I set Revan to light male in all my K2 games, as it was canon (although I tried both male and female Revans when I played the first game) - Bastila's talk with Carth was equally depressing, I imagine. I couldn't do it to them, just as I could never bring myself to kill Jolee Bindo in KotOR 1). I started feeling guilty when my companions started to show their dark side ravages - Atton looks particularly terrible. When I played a male exile my intention was to be dark, and I got as far as taking a Sith Marauder prestige class, but I just couldn't go the whole way. (Incidentally I never played 100% dark side. The only thing left to do is put it out of its misery, which you do, if you go for the light ending. I guess Malachor was too irradiated and broken. Well, if by nature you mean storm beasts, or whatever they were. Not so in KotOR 2: the whole ending is so anticlimatic. There's an ending, a true finale in Ps:T. Nameless dies, and goes on to try to find redemption by fighting in the Blood Wars. KOTORII is a romantic comedy compared I disagree. You'd think after all that time that at least *Nature* would have reclaimed the land. And did I mention Malachor wasn't very cheery either.

Revan and the Exile leave known space and are never heard from again, their love interests are left to fend for themselves (that Carth talk at the end of KotOR 2 was the most depressing *ever*, broke my heart, silly, I know), the Republic is still limping, trying to survive the last couple of wars (and doesn't look good, if you ask me). Whatever your choices, whatever you do, the outcome is the same. I completely agree with your view on KotOR 2. Pass the Prozac.I'll have some of that too, please!! And on that note, I think I'd better go and play something different to cheer myself up!

But it doesn't seem as this is going to happen any time soon, so we're stuck with a rather grim ending and many unanswered questions. If a third installment was coming, I guess we could look at Sith Lords as we do Empire Strikes Back - a darker middle section to a trilogy that ends on a happier note. Since he ended up being my favourite NPC I'm rather happy that didn't happen, though his fate is not resolved in any way. And after reading up on what was cut, it seems highly likely Bao-Dur was intended to die. Tragic-romantic, but gah, talk about compounding the Exile's miseries. I know Atton was supposed to have a fight with Darth Sion, and if he lost, would have ended up dying in the Exile's arms after confessing his love for her. The only happy thing about the cut content is that a couple of characters who could have snuffed it, didn't.

And you never find out what became of him, either, though the blurb for the new MMO seems to indicate neither he nor the Exile returned. Ultimately, the Exile is condemned to travel the hidden reaches of space, much like Revan was. If you are playing lightside, then you discover the horrible nature of your character the Jedi masters all die miserably, and then you have to say goodbye to the NPCs you have worked so hard to develop whilst your crawl the miserable surface of Malachor alone.

After the excitement of the civil war on Onderon (I guess most people do this bit last - it seems to work better that way) the game degenerates into doom and gloom. (Likewise if you played Revan as darkside, he disappeared anyway, instead of ruling the galaxy with Bastila as his lover and apprentice). Firstly, you find that all you did in KotOR was for nought: Malak may have been defeated, but the Republic is now on its last legs and the Jedis have been all but exterminated. The ending sequence in particular has had a lot of stick, though at least you get Kreia's 'epilogues' for the various characters (except Bao-Dur and the droids), so at least you can assume they didn't all die in the crash, which you might well do if you missed that part of the conversation with her. Now, I know the main complaints against it are due to the cut content, and the final stage of the game is rather poor in that regard, but it still hangs together OK, if you disregard a couple of loose ends. My initial impressions of K2, after finishing K1, was that it wasn't as good, but it really did grow on me once I'd got past the rather dull opening stages.

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