That's how powerful Anakin was. Kenobi had to get lucky and bait him. If they fought on a flat surface, Kenobi would be dead, and if Anakin wanted to, he could also kill Palpatine like it was nothing, which he does in the Dark Side ending of the Revenge of the Sith video game.
Tbf George himself said that Windu would have beaten Palpatine if Anakin didn't show up. For some reason people like to argue that though even though we literally have footage of him saying that Windu would've won.
tl;dr: due to ramp up pipelines the sequel to a game is usually in the works before the first one hits the shelves.
That is because of Windu's fighting style, Vaapad, which channeled Sidious' dark energy back at him. That is why Yoda lost and Windu won, against Sidious, even though Yoda was stronger than Windu in the Force.
That, and Kenobi was ready to die, since he'd already trained with Qui-Gon's spirit in the desert on how to become immortal.
Might be because he was supposed to be a big part of "Underworld"/"Level 1313", so they're kind of using George's unproduced material for inspiration, but of course they have to put their own shitty stamp on it instead of just whole-heartedly embracing his weird autistic vision.
If we could have DS9 era Ron Moore writing a Star Wars show Disney would finally have a Star Wars hit.
The first game "under-performed" and was largely mocked by anyone who wasn't a consumer or niggercattle, what in the fuck were they thinking making a second one? Was it already in development before or immediately after the first game? Or was it just a sparkle in Goobisoft's nutsack but they consider that enough to call it "in development." Why even tell us like anyone gives a shit since all this does it make you look even more incompetent? Too many questions for these Eldritch beings beyond human comprehension.
Speaking of underperforming, Solo was shit so they dangled Darth Maul in people's face to try and sequel bait. His death in Rebels was how he should have ended, doesn't mean they won't try and use the time before his death to milk him for all he's got.
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I'll try to tl;dr but the answer is "It was in development before the 1st one was even in beta"
Oh yeah, and I also like to think of Di$ney Star Wars as crappy Current Year fanfiction too.
I mean with how genuinely sloppily written the sequel trilogy was it basically WAS crappy fanfiction.
To this day I have not seen much of the sequel trilogy. I also never saw much of the 2nd prequel, but seems that "I don't like sand" movie is still better than JJ Star Wars.
I promise you it's probably worse than you think.
I'll do you one better; everything since 2008's Clone Wars is fanfiction, with varying levels of quality but always in a downward trajectory. It's akin to watching a teenage girl crashing out and making their crap worse to spite people leaving mean comments, but also due to terror that their fake online friends on whatever shithole they write on know they care about fake causes. We're at the part where the now crazy 30 something self-diagnosed nightmare is socking and puppeting their reviews, and recycling their earlier works that actually got positive feedback.
