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Hit $50 total on my Jedi Survivor Cal Kestis and nobody believes me
I see all these posts about how you gotta drop $200 minimum for a screen-accurate cosplay, but I just finished Cal Kestis from Jedi Survivor for exactly $48.37 at the thrift store. The secret is that brown poncho from the game looks way more convincing when you actually distress it yourself with sandpaper and coffee stains (the smell takes a week to air out, fair warning). I got a tan work jacket for $8, a pair of old combat boots for $12, and sewed the shoulder patches from scrap fabric I had laying around. The lightsaber was the tricky part because everyone says you need a fancy neopixel, but I built one from a PVC pipe, a flashlight, and some electrical tape for under $10. The whole thing took me about 6 weekends of work, and at the last convention I went to, three separate people asked where I bought the jacket. Has anyone else had that moment where your cheap build actually looks BETTER than the expensive versions people post here?
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jessefoster2mo ago
Wait, Cal doesn't wear a poncho in Survivor, you're thinking of the first game.
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diana_park2mo ago
Ugh totally feel you @jessefoster that error bugs me too haha
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evan_harris1412d ago
Actually you got a point there @jessefoster, that poncho detail from the first game gets mixed up a lot because people remember the aesthetic more than the actual gameplay. I made that same mistake when I first got into the series and it took me forever to figure out why Cal's gear felt off. What helped me was looking at the item sprites side by side. The poncho in Survivor is way lighter and has a different pattern, almost like a rain jacket. Did you notice that the crafting system in the first game makes it easier to overlook little details like that?
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