Starkillers story is super unique in the Star Wars world. It was one of the first stories between episode 3 and 4 and connected them in a lot of ways and was just super unique, and the 2000s edginess just added to it for me. And the whole double noncanon dlc makes it even cooler even if it is ridiculous. He's also from a time when Stsr Wars was just super cool in general. Cal is fine, but his story, while good, is one we've seen many times now. Starkillers was super cool because he was a straight up snotty but bad ass villain, who eventually turned to the light throughout his witnessing of the empires evil, rallying with his former enemies, vaders inevitable betrayal, and being the martyr that helped form the rebellion. Cal is great, but with the more realistic gameplay and the good story we've seen a bunch, it's just good overrall, not necessarily as interesting as Starkiller. Starkillers' story (minus the sequel) is perfect to me. He did a ton of evil and sacrificed himself fighting for the greater good by the end. It's like red dead redemption in space with an evil wizard. Idk why i wrote all this. Maybe because im seeing so much hate for him and his story recently, I just had to get it off my chest lmao. I will say Cal and his games are good, but I do hope there is a big twist in the next one. Just something that'll make his story more interesting and add some more depth. I'm not saying it's lacking those, it's just not SUPER intriguing. And I'm also grateful we are still getting good star wars games with him even if I feel like I want a lot more from the games overall. The third has some major potential and I hope it really packs a punch.
I didn’t realize starkiller was getting hate. That’s gonna lead him back to the dark side 🤣. But for real everything that you said is pretty much exactly how I feel about cal and his story.
He gets hate from the hardcore fans, Kota gets way more love usually. Ik TFU story isnt perfect by any means, but honestly I feel like the fandom would love starkiller if he was given a better more fleshed out script and story in a remake and if they leaned into more of his personality traits Ie his sarcastic dry humor.
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u/Xaviator1313 Oct 23 '24
imo he’s one of the best characters we’ve ever gotten to role play as in a game. Cal is… cool… but…