Is this really open world?

[Lucius Confucius]

I saw in the tags that this is open world. Is that true? Can I go to one planet and explore it however I wish?

Or is it linear open world? Meaning I need to complete missions to unlock new areas to explore.

Tell a noob how it works, please.

[Dessolos]

You do need to progress through the story to open all the planets but there is only really 2 "open world" Planets. The rest id label as "fake open world" as they do give the illusion are they are but they are small and not that open.
Edit: You unlock the open world planets pretty fast.

[GENETICZZ. ✟]

you can explore, but at some areas u need new abilities to keep exploring them, like a dash that gets you through a laser wall for example.

[Lucius Confucius]

Alright thanks for the answers!

[luis]

Originally posted by geneticzz ツ:

you can explore, but at some areas u need new abilities to keep exploring them, like a dash that gets you through a laser wall for example.

Oh so that's how you get through that stuff, I was so mad after fooling the stormtroopers into disabling the wall, only to kill them and be stopped BY ANOTHER DAMN WALL, lol

[JerBeware]

Originally posted by luis:

Originally posted by geneticzz ツ:

you can explore, but at some areas u need new abilities to keep exploring them, like a dash that gets you through a laser wall for example.

Oh so that's how you get through that stuff, I was so mad after fooling the stormtroopers into disabling the wall, only to kill them and be stopped BY ANOTHER DAMN WALL, lol

Yeah, that felt like really poor design there.
... we uhhh ... don't want to let you progress up this path right now, but hope you enjoyed the mind trick.

[Dessolos]

Originally posted by JerBeware:

Originally posted by luis:

Oh so that's how you get through that stuff, I was so mad after fooling the stormtroopers into disabling the wall, only to kill them and be stopped BY ANOTHER DAMN WALL, lol

Yeah, that felt like really poor design there.
... we uhhh ... don't want to let you progress up this path right now, but hope you enjoyed the mind trick.

Worst part about that design it's easy to forget where X was when it's a big open world game when you do unlock whatever it is. I'll say at least this game allows you to unlock the ability to see missed items. Still doesnt make it better to have that design but could be worst.