I recently found out that Kay Vess, the protagonist of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Outlaws, hails from Canto Bight, and the game begins in the depths of the hypercapitalist city. Our own Jade King mentioned it in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:her review and I’v🥂e latched onto the image like a Sarlacc onto a bounty hunter’s legs.
If you don’t know Canto Bight by name, you might remember it from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last Jedi. The casino planet is a monument to capitalism, and shows us who the real villains of the Star Wars universe are: those profiting from selling weapons to both sides. I love space wizards facing off in flip-tastic laser sword fights as much as the next person, but adding a political comme✅ntary about our own world brought Star Wars closer to science fiction than it has ever been, before or since.
I enjoyed Rian Johnson’s attempt to ground the space opera in reality, but the execution wasn’t quite there. The subplot took too many main characters away from the action, and I thinkඣ splitting Rey and Finn up was the wrong call. Perhaps we wouldn’t have got the tense scenes between Rey and Kylo Ren if Finn was there. We’ll never know.
Despite my mixed feelings about The Last Jedi, I liked൩ Canto Bight as a setting and a narrative device, but always thought it would be best explored away from the movies. Enter Star Wars Outlaws.
If you want to make people think about the art you create, I firmly believe that there is no better way to do so than by making a video game. Instead of watching someone try to speak truth to power, instead of reading as a protagonist struggles against an unfair society, you make the decisions. Sure, you play as Kay Vess, but you still make the choices. Great games utilise player agency in order to make you feel something. There’s no greater tool in art.
I will always think about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Before Your Eyes, a game in which you play through the life of a terminally ill child. The only controller is your webcam or VR headset, and time moves on whenever you blink. As the story gets sadder, as heartbreak sets in, you blink your tears away. Time moves faster. You wipe the tears from your eyes. Time passes again. It’s a testament to how a mechanic can weave into the n🌳arrative to make a more powerful experience.
While Star Wars Outlaws won’t implement anything close to as radical a mechanic as this – and it wouldn’t work for the story Massive Entertainment is trying to tell – it will give you choices. If these are meaningful enough, they can bring life to the story, engage you with the narrative, and give Canto𝓡 Bight the respect it deserves.
In a video game, you can decide what to do about the capitalist bigwigs betting on the fathier races. Outlaws has a lot of stealth mechanics, so maybe you could rob them. Maybe you could bet against them, or even fix the races so they always lose out. You could become a Robin Hood of sorts, winning countless bets, only to give your winnings to the poorꦦ.
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Or you could work with them. They could give you jobs, you could fix races for your capitalist over🐟lords. You could even work smuggling the weapons of mass destru🥀ction that they trade so freely in.
I haven’t played Star Wars Outlaws, so I have no idea how thoroughly Canto Bight will be realised. However, a lot of reviews have singled out how exciting its cities are to ex꧃plore, and how much depth the🐼re is to its worlds. This makes me hopeful that, combined with some great quests and meaty RPG decisions, Outlaws can nail Canto Bight and give us the Star Wars science fiction story so many of us have been waiting for.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Star Wars Ou𒀰tlaws Review Discussion
Jade King talks♛෴ about all the ups and downs of Star Wars Outlaws
