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‘Tis but a scratch! Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will feature select dismemberment

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While I’m not totally sold on Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order just yet, I love what I’m seeing on the visual side of this project. The old trilogy aesthetic is firmly in place, the worlds shown off so far look lush and nothing beats seeing a lightsaber ignite and swish around while you make the sound effects. I’m not even going to deny I do this, because we’re all guilty of a little Jedi weapon onomatopoeia.

One thing you won’t be seeing in Fallen Order? Legions of defeated Stormtroopers lying about the place, looking for lost limbs and swearing revenge on the Jedi who just robbed them of their ability to spit out sick licks on a guitar. While Star Wars films may be filled with dismemberment scenes a’plenty, Cal Kestis will leave his foes in one piece for the duration of the game. Most of the time, that is. “We’ll use it in select cases,” Senior designer Justin Perez said to IGN.

So while you won’t make the galaxy look like the aftermath of the Bride’s fight against the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, you will still be able to mutilate various droids and exotic creatures around the galaxy. Like giant spiders, because they’re gross and icky and I would pay a lot of money to have a game where you’re an Imperial flametrooper whose job it is to flush out alien spider dens.

It’s also a far cry from the older video game days of Star Wars, before Disney took control of the franchise. The most infamous example here would most likely be Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, whose Quake 3 Arena engine allowed Kyle Katarn to go to town on Stormtroopers, leaving them clutching a cauterised stump on the end of their arms after he was done with them.

Still, the combat for Fallen Order looks satisfying and if you’re disturbed in the head you can probably spend far too much time modifying the game so that droids become Stormtroopers. Just…just don’t ask me to give you a hand with that task. I don’t know if you’re being serious or murderous.

Last Updated: June 14, 2019

27 Comments

  1. So while you won’t make the galaxy look like the aftermath of the Bride’s fight against the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill

    Can we maybe get it as DLC? I see a white stormtrooper and I want to paint it red…

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  2. G8crasha

    June 14, 2019 at 13:07

    Well gosh dang it! Now I really don’t want to play the game. I mean, all I care about is watching how far a limb flies when I remove it from its owner! Man, now the game is going to fail miserably, the franchise will collapse, and everybody will look upon everything Star Wars with great disdain, all because I couldn’t dismember that damn stormtrooper!

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    • Dutch Matrix

      June 14, 2019 at 15:39

      Thought for a minute you would dredge up Jar-Jar again…

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      • Pariah

        June 14, 2019 at 15:39

        If he’s in the game, that’d be reason enough to not buy it.

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        • Dutch Matrix

          June 14, 2019 at 15:39

          I dunno. Perhaps if I could take a lightsaber to his ears…

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          • Pariah

            June 14, 2019 at 15:43

            “10/10 would dismember Jar-Jar again.” ~Highest rated Steam review

          • Dutch Matrix

            June 14, 2019 at 15:43

            Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – or how to turn a Gungan into a Vulcan.

          • Pariah

            June 14, 2019 at 15:43

            I don’t see it. There’s no logic in Jar-Jar’s existence.

          • Dutch Matrix

            June 14, 2019 at 15:43

            and yet he is there! Jar-Jar: The Logical Paradox.

        • G8crasha

          June 14, 2019 at 15:43

          How could you dis such a great character. I mean how many characters can boast about going from, “A clumsy, well-meaning Gungan outcast on Naboo” to “a representative for his people in the galactic capital”. He deserves much praise, and honor!!!!

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          • Pariah

            June 14, 2019 at 15:43

            It’s the equivalent of hiring a special needs person and putting them on trolley collection. Sure, they’re now employed. That’s great and it puts on a good show. But… They’re not going to become a manager.

          • Mark Treloar

            June 14, 2019 at 15:59

            Hmmm, but didn’t we do that with our SARS IT Head?

          • Mark Treloar

            June 14, 2019 at 15:59

            Hmmm, but didn’t we do that with our SARS IT Head?

          • Guz

            June 14, 2019 at 16:26

            Protect me from yourself!

          • R1ker

            June 14, 2019 at 16:26

            xD Damn this must be comment of the week

          • Pariah

            June 14, 2019 at 19:24

            LOL!!

          • G8crasha

            June 14, 2019 at 19:24

            Technically, the same comparison can be made for practically every person in South Africa’s cabinet.

          • Mark Treloar

            June 14, 2019 at 20:10

            Sure, but she is a very special case

  3. Pariah

    June 14, 2019 at 13:07

    I bet developing that feature would cost an arm and a leg.

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    • Dutch Matrix

      June 14, 2019 at 15:39

      Heads would roll if they added it so you can dismember people.

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