Cal seems like a calm and reasonable person

“The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural” - evil raisin

this beard and haircut making Cal look like thor from god of war only without the beer belly

I love how he’s on the verge of going full Starkiller, but just enough to still be in control

Ya know its kinda poetic in a way Cal kills bode with the same blaster bode gave him as a gift

The double tap on Bode is so cold but I get it. He already got so many chances

Game got me so invested I could feel my blood pressure rising when Bode started choking merrin

Imagine being a Purge Trooper, training your entire adult life or sometimes even longer, to hunt and kill these people. You're the best the non-force users have against these kinds of people. Then he screams and he starts moving so fast you can't see him.

The dark side ability where cal freezes his enemies and cuts them down almost reminds me of the Ghost Stance from Ghost of Tsushima

Holy…fuck Nothing terrifies me more than a skilled and powerful individual, who has more than proven themselves, lose control of their emotions and show just how powerful they truly are It was poetic that Cal helped Merrin see the light, and thus Merrin, a Nightsister, a Dark Side Witch, was the one to bring Cal back to the light

"The dark side is a pathway to many abilities some might consider to be badass."

I was shocked how Cal had absolutely no hesitation when putting Bode down, I expected a few emotional last words but Cal said nope 😂

There was a lot of talk about “Why does Cal have Force Slow? That’s a dark side ability?” Glad we’re kinda acknowledging that now. Tho he prob just learned it as a practicality thing as a youngling and then didn’t have the Jedi instruction to tell him to not do that.

I love how Cal and Cere are some of the only Jedi to tap into the dark side consistently without becoming Sith

Cal: *goes apeshit against some stormtroopers* Meanwhile, in the Non-Canon Dimension: Starkiller: "That's my boy!"

“The dark side isn’t more powerful.” Ok yoda but have you seen an orange blurr down a room full of stormtroopers in the blink of an eye? Can the light side do that? No? You can…strain to move rocks? I guess that’s cool.

Fun fact: if you hold force pull on a security droid and light attack, you literally crush them

Cameron Monaghan and Nick Apostolides absolutely nailing their characters.

Cal gave Denvik a worse death. If you go back to his desk after beating the game you find out he did end up being killed by Vader. Tho being force choked might be slightly more humane than having your insides slowly crushed by the force

I like how the sound of his force powers and Saber change when he channels the dark side. Makes everything have more impact.

I love how the “Embrace the Darkness” prompt only shows up after Bode bitch slaps BD, as if that’s what finally drove Cal over the edge compared to everything else.

Something to notice is that when Cal embraced the darkness in his fight with Bode, he crushed both of his blasters, which is why they didn't work.

For me when I first saw the "give into the darkness" or whatever it was pop up I was like "are we serious. is there a choice" when I realised there wasn't I discovered a whole new depth to the story, which I loved.

"It is such a quiet thing, to fall, but far more terrible is to admit it" - Kreia

The final execution shot on Bode was cold as hell. He definitely deserved it because he was insane and couldn’t be reasoned with. He had what he wanted all he has to do was hand over the compass. But he had gone off the deep end

I like how it specifies embracing his dark side. He knows he has one, but chooses to do the right thing.

I’d like to see call walk a line of balance between dark and light. It’d be cool to see him combine the powers of Jedi and sith together

Cal with the long hair and beard makes it feel as though he has been hunting Bode nonstop and with no sleep at all.

I love how pragmatic and decisive Cal was at the end. He didnt hesitate to put that second bolt into Bode and make sure he could never hurt anyone ever agin.

Cameron Monaghan performance as Cal Kestis was insane :O

5:45 He... wasn't just gonna choke him, was he? I feel like if Merrin wasn't there he was about to use force-crush on his entire body.

i love how at 7:34 it mirrors Obi Wan and Anakin on Mustafar. One of my favourite parts of this game

Hope someone can mod Revan's outfit to the game, with his signature dual sabers. Seeing dark side gameplay is pretty great

Imagine a game like Jedi Survivor where you play as a Sith and it takes place in the time before the Sith thought to be extinct so you can battle multiple Jedi. Just imagine using force choke or force lightning in this gameplay style

That first cal look was badass the suit plus the beard was perfect

When I knew that Cal would embrace parts of the dark side I immediately went this way for my Cal: - Dark Jedi robes - Orange Saber - Black Blaster - Full Beard - Center Parted hair to give a shaggy, messy look

Him embracing the dark side made me like him even more,'. I cant possibly anyone losing so much and then not even tapping into the dark

I really hope that if they make a third game, they definitely will focus on Cals pull to the dark side as a major plot point in the story. Maybe we could even see him bleed his Crystal red.

1:53 - 4:52 It was Rumored that this was the same ability that was used by Palpatine in star wars episode 3 when he killed Mace windu's team easily when they tried to arrest palpatine since in the comics mace windu's jedi team was powerful but they were easily defeated by him because Palpatines Darkside ability was slowing down time to make it look like he was attacking his enemies fast. So by seeing this ability Cal is using to easily slay his enemies means that the rumors were true.

