If the 2018 Thrawn novel is canon (one never knows), then Thrawn is part of the elite circle who know that Darth Vader was once Anakin Skywalker. Which means he’s going to have some interesting buttons to push when he’s confronted by Ashoka “Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice” Tano.

For those who don’t know, the “grape quality” thing is an in-joke referencing Yoshida’s other game, Final Fantasy XIV. When the Endwalker expansion launched in 2021, there was a vineyard in one of the starting areas with a bug in the grape models. They were supposed to have a sliding poly resolution based on distance…

The content drought hurt, and so did the original team leaving, but what killed it for me was the hero redesigns that pushed it from a hybrid game that encouraged tactical play to more of a focus on traditional FPS skills.