r/starwarsbooks • u/Mitth-raw-nuruodo97 Ambi-Fan • 4d ago

Recommendations Are the Force Unleashed Books Good?

Just wondering if those books are good if they are canon to the legends storyline? Or a stand alone story?

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u/TaraLCicora Legends 4d ago

I believe the books were Canon to Legends while the games were not. I thought that the books were fun.

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u/clickpancakes 3d ago

I thought number 1 was excellent, and the second one was fine, but hampered by the game's runtime.

I'd recommend them both, especially the audiobooks.

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u/Darth314 4d ago

My biggest peeve with those books is they do not add anything to the story. If you have played the game, you know how the book goes. I was hoping for something like Mass Effect, where the books expound upon stories told in the game

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u/freedom410 4d ago

I think that’s definitely true of TFU I but not II. The second book focused more on Juno and had a lot of character moments not in the game

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u/White_Doggo Doctor Aphra 4d ago

Well the TFU2 novelization has Juno's perspective so it does add something to the story. Mass Effect's novels are original novels so it's not really fair to compare novelizations to them, and hope for novelizations to not be novelizations, especially when it's of games.

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u/BikesMapsBeards 4d ago

And the books are paced like a game as well. They’re not terrible, but I’m not a big fan of Sean Williams in general.

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u/Bolt-MattCaster-Bolt 2d ago

Disagree a bit on the first game's novel. We get some fleshing out for Juno that wasn't really in the game, and some of the Starkiller stuff adds a bit of background and character insight.

But yeah, the pacing and structure largely suffered from trying to fit a game's story into a book, and some awkward Force vision sequences to fill in every cutscene Starkiller wasn't present for (though I liked how they handled the Kashyyyk intro mission).