Does this game continue from the light or dark side ending of KOTOR 1?

[Eddie Price]

^ I played light side and just wanted to know if I should replay as dark side before playing KOTOR 2

[cerberusiv]

Either. You get a conversation with Atton early on when your responses to what he says set what happened with Revan in Kotor 1.

Doesn't affect anything significant in this game anyway.

[Craftian]

Yeah, it'll change the gender of references to you/Revan and some of the lore surrounding the end of the Jedi Civil War but that's pretty much it. The events of TSL generally remain separate from the original of five years before.

[MassConnect]

Rhetorically, I'd argue the answer is neither. The game doesn't supply any information that references any optional outcome. The player can comment on what "rumor they heard" about Revan, but even doing so does not make the game reference the prior game's choices. Everything in this game is vague/neutral/new information from the periods before and after the last game's events.

[Godbert Manderville]

As others said, you can choose if your character was Light or Dark as well as male or female in KotOR 1, and there are no major outcomes but there are a few minor things.

For example: on one planet, you can optionally find a Sith holocron, but you are only actually able to view what is recorded on if if you said that you were a Dark Side character in the first game at the prompt near the beginning of the story.

Also, depending on which gender you said your KotOR 1 character was (and therefore which love interest could have been unlocked in the first game), there are minor scenes of one of the K1 party NPCs speaking about your character from the first game.

If you really care, the official canon was that you were a Light Side male in the first game and a Light Side female in the second game until Disney declared pretty much everything aside from the movies and Clone Wars series to be non-canon.