You Were Afraid (Remake) 

- You were deafened - At last, you could hear - You were broken - You were whole - You were blinded - And, at last, you saw

Anyone who ever hit some serious traumatic low point in their lives can relate to this game. This game is very much about trauma and being broken and how you can go on from there and make it source of strength. When I hit that point in my life the worst depression came over me for years, feeling like there is nothing left to do but wait to die. What happens is you wait to somehow snap out of it, to be the old you again. To be the same person you are used to being. Process of growth and healing starts with acceptance. This is what this game helped me to learn. At one point it hit me that I will never be the old me again. That whatever the trauma did to me is not temporary change but that THIS IS ME NOW for better or worse. And how embracing that can lead you to new strengths. KOTOR 2 is about that. While Jedi Masters here look at exile and they see nothing but broken diminished person, Kreia saw someone who's lack of connection to force can be source of new strength by itself.

3:06 I love how they explain the leveling system in the game as part of the story.

I dream about, some day, writing something as good as this.

Kreia and the Exile's character taught me to count my blessings, and cut my losses. When I find myself at the bottom of the pit of my depression, there is no shame in being afraid, I need only remember to breathe, and get back up and start over. What KOTOR 2, and this scene especially, is to me is all about triumph and rebirth.

"You were - You were deafened - At last, you could hear - You were broken - You were whole - You were blinded - And, at last, you saw I finally understand what this means. It's because, by cutting herself off from the Force, the Exile finally heard and saw the universe for what it truly was, not how it looks through the lenses of the Force. It was like being pulled from the Matrix, being awakened from the dream and brought back to reality.

"In you, we saw a wound in the Force." "In you, we saw the end of the Force." "You are a cipher, forming bonds. Leaching off of the life of others. Siphoning their will and dominating them."

My favorite moment of this is when the Jedi Masters are cut off from the Force. They do not die from a lightsaber blow, Force lighting or choke, but just from an absence of the Force. They relied on it for too long and when they lose it they go into shock. Their greatest strength was turned into their greatest weakness

"You must've noticed as you fought across all these planets, killing hundreds, only to become more and more powerful. Why do you think that was?" That's not my fault! I thought I was just leveling up! For Force's sake, do you even know how many bounty hunters tried to kill me because they thought I was the last of the Jedi? All those Gand... and the Zhugs.

One thing I think almost no one talks about in this scene is how it's probably the one, single time except for the very end that we get a totally unfiltered view of Kreia's feelings towards The Exile. The way she tells the Masters, "You will not harm her, you will not harm her *ever again* " feels like a mother protecting her child from an abuser. It's something I wish I could have had in my dark moments.

the enclave music is one of my favorite pieces

The theme of pain opening your eyes to reality of things is something I've rarely seen in media in general. Truly a Star Wars milk bucket worth praising.

This scene is so bittersweet to me. I love it, I return to it constantly, but I cry at "It is because you were, afraid" every time because deep down I know we are never going to get writing of this quality ever again.

The writing in these two games was better than 9 movies combined

The old jedi order was soooo zealous and dealt in absolutes. Very sith like.

dude people don’t realize how on point the writing in this scene is. vrook says “what you carry could mean the death of the force, and the death of the jedi!” notice how his most important point in that statement is the end of the jedi, in front of the force. he is blinded by dogma, he would sooner protect the jedi, over the force itself.

still the best scene in fiction

I usually don't use rude language but, in this scene, Chris Avellone made videogame's storytelling his bitch. He has some of the best scripts in the industry and has proven again and again that he has great talent. But this scene... Jesus Christ on a monocycle, this may be the best written scene in game history.

"In you, we saw a wound in the force." "In you, we saw the end of the force." Star Wars has never been better than this.

I get chills every time Kreia says, “It is because you were… afraid”

RIP Ed Asner, the voice behind Vrook Lamar Lamar was a dogmatic Jedi played to perfection and easily definable by BioWare and Asner himself farewell, and be sure to send us a postcard from Paradise Falls

KoTOR 2 is such a unique study of extremity, duality, and consequentialism. You know what quality is when you can still form nostalgic memories about it way after childhood. Would love to see a KoTOR 3 with a story of deconstruction on technology or something. This was from a time where graphics were just as important if not less than content and boy I miss it.

