STAR WARS™: Knights of the Old Republic

That was money I'll never get back. This kind of game is nothing for me. Just boring.

The thing that really drags this game down the most is the politics. I quite often see people claim that Bioware wasn’t always woke and used to make God-tier games like this one. Well after playing through the older games I found that it's not that Bioware wasn’t woke it’s just that the politics went over the heads of many young gamers. One of the first instances of cringey leftwing politics is on the first planet Taris. You run into a protester who doesn’t want alien refugees in the city. When you talk to him you can say “You’re ignorant”, “Get out of here before I kill you”, or “I agree let’s kill all the aliens right now!” I don’t think I really need to tell you how this is underhanded leftwing propaganda. Unfortunately, KOTOR is riddled with instances like this. Another example is Bastila who is essentially a mouthpiece for feminist ideas. A character who despite supposedly being a jedi (a force of good) comments that you should kill a husband because he wronged his wife in some way. The slight that the husband theatrically did is never explained so we’re supposed to just believe the wife at face value because #believeallwomen. You ever get tired of the constant misandry in the gaming industry? I know I do. It should also be mentioned that every female character that is morally grey or a sith is treated sympathetically while their male counterparts are outright evil with no depth. As you've probably guessed by now the overwhelming number of evil characters in the game are white men. Shocking I know. Because of the blatant agenda pushing of the devs the karma system in the game is basically pointless. All the “good” actions are actions that the writers believe are morally superior and ideologically agree with. All of the “evil” ones are actions that they feel their political enemies believe in. All in all it's quite hard to recommend this game unless you want to analyze the subversive politics it contains. Barring that it really isn't worth your time.