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The Sith Lords On Switch Is Finally Playable

Screenshot: Aspyr / Obsidian / Nintendo

Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords announced that it’s finally fixed a game-breaking bug that had previously rendered the game impossible to finish.

Previously, those who bought the port of the Obsidian Star Wars RPG were forced to cheat their way past game-crashing cutscenes. This was resolved via an in-game cheat menu, but it was still a band-aid solution at best. Kotaku attempted to use this method to skip past a game-breaking cutscene at the end of a late game questline, but boarding the ship would just cause the game to crash again. But rejoice: the buggy cutscenes have finally been fixed. Sort of.

After updating the game, I was finally able to play the previously problematic cutscenes without being ejected to my Switch home screen. There’s one caveat though. KOTOR 2 has a special ability that increases your movement speed, and it’s indispensable for a game that forces you to traverse quite a bit of empty space. The trade off is that the game forces a blurry filter over your screen while the skill is active. The new patch may have fixed the cutscenes, but it makes it so that these blurry filters carry over to said cutscenes. So you get gross looking screenshots like this:

Screenshot: Aspyr / Obsidian / Kotaku

KOTOR 2 has a lot of cinematic scenes that automatically play when you cross an invisible boundary, so you can’t really turn off the filter manually when they start playing. The blurriness stops after the skill duration has elapsed, but it has arguably made my experience a little bit worse. But hey, at least I can get around to other planets now!

Did Aspyr knowingly release an unfinishable game? Yes. Am I annoyed? Also yes. But I recognize that the vanilla version of KOTOR 2 was also released in a broken and buggy state. Maybe it’s one of those games that’s always doomed to imperfection. In any case, I recommend keeping multiple save backups just in case more horrible bugs await you at the very end of the game.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode Four Includes Fallen Order Easter Egg

Image: Lucasfilm / EA

If you’ve played a lot of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you might have spotted a small but cool connection to it in the latest episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi. You may have also noticed a much sadder callback to a Clone Wars character.

Don’t read beyond this point if you care about spoilers and haven’t seen episode four of the Kenobi show or played Jedi: Fallen Order!

In yesterday’s episode of the Star Wars spin-off show Obi-Wan Kenobi the titular Jedi, played by Ewan McGregor, has to infiltrate the Fortress Inquistorous. (That location, first seen on the show last week, is itself a big connection to Respawn’s 2020 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.) Sneaking around inside the fortress and trying to save a captured young Leia, Kenobi encountered a new connection to Respawn’s popular Star Wars game in the form of Purge Troopers.

In the new episode of Kenobi, we see the old Jedi get surrounded in a tunnel, and the troops sent after him include a few Purge Troopers. This is their first appearance in live-action. Eventually, Obi-Wan Kenobi breaks the glass walls of the underwater tunnel, killing them with the flood. This reminded me of a similar moment that happens to Darth Vader in Fallen Order; the Empire really needs to get better contractors.

Purge Troopers were first technically seen in a 2018 Darth Vader comic, but were then known as Inquisitor Troopers. Then they reappeared in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, in which they were officially named Purge Troopers or Purge Stormtroopers. They work alongside Vader, the Inquisitors, and other imperial forces to help contain, capture, and kill Jedi and other force-sensitive individuals. These soldiers are highly trained and utilize electrostaffs and other melee weapons that can resist lightsabers. Purge Trooper armor is also lightsaber resistant, which makes sense when your job is hunting down highly skilled Jedi who carry laser swords.

There is also a much sadder, less fun cameo in this new episode. When Kenobi discovers a large graveyard of Jedi, we see a dead Cosian suspended in the weird space-amber. While it hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, it seems very likely that this is the old Jedi Tera Sinube, who appeared in the fantastic Clone Wars episode “Lightsaber Lost.” 

Of course, this could technically be another male Cosian Jedi, but considering how the show lingers on the corpse and that last week Kenobi mentioned Quinlan Vos—another popular Clone Wars-era Jedi—it seems likely to me that this is indeed the dead body of Sinube. Hopefully, he went out fighting.

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Release Date Announced for Nintendo Switch

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords will officially be released on Nintendo Switch on June 8, 2022.

The news was shared during Star Wars Celebration, and the teaser trailer gives a glimpse of the game in action and the promise that “Restored Content DLC” is coming soon.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords will soon join Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on Switch, as the original arrived on Nintendo’s latest console in November 2021.

The original Knights of the Old Republic is being remade for PS5, but there has been no word as of yet as to whether the sequel will also get the remake treatment.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords was first released on Xbox in 2004 before making its way to PC in 2005.

In our review of KOTOR II: The Sith Lords, we said, “If you like roleplaying games or if you like Star Wars, you’ll be hard pressed to find a game as enjoyable as Knights of the Old Republic II. Sure, it’s got some technical problems and, sure, it starts fairly slowly but if you can see past those flaws, you’re in for one hell of a treat.”

For more, check out the announcement and trailer of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and all the biggest news from Star Wars Celebration, what Knights of the Old Republic 3 would have been, why KOTOR 2 tells one of our writer’s favorite Star Wars stories, and why we believe the world is ready for a new entry in the series.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.



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