'we Have Spooked Disney Legal': Court Filings Reveal A Kotor 2...

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is an unfinished game. Impressively unfinished, really. So unfinished that it doesn't so much have a final level as it does an idea for one that you just kind of percolate through until you hit credits. I can't blame Obsidian; the studio had an incredibly short time with which to actually, you know, make the game.

It's a game that would be well-served by a remake, in other words—something that had the time necessary to give the original's vision the attention it deserved. Turns out, just such a remake was—perhaps is—notionally in the making. That's according to Game File's recent scoop on Aspyr's ill-fated attempt to get The Sith Lords Restored Content Modification (the popular mod that restores a lot of cut-but-still-on-disc content to the game) onto the Nintendo Switch. More on those efforts later.

Court filings from the now-settled gamer's lawsuit against Aspyr—initiated by a fan upset at the studio's "false advertising" of TSLRCM on Switch—have revealed the existence of project Juliet. That's the name Aspyr and Lucasfilm used for a full-on KOTOR 2 remake.

"We were going to do a full remake of KOTOR 2," Lucasfilm Games VP Douglas Reilly told the courtroom in March, "with modern art, modern gameplay, you know, keep the story and the characters and the general—the general content of KOTOR 2, but remake it for modern hardware and modern machines with updated graphics and all those kind of things."

Around 2020, at least, Lucasfilm was actively discussing Juliet with Aspyr at the same time as it was discussing the challenges of bringing TSLRCM to console. A full remake—where in-house developers would recreate original KOTOR 2's lost and cut content themselves—would at least not have those challenges. "The plan was we would remake the content that was in the RCM as it relates to Star Wars in that Juliet project," said Reilly.

And before you assume—with some justification—that Juliet must have died long ago, Reilly told the court that a KOTOR 2 remake was "still technically on the road map." But, of course, "we’re starting with the remake of KOTOR 1."

You probably know how that's going. Since it was revealed at a Sony showcase all the way back in 2021, the KOTOR 1 remake's had a rocky road. Originally in development at Aspyr, a reportedly rocky early demo saw the whole thing yanked out of that studio's hands and put in another's.

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Source: PC Gamer