The down side to Star Wars

There is a down side to Star Wars, and it may put off some fans. It's
impossible to deny that The Force is at best a cruddy new age philosophy.
Unfortunately, the best way one would become a "good" Light Side Jedi is
to behave exactly like a stereotypical ultra liberal would. Like in KOTOR,
basically every time you find an encounter that will earn you light or
dark points it's going to be a "help the poor" or "defend the alien from
the racist human" type of situation. There are rare but welcome times
where it will mean letting the bad guy live instead of hacking his face
off, but these are definitely not representative of the "moral dilemmas"
the game throws at you.

The other thing, and it somewhat ties into the conservative/liberal
problem the game has, is the Czerka Corporation. In the game Czerka is a
galaxy-spanning super corporation with shady business practices that
include genocide against the Sand People and slave trading with Wookiees.
They are about as faceless and evil as an evil faceless corporation can
get and in addition to being a very "big business is bad" sort of message
Czerka is also just plain fucking clichéd. Luckily they are not THE bad
guys they are just SOME bad guys.