It would be amazing to see those Dark Side Time-Dilation scenes in a REAL-TIME playback after wiping out enemies to see how impressive this would look from the POV of non-Force Users.

I love this game for this reason it shows us cals battle with the dark side intensified since the last game and how he deals with it this game was too good

Even the best of the Order can fall to the dark when all hope seems lost.

5:49 Merrin did what Cal did for Cere in the first game. What a game. 7:35 Anakin and Obi Wan fight in Mustafar shot like in Episode 3

Everyone had a dark side, but that doesn’t mean they’re doomed to be consumed by it.

I love the fact that whenever you use the dark side you can hear a faint scream of rage and agony

I love how the skill tree slowly turns into red giving you the hint that it will happen

Cal with long hair makes him kind of resemble a hybrid between Obi Wan and Anakin.

when it comes to the sides of the force Cal really buried the light

“In order to defeat the enemy, you must become the enemy”

Really want another game like force unleashed where you’re on the dark side and don’t hold back at all

I like that they included actual hand to hand fighting instead of constant lightsaber and force use

If there's one thing I can't stand is traitors, let alone ones who pretend to be your friend only to betray you in an instant And at the cost of so much, Bode was an assist to genocide, most of that archive was all that was left of the old Order, burned away And even when he had what he wanted he still tried to kill them

0:25 The way bro just swiped away Denvik’s blaster and pulled out a Glock with that cold look on his face… 🥶

man, if I was a Jedi that survived the whole order 66 ordeal, I'd be so pissed I'd become the avatar of the Dark Side

I'm starting to feel like Cals story has been a path to rebooting the Jedi Academy game. It really seems like Cal Kestis is set up to be a canon replacement of Kyle Katarn. They both have dabbled in the dark side, and they both survived the dark times between Order 66 and the Battle of Endor, I could easily see Cal taking Kyle's place in a Jedi Academy remake where we make our own Jedi in Luke's academy. This game already has the Jedi title, and I can't be the only one to notice how there are several cosmetic options right from Jedi Academy that Cal can find and use. I know they said Cal's story would be a trilogy, and I'm hoping that it dovetails into a Jedi Academy remake using all the systems they've built up in Cal's games. They've nailed lightsaber combat, they have a robust customization system (one could easily imagine a gender/species option being added, AND the part where we get to play as YOU KNOW WHO (won't say for spoilers) it felt like they were testing out a system that had a more limited saber style choice and not to mention the healing ability STRAIGHT OUT of Jedi Academy. Idk...maybe I'm totally off, but does anyone else sense the writing on the wall that this game series has been building to something?

Bro the bone crunching sound when he grabs the guy and lifts him up is fucking terrifying

Cal is a bigger man than me. I wouldve shot bode in the face. Also bare in mind if cal is this nuts IMAGINE vader

He's chains are broken the Force has set him free.

I love how you hold a red saber up to Denvik’s neck and it still glows blue on your clothes

I like to imagine in the slow down effect that it isnt cal slowing everyone else down but speeding himself up.

He who embraces the light, shall find himself in the dark. When the light fades, his true being is revealed. He who embraces the dark, cannot see the light. When faced with his reflection, he only sees his shadow.

If one day we see a JEDI balance between the dark side and light side..... He would be REALLY DANGEROUS AND powerfull.

I love how absolutely COLD Cal was when the Imperial tried pulling a blaster on him, just to have Cal Force pull it from his hand, into his own. To be fair, I can’t imagine what the Imperial was thinking. You’re a regular man dealing with a space wizard, did he seriously think he would come out on top?

People are terrified of Vader and for good reason, but most times, he tends to kill people rather quickly (seeing how insignificant everyone is to him) and just cuts them down efficiently (exceptions are made, of course, when he really goes full on torture machine)... Maybe Denvik was an annoyance to Vader, but Cal hated his guts, so I'm betting that if Merrin wasn't there, Denvik would have suffered much more at the hands of Cal than Vader's

Good, Cal Kestis, good!

Bro watching Cal give into the dark side was so badass bro finally said enough is enough and just let all hell break loose can’t wait for the announcement of the 3rd game

Gota love how badass the first scene is. Flicks the blaster out of Denviks hands with the force and pulls he own blaser out and aims it at him in such an impossing way.

Holy shit he used monstrous shrine make your choice on hag😱😢

We need a Cal villain arc in the next game tho, it would be absolutely amazing

Cal is so fkn cool, he's a good balance of the force, not too light or dark, (the way he uses mind tricks and the force is pretty fkd up) yet time and time again he demonstrates a good heart and mind, my favorite Star Wars protagonist

love how the alarm on the first scene looks like part of a horror movie motif, just adds tension to the scene in a cool way

