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Star Wars: TFU II Opinion; Something about the plot...
Topic Started: Nov 10 2010, 03:55 PM (120 Views)
MetalShadowOverlord Nov 10 2010, 03:55 PM Post #1
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First off, I'd like to say that I do like the game. I love being able to wield two lightsabers and the story was pretty good. My only real complaint that the game was way too short! (Well, in my opinion it was) Anyway, the one thing I'd like to talk about is the story itself and how it also does not directly answer the question as to whether or not Starkiller is a clone or if he's the original, but confused. It basically counts on the player to, well, of course having played the first game, but also that the player knows nothing of the first three Star wars episodes.

Why do I make this claim? Well, right in the beginning when he meets with the Starkiller clone, he tells him "the accelerated cloning process is still...imperfect" and that "those before you went mad within months" when Starkiller asks why he is haunted by visions. However, if anyone has seen Star Wars: Episode 2: The Clone Wars, then one will immediately question the validity of his claim because it would then mean that all those clone troopers would have had visions of Jango Fett's life (since Jango Fett's DNA is the palette for the clone army). However, this did not happen at all. Also, why is Darth Vader even explaining what is wrong with Starkiller if he "is to suffer the same fate" as those before him? Unless he's simply doing it out of impulse because he's been asked a question, but the Dark Lord of the Sith acting on impulse seems rather...flaky.

Finally, we can see something is very wrong with Vader's claim about the accelerated cloning process when we return to Kamino. As you enter into the bowels of the cloning facility, you come to countless test tubes full of Starkiller clones. But...why? Did they perfect this allegedly imperfect cloning process in such a short span of time? Did Darth Vader have so little faith in the process that he had all of these created until he found one that would perfectly obey his every command? Would he train each and every one personally until he found that one successful clone?

When Starkiller is finally fighting Vader, and he summons the cloned Starkillers, why do they not go insane with memory flashes? Sure, they make garbled noises that sound like words, but that's probably understandable since they were just "hatched" (an udoubtfully premature hatching at that), but they still do not go mad. Also, when the two combatants are locked in close combat, Vader says, "Starkiller could not kill me. What hope do you have?" to which he responds, "I have defeat you before! I WILL do it again!" This probably shows that Starkiller knows in the back of his head that he is the real Starkiller, since Starkiller nearly killed Vader in the Death Star before attacking the Emperor.

When Starkiller is kneeling before Vader, bargaining with him for the safety of Juno, one again can't help but ask, "Why?" If Vader has all of these clones, which appear to be successful, then why does he need the original? Heck, why did he go through all that trouble just to get him back? I suppose one could answer this by saying that, although the clones don't suffer memory flashes, they don't know where the rebels are. If this were not the case, then wouldn't every clone trooper be as good as Jango Fett since they'd know all of his combat moves? However, since this is clearly not the case, we shall ignore it.

Anyway, as Vader is making his demands known, following every item with something synonymous with a death threat against Juno, she grabs one of Starkiller's dropped lightsabers and makes a weak swing at Vader (How can she not? She's cuffed, after all). Vader makes a rather odd move here. He uses a powerful Force Push move, sending Juno flying onto a platform. Why would he need to do that when all he could have done was pull the lightsaber from her hands? Starkiller did it to Vader on Kashyyyk, and he was just a child! How could the almighty Dark Lord not have done that and instead destroy the very thing he had to control Starkiller?

Starkiller flies into a rage at the death of his love and goes into an infinite Unleashed mode. There is a change in Vader's tone. While in the cloning facility, he kept telling Starkiller that he would kill him because he is a broken, failed experiment, but now the tables have turned. Now he continuously tells Starkiller that he should embrace Juno's death, as it will make him stronger and that she isn't worth it, and asks him "Don't you want to know where you came from?" However, you can hear something strange in his voice.

Vader is scared.

He remembers all too well what Starkiller did to him on the Death Star, and he knows he can do it again. With an infinite supply of the Force surging through him, Starkiller is far more powerful than Vader could possibly imagine.

The strange thing about this game is that the most obvious answer to the main question of "Is this Starkiller the real deal" comes not from the Light Side ending, but the Dark Side ending. The Light Side ending has Starkiller still struggling with the answers to who he is, but in the Dark Side ending, Vader is rescued by a perfect clone of Starkiller, and then tells him "I lied about the accelerated cloning process not being perfect". We are even given evidence that this clone is perfect because he walks by the body of Juno without any emotion.

The way I see it, there seems to be two possible answers:

1. Starkiller is the original, and the clone who kills him is the only "perfect" clone, meaning all the others were failures, since, like Kota said, no one has ever cloned a Jedi.

2. Starkiller is a clone made imperfect on purpose. He would be able to find the rebels, lead them to Kamino to be ambushed and destroyed by the Imperials, finally leading up to the perfect apprentice completing his final test, which is to kill the original Starkiller, or to kill a Jedi, since Starkiller abandoned the ways of the Sith.



Maybe I'm just over thinking this whole thing... Anyway, those are my thoughts on the matter. What do you guys think?
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