Platform: PC
Progress: Just arrived on Dantooine and received a Lightsaber.
Enthusiasm: Still pretty fun, though bugs sometimes ruin it. The real game begins now.
I plowed through Davik Kang’s base this session. The game is pretty easy, even on the difficult setting, though it probably would have been harder had I been allowed to solo this section. I died once to the droids in the ‘guest’ (read: torture) chamber. While I was slashing away at one of them, its buddy set me on fire with its flamethrower, stunning me for several rounds. I was at ~5 HP when the stun was gone, and right before I could inject a medpac, the fucker flamed me again, killing me instantly. Canderous took them both out easy, though. One of them was nearly dead, and the other fell after a couple of Power Blasts. After the battle, I took some medpacs and freed the torturee, only to kill him when I got the info I needed.
The rest of the base was non-hectic. The spice lab guards, which I thought I would struggle with, all fell in one slash of the vibroblade (or rather one slash from each vibroblade).
Calo Nord and Davik Kang were walkovers. Canderous threw a concussion grenade and two plasma grenades on Calo, and he died pretty fast. A bit too fast, I think. I charged Davik and flurry’d him dead in a couple of rounds. Then I picked up that ugly purple armor of his, and left for Dantooine.
By this time I wish I’d have installed a challenge mod. I’ll see how the difficulty gets on Dantooine before I’ll consider installing one. I hope I don’t have to restart the whole game if I do.
On Dantooine, I went through the motions, lying my ass off to get that lightsaber. Sort of strange, I think. My face was grey with black veins, and Master Vandar was very impressed that I was so dedicated to their cause. Their gullibility will be their doom! Also, apparently I’ve memorized the Jedi Code from previous playthroughs, which is pretty nerdy, I guess. Then the Jedi Masters started preaching about the Force, while I’m smiling and nodding, choosing [Lie] the whole time. Finally, after much chatter, I get my radiant armament of death, the lightsaber:
I shall call it The Blue Blur of Beheading. Now, the real game begins.
Next session I’m going to the sacred grove to deliver horrible pain and death to Juhani. It will be grand.
Lastly, when I see the cutscenes with Darth Malak, I keep thinking to myself, “I wish the morality in this game was less polarized”. Malak is just too damn evil to be a good and credible villain, I feel. He has a bald head with ominous tattoos, a flowing red cape, he speaks with a sinister and metallic voice, and he destroys planets without blinking. Give me Darth Traya over Darth Malak any day.
The same is also true about the players dialogue, in that you’re either the galaxy’s worst bastard, or Jesus In Space. I set out to play a darksided character, but I dislike feeling like a psychopathic serial killer in every quest. I want to play a more subtle and sly evil, but the dialogue is about as subtle as a boot to the face, and I mean that in the literal sense.