RIP Ed Asner. May the force be with you.

"How could you ever hope to know the threat you face?" UGHH kreia just serves the entirety of the jedi order so HARD

I love the sad, paranoic and depressing vibe of the game. The lessons about fear and the world after destruction along with the harsh 2004 graphic and sad, depressing soundtrack with little hope and various character voices made it truly a very memorable experience.

LS - Arren Kae Neutral - Kreia DS - Darth Traya

DIE? NO! BECAME STRONGAH, YES

It just occurred to me the simplicity of what's happening here when the Jedi Masters blame you for your 'force bond power'. They state it as something that happens "between a Master and apprentice", and that you can find that bond so much more easily that it is a problem. The great power that these Jedi Masters are so afraid of in you is just untempered EMPATHY. They've trained so hard to seal away their emotions, and approach others with an understanding that relies on calculation. They see the shadows and echos of emotion, but are so far 'advanced in the Jedi way' that they no longer understand the basics of it directly. They suck at truly understanding people, and you, with your force powers and ability to empathize, frighten them. And because fear is an emotion too, instead of seeing things for what they are, you are just a danger to existence to them. It could be pretty dang meta too, when I think about it. We see the story through the eyes of the Exile, and we control the Exile... We see every character's story as a player audience, it is the point of those stories even existing, and we don't have a lifetime of Jedi training tainting us from it, or from what we make the Exile do in response to it. The Jedi Masters are, in a way, afraid of the player's investment in the story.

This is why I say this is when the Jedi started losing their way. They refuse to help a person in need. The Exile is really a ironic character; she and Kreia is helping me get out of my depression. They show that there are hope.

Zez Kai El represents a man who knows that he and his teachings are flawed, but is too afraid to walk a different path. Is even afraid at the mere possibility of there being a different choice. Kavar is like a hypocrite because he tasted the call of war and yet still turned away from the truth, still abandoned the Exile when he of all of them knew what she experienced and understood why she did what she did. Vrook is too prideful and driven by the belief that everything the Jedi do is so right that there cannot be any fault. He views that the fall of a Jedi is not due of the Order’s failings, but because of a person’s character. Atris is in a way like Vrook, but only because she is so blinded by the supposed betrayal of her idol that she twists the realisation that her Order is flawed into something far worse. When in actuality, she envies the choice the Exile made but will deny it until her dying breath. It would have been interesting to see Vash’s flaws had she not been cut/killed.

"Do you wish to feel the teachings born of the Mandalorian Wars, of all wars, of all the tragedies that scream across the galaxy?! Let me show you...the galaxy...through the eyes of the Exile!" (My personal take) Kreia does not strip the Jedi Masters of the Force. She merely shows them, - causes them - to personally experience all of the pain and suffering that the Exile suffered during the Mandalorian Wars, and specifically the events of Malachor V. And, the pain is so unimaginably traumatic that, in that moment, they do what the Exile did, which was to cut themselves off from the Force. However, as they are so completely reliant on the Force, they are unable to survive. The Exile's connection to others, her ability to form bonds, is what made her pain so much the greater when she ordered the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator, which killed her friends and comrades, and it is THIS pain that the Masters too, experienced in their final moments. However, reading the comments section makes me realize that other people are so much smarter than I am.

Indeed, always watch this video every time i have bad times. Always, the inner voices tried to make me down every time i have bad time. And this scene, help me to remember my will, way of life. --- You're deafened, At last, you're heard... You're broken You whole... You're blinded At last, you saw... --- Such knowledge lies in every words in this scene... No, in this masterpiece lies secret knowledge of life. I'm not regret playing this game, and i always appreciate every time i repeat this game again.

This video is much better than starwars sequels

They were afraid.. unable to accept they felt fear, fear leads to the dark side, they pushed that fear onto the exile..

I loved this and it has to be one of the best (near) ending confrontation scenes in gaming. Plus, Sara Kestelman, that voice just *cannot* be beat!

