![]() On the one hand, this is pretty cool! The High Republic is a new part of the Star Wars canon that up until now has mostly just existed in books and comics seeing its iconography rendered in three dimensions is neat stuff. Image: Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts It’s the time period during which many of the Jedi ruins and Breath of the Wild-esque shrines you encounter were constructed, and it’s where the game’s villain, Dagan Gera, hails from, as Cal Kestis learns after waking him up from a centuries-long nap in a Bacta tank. ![]() Its plentiful databank entries reference the era constantly. ![]() This is one of the biggest surprises lurking in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - the game really gets into the High Republic era. Can you imagine how hard it is to show someone a new Star Wars droid, city, or planet, and convince them that this thing has been here all along, you just haven’t seen it yet? What a bonkers thing to try!Īnd yet developers at Respawn Entertainment, the folks behind Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, have thrown their hat into the ring with aplomb, not just crafting new Star Wars characters and locales (on top of those already present in the excellent Jedi: Fallen Order) but veering away even more fully from the established film canon to explore the newest era of Star Wars: The High Republic. ![]() Adding something new to a universe as beloved and familiar as Star Wars must seem an impossible task. ![]()
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