UnyieldingDemon

I just want to say great work and thank you for making such an enjoyable mod for my favourite game of all time! Its been a long time since I played a Kotor mod that aimed to continue the story of the first two games. I'm excited for future episodes. Also, I realize any critiques I mentioned are all things that take a ton of time and effort to accomplish so please don't think I don't have respect for what was done with this mod. Critiques: 1) I am a little baffled at the decision for secondary and even background characters to get voice overs but some main story characters get none. Makes it feel less polished. It would be nice for all the companion characters, main story line characters and the council to be voiced. I get its a mod but with something that is so story driven it just makes me feel less invested having to read a lot of the dialogue. 2) I would love to have seen some new feats/powers be added. Maybe ones that are specific to the player character, maybe based on species/Jedi class combination. I know there are attribute changes based on which species you chose so more depth there would be really interesting. We have all likely played Kotor 1&2 multiple if not hundreds of times and having new options for building your characters would make the experience feel more like a 3rd game rather than a mod. 3) Last critique, the movies being in original quality is really jarring. Not sure if this is something I can edit with an HD movie mod (compatibility issue?) but I was expecting more custom cut scenes like the establishing shot of Corellia which sure isn't a Hollywood quality cut scene but man it shocked me how well that looked compared to some of the low res movies used elsewhere, which were just cuts of the original movies. Now what I liked: 1) The story is REALLY good. The writing particularly is impressive here. I almost want this to be two different likes but ill keep it in one. Is there some broken or sometimes meaningless dialogue? Yes, but its definitely on the lesser side compared to the really well crafted dialogue and story. Clearly lots of time and meticulous work went into both writing and story. I was interested from the moment I started playing. Without spoiling the plot, it fits almost seamlessly into the period after the Jedi Civil War/Dark Wars and those events. The Republic and Jedi Order are rebuilding and the Galaxy has to learn how to trust both again. We even get a familiar choice, allowing us to decide some of the events of the previous games to set up the story beats in this mod. Very well done. 2) The way you populated the worlds, its just great. One of my biggest gripes with vanilla Kotor is how empty the worlds feel at times. Obviously this was due to hardware limitations back in the day and not being able to have hundreds of NPCs running around who you can interact with. But great job making cities like Corellia and others really populated. 3) Love being able to play as aliens. I always thought it was silly that you couldn't play as aliens in vanilla Kotor. So a really nice touch adding them. also the number of head models is great too! 4) Kinda surprised by how seamless this was to install. I would have expected a mod of this nature to require more hands on install but you did fantastic work here. 5) Music was good. Smart use of other Star Wars tracks but the custom music doesn't feel out of place whatsoever. I will say some track give me late 90s early 2000s MMO music vibes but I find that charming so I'm cool with it. There is much more about the mod I could talk about but I think my ramble sums up my most pertinent opinions. Really great work and I am super excited for more! I gave 4/5 stars simply because I think this mod has SOO much potential. I'm hoping when its all finished that the community looks at this mod with the same regard as TSLRCM. I think it can be that good. Also, if anyone knows compatibility for mods like HD movies, HD UI, Modern FOV and so on, please comment saying so. I went in just with this RoR for the best compatibility possible.