History VideoGame / KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords

An updated version was released on Steam on July 21st 2015, adding support for widescreen, achievements, and mods through the Steam Workshop, including the aforementioned TSLRCM. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port was announced in May 2022 for a June 8, 2022 release, with the TSLRCM announced as free DLC.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: HK-50 dishes a kick out to Coorta once it concludes that Coorta's impulsivity is threatening its plans.

'''Atton Rand''': [[PsychicStatic Switch the face of the +1/-1 card, the totals are nine-ten. Switch the face of the +2/-2 card, the totals are eight-eleven...]]\\

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Light side ending: The Mass Shadow Generator is reactivated, causing Malachor's gravity well to fade and the "planet" (which is really just a mass of asteroids and ship hulls held together by the Generator) to collapse. However, the Exile is saved in the nick of time by the Ebon Hawk, which rises up from below the platform they're on and whisks them away to safety. The last we saw or heard of the ship before this was it crashing into a cliff, then falling down a chasm. The entire rest of the party save for Mira, G0-T0, and Bao-Dur's remote are unaccounted for.]] However, the various cut content {{Game Mod}}s tone it down; [[spoiler: The Ebon Hawk still makes an inexplicable recovery, but all of the party is accounted for save Bao-Dur (who has been explained to have died helping HK-47 reach the HK-50 production factory) and T3-M4 (who is just gone without explanation).]] Ironically, as cut content restored via modding isn’t generally taken as canon, the ''Literature/Revan'' novel establishes what happened to T3 after the game with next to no mention of any of the other party members.

* AfterCombatRecovery: As in the first game, characters revive with minimal HP once the battle is done. Atton has a chance to do this ''during'' battle.
* TheAlibi: Dhagon Ghent has an alibi for Captain Sullio's murder, since he was with an acquaintance at the time. Unfortunately, the person in question is a Republic spy, so they can't use that as evidence, lest they blow the spy's cover and [[AllForNothing get Ghent arrested for collaborating with a foreign spy instead]].
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:After gathering the Jedi Council together on the light side path, they not only turn on the Exile, still believing everything is their fault, but decide to cut them off from the Force, only to be killed by Kreia. Thus, the long journey to gain their aid turns out to be a failure.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: While it's possible to make certain party members fall for the Exile, the game never really gives you the option to return their feelings. At best, all the Exile can do is dance around the issue. A male Exile can openly hit on Mira, but she turns you down cold.
* AllThereInTheManual: The Sith Triumvirate, the name of the Sith faction that is hunting down The Exile, is never mentioned in the game, but it is revealed supplementary materials.
* AllThereInTheScript: [[http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=25061&st=0&p=184142&#entry184142 Character age]] is known from casting documents.
* AltItis: With many possible combinations of resolutions across the planets and numerous ways you can build your character and customize your party, this game encourages multiple playthroughs. Each playthrough even has its own page of save slots.
* AmazonBrigade: The Echani Handmaidens.

** The Force Speed ability normally only benefits the individual, but when using it outside of combat to get around more quickly, your companions [[RubberBanding will also run faster]] so they won't get left behind.

** MrExposition: Much of the backstory is revealed through plenty of one on one conversations with {{Non Player Character}}s, party members and the like, but it becomes increasingly clear that many of these characters aren't willing or able to give the whole picture to the Exile due to biases or just lack of knowledge on their part. And that's for people who legitimately want to help the Exile, as many more are willing to misinform and outright lie to push them into fulfilling their own agenda, [[spoiler: [[ConsummateLiar Kreia herself]] [[BigBad being the prime example.]]]]

** ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kreia questions whether helping every single person you come across is necessarily good in the long run, pointing out how solving their problems for them can not only interfere with the Exile's objectives but may even deprive them of the challenges they need to learn and improve themselves. Worse, giving unsolicited and unearned aid can make the recipients a target in the eyes of the less fortunate, suggesting that StupidGood behaviour can be just as bad, and sometimes worse, in the long run than StupidEvil actions. That said, she does rail against petty and vicious actions, too, because they're pointlessly cruel -- emphasis on ''pointlessly''.

* GhostPlanet: Korriban was abandoned after the Sith turned on each other in the wake of Malak's defeat and Revan's disappearance. When the Exile visits the planet, all that's left were the scattered corpses of the dead acolytes.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** The Force Speed ability normally only benefits the individual, but when using it outside of combat just to get around more quickly, your companions will also run faster so they won't get left behind.
** Compared to the first game, you can apply medpacks on your party members.

