Survivor’s Side Content is Best Treated Like an Epilogue

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Survivor’s Side Content is Best Treated Like an Epilogue



The Star Wars Jedi games have always been either purposefully or inadvertently tight-knit in how their stories are told and how much their events would actually impact the larger IP umbrella. Cere Junda was never going to kill Darth Vader during their encounter on Jedha in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor because Darth Vader lives until the end of Return of the Jedi, for example, and Cal Kestis still hasn’t been mentioned in the mythology beyond the Star Wars Jedi games. No matter how upsetting it may be with him being a phenomenal character, finishing Cal’s story with a third and final Star Wars Jedi game now seems appropriate if he’s never heard from thereafter, and Respawn has kept neat and tidy regarding its character arcs so that hopefully nothing will be left as a loose thread that it failed to knot.




If Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s sequel follows Cal’s goal of harboring the Hidden Path on Tanalorr, it’ll be interesting to see what becomes of Kata Akuna, Bode’s daughter. Surely Respawn wouldn’t have dropped a child in Cal and Merrin’s laps if there wasn’t some significance to her and that relationship, perhaps with Cal and Merrin behaving like parental guardian figures. Thankfully, Star Wars Jedi doesn’t make players guess how that dynamic may look as it unfolds quite naturally and extensively in Survivor’s post-credits endgame exploration—a bit of narrative elaboration that players might completely overlook.

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Anyone who’s had their fill of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor by the time they roll credits will have probably missed out on a lot of satisfying and rewarding content, assuming they didn’t elect to do most of it before reaching a point of no return. Players are acquiring new abilities and equipment they need to fully accomplish everything in the game right up until the end of the story, though, and while exploration on massive planets like Koboh and Jedha is enticing as soon as it becomes available it is arguably more worthwhile to wait until players have everything they need and won’t be locked behind inaccessible passages any longer.

Because Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s planets and maps are more openly expansive and also accommodate for fast travel at meditation points, backtracking isn’t nearly as tedious as it can be in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which also has much fewer substantial side content. Regardless, if players still have side quests or exploration to pursue after they’ve beaten the story they will have a much different experience than players who don’t because they’ll get to talk to Kata and hear her interact with Cal, Greez Dritus, and Merrin aboard the Stinger Mantis and at some docking bays.


Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s Post-Credits Exploration Teases Kata Akuna’s Future Significance

Kata is an endgame Stinger Mantis recruit who actually joins the crew for whatever adventures they go on in-game after they’ve defeated Bode and secured Tanalorr. Therefore, Kata will accompany players as they travel around the galaxy and have dialogue to share when they’re departing or landing.

This is paramount and lovely, even if all of Kata’s exchanges are optional interactions players may miss out on entirely, as it gives the player much-needed time to develop a bond with Kata. It’s likely that Survivor’s upcoming sequel could have a time jump similar to the five-year leap between Fallen Order and Survivor, and Kata would realistically be quite different if so. Survivor is probably the only time players will see her at such a young age, and as such it is great that Cal, Merrin, and Greez get to spend as much time as the player allots to endgame, post-story content with her.


It’ll be interesting to see if Kata decides she has newfound, conflicting feelings about Cal cutting down her father, but she seems to have a decent head on her shoulders and may have already come to terms with how far gone and dangerous her father was. This could be a convenient way for the story to press onward and have her immediately accept Cal, Greez, and Merrin as her family; either way, it would be more awkward if she joined them for however long players explore the galaxy in Survivor and was harboring unbridled resentment toward them.

Her conversations with the Mantis crew demonstrate that she’s happy to be with them, and Cal and Merrin’s private conversations about Kata make it clear that they have suddenly assigned themselves guardian roles—a fitting page to turn as they had recently become explicitly romantic. Merrin lets them both off the hook, though, in saying that “she will determine who she becomes, not [them].”


This partly suggests that they might not have as much sway in raising Kata, but it also suggests that they will take on the responsibility of raising her regardless. It’s tough to see how Cal and Merrin might not feel even a little bit accountable if Kata potentially turns to the dark side of the Force, assuming she’s inherited Force-sensitivity from her father, and what Kata’s role will be in the last chapter of the Star Wars Jedi series is made intriguing based on these optional endgame conversations.

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