When considering what makes a good sequel – and, just as pertinently, what absolutely does not – there might be no richer case study than Star Wars. So it’s only natural that, in crafting its follow-up to Respawn would look to a few of the series’ better examples. In classic second-act fashion, there are flashes of real darkness and loss in story, with a few beats borrowed almost wholesale from The Empire Strikes Back. But perhaps the finest tradition it picks up is allowing a little time to pass – enough for characters to grow, and their situations to develop, in a way that suggests a life outside the snippets we get
