Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is reviving among the coolest unusual races in the old canon – one whose complete splendor we have not seen given that the initial Clone Wars animation.
That race is the Gen’dai, and also the personality concerned is Rayvis. Rayvis initially showed up in the first gameplay trailer for Jedi: Survivor, getting involved in a standoff with Cal. Fans rather swiftly assumed that he was a Gen’dai – a long-lived race of beings that are basically comprised of a gigantic mass of arms that can regrow and also recover themselves at will. The devs at Respawn have actually currently verified Rayvis’s beginnings and also offered a couple of information on his history.
Gen’dai like Rayvis “have a code they adhere to,” motion picture supervisor Dori Arazi informs IGN (opens up in brand-new tab). “It binds them to a certain code of honor for their conduct. It also binds them to their history and what’s left of their people. So Rayvis is not just this ‘gruff grunt #7’ who can take an army down. He’s got a long past. He’s seen a lot of history. He could be a thousand years old. He’s seen empires rise and fall, he’s seen the Jedi rise and fall, he’s seen the rise of the actual Empire itself. So he’s got a lot of tragic history and a lot of depth that we try to explore.”
Based on their experience in the trailer, it absolutely appears that Rayvis and also Cal will certainly be combating each various other, though Respawn’s fast to avoid calling Rayvis a bad guy. Still, in charge battle opportunities are fascinating. Arazi keeps in mind that “Gen’dai are just fun because… what do you do to them, right? ‘Oh, I’m a powerful Jedi, I have a lightsaber, I’m going to slash you…’ It does nothing.”
We’ve really seen this precise situation in the 2003 Clone Wars collection led by Genndy Tartakovsky. In that reveal, a Gen’dai fugitive hunter called Durge takes on with Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the last experience, Durge’s shield obtains launched and also the tentacly mass of his body begins broadening and also ravaging home. Eventually, he takes in Obi-Wan – and also is taken off by a broadening bubble of Force power.
The series births greater than a little similarity throughout of the anime standard Akira, and also something comparable can make one hell of a video clip game manager battle. (Look I enjoyed this animation when I was 12 and also continued to never ever mature, alright?)
The Gen’dai unfortunately really did not show up after the huge cull of Star Wars canon that occurred when Disney purchased the franchise business – a minimum of, not up until extremely just recently. Durge went back to canon as component of the War of the Bounty Hunters comic crossover in 2021, and also currently Rayvis will certainly be the 2nd Gen’dai to be component of the modern-day Star Wars tradition.
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Source: gamesradar.com