** RegeneratingHealth kicks-in outside of combat, although at a very slow rate. It's very helpful early on, when you're without proper equipment and healing Force powers. It becomes obsolete later in the game however.

* TheAlibi: Dhagon Ghent has an alibi for Captain Sullio's murder, since he was with an acquaintance at the time. Unfortunately, the person in question is a Republic spy, so they can't use that as evidence, lest they blow the spy's cover.

->' '"Take the greatest Jedi Knight, strip away the Force, and what remains? They rely on it - depend on it, more than they know. Watch as one tries to hold a blaster, as they try to hold a lightsaber, and you will see nothing more than a woman – or a man. A child."''

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Light side ending: The Mass Shadow Generator is reactivated, causing Malachor's gravity well to fade and the "planet" (which is really just a mass of asteroids and ship hulls held together by the Generator) to collapse. However, the Exile is saved in the nick of time by the Ebon Hawk, which rises up from below the platform they're on and whisks them away to safety. The last we saw or heard of the ship before this was it crashing into a cliff, then falling down a chasm. The entire rest of the party save for Mira, G0-T0, and Bao-Dur's remote are unaccounted for.]] However, the various cut content {{Game Mod}}s tone it down; [[spoiler: The Ebon Hawk still makes an inexplicable recovery, but all of the party is accounted for save Bao-Dur (who has been explained to have died helping HK-47 reach the HK-50 production factory) and T3-M4 (who is just gone without explanation).]] Ironically, as cut content restored via modding isn’t generally taken as canon, the ''Literature/Revan'' establishes what happened to T3 after the game with next to no mention of any of the other party members.

->''"Take the greatest Jedi Knight, strip away the Force, and what remains? They rely on it - depend on it, more than they know. Watch as one tries to hold a blaster, as they try to hold a lightsaber, and you will see nothing more than a woman – or a man. A child."''

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Light side ending: The Mass Shadow Generator is reactivated, causing Malachor's gravity well to fade and the "planet" (which is really just a mass of asteroids and ship hulls held together by the Generator) to collapse. However, the Exile is saved in the nick of time by the Ebon Hawk, which rises up from below the platform they're on and whisks them away to safety. The last we saw or heard of the ship before this was it crashing into a cliff, then falling down a chasm. The entire rest of the party save for Mira, G0-T0, and Bao-Dur's remote are unaccounted for.]] However, the various cut content {{Game Mod}}s tone it down; [[spoiler: The Ebon Hawk still makes an inexplicable recovery, but all of the party is accounted for save Bao-Dur (who has been explained to have died helping HK-47 reach the HK-50 production factory) and T3-M4 (who is just gone without explanation).]] Ironically, as cut content restored via modding isn’t generally taken as canon, the [[Literature/Revan Revan novel]] establishes what happened to T3 after the game with next to no mention of any of the other party members.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Light side ending: The Mass Shadow Generator is reactivated, causing Malachor's gravity well to fade and the "planet" (which is really just a mass of asteroids and ship hulls held together by the Generator) to collapse. However, the Exile is saved in the nick of time by the Ebon Hawk, which rises up from below the platform they're on and whisks them away to safety. The last we saw or heard of the ship before this was it crashing into a cliff, then falling down a chasm. The entire rest of the party save for Mira, G0-T0, and Bao-Dur's remote are unaccounted for.]] However, the various cut content {{Game Mod}}s tone it down; [[spoiler: The Ebon Hawk still makes an inexplicable recovery, but all of the party is accounted for save Bao-Dur (who has been explained to have died helping HK-47 reach the HK-50 production factory) and T3-M4 (who is just gone without explanation).]]

* RecordedSplicedConversation: You need to get through a door which requires the code to be spoken by a particular (now dead) person. You can either break the controls to force it open, trick a droid into speaking the phrase for you to record, or hunt for recordings of the late guy's voice and splice them.

* ScareChord: It’s used every time you commit a dark-side action. It’s also used in the cut scene where Sion beats up Kreia with [[NightmareFuel terrifying effect]].
* SchmuckBait: When you arrive on Korriban you find several long dead corpses of Sith acolytes scattered throughout the Valley of the Sith Lords. Kreia will advise you not to loot them. If you decide to loot them anyway, a giant creature will appear and attack you, and the game leaves you a reminder with a Steam achievement.

An updated version was released on Steam on July 21st 2015, adding support for widescreen, achievements, and mods through the Steam Workshop, including the aforementioned TSLRCM. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port was announced in May 2022 for a June 8, 2022 release, with the TSLRCM incorporated as free DLC.

