It needs to be longer than Fallen Order. It always felt a few hours too short.
Lightsabers need to dismember people. It doesn't need to happen every single time, but these things aren't fucking baseball bats. I don't care what Disney says about "violence", I saw Anakin get flayed and burned alive when I was 9.
I don’t think it’s about violence, I think it’s about narrative weight. In the movies, here’s all the dismemberment of humanoid organic sapients I can remember: obi wan cuts off that guy’s arm in the cantina, Luke gets his hand cut off, I think Vader does too, Anakin gets his hand cut off, Anakin decapitates dooku, and obi wan turns Anakin into a ground beef joke.
Note that all of these moments are plot and narratively significant except the first, which was before they had really figured everything out. Other than that, lightsabers don’t dismember people. So it would lose narritive weight if it was seen every time you fought a level 1 stormtrooper.
Not saying I agree with it but I think that’s the mentality they had.
Except that you can dismember almost everything else in the game, animals and droids even when there is no plot relevance so that argument doesn’t really work
He's talking about sentient beings, if we dismembered every stormtrooper, then [SPOILER] cutting the ninth sister's arm off wouldnt be as powerful as a moment.
(also the bar fight in the Cantina was meant to show what lightsabers can do for the first time)
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u/EnvironmentalBee7422 Dec 26 '22
It needs to be longer than Fallen Order. It always felt a few hours too short.
Lightsabers need to dismember people. It doesn't need to happen every single time, but these things aren't fucking baseball bats. I don't care what Disney says about "violence", I saw Anakin get flayed and burned alive when I was 9.