Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars Video Games: Coming Crossover Soon?

Warning, spoilers. The following paragraphs show plot elements from the Obi-Wan Kenobi series and Star Wars Jedi: The Fallen Order from the video game.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series currently running on Disney + will bring Star Wars fans back to the cult Jedi Knight from the original trilogy and prequels. This is the actor of the prelude Evan McGregor, who once again attributes his qualities to this hero, whom fans are happy to find.

Under the direction of Deborah Chow, who directs all episodes, the Obi-Wan Kenob series develops ten years after the revenge of the Sith and nine years before the new hope, in a world where a galactic empire reigns. Isolated and hidden from the tattoo to keep an eye on Luke Skywalker, who lives with his uncle’s family, Obi-Wan is forced to come out of hiding and re-take up arms to save Leia’s body from the empire.

When the empire hunts for the last living Jeddah and force-sensitive creatures, Obi-Wan is in great danger in carrying out this mission, especially when he meets his former friend and fiancé, Anakin Skywalker, who has become Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen).

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series is part of a growing period explored in the intergalactic franchise film and television world. We can cite Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, Star Wars: Rebels, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or Star Wars: The Bad Batch. And will soon be added to the Andorran list.

And if a series focused on Jedi Obi-Wan has to make sure that it relates to the various intrigues around it and the environment in which it is embedded compared to other cinematic and serial works, it should also be compared to the works of a video game. . And Obi-Wan Kenobi does more than that because the series has focused a lot on Star Wars video games, especially in the 4th episode.

Evan McGregor also warned on the show Jimmy Kimmel Live That a common sequence was necessary in the world of Star Wars: “All scenarios must match, in a video game you can not have a fact that does not match the movie.

Therefore, writers and director Deborah Chow did their homework well, and video game fans were quick to notice the hints and sounds, especially in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, created by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts.

Released in 2019, this video game takes place five years after the revenge of the Sith and allows you to play as Cal Kestis, a former underground pawn who was persecuted by the Imperial Inquisitors as the Galactic Empire is being cleansed.

At the end of the game! – Spoiler warning –Cal Kestis must penetrate the headquarters of the Imperial Inquisition, an underwater station hidden in the waters of the planet Nuri, to discover the holochron, an artifact that lists force-sensitive and potential children, Jedi, and therefore targets of the empire.

He is assisted by former Jedi master Cere Junda, who was once captured by the Inquisitors. Cal Kestis then confronts Trilla, Cera’s former predecessor, who became the Inquisitor of the Empire, whom he manages to defeat. Cere Junda tries to pull him out of the dark side, but Darth Vader appears and kills Trila.

This is followed by a losing battle between Cal Kest and Darth Vader. The Jedi still manage to escape from it, with no problems, through a glazed corridor that will be drowned out by force before it joins its ship and destroys the Holocron to protect it from future Jedi. – Recent Spoilers –

The twists and turns of this final mission of the video game are very familiar, as the 4th episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi will more or less renew them in the new hope of Leah’s atmosphere of survival. Nur is in the same headquarters of the Imperial Inquisition that Obi-Wan penetrated to find Princess Leah. He also enters the building via water via an underwater trap, with the help of an ally who has access to the empire, in this case, Tala Durit (Indira Varma).

Like Cal Kestis, Obi-Wan will cross the glazed corridor and use the water that flows into the crevices to suffocate the stormtroopers. The Jedi Knight will also meet Purge Troopers, Empire soldiers in black and red armor who specialize in hunting Jedi and force-sensitive creatures and featured in the video game Star Jedi Wars: Fallen Order.

Finally, Obi-Wan Kenobs is hunted by Inquisitor Reva (Moses Ingram), the same third sister, whom he encounters again at the end of the 4th episode of the series, before escaping with Leia and Tala Durith. We can not help but establish a connection between Reva and Trila, the same second sister, in the fallen Order of the Jedi.

Both were padavans who conquered the empire and enlisted as inquisitors who would do anything for Darth Vader. If in the video game the Dark Lord killed Trilla for his incompetence, he almost destroyed Reva for the same reasons in the series, but the latter offered himself a small break to find Obi-Wan in Plan B.

All of these similarities between the Obi-Wan Kenobi series – at least episode 4 – and the Jedi video game Fallen Order suggest that there may be a real crossover between the two. Can Cal Kestis appear in the last two episodes of the Disney + series? This is entirely convincing given that the adventures of Cal Kestis are not over.

Indeed, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has a sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which will be released in 2023. Calendar chance (or not), Teaser Released a few days after the launch of Obi-Wan Kenobi and we learn that this video game will continue five years after the first game, or exactly the same time as the Obi-Wan series!

If Cal Kestis was brought to Obi-Wan Kenobi, it would definitely be in the form of his translator: Cameron Monahan. We can also well imagine the appearance of Obi-Wan in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. In any case, the series is well connected to the world of the franchise video games.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is not the only video game that Obi-Wan Kenobi refers to. Indeed, users are quick to notice that the scene in episode 4 is similar to the fight video game Le Pouvoir de la Force, created by LucasArts in collaboration with ILM and released in 2008.

An Internet user has posted a video excerpt from this fight on behalf of Galen Marek between Starkiler, Darth Vader’s hidden apprentice, and Stormtroopers. This sequence is similar to how Obi-Wan battled several stormtroopers in the dark when he appeared in the light of his traffic light.

We’ll have to wait for the release of the 5th and 6th episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi to see if the Star Wars video game characters will appear in the Disney + series. Or vice versa, if Obi-Wan Kenobi will be the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. But the idea still remains appealing to fans.