Ithilgore said:Actually that one is subverted in the game, quite refreshingly.
... Vader attacks him instead, and dumps him in space. Turns out the whole thing was a plan by both Vader and the Emperor to draw out the rebel leaders and get rid of them, using the main character as perfect bait.
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Or at least that's the first two acts of the story, I don't know what happens in the third (pretty sure you come back to rescue the rebels and the like)
Quite refreshingly, hehehe. I suppose a lot of people don't really stop to think about how dumb that whole thing is. Vader finds this little wunderkind who, as a small child already shows phenomenal abilities in the force. Vader takes it upon himself to raise this small child into adulthood, teaching him to use the dark side of the force from a very young age, and using him as an agent for completing delicate tasks. Sounds like a pretty valuable asset. Finding a powerful little child and training and rasing him into adulthood doesn't sound like the easiest thing in the world to do, but I am sure it is an effort well spent considering all the great things you could use him for, like... like... like betraying him so he becomes a good guy, joins the Rebel Alliance and ultimately leads you to them and solves all your problems.
Seriously Darth, since the late nineties you have been portrayed as having some of the worst logic in film/video game history. "Oh no, my wife is going to die, so I am going to join an evil Sith Lord who I know has been lying to me for all these years and pledge my undying loyalty to him. Once I have joined him, I will try to get my wife to join me, but if she doesn't I'll just choke her to death. It'll make for a very amusing tradgedy at any rate."
"Oh no, there seems to be a group of rebels rebelling against my masters empire. I know! Rather using our vast and virtually unlimited military might to snuff them out where ever they rise, I can fix this by taking that little kid I found the other day, taking ten to fifteen years training him to be the best Sith warrior possible, then I'll betray him! And just hope luck will have it that there will still be good in him even though I have trained him to be an evil bastard since early childhood, and he will want to join the rebels. With a little more luck, they'll actually trust him and welcome him, and maybe even... follow him into a trap! Mhaa ha ha ha HA!! My plan is absolutely perfect! It'll make for nifty hack and slash buttom masher of an action game at any rate."
But yeah, what got us on this topic is that in the last level of the game you are given the choice of killing Vader of letting him live, if you let him live you get the good (and canonical ending). If you kill the sorry sap, you get to kill your friends too and become the Emperor's new right hand man, complete with a nifty Vaderesque costume!