For a few moments, it feels as if the whole world is at Star Wars Celebration. As a crowd of 4,500 people, myself among them, spill out of the largest room of ExCeL London like meat out of a burrito, we collide with all the other Star Wars fans traveling around the vast building. There are so many people it’s impossible to move. Jedis jostle with stormtroopers, who bump into Boba Fetts. We are rubbing up against one another so closely we might start a fire.

It is right then, squeezed like the Star Wars equivalent of a canned sardine, that I turn against Celebration, a four-day event held every couple of years to bring together the most hardcore members of the planet’s most hardcore fanbase.

But, over the next three days, this most extraordinary fandom manages to win me over. It isn’t a religious conversion exactly, but I do feel more open to attending the services.

You’ve never seen Cal Kestis quite like this.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a tremendously ambitious sequel that improves on its predecessor in every conceivable way, while also adding a host of new elements and mechanics. Enhanced combat and exploration could easily steal the show here. But the surprisingly poignant story also holds its own, with themes about moving on from grief and leaving the past behind. In short, Survivor is just about everything you could want from a sequel.