6:37-6:45 That's what Revan did, and he found the Sith Emperor.

This scene makes me wanna play DS just because of these thickheaded so called "masters" who always relied on others like Revan, Malak and the Exile to solve their problems for them. It almost feels like they are jealous that they cannot fight the Sith like the Exile can, and punishes her for it.

"All those who have power are afraid of losing it even the Jedi"-Palatine.

Imagine playing this and the original "You were Afraid" video side by side

Let's hope they make a series of old republic films, Kreia would be so badass and deserves to be just as known as vader and palpatine.

...... This is my favorite RPG of all time.

These Jedi were a waste of air. They're better off dead for taking little to no action when the galaxy was in trouble. That and how they tried killing the Jedi exile when she wanted to rally the remaining Jedi to fight the Sith. The Sith that these same Jedi denied existed.

Rich Evans really needs to play Kotor 2.

One of my favorite games ❤❤

I still remember this ever since playing it on the original xbox in elementary. Now my laat year of school is practically over. A lot of emotions in something so simple

20 years later and I am still furious about the ignorance of the "Jedi Masters"... I dunno why but the soundtrack of Kotor2 is giving me the chills although there is always this sense of a greater danger lying ahead.

Kreia is the master of gaslighting

Anyone notice. When she steps in for the male exile, kreia is enraged. But for the female. Her voice just goes ice cold ...

Reven taught me from the frist day I saw him and master Kia as well and yoda

Imagine if Kreia had been there to train Anakin.

I think that a lot of people assume that Kreia is always right, and that everything she says throughout the game is meant to be taken as the correct opinion, but I don't think that's true. Kreia presents herself as the Exile's teacher, but we know from this scene that this whole time she was the one who wanted to learn from the Exile. Kreia isn't just a medium to push some kind of a philosophy, she's a character with her own past, and with her own flaws. In a way, she's the Exile's opposite: she was thrown out of the Jedi order, then thrown out of the Sith, and then had the Force stripped from her, while the Exile defied the Jedi, rejected the dark side, and even rejected the Force itself. It's easy to see why Kreia, who would come to hate the Jedi, the Sith, and the Force ,would see her as an ideal: someone who was capable of avoiding all the mistakes Kreia herself had made. Kreia seems to expect to find that the Exile is similar to herself, with Kreia being stoic, rational, and prejudiced against everyone she considers beneath her, or unworthy of her respect. With lightside Exile as the most canon version she finds someone whom she considers to display acts of weakness, especially when it comes to mercy and helping others. Kreia even scoffs at the idea of the Exile having friends rather than servants. The Exile's kindness confuses Kreia, but I think that this trait is the explaining factor behind everything that happened to her. The Exile's ability to form Force Bonds is not some kind of special talent,(like Bastila and her Battle Meditation) the Exile simply never took the Jedi Code to heart. She refused to shut herself off from forming connections to others, to feel empathy, to feel emotion, and to do what she feels is right. The Jedi teach that you have to shut yourself off from others and your own feelings. The Exile confused them with her ability to form Force bonds because she could form connections to others while remaining on the light side, which to them seemed an impossible contradiction(It’s funny to think about how the Jedi are so terrified of this Force freak who can control people’s minds and draw on their strength when she’s just a charismatic person that shows basic empathy to people around her, something alien to Jedi). This is also related to why the Exile defied the council and went to go fight in the Mandalorian Wars. This is why Kreia says "You were afraid", almost with contempt, to the Exile. Kreia expected the Exile to be a Messiah, and a stoic sage capable of acting rationally in the most desperate of circumstances. But the reason the Exile survived wasn't through strength per se, but because of vulnerability. While other Jedi would either break and turn to the dark side, or break and die from the shock during Malachor 5, the Exile was still open to her own emotions. We're told that her decision to cut herself off from the Force was almost subconscious, and that is because it was because of fear, and fear is something that neither the Sith nor Jedi consider to be strength, because fear weakens their connection to the Force. This is hinted at by conversations with Atton and HK-47, who both talk about techniques that weaken both Jedi and Sith by using guilt, lust, and fear. Her connection to her fellow Jedi created a massive echo, and her own fear of the pain that was to come deafened her to the Force. In a lot of ways Kreia was right about the Exile: she confronted her emotions rather than hide from them, and she followed her own moral compass rather than those imposed on her, and she was truly capable of rejecting the Force instead of letting it corrupt her. But I think part of the reason why Kreia turns so violent near the end is because, on a personal level, she sees the Exile as soft and has a hard time believing that her vulnerability is a source of such personal strength. She has to test if the Exile is truly as strong as she initially believed. I really wish we could create a character like the Exile in Star Wars somewhere again. Specifically, a Force user that is not special in any silly way like being part of this or that bloodline, but someone who is special because of who they are as a person. The Exile, and KOTOR 2, really dug into exactly how toxic both the Jedi and the Sith are, and how important our connections to others are, and how both the Jedi and the Sith work to destroy them.

