
Knights of the Old Republic was a pure Star Wars heroic adventure, where KOTOR 2 was a darker, more complex deconstruction of what Star Wars mythology means. (Not to mention general improvements in graphics, balance, and interface.) The key distinction tends to be that the original games are generalized, proof-of-concept, and the sequels are more specific and specialized, leaning into particular elements of the systems or settings to more fully examine them.


In the history of story-focused RPGs, sequels are almost always more complicated and usually more interesting than the original games they follow.
