KoToR 2 Essay

[Madner Kami]

I feel the essayist deserves a little bit of attention. I know a lot has been said about KoToR 2 already, probably everything there is under the sun, but I didn't come across one from this particular perspective. It's long, as it retells the game and comments on key moments and the transwoman essayist is mostly focusing on the aspect of how the game adresses issues like healing or dealing with both physical and psychological trauma and PTSD.


youtu.be/5texil4EYP4

Also, I am crushing hard on that voice and want to go all Samantha Traynor on this voice.

[ProfessorDetective]

I feel the essayist deserves a little bit of attention. I know a lot has been said about KoToR 2 already, probably everything there is under the sun, but I didn't come across one from this particular perspective. It's long, as it retells the game and comments on key moments and the transwoman essayist is mostly focusing on the aspect of how the game adresses issues like healing or dealing with both physical and psychological trauma and PTSD.


youtu.be/5texil4EYP4

Also, I am crushing hard on that voice and want to go all Samantha Traynor on this voice.

Her other work also seems to be as thorough of a breakdown of the Pathologic games as can ever be done by one person. I can respect that.

[hammerofglass]

Started it, good so far but it's going to take me a week to get through.

[CharlesPhipps]

As much as I love the writing, I feel KOTOR 2 is an utter failure due to the fact Chris Avelone brings his Western anti-theism to the story so that its primary philosophical issues (examined more thoroughly in Pillars of Eternity) come off as nonsensical.

George was trying to teach Western audiences a bit about Eastern concepts, specifically Hinduism and Buddhism, where the Force is all things and isn't a god above them but a god a part of them.

In laymen's terms, sentient beings are the neurons of the Force's brain.

Which is to say asking whether the Force is sentient is sort of missing the point because sentience of beings is a part of the Force. The fight between the Dark and the Light is a fight for the soul of the Overbeing.

Which, if you take that tact, just means Kreia was a really-really awful philosopher railing at not God but everyone.

[hammerofglass]

I mean, yeah. Kreia is wrong. That's... the point.

Although a lot of it is so meta to being inside a story which is beholden to RPG mechanics that it doesn't really translate into serious philosophy in any case. For instance she waxes poetic about the experience mechanic on several occasions. Edit: misremembered this, that was the council.

[hammerofglass]

Ok I was wrong, did get through it today. Reaaally slow day at work. Greatly enjoyed it.

I have one big disagreement with the creator: I think what Kreia tells you about her intent to destroy the Force/ kill God is a complete lie. It's a story that motivates you to fight her like a proper Sith apprentice, nothing more or less. One last manipulation, one last obstacle to sharpen you against just like she manipulated Atris into doing. The last pawn swept from the board, the last attachment the Exile has removed. A trickster, manipulator, and abuser to the end.