I didn't understand this until I replayed Korriban in this game again earlier today, in bloody 2020, but the Jedi Masters are wrong about something important here- The Exile wouldn't nessecarily have died at Malachor if they hadn't cut themselves off from the force. They might've just become another Scion, or another Nihilus. That's the point of the Dark Side version of this scene- in that version of the game, the exile belongs among the Sith Triumvirate, but when she gazed into the abyss, where Scion and Nihilus and Kreia and even Revan all grabbed out for power, the Exile was afraid, and cut themselves off from it. Shit, I need to actually go back and do a Dark Side playthrough now, don't I? I haven't since I was a kid and didn't get any of this nonsense.

one of my favorite videos on RU-vid haha. I'm glad this inspired you. I used to only use RU-vid for music but every now and then I wanted a bit of thinking and to hear Sara Kessleman's powerful performance. It was the scene I would turn to

The Force is my religion. And this a sacred scene.

This game with this scene proves one point, not learning from what you have done dooms you to make the same mistakes. Like the jedi they refused to learn and see that they were leading their students astray, that it was their teaching that led their student to fall, while the exile learned from the events that transpired in her past , the bad choices , all the death that she caused and followed her only to give up the force in order to understand and move on with her life. Even if she rediscovered this power later she understood one thing, the force is life and the journey you share with those close to you is the most important. While her dogmatic counterparts believed that self isolation and teaching other to do the same only to serve but not live is the only thing that the force wants, never understanding the force as they should have. Wish we had KOTOR 3 and more background on the life of these characters.

I saw this video before I played KOTOR 2 myself, and although I found the video pleasing, I didn't fully understand the gravity of the situation until I reached that moment through my own journey. The days of exploration, growth, and character development all hinted towards this, yet without the understanding of what the exile is the weight of the scene isn't as heavy. I felt cold after this revelation, realizing that despite my efforts to restore the galaxy that I was the threat unknowingly consuming it out of habit.

If Nihilus and Exile are different sides of the same coin as rumored throughout this game, why they chose different paths instinctively? Both became wounds, one that leeches on life and force of others, one that shut herself off not to do the same. If they are placed in the same situation again, will they choose the same paths again? Are they inherently good or bad, do they have free will or force, like Kreia hated, tried to balance things out again? If it was the force's doing, then Kreia was an unknowing pawn and like all sith, hate, hate of the force fuelled her. The ending of the game was rushed and controversial but, I believe Kreia knew her position as a pawn, at least instinctively. She protected, taught and pushed Exile to defeat the Nihilus, bring the balance to the force and at the end, what she wanted to hear was that she could be redeemed. Of course, all these questions and connections are rhetorical but shows how much this rabbit hole of a game can go deeper and deeper.

Been playing this game since before I have cohesive memories. I only just now, some 15 years later, realized how much playing dark side effects dialogue.

Vrook: NO NO! YOU ARE SITH!!!

Great remake buddy. Good framerate and resolution, canon exile and everything!

I can see how this inspired you to pursue putting these kinds of videos of. Thought provoking, indeed.

I cant lie, I still play this on Xbox One.

