Top 5 Moments In The Knights Of The Old Republic Games
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Knights of the Old Republic games are widely considered to be if not the best Star Wars video games of all time, then pretty darned close. Set thousands of years before the films, the games center around various threats that nearly wipe the Jedi out, from a civil war to force-attuned assassins to Sith lords with untold powers; only your characters from the games and their motley collection of companions can save the galaxy. With great characterization, fun gameplay, masterful storytelling and tons of worlds to visit, the Knights of the Old Republic games aren’t ones to miss.
That does beg the question, though. Which moments are the best? Which story or character moments stand out in two nearly perfect games?
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5. Turning your companions into Jedi
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In the first game, you had Jedi companions by default. Bastila, Juhani (if you didn’t kill her, but the vast majority of players didn’t) and Jolee Bindo all had lightsabers and force powers. In the second game, there isn’t anyone… initially. The second game features influence, and your actions can cause you to gain or lose influence based on the choices you make around certain members of your party. If you gain enough influence, you can open up dialogue trees that can lead to your companions becoming jedi. This is really cool not just because of the fact that it’s great having more companions wielding the Force, but it ties in really well to the story. At this point, the Jedi are all but gone, leaving you and a few scant others. Delving into the characters to have them become Jedi is also fascinating, especially when you consider where they come from. One used to hunt and kill Jedi. One is an orphaned bounty hunter. One, a former padawan who looked up to you before you left. One, a mechanic who served under you during the war. One an outcast among her sisters. Great stuff.
4. Final fight with Darth Sion
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Throughout the second game, Darth Sion is one of the most frightening enemies. He’s the Lord of Pain, using his perpetual agony to fuel his dark side rage. He’s arguably the scariest character in the game. Whenever he’s there, you know things are about to go poorly. Naturally, at the end of the game you have to fight him. However, what’s interesting is that you don’t really defeat him with your lightsaber. You can’t do that. His rage is too strong. What you have to do instead is talk to him and erode his will. You convince him to let go of his hatred and accept death. When he does, he does it with a kind of relief. He doesn’t turn back to the light, but he lets go and accepts, even welcomes death.
3. Final fight with Darth Malak
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The ultimate fight. The two most powerful characters in the game. You, a redeemed monster, versus your apprentice who has destroyed entire worlds to kill you and Bastila. The fight has an added horror factor in that Malak has dead Jedi, who he hasn’t let become one with the Force, and he uses them to recharge once his health is low. If you have the power, you can do it instead. What makes this fight great, beyond the fact that it’s the biggest showdown of the game, is that once you defeat Malak, he wonders if there was truly a better way. He ponders the “what if” if the roles were reversed, and he was reformed by the Jedi. Like with Sion, he doesn’t return to the light at the end, but he doesn’t die in hatred and rage.
2. Bringing Bastila back to the light
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Throughout the entire game, Basitla Shan has been the voice of reason and your main connection to the Jedi and the Force. However, if you look closer, you can see her inexperience and pride showing through. She’s not the perfect Jedi she believes herself to be. When she’s captured by Malak, he turns her to the dark side, gaining her battle meditation power for himself. Of course, you end up facing her in battle. She even freezes your two companions so that it truly is just the two of you. We’re just going with the light side here, since you don’t redeem her if you play the dark side, but rather convince her to join her evil with yours. If you’re playing the light, you use your connection with her, romantic or not, to bring out the good that was always inside of her. Bastila’s redemption brings her character arc full circle. She certainly gained much wisdom and tempered her pride as a result of her fall, leaving her a stronger Jedi for it.
1. Darth Revan reveal.
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I mean... duh. Pretty much everyone reading this saw this coming, unlike most of the players playing the game for the first time twenty-one years ago. It's not just one of the biggest twists in Star Wars; it's one of the biggest twists in all of gaming. Throughout the game, Darth Revan is built up as this almost mythical figure, his/her evil affecting the entire galaxy. If you play the light side, you want to avoid becoming that. But you are. You have always been. Once everything is revealed, so many pieces fall into place. So many lines and moments become clear. It's masterful storytelling, and a fantastic example of how to do a twist right. If you play the light, it also shows that no matter your history, you can overcome it and change, rejecting the dark side and using your powers for good. Sure, you had to be betrayed by your apprentice and get your mind altered by the Jedi to get there, but... it's still really meaningful.
The Knight of the Old Republic games still hold up really well (especially if you get the restored content mod for the second game) and they have endless replayability. While we never got the third game, which would have seen you follow Revan to fight the true Sith, and we may not get the perpetually promised remake of the first game, let alone one of the second, we still have these two games, to look back on fondly.
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