It’s awful or, at the very least, it does not hold up 15 years later.įirst though, I suppose that I should address the elephant in the room early: Kotor 2 seems incomplete because it is. But the game still feels like such an incomplete, disjointed experience that I can’t recommend it to anyone. It has a solid enough narrative outline (but as I will explain, the actual narrative sputters) and I restored much of the content the developers cut to meet publishing deadlines with this mod. I can’t find a single serious negative review for it - even though it’s a buggy, broken, imbalanced mess that suffers from obvious development limitations.
I try to avoid calling anything overrated, but the praise I see for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords ( Kotor 2) just baffles me. And then deep beneath the surface, you can feel the pain of the unfinished product… But to clear eyes it’s damaged by a severe lack of polish and glitchy, confusing details. I’m always looking for visual metaphors and here it is courtesy of a common motion-blur graphics bug: if you squint, Kotor 2 looks pretty good as a low-resolution outline.
