There was a time when I wanted to make a blog about video games, and this is that blog. I’m not really posting anymore, so there’s no point in this, but I can’t quite bring myself to closing this blog.
I thought it was a joke until I read the details: this is the most clever iteration ever of the good old cliché where you give the player full-on powers for the first level, only to strip them and give them back one by one over the course of the game — you’ll be playing as Hayden Christensen only so long as to pick up your new apprentice.
Prospective sales figures must have gained 25% the instant they made that decision; you can easily imagine the TV commercials that will play over and over when the game is released. And the disappointment of die-hard Star Wars fan who’ll find out too late that they’re not keeping the black costume for long.