{"id":28897,"date":"2015-10-08T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28897"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:47:42","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep17-leveling-montage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28897","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP17: Leveling Montage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PW1wztyn9jQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PW1wztyn9jQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I know <a href=\"?p=27836\">I already covered this in my Mass Effect series<\/a>, but if you missed it for whatever reason, I think the structure of Mass Effect and KOTOR have a lot in common:<\/p>\n<p>You have a brief section aboard the (Endar Spire \/ Normandy) followed by the tutorial area on (Taris \/ Eden Prime), which is destroyed by (Saren \/ Malak) to establish the villain. Then you go to (Dantooine \/ Citadel) and talk to (The Council \/ The Council). They scorn you at first, but after some quests they agree to make you a (Jedi \/ Spectre) and send you in search of (The Conduit \/ Star Map). You get the (Normandy \/ Ebon Hawk) to hop around to a few different planets and pick up new teammates. Each planet tells a self-contained story, which then leads back into the main plot at the very end. You share a series of visions with (Bastila \/ Liara) that do a little mystery exposition and foreshadowing. Once you finish the next-to-last planet, you have the stakes-raising chokepoint mission on (Leviathan \/ Virmire) where one of your companions is (captured \/ killed). Then you go to the hidden mystery world of (Rakata \/ Iilos) where the BIG SECRETS ARE REVEALED, which leads to the final battle on the (Star Forge \/ Citadel).<\/p>\n<p>Man, I&#8217;m loving this season. I know we&#8217;re not doing a lot of analysis, but it&#8217;s so fun to just joke about this game. It&#8217;s this perfect blend of earnestness, enthusiasm, quirky retro charm, odd mechanics, and that classic STAR WARS feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I know I already covered this in my Mass Effect series, but if you missed it for whatever reason, I think the structure of Mass Effect and KOTOR have a lot in common: You have a brief section aboard the (Endar Spire \/ Normandy) followed by the tutorial area on (Taris \/ Eden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}