He wasn't the first to drastically force a Star Destroyer in any particular direction. Though he received no blowback for it, while the first one to do it DIED, being a conduit channeling the wills of less than a dozen students to push away a whole fleet of them.
It's not just drastically forcing a star destroyer around (although yes, that is one of the things). It's beating Vader multiple times, beating Sidious, providing the symbol of the rebel alliance, meeting and rescuing a bunch of major names without ever being mentioned by any of them, etc. The second game (and the "alternate timeline" DLC for the first) much more openly come down on the side of "yeah, this was never going to fit into canon," which does make it more forgivable when talking about the game itself, but in turn only exacerbates the foolishness of anyone who uses him to defend the decisions Disney did make for their canon, as well as making it more ridiculous when people talk about how much they wish Starkiller himself was canon.
For the record, I think a lot of the higher-end EU force stuff is too drastically out of scale with the movies. I know Starkiller isn't the only one who has a crazy showing like that (Palpatine's fleet-killing force storms also come to mind, for instance), and I think almost all of them are stupid.
He wasn't the first to drastically force a Star Destroyer in any particular direction. Though he received no blowback for it, while the first one to do it DIED, being a conduit channeling the wills of less than a dozen students to push away a whole fleet of them.
It's not just drastically forcing a star destroyer around (although yes, that is one of the things). It's beating Vader multiple times, beating Sidious, providing the symbol of the rebel alliance, meeting and rescuing a bunch of major names without ever being mentioned by any of them, etc. The second game (and the "alternate timeline" DLC for the first) much more openly come down on the side of "yeah, this was never going to fit into canon," which does make it more forgivable when talking about the game itself, but in turn only exacerbates the foolishness of anyone who uses him to defend the decisions Disney did make for their canon, as well as making it more ridiculous when people talk about how much they wish Starkiller himself was canon.
For the record, I think a lot of the higher-end EU force stuff is too drastically out of scale with the movies. I know Starkiller isn't the only one who has a crazy showing like that (Palpatine's fleet-killing force storms also come to mind, for instance), and I think almost all of them are stupid.