"Force Unleashed II" novel

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TheBoost's avatar
"Force Unleashed II" novel

Just finished this.

Honestly, it was hardly readable. And I dug the first one (and "Fatal Alliance" by the same author).

SPOILERS abound.

It's based on a video game. I felt the authors pain as he tried to describe endless variations of "Starkiller walked forward, killing everything and approaching the boss monster" Once he even wrote it from the boss monsters perspective, just to shake things up.

The action scenes went on FOREVER. I think a third of the book was about Starkiller trying to crash a ship, and falling down a pit took 20 pages.

There was a "character just died montage." I've never seen that in print before. After we think Juno died, he actually REWRITES THE SCENES FROM EARLIER IN THE STORY. He literally describes the film montage we would see as if we were seeing it, not reading it. I had to restart the page 3 or 4 times to make sure I was understanding what was going on. It didn't work for me as a reader.

Add to all that the fact there's no ending or resolution at all, and I was more than a little disapointed in it.

Krakatoa's avatar
RE: "Force Unleashed II" novel

I think FU2 was pretty much for the sake of the game sequel, and from what I've read about the comics and novel versions...it shows.

Last edited on November 9, 2010 at 8:07 PM by Krakatoa
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RE: "Force Unleashed II" novel

TheBoost said:


There was a "character just died montage." I've never seen that in print before. After we think Juno died, he actually REWRITES THE SCENES FROM EARLIER IN THE STORY. He literally describes the film montage we would see as if we were seeing it, not reading it. I had to restart the page 3 or 4 times to make sure I was understanding what was going on. It didn't work for me as a reader.
I have to read some examples from this. How does that even work?!

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TheBoost's avatar
RE: "Force Unleashed II" novel

doubleofive said:

TheBoost said:

There was a "character just died montage." I've never seen that in print before. After we think Juno died, he actually REWRITES THE SCENES FROM EARLIER IN THE STORY. He literally describes the film montage we would see as if we were seeing it, not reading it.

I have to read some examples from this. How does that even work?!

 Apparently (I didn't check) he just cut-and-pasted hunks of prose from key points in the novel (Juno meeting Starkiller, their only kiss, etc) and just put them in a row, exactly mimicking the montage in the game (I assume, having not played it).

Alexrd's avatar
RE: "Force Unleashed II" novel

In my opinion, they should have stayed with just the first one.

Tobar's avatar
RE: "Force Unleashed II" novel

It was great being able to play again but yeah the first ended perfectly whereas the sequel didn't add anything but take away from the ending of the first.

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