Neglect the ‘Knights of the Previous Republic’ Remake, There Would possibly Be a ‘KOTOR II’ Remake Too

Star Wars is like poetry; it rhymes, to paraphrase George Lucas. A number of years in the past, we had been all agog on the information that Knights of the Old Republic, one of the crucial beloved Star Wars video video games ever made, was going to be getting the lavish fashionable remake therapy. Then these plans appeared to largely crumble, and whether or not or not the return of Revan was nonetheless on the playing cards remains nebulous. Now, there’s one other: a tiny glimmer of hope, and a whole lot of acquainted uncertainty, that one of many different most beloved Star Wars video video games ever made, KOTOR‘s sequel The Sith Lords, might have additionally been getting the remake therapy.

The information comes out of an in depth report by Stephen Totilo’s Game File, analyzing reams of authorized paperwork overlaying makes an attempt to deliver an notorious fan-created PC mod for Knights of the Previous Republic II to consoles as a part of the sport’s fashionable ports by video game studio Aspyr. In line with these paperwork, Aspyr, who had beforehand additionally been engaged on the introduced, modernized model of Knights of the Previous Republic again in 2021 alongside Saber Interactive, was additionally creating a online game codenamed “Challenge Juliet,” a equally scoped fashionable remake of Knights of the Previous Republic II.

“Juliet was the code identify for a challenge the place we had been going to do a full remake of KOTOR 2,” a deposition from Lucasfilm Video games vp Douglas Reilly acquired by Recreation File reads partly, “with fashionable artwork, fashionable gameplay, you understand, preserve the story and the characters and the overall—the overall content material of KOTOR 2, however remake it for contemporary {hardware} and fashionable machines with up to date graphics and all these sorts of issues. It was one thing we had been discussing with Aspyr.”

First launched simply shy of eighteen months after the unique recreation in late 2004, The Sith Lords, developed by the legendary RPG studio Obsidian, adopted one other Jedi soldier from the war against the Mandalorians, the Exile, 5 years after the occasions of the primary recreation as they reawoke to their beforehand thought severed connection to the Pressure and reckoned with the Sith’s seemingly near-total extermination of the Jedi.

The sequel is regarded in equal elements appraisal and infamy, the previous for its darker, extra morally complicated character work and its crucial positioning of each the participant’s company in an RPG and the character of the Pressure within the Star Wars galaxy at giant as instruments of destiny, the latter for the sport’s extraordinarily restricted growth cycle resulting in a messy remaining product, affected by intriguing compromises, rushed denouements, and maybe most infamously of all, a ream of reduce and incomplete content material hidden inside the recreation’s information, by no means totally carried out.

It’s that latter notorious status that’s the topic of Recreation File’s full investigation, a deep dive into a chunk of fan-made content material nearly as well-known as The Sith Lords itself: the The Sith Lords Restored Content Modification, or TSLRCM for brief. The mod made a number of in depth tweaks to the PC model of KOTOR II, reintegrating reams of dialogue and cutscene parts from the unfinished content material, together with tweaks to the sport’s endings and an entire late-game dungeon based mostly across the returning KOTOR get together member, the nefarious murderer droid HK-47. Now thought-about an nearly important accompaniment to enjoying the sport within the up to date, TSLRCM has solely ever been out there to PC gamers… and that just about modified when Aspyr introduced KOTOR II to the Nintendo Change in 2022.

The studio initially shockingly introduced that its remastered port of KOTOR II on Change would come with content material restored by the TSLRCM, the primary time that content material would ever be out there in an official capability and on console. However a month and a half after the Change port was launched in the summertime of 2022, Aspyr introduced that plans to deliver the TSLRCM to the Change model of the sport had been scrapped.

In line with the court docket filings uncovered by Recreation File as a part of a false promoting swimsuit introduced in opposition to Aspyr, the deliberate deal between Aspyr and a number of other modders concerned within the creation of TSLRCM finally fell aside as a result of authorized issues from Disney over correct crediting for the mod’s content material. However the depositions additionally talked about that the in-development remake of KOTOR II had additionally deliberate to remake and combine that deleted content material in some capability as nicely.

The precise query that is still is whether or not or not the KOTOR II remake remains to be in growth, as is the perpetual case with the actually-announced KOTOR remake. In line with Recreation File, “Challenge Juliet” was nonetheless being labored on as of March 2025, on the time of the deposition, however there’s been no affirmation if growth is ongoing, leaving the remake in an much more nebulous state than the remake of the primary recreation, which has largely operated in radio silence since its official unveiling 4 years in the past.

Time will inform if both entry within the KOTOR duology will ever see the remade mild of day, however some hope is healthier than no hope in any respect.

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