• 1 Grieving
• 2 What was that all about, anyway?
• 3 DLC?
• 4 Do we deserve proper endings?
• 5 The endings I would have preferred
  • 5.1 Reaper motivations
  • 5.2 Synthesis ending
  • 5.3 Paragon ending
  • 5.4 Renegade ending
• 6 In closing
• 7 Links

I finished the game, and I finished crying my eyes out. I’m the kind of person who gets emotionally invested in video games — when the storytelling is of this caliber — and I really didn’t need this devastating blow.

Mass Effect 3 was a roller coaster of emotion that took me through frustration, anger, sadness, elation and hopefulness. As I played it, it was a wonderful uplifting tale of triumph over hardship, bitter enemies becoming allies, the weak being defended by the strong, true friends changing one’s life in immeasurable ways, and th…

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