Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s Koboh is looking more expansive with each new piece of gameplay footage that releases for it, and it is becoming clearer that Koboh will be a planet that players likely make the most trips back-and-forth to. It will be exciting to see how many more secrets are still being withheld on Koboh and other planets that Cal Kestis travels to, especially now thatCoruscant has been revealed as a destination inSurvivor. Thanks to the latest gameplay shown,Survivorhas also revealed that it will feature a boss fight against a fearsome Rancor.
It looks like this boss appears on Koboh as a threat players encounter while exploring, and that makes exploration on these wider, semi-open-world planets much more intriguing. The Rancor is an iconic creature fromStar Wars, and it is not too surprising to see it in theFallen Ordersequel sinceSurvivordoes seem to be leaning more toward nostalgic iconography from the franchise. If it wanted to take this nostalgia a step further, though, it should introduce more boss fights with creatures fromStar Wars’ second prequel movie,Attack of the Clones.
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Jedi: Survivor’s Rancor is the Perfect Punch of Original Trilogy Nostalgia
Battle droids appearing inStar Wars Jedi: Survivoris wonderful because it gives the sequel a greater depth of enemy variety.Fallen Orderfeatures a ton of stormtroopers, and while they may still be reprised in the sequel, it is fantastic that other enemies have been considered.
Battle droids in particular are a great homage to the prequel trilogy inStar Wars, which makes sense because theStar Wars Jedifranchise takes place afterStar Wars’ third prequel installment,Revenge of the Sith. The Rancor, however, is a neat way to tie Respawn’s action-adventure franchise intoStar Wars’ original trilogy, but particularlyReturn of the Jedi.
This is not to say that every creature from the original trilogy is confirmed forStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, but it opens the possibility for what fauna and beasts could appear now. It is likely that other iconic creatures will show up, and having them appear as intermittent bosses is a phenomenal way of briefly including them. Likewise, the potential for creatures to appear from the prequel trilogy should be even more apparent.
Jedi: Survivor Can Pay Homage to the Prequels with an Acklay, Reek, or Nexu
Attack of the Clonesfeatures a memorable sequence where Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padme Amidala are held captive in Geonosis’ Petranaki arena. Here, the trio is chained individually to tall posts, and are offered up to an acklay, a reek, and a nexu.
Each character takes on one of these creatures in the coliseum before a swarm of Jedi and battle droids flood it, and having one or more of these creatures would make forgreat boss fights inStar Wars Jedi: Survivor. Nexus could appear as mini-bosses players come across randomly on Koboh, for example, or a cavern could house a single, massive acklay.
Fallen Orderhad a memorable boss fight against the gargantuan Gorgara, andSurvivorwould do well to include more boss fights against enormous creatures iconic tothe expansiveStar WarsIP. Of course, seeing characters such asStar Wars: The Force Unleashed’s Starkiller inSurvivorwould be a terrific surprise, and many fans hope to see legacy characters returning for theStar Wars Jedifranchise, but creatures could have the same nostalgic effect without needing to explain anyone’s reprisal in the lore.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivorlaunches on July 03, 2025, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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