Mass Effect 3 and ending

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My review of the game:

LOVED IT. Such a good game, I loved about 95% of it ... the other 5% I'll get to in a minute. For now this is an unspoiled report and I say - if you love Mass Effect you should play the game right away. It develops all the plotlines we care about and resolves most of them very well. The gameplay is tight and varied (although it could have been moreso) and the new RPG elements are an improvement over ME2.

Those who know me know I am a Wrex fangirl through and through and I was not disappointed :) The resolution of the post-krogan-rebellion storyline was a fine bit of writing and the highlight of the game for me. I daresay those scenes were written especially for me, because Bioware could probably hear my joyful squealing all the way in Canada.

Now the 5% I didn't like - Listed here and therefore are also spoilers. No ending spoilers though, I'll hide that in a link-through for those not finished yet.

1, That freakin child.

The boy in the duct in the first mission is a shoe-horned over-used transparent gimmick that sucked me out of the story. Children are innocent and therefore their deaths are more tragic, but when that child is 1, in a human-sized duct like Aliens, and 2, written with the clunkiest most un-childlike dialog I've ever heard it breaks my immersion. If the game wanted to make the fight personal, it should have killed a character we cared about, or done something particularly moving instead of pulling the frayed heartstrings of the audience with a fish-hook like "child murder" that's as bad as killing the dog. It resorts to gimmicks instead of emotions.

2, The sticky cover system

It killed me more often than any monster

3, Space Ninjas

Why did there have to be ninjas? I know Ninjas are cool - but sword fighting feels so out of place in this third-person shooter full of lasers. Plus those Phantom soldiers can bite my shiny armored ass.

4, Romance Options

I was hoping for a sexy new romance option for 3. I broke up with Garrus just in case there was a good one and I found nobody -_- nobody to my liking anyway. Then at the very end when I had no love interest to reflect on apparently the game thought I romanced Liara... Um... no, I didn't. I should have been reminiscing about Wrex! Oh man, that would have been the best thing ever!

5, The Ending.

I wrote a tumblr blog about  the ending and why I don't think it's Satan incarnate : jenniferstolzer.tumblr.com/pos… but short-hand and unspoilered I was a little disappointed, but I can see what they did there. I still would have liked a chance to get my shiny parade ending with toasts and confetti and the works (because I'm a sucker) but I can understand what they did instead.

Spoiler/

at the very least can we at least get a Star Trek 3 ending? I would have been satisfied with that.

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So what do you guys think? Leave comments below with your thoughts.

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ConfusedMage17's avatar
The game was awesome I mean it was great what you could do to help Wrex but I found the ending to have bits that seemed off but i gotta amit with the red option shepard looks pretty awesome while he is shooting