pyr0clast:
Fact: Knights of the Old Republic is an RPG that allows the player to determine Revan’s race, gender, sexuality, alignment, personality, and interpersonal relationships with the crew. It has a roster of well-fleshed-out companion characters that each have their own arc, many of which are heavily influenced by Revan’s choices. It also allows the player to determine Revan’s reaction to the Jedi Council’s fuckery, and to learning that they are in fact Darth Revan.
It establishes Revan as a charismatic badass with a flair for the dramatic and a love of droids and also trolling people.
Fact: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is an RPG that allows the player to
determine the Jedi Exile’s race, gender, sexuality, alignment, personality, and
interpersonal relationships with the crew.
It has a roster of well-fleshed-out companion characters that each have
their own arc, many of which are heavily influenced by the Exile’s choices.
It also allows the player to determine the Exile’s motives for following Revan in the Mandalorian Wars, their reaction to the trauma they endured, and their opinion of/relationship with Revan.
It establishes the Exile as a survivor. Light or Dark, the Exile is a survivor. And they are–without any exaggeration–potentially one of the most powerful and pants-shittingly terrifying beings in the entirety of Star Wars.
Fact: Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan made Darth Revan a straight white guy with the charisma of stale cardboard and the strategic acumen of a concussed sea cucumber. It made the Jedi Exile a white woman completely loyal to Revan despite his actions essentially destroying her life, and it made her average in competence at best. It barely utilized any of the companions from either game. It killed off the Jedi fucking Exile and shut down Darth fucking Revan, reduced all their struggle and accomplishments across two games to a “whoops, you lose!” not because it was some kind of narratively satisfying conclusion to their stories, but because That’s Just How It Has To Be in order to set up the Jedi Knight storyline in SWTOR. It condemned Revan and HK to a miserable existence as flashpoint/Operations pinatas in SWTOR, and the Exile to a miserable existence as a boring cryptic Force ghost.
… It named Revan and Bastila’s son VANER. Vaner. V A N E R. FUCKING VANER OH MY FUCKING GOD WHO FUCKING THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA WHY WHY WHY
tl;dr–fuck Drew Karpyshyn, fuck That Book, fuck everything.
