Finally got around to watching this. Here's my rambling thoughts after literally just finishing it. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Its a shame it took so long to tell this story because its a great lead in to a new hope and has so many tie ins to the whole series. Loved donnie yen. diego luna was pretty meh tho sadly. I was excited when Tarkin showed up, but then his face started moving and I could tell right away it was entirely cgi. After that I couldnt unsee it. Loved the brief leia cameo at the end and wasnt bothered by that at all, probably because she only says 1 word is on screen for 3 seconds. Vader was great, especially his fight scene. You could definitely hear the age in james earl jones voice, but I didn't really mind that either. I thought they did a very good job of making the setting feel like it was closely tied with the time period of a new hope.
I did also really like the battle sequence at the end. For pretty much the entirety of this series the focus has always been on the jedi and a very small group of people. But the rebellion was a galactic effort and there were lots of "normies" that fought and died for the cause, so to put the focus entirely on them for once was actually quite refreshing. I definitely need to watch this again.