Survivor's Side Content is best treated as an epilogue

The Star Wars Jedi Games have always been either purposefully or unintentionally cohesive in how their stories are told and how much their events would actually affect the larger IP umbrella. Cere Junda would never kill Darth Vader during their encounter on Jedha i Star Wars Jedi: Survivor because Darth Vader lives to the end of Return of the Jedifor example, and Cal Kestis still hasn't been mentioned in the mythology beyond Star Wars Jedi game. As infuriating as it may be that he is a phenomenal character, Cal's story ends with a third and final one Star Wars Jedi The game now seems appropriate if he's never heard from afterwards, and Respawn has kept things nice and neat about its character arcs so that hopefully nothing will be left as a loose thread that it failed to tie up.

If Star Wars Jedi: SurvivorThe sequel follows Cal's goal of harboring the hidden path on Tanalorr, it will be interesting to see what becomes of Kata Akuna, Bode's daughter. Surely Respawn wouldn't have dropped a child in Cal and Merrin's lap if there was no significance to her and that relationship, perhaps with Cal and Merrin acting as parental guardians. thankfully, Star Wars Jedi doesn't leave players guessing as to what that dynamic might look like because it unfolds quite naturally and extensively in Survivings post-credits endgame exploration – a bit of narrative depth that players can completely overlook.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor hides its most fascinating Stinger Mantis recruitment behind the conclusion of the story

Everyone who has had their fill of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor when they release credits will probably have missed a lot of satisfying and rewarding content, assuming they didn't choose to do most of it before reaching a point of no return. Players acquire new abilities and gear that they need to complete everything in the game right up until the end of the story, and while exploration on massive planets like Koboh and Jedha is enticing as soon as it becomes available, it's arguably more worthwhile to wait until players have everything they need and are no longer locked behind inaccessible passages.

Because Star Wars Jedi: Survivors planets and maps are more openly expansive and even accommodate fast travel at meditation points, backtracking isn't nearly as boring as it can be in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderwhich also has much less significant side content. Regardless, if players still have side quests or exploration to do after beating the story, they'll have a much different experience than players who don't because they'll get to talk to Kata and hear her interact with Cal, Greez Dritus, and Merrin aboard the Stinger Mantis and at some piers.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's Post-Credits Exploration Teases Kata Akuna's Future Significance

Kata is an endgame recruit of Stinger Mantis who actually joins the crew for whatever adventures they go on in the game after they defeat Bode and secure Tanalorr. Therefore, Kata will accompany players as they travel around the galaxy and have dialogue to share when they take off or land.

This is of utmost importance and great, even though all of Kata's exchanges are optional interactions that players can miss entirely, as it gives the player much needed time to develop a bond with Kata. It is probable Survivings upcoming sequel may have a time jump similar to the five-year leap between The Fallen Order and Survivingand Kata would realistically be quite different in that case. Surviving is probably the only time players will see her at such a young age, and as such, it's great that Cal, Merrin, and Greez get to spend as much time as the player allocates to end-game, post-story content with her.

It will be interesting to see if Kata decides she has newfound, conflicted feelings about Cal cutting her father, but she seems to have a decent head on her shoulders and may have already come to terms with how distant and dangerous her father was . . This could be a convenient way for the story to progress and have her immediately accept Cal, Greez, and Merrin as her family; anyway, it would be more awkward if she joined them however long players explore the galaxy Surviving and harbored unbridled resentment against them.

Her conversations with the Mantis team show that she's happy to be with them, and Cal and Merrin's private conversation about Kata makes it clear that they've suddenly assigned themselves guardian roles—a fitting page turn since they'd recently become explicitly romantic. However, Merrin lets them both off the hook by saying that “she's going to decide who she's going to be, isn't she [them].”

This partly suggests that they may not have much power when it comes to raising Kata, but it also suggests that they will take on the responsibility of raising her regardless. It's hard to see how Cal and Merrin might not feel a little responsible if Kata potentially turns to the dark side of the force, given that she's inherited force sensitivity from her father, and what Kata's role will be in the final chapter of the force . Star Wars Jedi the series is made exciting based on these optional endgame conversations.