The current Star Wars era is larger and more expansive than ever, and yet also everything must align and matter to the rest of its wider universe. It means that we have moved from a side character in a series of novels showing up as a big deal on The Mandalorian to this: how do you logically navigate the story of a Star Wars arena shooter?
Star Wars: Hunters is a Nintendo Switch and Mobile devices game that is a parody of the current popularity of the hero shooter genre. Lucasfilm is expanding their gaming ideas and getting Star Wars skins on ideas that are popular in the modern gaming space. From the highs of simulation games like TIE Fighter to the more modern games like Battlefront and Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars games have always been like this. The new trailer for Hunters is going to be no exception.
The rough idea of how the various characters of Hunters are going to play in its four vs. four arena combat game is the only thing it focuses on. There are two Jawas on top of each other. Rieve is a Jedi Knight who is programmed to think he is a Jedi Knight. There is a lot going on here that makes it hard to square the circle.
It is crazy that this is set in the immediate wake of Return of the Jedi, that a galaxy recovering from conflict on an unimaginable scale as the Rebel Alliance finishes its civil war to reform as the New Republic, and that somewhere out there there there are teams of mercenaries turning out droves. If a Disney hotel can get a comic series, why not an Ugnaught?
Maybe the point of the matter is that the line of thinking is silly with the scope of Star Wars right now. The desire to seek a value out of canonical status has long had a detrimental effect on the way audiences perceive stories in Star Wars or otherwise, but given that this is a push Disney and Lucasfilm have stuck to for the best part of a decade now, it stands to reason that people are going It doesn't really matter if Rey, Finn, Rose, and Poe sit alongside the same universe as two Jawas in a trenchcoat. Maybe we should look back to the old Expanded Universe for inspiration, and say that all these stories and ideas fit into each other, but something will get weird and messy and you can take what you want out of these stories from a certain point of view.
Maybe it is just that Jawas are cool. Who can tell? It is possible that Star Wars: Hunters can be released on mobile and Switch platforms.
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