Your design of Cal is awesome

I will argue that Cal tapping into the dark side is unlike other Jedi and Sith before him, and maybe even necessary. The Dark Side embodies natural human qualities. Anger, fear, grief, greed etc. feeling these emotions isn’t evil. What matters is whether we temper them. Let them work for you, not the other way around. Initially we see Cal cutting down foes with the dark side, watching him nearly strike down Denvik. But Merrin helps him snap out if it, and not kill him…because, after all, Vader finishes that job for them anyways. Then we see his fight with Bode. Here, Cal is left in a very simple position: does he let Bode kill him and Merrin? Or does he save them. He chooses to save them. Bode was given multiple opportunities to stand down and he refused each one. The reason I feel Cal won’t full succumb to the Dark Side is because he is not Anakin, Dagan or any other fallen Jedi. He is a survivor. He is being put in a position no other Jedi has been through before. In the end of the game: Cal tells Cere that he’s afraid he does not have the strength against the dark side…but him saying that shows something that Anakin, Dagan and Bode never did: awareness. Cal is aware of the potentially dangerous path he’s walking, he is aware that he can fall like so many others before him. But because of this awareness, I feel he knows just how dangerous his powers are. And that they should not be used lightly (from a story telling perspective, of course.) Like Cere told him on Jedha: every day was a struggle with the dark side for Cere. And that’s a struggle Cal must do now. And like Cere, I have faith that Cal will emerge the victor over the dark side every time.

Cal's VA is on fire in this game, I swear. The anger is impeccable.

"Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the Hate flow through you."

I love the part where he turned into the dark side

It's funny that only then is it considered "embracing the dark side", but it was all light side when you slaughtered hundreds of stormtroopers, animals, raiders and bounty hunters over the two games.

We used the same hair and beard combo and I'm so happy about that. He looks the best like this oml

This is stupidly op

Esse visual do Cal ta muito maneiro, eu sempre achei estranho o design padrão dele pq ele fazia altas maracutaisas e o topete continuava no lugar

I find using the dark side to slam the enemies into the ground is quite good at clearing a room

By far the best look ive seen yet

Thanks for the warning toward the end.

I guess orange is his cannon light saber color which kinda makes sense by the end of this game.

The windswept hairstyle should have been the default style for this game. Matches the tone of the story really well

Gideon emery’s voice never fails to make a good character!

I love how Unjedi Cal is. Makes sense growing up outside of the order and with most Jedi knowledge gone.

I like how his lightsaber is red but the light reflected on cal and that bold guy is blue.

To better understand the force, one must study each and every one of its aspects, not just the limited point of view of the jedi.

I love how your Cal matches with BD Looks sick as hell

Every time I see Cal yeet the gun out of the Denvik's hand I chuckle a little bit🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They need to bring him to live action, it’s actually impressive how good of a character he is despite being created for a videogame. And that’s in large part due to the actor who absolutely kills it.

Cal can use the darkside in the first one and possibly the second i havnt played it yet and havnt watched alot. If u force pull enemey and then force push them it kills them

"Being on both side has it's advantages, it's like having a cheat code for the force." -Revan maybe

I feel like they should of made it so that Cal's dark side ability was infinite until after his cutscene with Merrin, then allow you to use it just like his regular slow afterwards. Have Cal also talk a lot more aggressive to everyone until after his talk with Merrin. I feel like it would of really harbored his dark side arc full circle. He still isn't fully dark but isn't a warrior for the light anymore considering he fell in-love with Merrin and accepted it. Outright breaking the Jedi code. Cal is no longer a Jedi, nor Sith, but a rogue Dark Jedi. Which if you know Star Wars the dark side corrupts people and kills them if they continue to accept its embrace. The Dark Side is pure evil. If Cal continues to use the dark side it could potentially alert Palpatine of his presence directly and that would eventually lead to Cal's death. So comes my theory: Cal is a reimagined story of Starkiller, where Cal is essentially a replacement for a canon Starkiller. Darth Vader & Palpatine will control Starkiller by capturing his beloved, Merrin. Cal consumed by hatred will spark the rebellion and eventually fail to kill Darth Vader / Palpatine and end up dying, however saving Merrin in the process who goes back to Dathomir with his body and buries him. Shortly afterwards Kenobi/Rogue One takes place and the story continues. Cal is redeemed when he unites the Rebellion in a more proper conjunction and saves Merrin, sacrificing himself. Returning as a voice of the force from time to time in planets with force nexus's.

People don't wanna hold Cal up there with Starkiller and Vader cause his prowess with the force and blade don't match theirs, but I can count on my finger the Jedi capable of handling concentrated blaster fire and/or massive enemy numbers, the weakness the Clone's exploited in Order 66, so I feel it's appropriate to definitely put him up there as one of the most powerful Jedi post-66. Also, I hope we get to see Cal in a show or upcomming movie, given that his character is also an accomplished actor who's been in multiple cable TV shows and his general likeability make him a perfect fit for a cameo or even a full role. Hopefully we see him during the high republic stuff. Also, that part where Davik would rather be cut down than choked out by Vader, only to get choked out in the EXACT same way Vader chokes his subordinates out is such dark humor I couldn't help but chuckle.

This is exactly how I made Cal look when played

I hope the next game we can tap into the dark side more it was genuinely so satisfying just slaying enemies and having the force actully feel how it should great game 8/10

i just noticed that the light emitted from cals lightsaber is always blue in cutscenes, regardless of the actual blade color

This man needs to be a gray jedi in the future.