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Beyond the Hello and Welcome to a very special episode of Podcast Beyond.

I'm your host Max Scoville and today we are joined by Stig Asmison from Respawn Entertainment

who is the game director on Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Fallen Order.

Welcome Stig. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. It's a great opportunity for

us.

All right, we good? Okay. So, um, yeah, Bo D'Akunah is the big bad. He's the plot twist.

He's jumping in there. We're getting in the deep end here. We're getting right to it.

He's, you know, he's set up as this wonderful kind of charismatic fun guy and then surprise.

It's, you know, it's not Ravens. It's not, uh, you know, uh, I can, I can, I can, I can

tear it down. But, um, it's both. Was this always the plan? How did this come to be? I

want to know sort of how did, how did Bo D'Akunah become a character?

Well, let me ask first. Did you all fall for the, the twist there or?

I didn't trust him. You didn't trust him. It seemed too good. Like it felt, like early

on on Coruscant, it felt, it was like, okay, cool. This is cool. And like all the promotional

materials is like, hey, this is an ally. So it's really sold me is that, um, I think what

really got me was the, I think at the second fight with D'Akun and then he starts like just

appearing after like D'Akun, like, threw him out and like was doing all these like,

forced things. I was like, how was Bo D'Akunah in here? Like, this isn't makes sense.

Like, if he's just a normal dude with a blaster, like, he shouldn't just be appearing

randomly. So that was like, that was my tip off point. I was like, something bigger

is going on with Bo D'Akunah. That's interesting. Like when we were play testing the game, we saw,

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