knights of the old republic floor puzzle

In the original Infinity Engine games, the top-down perspective gives you an overview which makes it easy to think, well, tactically. Life always looks better behind a giant glow-stick. I was prepared for KoTOR to be an RPG, but I suppose I was expecting more changes and refinements to the D&D formula, because KoTOR looks much more like an action-RPG: the camera is locked to a 3rd-person perspective, with direct mouse and keyboard control for movement and interaction outside combat. Everything is based on the roll of a 20-sided die plus some bonuses, and it doesn’t take five minutes of playing to spot that it uses a version of the engine that powered Neverwinter Nights.

On reading the manual while it installed, it quickly became clear that KoTOR uses D&D 3rd edition rules with a few minor modifications and, of course, a Star Wars paint job. An evolutionary step I’d never seen before, but which fits the fossil record perfectly. After all, I love Star Wars (before Disney got their claws into it, at least), and if you mention Star Wars and videogames in the same sentence then KoTOR inevitably comes up (probably just after I’ve thrown Jedi Knight II into the ring myself).Ĭoming so late to KoTOR, my overwhelming impression has been somewhat of a… missing link. On the Late to the Party scale, I have to concede that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has been a major blind spot for me.

Knights of the old republic floor puzzle