I was looking through people's opinions on Star Wars books/comic books on Reddit. For comic books someone suggested the Darth Vader comics. I read through the first few chapters and it's just him being an idiot and manipulated by Palpatine, slaughtering his own troops and then committing atrocities on non-combatants. Does it get any better? He is gonna remain the bad guy until the end so I am not sure what the value is in reading this. Sounds like it's made for Star Wars wehraboos.
For books some people suggested the trilogy about Thrawn. I know nothing about him except he is a villain too so I am not optimistic about that either. Haven't started reading it yet.
Thrawn books are good. Rest of the pre Disney books are a shit show, at one point one author kills the mc to another series right before the finale. Also some of the books justify the death star/ Darth sideous which starts to get a bit weird (I loathe the yuuzan vong story line)
For comics: Darth Vader is the best one, has some panels which go hard (I am surrounded by fear and dead men). I also liked Tag and Bink (comedy series), and the crimson empire as a kid but idk how well they hold up.
Personally the games (Battlefront 2, Republic Commando, Jedi knight series, knights of the old Republic 1 & 2) were all more impactful than the books.
Which series is that? I used to be big into the star wars books and don't remember that one
I tried looking it back up, I think I'm half remembering Gilad/Callisto Ming/Mara Jade/the entire Denning v Traviss v Alliston drama
I don't know if it's still available these days, but Jedi Academy was the shit when I was a kid. I loved that game. Everything you mentioned was also fun, but special mention for the KOTOR series and the emotional moments they could evoke.
Steam has just about the entire lucasarts library including the Jedi knight series
Oh? I may need to relive that era soon.