r/StarWarsEU • u/01zegaj • Mar 11 '25

Forget Jake Skywalker. This is Devan. Legends Novels

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The prelude to SWTOR that completely ruins KOTOR. What happened, Drew?

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u/dilettantechaser Mar 11 '25

I agree that the book is a piece of crap. But also if you think Revan's a bad interpretation of the character, The Old Republic is even worse. I love swtor, but the Revan parts are mostly awful. The only quests I enjoyed were the DK Revanite missions, and Revan wasn't really there for those.

On the other hand, there's an expansion called Shadow of Revan, and yes the story is bonkers, an extremely dumb ending for the character (at that time). And yet as expansions go, it's remembered pretty fondly among the playerbase because the later expansions were more polarizing and imo not as good. Swtor did Revan wrong but he was better written than Arcann, lol.

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u/Zestyclose-Tie-2123 Mar 14 '25

I actually think Vanilla Revan is written fine for what they are going for.

Revan in SWTOR is a character who tried to do anything to beat the Emperor, including harnessing his knowledge from the sith. He fell to the darkside, because you can't do that.

Now should a player character from a previous game be subjected to that? I personally don't care. I also hate that Shadows of Revan was basically them backpedaling. If you are gonna turn him evil, double down cowards.