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You Were Afraid (Remake)

Papito Qinn

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I've been waiting months to try my hand at this and here it is. The remake of Knights&Darths' video "You were afraid". The video that inspired me to try making more videos like it of other KOTOR 2 scenes and eventually other games as well.

This is a remake, not a remaster, so it's not a 1:1 translation, despite my most sincerest efforts. Things have changed in the game and the restored content mod that used compared to the one Knights&Darths used. For example: Character movements, background noise, dialogue. Zez Kai Ell says: "and that is why Malachor echoes within you still." in the original video, while in my game "Malachor" was replaced with "The mandalorian wars".

Regardless, I think it turned out pretty decent, not perfect. Stay tuned, I'll be working on my own version of this as well.

Special Thanks: Knights&Darths - inneedofakiss
Original Video - You were afraid

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20 Comments

@Kagome4067 6 years ago (edited)

- You were deafened
- At last, you could hear

- You were broken
- You were whole

- You were blinded
- And, at last, you saw

@Turtlemaroon 6 years ago

Anyone who ever hit some serious traumatic low point in their lives can relate to this game. This game is very much about trauma and being broken and how you can go on from there and make it source of strength.

When I hit that point in my life the worst depression came over me for years, feeling like there is nothing left to do but wait to die. What happens is you wait to somehow snap out of it, to be the old you again. To be the same person you are used to being.

Process of growth and healing starts with acceptance. This is what this game helped me to learn. At one point it hit me that I will never be the old me again. That whatever the trauma did to me is not temporary change but that THIS IS ME NOW for better or worse. And how embracing that can lead you to new strengths.

KOTOR 2 is about that. While Jedi Masters here look at exile and they see nothing but broken diminished person, Kreia saw someone who's lack of connection to force can be source of new strength by itself.

@darkanguiel 8 years ago

I dream about, some day, writing something as good as this.

@sirpepeofhousekek6741 7 years ago

3:06 I love how they explain the leveling system in the game as part of the story.

@Blake-t6p 6 years ago

Kreia and the Exile's character taught me to count my blessings, and cut my losses. When I find myself at the bottom of the pit of my depression, there is no shame in being afraid, I need only remember to breathe, and get back up and start over. What KOTOR 2, and this scene especially, is to me is all about triumph and rebirth.

@Loadsamoney999 4 years ago (edited)

"You were - You were deafened
- At last, you could hear

- You were broken
- You were whole

- You were blinded
- And, at last, you saw

I finally understand what this means. It's because, by cutting herself off from the Force, the Exile finally heard and saw the universe for what it truly was, not how it looks through the lenses of the Force. It was like being pulled from the Matrix, being awakened from the dream and brought back to reality.

@Barrobroadcastmaster 7 years ago

"You must've noticed as you fought across all these planets, killing hundreds, only to become more and more powerful. Why do you think that was?"
That's not my fault! I thought I was just leveling up! For Force's sake, do you even know how many bounty hunters tried to kill me because they thought I was the last of the Jedi? All those Gand... and the Zhugs.

@Gusanoman 7 years ago

I usually don't use rude language but, in this scene, Chris Avellone made videogame's storytelling his bitch. He has some of the best scripts in the industry and has proven again and again that he has great talent. But this scene... Jesus Christ on a monocycle, this may be the best written scene in game history.

@MrFilbert28 5 years ago

The writing in these two games was better than 9 movies combined

@coolguyjki 2 years ago

One thing I think almost no one talks about in this scene is how it's probably the one, single time except for the very end that we get a totally unfiltered view of Kreia's feelings towards The Exile.

The way she tells the Masters, "You will not harm her, you will not harm her ever again " feels like a mother protecting her child from an abuser. It's something I wish I could have had in my dark moments.

@TheNorthie 5 years ago

My favorite moment of this is when the Jedi Masters are cut off from the Force. They do not die from a lightsaber blow, Force lighting or choke, but just from an absence of the Force. They relied on it for too long and when they lose it they go into shock. Their greatest strength was turned into their greatest weakness

@mr.popper9759 7 years ago (edited)

"In you, we saw a wound in the Force."
"In you, we saw the end of the Force."
"You are a cipher, forming bonds. Leaching off of the life of others. Siphoning their will and dominating them."

@Maverick180c 9 years ago

the enclave music is one of my favorite pieces

@lordsatyros666 6 years ago

The old jedi order was soooo zealous and dealt in absolutes. Very sith like.

@ethanknifsend9775 4 years ago

I get chills every time Kreia says, “It is because you were… afraid”

@The15231 6 years ago

The theme of pain opening your eyes to reality of things is something I've rarely seen in media in general. Truly a Star Wars milk bucket worth praising.

@Colyo62 9 years ago

still the best scene in fiction

@thedude3065 5 years ago

RIP Ed Asner, the voice behind Vrook Lamar
Lamar was a dogmatic Jedi played to perfection and easily definable by BioWare and Asner himself
farewell, and be sure to send us a postcard from Paradise Falls

@oweeenie1754 5 years ago

dude people don’t realize how on point the writing in this scene is. vrook says “what you carry could mean the death of the force, and the death of the jedi!” notice how his most important point in that statement is the end of the jedi, in front of the force. he is blinded by dogma, he would sooner protect the jedi, over the force itself.