There has rarely been a dull moment for Cal Kestis and the crew of the Stinger Mantis since Cere Junda and Greez Dritus rescued Cal on Bracca in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. That said, no one has tracked the Stinger Mantis crew so successfully and vigilantly in Star Wars Jedi series Haxion Brood, a gang of bounty hunters that Cal was introduced to when he and BD-1 were kidnapped by them and forced to participate in an Ordo Eris battle arena against waves of enemies hosted by Sorc Tormo.
Bounty hunters were a huge source of spontaneous tension and high stakes in the Star Wars Jedi franchise so far, but whether they should repeat the Haxion Brood for a third time or postpone it for another handful of random, diverse mercenaries is another question entirely, especially if Cal himself is positioned to become some kind of bounty hunter. indeed Star Wars Jedi: Survivor makes Haxion Brood a much more explicit threat than before. But although they appear in the same way to intercept the players, Cal now gains the upper hand and the hunters become the hunted this time in Star Wars Jedi: Survivorteasing a whole new arc for Cal in an upcoming entry.
Star Wars Jedi, making Cal Kestis a bounty hunter could be based on Jango Fett's origin story
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter it indulges in numerous dead-or-dead optional contracts that players can seek out at their discretion. This concept is realized phenomenally in early chapter levels like Coruscant, where enemies are rare enough that players can comfortably and generously take their time scanning NPCs with Jango's slow-motion POV visor.
However, bounty hunting becomes much more difficult and impractical in later chapters, with enemies flooding the screen in waves, flanking players and spamming them with bolts or missiles from unseen distances, but it's still an engaging feature that allows the game to it seems more. than a basic arcade shooter. Indeed, the choice to transform live bounties means that players must first mark a scanned bounty target and then tether them with Jango Fett's string and interact with them, which is almost impossible to do in the middle of a rooms full of enemies.
Even harder then is trying to clear out all the other enemies in a room first and save the bounty target for last, but there are few options left to secure a bounty in the mid-to-late game levels. Either way, these elements would make fantastic ingredients in the next one Star Wars Jedi game, especially if Cal himself becomes an official bounty hunter, since technically he has already become one in Survivor while taking out targets for a scheming Caij Vanda.
The only incentive for players to do this was reward pucks for multiple abilities, some for
Survivor
blaster attitude and some for droid slashing from BD-1 – and the blaster cosmetics they could be traded for, and certainly there could be an even bigger reward in a sequel for hunting down characters and having the option to to turn this reward into life.
Star Wars Jedi Bounty Hunter is too integral to store now
The Haxion Brood wasn't dealt with permanently, and with so many Bounty Hunters and Bounty Droids now cut down by Cal, it would make sense for Sorc Tormo's manhunt to be even more persistent and vicious in a third game. Now that Cal has gotten a taste for bounty hunting, though, it puts him in the interesting position of hunting for bounties himself, even without Caij warning him in locations where Brood affiliates are patiently waiting to arrive.
Survivor teased that Cal might retire his lightsaber soon and put the fight behind him. Of course, with the Haxion Brood looking for Cal Kestis and the crew of the Stinger Mantis, the refugee Jedi Knight may not have a quick means of getting out of the bounty hunting business until this is a problem he's solved indefinitely and it would be a shame to see her. that secondary arc suddenly dropped to a third Star Wars Jedi game without any concrete resolution one way or another.
