Fans have been speculating about being able to explore Coruscant in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for months, after a city that looks suspiciously like the Imperial Center was spotted in multiple trailers. It seems the rumours were true. At the Star Wars Celebration last weekend, director 💝Stig Asmussen confirmed that Coruscant will be in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor."We're taking our Metroidvania approach a step further. Just to talk about another planet, we're going to have Coruscant as well too. I think there's been a lot of speculation about that and I'm just confirming it here," Asmussen said at the convention. Players then rushed to celebrate the prospect of Coruscant being an explorable planet in the game.However, Andy McNamara, who handles integrated communications for Star Wars, later took to Twitter to clarify that Asmussen never said the planet would be a “freely explorable open world”, and that it had only been confirmed as a destination in the game. Of course, McNamara didn’t say it wasn’t explorable – it’s possible he’s just doing his job and trying to manage what details of the game are out in the public for n⛄ow, but it’s also📖 entirely possible that Coruscant will simply be a limited level.
Coruscant being limited would make a lot more sense, though it would be disappointing. I had🌳 a lot of questions upon hearing that it could be explorable – what would it look like? Would it make sense for the centre to have platformer elements, since it’s an extremely populated city? Would Cal be walking around, interacting with stores the way he can in Kaboh? What would possess him to go there at all?
It’s important to remember that Survivor is set in a time when Darth Vader and his Inquisitors are actively hunting Force-users across the galaxy and eliminating them. Coruscant is the centre of the Empire, and probably full of soldiers. It’s very ill-advised for Cal to try and sneak onto Coruscant, or to walk around buying things in stores with a lightsaber on his hip. Frankly, it’s stupid for him to be there at all, unless there’s an extremely good reason. How it’ll make sense in the story is yet to be seen – we haven’t l🌠earned much a📖bout the game’s plot from the trailers.
After some intense speculation, I’ve come up with something that feels plausible to me and still has me excited for the game. I imagine thaꦚt Coruscant, even if it isn’t fully explorable, would be an excellent final-level location. Maybe Cal takes the fight to the source, in an act of rebellion. The story trailer seems to suggest this, with Cal’s confrontation with the game’s ant🌌agonist taking place in a mildly Empire looking setting – though, again, with how little we know, that could really be anywhere.
I think this would make a lot more sense than Cal being free to roam the Empire’s base of operations, and enter and leave as he pleases. I, for one, would love to see a huge action set-piec𒊎e where Cal and comrades tear through the galaxy’s base of fascism and attempt to free themselves from persecution, but there’s only one way we’ll actually know what happens – we’ll have to wait for the game’s release later this month.