Four years ago today, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed crashed onto Nintendo Switch and gave Star Wars fans another excuse to throw stormtroopers into walls with the Force. The Switch version launched on April 20, 2022, bringing the 2008 action game back in portable form. Aspyr handled the release, and official StarWars.com coverage at the time leaned hard into what made the game memorable in the first place: Sam Witwer’s Starkiller, wild Force power fantasy, and a story that still occupies a weirdly beloved corner of Star Wars game history. That made it more than just another old-game re-release. Because The Force Unleashed has always had a very specific reputation. It is messy, loud, overpowered, and about as subtle as a Star Destroyer falling out of the sky. But that is also why people remember it. Long before every major franchise wanted cinematic third-person action and morally conflicted antiheroes, Starkiller…
