There's more to the Star Wars galaxy than Jedi and stormtroopers.
After the completely unnecessary Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi, I was ready to call it quits on the live action Star Wars TV offerings, and I couldn't have predicted that a character who I'd completely forgotten about could bring me back into the fold. But here we are. Andor is the best thing to happen to Star Wars in ages, and I wish what made it special could be applied to more Star Wars games.
This means that when you do see something familiar, it packs more of a punch. The few times Cassian Andor spots a TIE, they're special moments. I've seen a million of them blow up, and contributed to that number myself, but watching a single unaccompanied fighter flying over some hiding rebels filled me with dread and gave me a much deeper appreciation of how menacing they look and sound.
It's a side of Star Wars we rarely get to see, especially in this detail, and games feel like an even better space to explore this. I understand the desire to use the familiar as a hook for a game, but Andor shows us how that can be done while still offering something new. And games, with their more flexible scope and run-time, have even more room to play around with this. But they so rarely bother. We just get cardboard cutouts. Who is Fallen Order's Cal, aside from a ginger Luke? He's just a nice boy who's a bit sad about all the bad stuff going on and is adept in the Force.
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