This was too deep for my 11 year old self to appreciate.

The jedi masters are way to blind here

Absolutely brilliant scene, brilliant game

I come here when I lose hope and want to give up on the new KOTOR remake.

"In order to kill a jedi, you must be human"

Kreaia knew I was in no position to go fight inn the mandalorian wars was my choice but the Jedi didn’t understand what was really going on I love you Kreaia but you know I was right in a lot of ways my teacher we cradle one another forever we will have this bond, I’m no longer reven but I still will be so much more but thank you Kreaia for being my teacher I will always love you your student Papatia Quinn forever

kreia was right, maybe those on top need to see the galaxy through our eyes as exiles

2:57 so the death of the force * what makes them special * is worse than the teachings of the sith...hmmm I wonder if sith would feel the same way about jedi

For Jedi masters so obsessed with the Jedi code all 3 of them chose to run and strike first

8:48 So it would seem you have chosen...death.

I think this scene is better as a male exile because for some reason kreia seems like she cares a lot more about what’s going on through her voice than female exile

It’s a shame I couldn’t get this scene. I sided with General Vaklu because I didn’t think it mattered as long as I got to speak with Kavar. Sadly, he left me with no choice but to kill him, thus resulting in the game thinking my mission was to eliminate the Jedi despite already sparing the other two. I was light side too!

@disney I would pay millions for this type of Star Wars sequel

5:47 me when Kotor III was cancelled

YES! :D

Just food for thought, maybe you could post the seld-trodden paths of a dark side character who spared the masters, and a light side character who killed them? The dialogue is apparently different in such situations.

woo yay!

The masters died when cut off from the force because they relied on it.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what was it that the Exile was "afraid" of? Was the fear of death, the pain of death, or was she afraid of the moment before death when you don't know what'll happen next and your desperately clutching at life?

this is not as powerful revelation as player revealed to be Darth Revan in KOTOR 1, but still this moment gives me chills in my bones, and some goose bumps..

1:59

My masters all fell to the dark side....

3:07 bringing rpg logic into the story

I need a remake/remaster of both KOTOR or a sequel or both

Today it was announced that the Game of Thrones showrunners are going to make ‘a series of films’ in the Star Wars universe. “Focusing on a certain point in time” many have speculated that these films will be based on the Kotor games. Given how the showrunners used the ASOIAF books and adapted them to television. I, for one, hope that Disney/Lucasfilm don’t try to adapt these games to film. I do not believe they will do the themes, characters, and conflicts any justice.

Can you please make the “No choice” version? I’d like to see it.

I appreciate that KOTOR 2 acknowledge that the death of an entire planet is super traumatizing, especially for people who are literally connected to the universe and life. In the new movies an entire STAR SYSTEM was destroyed and not a single force user(or any other person who might have had family or friends in that sector) reacts in any way. Its the equivalent of couple nukes dropping in a populated city and nobody gives a shit. In a new hope they at least have Obi Wan and Lea react, even though Lea gets over her home getting vaporized pretty fast. Since the Star Wars money machine has no sign of slowing down, I am really hoping somebody does something with the post-war-PTSD concept

I will never get this cutscene. I don't keep Vrook or Kavar alive, as I want the galaxy to see they can make it without the Order. It's a shame. But perhaps Atris and her servants can be made to see the truth...I wished there was an option for her to be cut off from the Force as well...

Could of swore there was another line Kreia instead says "Because you Had no Choice" instead of "Because you were afraid". Almost positive it was because I was either Darkside or Neutral Darksided, (Did bad things but choose not to kill the Jedi and we still meet on Dantooine).

Well It’s their own fault. They were arrogant and blind. But why did Kreia kill the council?

5:45 lmao

What if the force is just a person who became more, able to control and effect all ripples..

I like the original more

Hey Kathleen Kennedy! I found your source material right here!

Never mistake death for stasis

Hmmm... I guess it's different if your character is male.

>not a bearded exile Thumbdown, report, swat team on the way.

I made a video of this scene if the exile followed the dark side and sides with the Jedi masters. Check it out!