Don't let Jen and Demian's Jedi mind tricks fool you. This game has its share of shortcomings, with the most glaring one being its pitiful story. While the creme de la creme of RPGs (like KOTOR1) deliver a gripping tale that sucks you in to its world even further, this narrative is a horribly slow burn, and worse, predictable. Nothing really happens or is explained during the first 20 hours of play, and just when the developers finally decide to turn it up a notch, here comes a ho-hum finale (even more so if you're playing as a light-sider). Not good. The characters are also surprisingly shallow; you'll run out of questions to ask some of your party members fairly early (which seemed impossible to do in the first game of the series), thus severely limiting your knowledge of their backstories, and one villain gives Episode I: The Phantom Menace's Darth Maul a run for his money as the most intriguing yet underutilized bad boy in Star Wars lore. Oh yeah, and the visuals—the single biggest complaint I have about KOTOR1—have seen only minimal improvements.
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