--->'''Vision!Kreia:''' Your "friends" are all arrayed against me. Will you stand for this?\\

The Exile is canonically female, and her CanonName in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' and ''Literature/{{Revan}}'' is Meetra Surik.

*** FaceHeelTurn: Because Revan and Malak were Jedi who turned to the Dark Side, and built their Sith off like-minded Jedi and Republic troops who followed Revan in the Mandalorian Wars, the average citizen of the galaxy doesn't see type events surrounding the first game as a glorious battle of the Jedi and an "army of light" against implacable evil made manifest. Instead, they see a horrifyingly destructive conflict between two sects of Jedi with slightly different ideals. After all, even if you see Jedi and Sith fight each other, the only difference to most observers would be their [[DarkIsEvil fashion sense]] and [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience lightsaber colors]].

* DealWithTheDevil: Darths Sion and Nihilus learn from the Third Sith's teachings about Force wounds and become stronger for it, [[FaustianRebellion eventually overthrowing her]]. Nihilus became an [[PhysicalGod unstoppable force of destruction]] while Sion became [[TechnicallyLivingZombie immortal and invincible]], but the prices were very high. Nihilus is no longer a living being, but a walking embodiment of emptiness, eternally hungering through the Force. Sion lives in constant agony and only continues to breathe because of the PowerOfHate, and looks like a walking corpse.

** [=HK-47=] and [=T3-M4=] have a much clearer ThoseTwoGuys dynamic than in the original game, akin to that of [=C-3PO=] and [=R2-D2=] - but with the vitriol cranked UpToEleven, with the two outright threatening violence on one another with startling frequency.

* GameplayAllyImmortality: No matter how many lightsaber stabbings, blaster shots, or Force-chokings your allies receive, they will always limp back to you after the fight is over. [[{{Determinator}} Atton]] takes it UpToEleven, being able to wake up in the middle of combat if there's someone else standing.

** This is one of Atris's defining tropes. She acts in an extremely HolierThanThou manner and insists she is the last true Jedi when you meet her again, despite having a very black and white view on the force, [[UpToEleven even by their standards]]. She advocates the Exile's execution, and blames the Exile for following Revan, and yet she is guilty of [[spoiler: ''sacrificing countless people, even Jedi, in hopes to catch the Sith!'']]

** The "Regenerate Vitality Points" feat allows the player or their companions to regenerate health faster. It sounds very useful... except that all characters ''already'' regenerate health after battle, making the feat nigh-useless because it has miniscule effects in battle situations. Its effect is laughably low (one hit point recovered per turn), while you can get [[UpToEleven up to three]] with armor upgrades, which [[DiscOneNuke can be pretty powerful early on.]]

** [[OldMaster Kreia]] provides several throughout the game that serve to deconstruct the typical morality system of RPG's and the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise in general. It should be noted that she is a ConsummateLiar, ManipulativeBastard and [[spoiler:the true BigBad]], so it would be wise not to take everything she says completely at face value.
*** She mentions that solving someone else's problems for them will strengthen you, but weaken them. If you want someone to be the best person they can be, you should let them solve their problems on their own so that the experience from the victory will make them even stronger in the long run.

* AnAesop: [[OldMaster Kreia]] provides several throughout the game that serve to deconstruct the typical morality system of RPG's and the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise in general. It should be noted that she is a ConsummateLiar, ManipulativeBastard and [[spoiler:the true BigBad]], so it would be wise not to take everything she says completely at face value.
** She mentions that solving someone else's problems for them will strengthen you, but weaken them. If you want someone to be the best person they can be, you should let them solve their problems on their own so that the experience from the victory will make them even stronger in the long run.
** Regardless of your intentions, all actions have consequences. Analyze the entire situation, think things through, and make sure you have as much information as possible before you make a choice.
** Even {{Old Master}}s can be wrong and make dumb decisions. Zez-Kai-Ell admits that casting out The Exile instead of trying to understand their choice resulted in a missed opportunity to find flaws in the Jedi teachings. Atris made a reckless move that caused [[spoiler: the destruction of Katarr, which is the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero main reason that the Jedi are on the verge of extinction]]]].
** Apathy helps no one, especially when both sides in a war request your aid. The right thing to do in a conflict is to take a side so that the problem will end quicker. The Jedi Masters that went into hiding resulted in the galaxy undergoing no improvement at best, and at worst, their absence made things even worse. Doing nothing may even cause everyone to turn on ''[[NeutralityBacklash you]].'' This is best shown during the vision in the Sith tomb on Korriban.