Why Knights of the Old Republic 2 is Beautiful; An Analysed Playthrough

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  @ingolf82 · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  to truly get the &quot;canon&quot; experience, you must have owned the game before it came out on steam and include the mod &quot;party swap&quot;. You need another version because mods outside the steam library don&apos;t seem to work with the steam version. Anyways. what the party Swap does is, it lets you recruit both the Handmaiden Briana and the Disciple Mical regardless of gender. in canon, Both Briana and Mical became Meetra Surik&apos;s students and part of the new Jedi council after Surik left for the unknown regions along with Atton Rand and Visas Marr and Mira with Mical becoming the grand master of the order.<br>I get why they did this though, the gender you choose should have consequences, but I wish they did some other change because it messes with the canon that you can&apos;t have both without party swap. the reason it is called &quot;party swap&quot; is because, you only have 9 companion slots and you should have 10 companions, so Briana and Mical take up the same slot, so you swap them in and out, you can&apos;t have both in the party at the same time. you can only do so much with a mod I suppose. maybe they will come up with something that lets you use both.<br>Since my old game is buggy, I bought the steam version and play it on occasion, I choose to play as a male because I prefer Briana over Mical. and that is the only reason.<br>I like that Obsidian made the protagonist a woman (Canonically at least), it makes it different from most stories in fantasy.<br>I love the morality system in this game. every companion starts at 50 when you first get them. for each influence gain or loss, you lose or gain 8. As you may have discovered, it is quite impossible to please everyone when playing the light side, but lucky for you, the player, you don&apos;t need to. T3-M4 is a light side character, it likes light side choices. Kreia, despite being neutral, prefers the dark side for example (this is not a secret). The others are cool with both. &nbsp;anyways, If you treat some of your companions badly, you lose influence with them and they will be oppositely aligned to you, you will progress their story, but they will be the opposite. so if you are dark, they will be light, while characters you gain influence with will mirror you.<br>so you gain and lose in increments of 8. 58 influence and 42 influence unlock the same dialog, 66 influence and 34 unlock the same, 74 and 26, 82 and 18, 90 and 10 and finally 98 and 2. all these unlock the same part of the dialog with the companion in question. there is a mod added to Bao-durs remote where you can speak to it and ask what your influence with each companion is and it will tell you, very handy. but I don&apos;t think the steam version has it.

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  @ERGSunshine · 4 years ago

  &quot;I&apos;m having a lot of emotional issues because of the Force.&quot;<br><br>The Exile: &quot;Have you tried turning it off and back on again?&quot;

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  @phyllotaxis · 9 months ago

  The way a light-aligned playthrough has you working to help a world that hates you for existing, it&apos;s not something I&apos;ve seen in any other game. You did a great job explaining why this game hit so hard the first time I played it.

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  @ianatkinson5509 · 5 months ago

  Not sure if you read these comments years past after posting. But this video helps me in my hard times, and encourages me in the good times. Always an angelic presence when I’m trying to sleep. <br>Thankyou ❤

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  @kryskiller666 · 1 year ago

  Atris being portrayed as a raging lesbian in denial is now my head canon, thank you.

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  @Caroscribbles · 4 years ago

  &quot;we can&apos;t use the john williams audio? we&apos;ll get sued?&quot; SPEAK OF THE DEVIL AND HE SHALL APPEAR

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  @000Dragon50000 · 4 years ago

  I love the stuff the exile&apos;s apprentice is getting up to in the drawn scenes, just hanging out, vibing, living her best life, whilst her mentor tells a freaking eight hour story without pausing for breath because video editing is more powerful than even the force :p

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  @percymacdonald6657 · 4 years ago

  An 8 hour video about the greatest most thought provoking star wars game of all time? Sign me up.<br><br>There is only one certainty in life:<br><br>You will lose influence with Kreia.

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  @goisles6728 · 3 years ago

  Came for the eight hour philosophical review of my favorite game.<br><br>Stayed for the messy break-up allegory between the Exile and Atris.

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  @KeithBallardGaming · 4 years ago

  A prayer to the algorithm gods for a fruitful harvest.

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  @NickInTheField · 3 days ago

  I have returned to this video many times over the years, and now this is the first time I have finished it. And it was truly beautiful. You spoken to my own trauma in the last few moments. Truly, I’d never listened to something that affirmed so much within me before. For that gift, I truly thank you.

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  @lucaschope3806 · 1 year ago

  I come back to this video a lot. It&apos;s become a quiet comfort of mine with how shitty everything is. To hear someone talk so deeply and intimately about how giving into apathy, and nihilism kills any hopes of making things better. Of how good is always a sacrifice. Of how healing is possible. It just helps me keep my head up with how terrible everything is. Thank you Sulmatul for probably my favorite video on the internet.

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