THE MAKERS OF THE AUGMENTED-REALITY EXPERIENCE ON TURNING JEDI CHALLENGES TO THE DARK SIDE.
The Dark Side Expansion arrives today for the Lenovo and Disney augmented-reality experience, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges, and it’s the stuff of dreams for fans of black-clad, red-lightsaber toting bad guys. A free update to the mobile app, the Dark Side Expansion places players inside the virtual boots of Kylo Ren, where they’ll wield the game’s beautiful and undeniably-cool lightsaber controller and duel Star Wars legends like Yoda and Rey.For the makers of Jedi Challenges, turning their game to the dark side was something of a no-brainer.“We said, ‘Why don’t we focus on what the public likes, which is lightsaber combat,” Christopher Hunt, art director on Jedi Challenges, tells StarWars.com. “We started to formulate a plan on the update being centered on lightsaber combat, with adding new characters and a little bit of a twist on how you wield a lightsaber and who you are while you’re playing.”
It’s a twist that works very well, and in myriad ways.
As it turns out, it’s fun to be the bad guy. Regardless of Kylo’s power, standing face-to-face with and besting such iconic heroes is a thrill, if not cleverly subversive; it’s hard not to swing that lightsaber just a little harder knowing you’re a dark side devotee, or smile while doing so.
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