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

Beginning my... eleventh (???) watch and I'd be the most selfish woman on earth if I didn't s
at least try to express my gratitude. I struggle with a lot of shit right now and this video, this script and your voice are one of the rare beacons I can still rely on. Thank you for helping me keep the nasty stuff at bay, stranger

Holy shit dude this had me in tears

will you ever do a video on Fallout Equestria? honest ask

"It is such a quiet thing, to fall."

Jesus Christ why don't you have more subscribers???????

Was keria retconed? I thought i heard the old republic stuff was still canon. Or at least Reven and Meetra Surik (the exile were) also reven is a canonically a male, you got Meetra Surik right tho she was female

Down voted. Chris Avelone deserve an apology and retraction of your false statement. This was proven in court. Shame on you.

Talking to canon, however claim Revan was female because people can change... I senae 2020-2024 timeframe in full swing...

This Video is beautiful and a better review of Kotor 2 than the other praises (people who not look at Kotor 2 at it's intierly just Keira is a prothet and Revan is a god). You are could be Meetra Surik incarnate. That is what i believe and noone can change that.

Even if you don't accept SWTOR (the Revan - Novel included is the offical story) you have to see what Meetra Surik has done, she does stay as a force ghost for 300 years and help revan stay sane after he was imprisond by the Sith - Emperor.

Kotor should not become a remake it's perfect how it is as a classic of the past where we can look back to remember but don't let it consume us like these Revan-Fanboys there like darth nihilus.

I think the game is perfect for pessimistic people like some say dark souls is.

When you are the Master who tell the story then who is the apprentice?

I raise a toast to Meetra Surik who brought hope when everything seems lost not by fighting just by being her.

Just want to say, aside from the whole video being a delight to watch....that duel with Atris is a masterpiece. the last few moments...almost like they are dancing together is just perfection. Thanks for putting so much into this video.

Your analysis is by faaar my favorite

I can only think of Andor to compare to this deep and well written dialogue and story in the Star Wars saga. Such an amazing game.

Thanks!

Trans women will transition literally just to better understand their favorite RPG character

The Kotor II experience,
Refugee asks for money,
1 - help him
Kreia: thoughtless acts of kindness of kindness can bring more harm than good.
2 - scare him off
Kreia: Unnecessary cruelty will have ripple effects beyond imagination
3 - do nothing
Kreia, than everyone: Apathy is death 💀
How not to love this game

seriously comparing J. Peterson to nazi germany... that's wild

I've been searching for the words to say about this, so in the midsts of so much complex analysis I'll simply say its beautiful.

A cool a video about Kotor 2, let’s see the runtime-

Vrook Lamar is voiced by Ed Asner, the actor who played Carl Fredricksen in Up.

Your voice is incredible. If you ever retire from being a doctor, youd make an amazing VA

I personally believe that it is up to the player's choice to decide whether Revan is female or male. Canonically, he is a guy and Meetra (the exile) is a guyette. If the player so chose, they could make Revan female and Meetra male, its not that bigof an issue (so dont make it political, is my point)

Omg. I can't thank you enoigh for this. I liked it from the start, but the true greatness of this video truly unfolds after already spending almost four hours watching. Listening to the brilliant voice acting, following the twists and turns of the story and hearing your thoughtful commentary. Thank you for this piece of art about this piece of art.

I never thought I'd be this type of person, but Malak's using of "I" instead of "Me" over and over in his dramatic monologue really makes me see him as a clown.

Was excited but the first 10 minutes was full of so much Meh I couldn't continue

Was excited but the first 10 minutes was full of so much Meh I couldn't continue

Brilliant analysis.

I prefer not bringing Kreia into the temple. I think narrative and well cinematically it just feels better that she follows you there after you arrive. Seeing her arrive, sitting next to that stump as if she's seen an old friend (the tree) that is now gone, then showing up in front of the Jedi uninvited.

Me thinking I'm going to be here for 7 minutes and 58 seconds: 🙂

Me after I check how much longer is left in the video after 8 minutes have passed: 😨...🙂

A little late to the party but thank you for making this, recently completed my 2nd watch of this video and loved it even more. Your storytelling and the way you related KOTOR2 to your own personal story was beautiful; I also appreciate that you shared so much of yourself in showing your art. I also need to thank you for introducing me to Utena in a roundabout way, no idea how I hadn't seen or heard much about the show until now but I'm so grateful to have experienced it.

Thank you again for this beautiful piece and for showing the way to other great art.

R.I.P. Atris she would have loved the concept of blooding kyber crystals 😭

Whee! Algorithmic bump!

Instasubbed when I clicked into this vid

Crazy to see what to see what the Ashkhan of the Urshilaku tribe got up to after accepting the outlander as the Nerevarine and surviving the Red Year. Guess the ash storms really do fuck up one's voice.

Kotor 2 legendary ❤

Mandalore as Mandalore is a stroke of pure genius

I’m definitely canceling Atris on Twitter😂

Algorithm brought me here 2 months ago. How strangely it works.

I don't know how I hadn't seen this video before today, but I love it, and I thank you for it. KOTOR 2 is a game I have loved since I first played it as a child, but I can say that I didn't really understand it then, not in any meaningful way. I have replayed it many times through my life (ironically, I actually just finished my most recent playthrough before finding this video) and I get more out of the game each time. But never have I found someone who seems to "get it" as much as -- or at least in the same way as -- you do.

Truly, you have opened my eyes to much that I have been missing. This game is a beautiful story of pain and loss and how our past defines us, but does not control us. It has so much in it that speaks to us as trans women. It's so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your perspective on it, and on yourself -- I'm a relatively new trans girl now and I have much to learn, but you make me feel like one day I will, and one day it will all be okay. 🖤

This was excellent content. Honestly, it was a genuine 10/10. Thank you for creating this.

You lost me at the inference that Jordan Peterson doesn't understand Nietzsche.

love this game and love this video. I also played this for the first time when I was quite young. coming after victory in Kotor 1 (probably my first "big kid" rpg), this was a pretty serious shift in the writing, and general expectations for how the player should think about the characters and game world. while I like Kotor 1, it's definitely a much more straightforward power fantasy, one that made sense to me well enough at the time. this was... different. while I think a lot of the subtleties were lost on me at the time, the game still stuck with me. easily some of the best writing in the entirety of star wars, as well as some of the best writing in the medium at the time. it's amazing to me how memorable they made so many of these characters.

to truly get the "canon" experience, you must have owned the game before it came out on steam and include the mod "party swap". You need another version because mods outside the steam library don'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'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.
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't have both without party swap. the reason it is called "party swap" 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'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.
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.
I like that Obsidian made the protagonist a woman (Canonically at least), it makes it different from most stories in fantasy.
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'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. 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.
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't think the steam version has it.