BioWare had a really cool idea for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2

With the recent news of a Knights of the Old Republic remake, we thought it’d be fun to return to this look behind the curtains of BioWare’s groundbreaking original. This piece was originally published in December 2017.

There are spoilers ahead for Knights of the Old Republic.

How do you follow a game like Knights of the Old Republic, the most famous original Star Wars tale a video game has ever told? Forget about Obsidian’s sequel for a moment and imagine it was BioWare staring at a piece of paper wondering how to follow a twist like Revan’s. Because once upon a time BioWare was – and it came up with an idea.

Yoda. Not the actual Yoda, because canonically he’s untouchable, but someone a bit like him; we know so little about Yoda’s almost nonexistent species even someone in his likeness would have the same effect: trust. “We felt like Yoda was the ultimate – everyone trusts Yoda,” James Ohlen tells me, lead designer of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.