd be the first game to make that sort of stuff work.
I've done a full 180 on this game. I had zero interest until watching this. Seems like Alan Wake, but better. I can dig an interactive, dumb-yet-self aware scifi show.
FWIW I still don't really like the Wind Waker look. I don't hate it, but I prefer OoT, Twilight Princess look over it. When I was a teenager, I felt it just didn't fit the tone of the series. The modern day equivalent to how I felt then would be; imagine if Dark Souls went cel shaded and cartoony. Even if it played like the best Dark Souls game ever, and they nailed the cartoony look, it'd still be missing something. It's purely a matter of opinion/style preference though.
I have a very different interpretation. The New Order and the Empire symbolize the narcissism and subconscious turmoil that so often accompanies progressive movements (especially ones that are aggressively opposed to the "old ways"). They represent and reflect the perversion of morals and the false sense of social progress generated by the likes of the Nazi's, PRC, and Stalinist Russia. You relate the New Order and Kylo Ren's struggle with a "return to the past" but this conflicts with the historical timeline of the Star Wars universe. The Republic and the Jedi Order are the "old ways", not the Empire or the Sith. The major complaint the Sith have is that the Jedi are too stuck in the past, constrained by their moral code and priority on peace and order. This leads to the Great Schism and the ensuing struggle between "the light" (the old ways) and the "the dark" (the destructive narcissism required to mold the world around your vision of reality; or progress society). The struggle of Kylo Ren is the struggle of the "psychological man" of the 21st century, stuck between the societal pressure (Snoke and the other Dark Jedi) to forge his own identity, and the traditional institutions of his past which are necessary to maintaining his mental hygiene (his family, Jedi heritage and past). Kylo Ren happily amends the story of Vader to turn him into the pure Sith (revolutionary hero) Ren's psyche requires. Kylo Ren is not content to walk in the footsteps of his parents and has no wish to carry on their legacy. He sees the cold justice of an idealized Darth Vader and Snoke as the way forward, a projection of his unhappy childhood on the rest of the galaxy. This leads to his ruin. To amend your analogy, the Rebels are the young supporters of the baby boomers (the prequel era Republic), and the New Order/Empire are the progressives.
A few years back at Bonnaroo I walked into the Flaming Lips set. And there was this grown man covered in glow sticks and glow stick juice, being led by one of those child leash things. He brushed past me and politely grabbed my hand, looked deeply into my eyes and said
"My dad farts in his sleep."
And then he and his handler continued on, deeper into the night.
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