Following the reveal of the release date and new trailer for “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” at the Game Awards, the game’s star Cameron Monaghan has done some interviews to tease what’s coming with this “Fallen Order” follow-up.
Monaghan reprises his role of Cal Kestis from the first game in the new title which takes place five years later – in “Star Wars” terms it unfolds around the year 9 BBY, which is exactly when the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” mini-series is set.
Speaking to Digital Trends, Monaghan says Fallen Order’s Game Director Stig Asmussen approached him at that game’s after party and asked what he wanted to see in the sequel.
Monaghan said he wanted to see an older Cal with a “more complex, darker, more challenged” outlook:
“I think that, situationally, if you’re in such a desperate place for so many years and fighting and being a soldier and a tool for resistance, at some point, it’s going to start to change the way you see the world around you. I wanted to explore what that looked like for Cal.
He also spoke with IGN and says the imminent threat from the Empire is seeing Cal and his crew grow more desperate:
“Cal’s worldview is starting to shift, as well. Desperate times are calling for desperate measures and it becomes very difficult for him to even understand what it is that he is fighting to protect, or where he should go.
You have the Empire rapidly expanding, and very aggressively doing so, and expanding to even the smallest and furthest reaches of this galaxy. And I think that, from his perspective, going from planet to planet and seeing just an increasingly desperate situation must be very, very lonely. I can imagine that that would definitely weigh on someone.”
He says both he and the writing team also wanted to really explore the binary “Star Wars” morality and true meaning to be on the light side of the force – “especially what happens when you have situations that you can’t necessarily win and you’re faced with a challenge where there’s not necessarily a right answer.”
Monaghan has previously promised the game will be an “emotional rollercoaster” and be complicated as they’re exploring some challenging questions with his character “making decisions that I can’t wait for people to talk about.”
“Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” is set to be released in stores March 17th.
