Like with the primary sport, I didn’t develop up taking part in Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic II: The Sith Lords, or KOTOR 2 for brief, however I did play some of it on a pal’s PlayStation 2 some time again. However how does the sport fare on the Change? Is that this port value getting? Nicely, let’s see.
After making your character, deciding the category, gender, beginning attributes, abilities, and feats, KOTOR 2 begins with an elective tutorial with you taking part in as T3-M4, or T4 for brief, making repairs on a crashing Ebon Hawk. As you roll round, you see an unresponsive previous woman, your avatar in unhealthy form on a medical mattress, and also you hear a banging sound from a room you may’t entry. Afterward, you get up in a chamber and discover the previous woman from earlier than and a person named Atton in a pressure protect jail cage. From there, your story begins as an Exile Jedi. You attempt to cease the Sith whereas gaining affect over your companions, taking facet quests, and principally doing the identical stuff as the primary sport.
Talking of the primary sport, I undoubtedly advocate you play KOTOR as there are recurring Star Wars characters and plot components that proceed from there. After taking part in the primary one, you’ll discover that many of the gameplay is identical.
It has turn-based fight, and when you get inside vary of enemies, the sport pauses so that you can determine the way you and your companions will assault. After which you may unpause to provoke these actions. If you wish to change your assault, you are able to do so whereas battling, however should you change your goal, it’s going to pause once more. You should utilize weapons (blasters or swords), grenades, pressure strikes (darkish or mild), and land mines. One transfer I like to make use of is Power Pace, which you should utilize exterior of battle to maneuver round quicker, making it extremely helpful when doing facet quests. One other is Power Drain, a darkish facet transfer that works like Giga Drain in Pokemon, damaging the enemy whereas gaining well being for you.
A ‘swap weapon’ button is fairly helpful. You’ll be able to assign a blaster in a single slot and a sword weapon in the second and simply swap between them, relying on the fight vary you end up in. For instance, sure companions can be a part of your group relying in your alignment, gender, or provides. So making extra darkish facet or mild facet decisions can have an effect on who you get, making the sport replayable to attempt to get completely different companions. Like within the first sport, you may have two companions with you at a time. Total, there are 13 companions versus the unique’s 9.
I’ve to confess that there are bugs that, from what I appeared into, weren’t within the authentic sport or different ports. This port appears to have some points. Like to start with tutorial, the graphics had been sharp and nice. However, the additional I acquired into the story, they appeared fuzzy and muddled, like they had been underwater or one thing. Nonetheless, I began it up once more, and the graphics appeared again to sharp!? It’s very unusual. I additionally acquired an error that closed my sport earlier than a cutscene loaded; thank goodness for autosave! The cinematic cutscenes have very poor audio high quality; they’re staticky and tremendous loud in comparison with the remainder of the sport. I attempted to repair it with the choice settings, but it surely didn’t assist.
Total, Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic II: The Sith Lords shouldn’t be the greatest port on the Nintendo Change. It’s priced at $15.00, and I can’t advocate it as a lot as its predecessor until you desire a transportable copy of KOTOR 2. After all, updates is likely to be made to patch the varied bugs, however if you wish to check out this model, pay attention to the glitches and steadily save so that you don’t lose something if it crashes!
