Instant Review: Knights of the Old Republic

[serinde]

Dear Diary: Me and this paranoid gun-boy got stranded on some backwater world occupied by the Sith. We had to rescue the Jedi our ship was transporting to get out of here (and she's supposed to save the galaxy or something). I did, by entering a, wait for it, pod race. She turned out to be a screaming bitch. THE END...for NOW.

In spite of the unfortunate personalities and plot points involved, I stayed up playing this until...I don't wanna think about it. Ooog. And I felt cravings to not go to bed at all. Oh, for the halcyon days of being able to cut.

We also picked up GTA:Vice City, so Steve spent the evening sprinting around Miami punching random strangers in the head. He seemed to be having a dandy time, though he couldn't drive a car for longer than five minutes without crashing it. (Or maybe that's why.)

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[pir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can do swoop races to win money later, but it's purely optional like the silly card game they keep wanting you to play.

I went through the first time as light side, then dark side. It took me about half the time the second run through.

I found a party of mixed light and dark side jedi (most of your companions stay at their original alignment throughout the game) to be the most effective - dark side jedi can kill more easily, light side jedi can heal and stun, etc, more easily.

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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Mhrh? You can keep light-side and dark-side jedi in the same party? I'd expect them to start stabbing each other, a la Baldur's Gate (and with far more reason).

[pir.livejournal.com]

You don't have to tell the other people you're dark side and the light side jedi are useful to a dark side person to finish their mission, so just lie to them...

Some of the standard non-jedi characters you get in your party are dark side, too.