It even has a faint link to the new Star Wars films through Kylo Ren's lightsaber, and if you follow that line, involves characters like Darth Sidious and Darth Maul, and it doesn't get much more mainstream than them! And do you know what's doubly cool about it? BioWare dreamt up Malachor V to begin with. That's a lot of Darths! A place which serves as your beginning and end in Knights of the Old Republic 2. This is a place that birthed legends, a place responsible for Darth Revan and Darth Malak, Darth Nihilus and Darth Traya. A place of tombs and darkness, secrets and treasure.īut there's one planet in the Knights of the Old Republic saga which looms over all others (and I'm stretching out my net a bit here to include the second game too). A place like the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. And there was Korriban, the sacred Sith homeworld. And there was Kashyyyk, with three 'y's, the forest homeworld of Chewie's race, the wookies. And by Manaan, I don't mean my nan, but the water planet in KOTOR you dived under the surface of, in search of secrets, only to be chased by huge alien sharks. It was still a whole Jade Empire development away.īut 18 years later I can still remember Manaan. Mass Effect wasn't a thing then, remember. In my mind, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has loads of memorable planets, but I don't know whether it's because they were brilliant, or because this was simply the first time BioWare had done this: take me from one planet and land me on another.
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