Lol, this is the Dirty Harry argument all over again. Evil cop person who doesn’t respect law or due process. Bureaucracy good, vigilante bad, there is no grey area. You can see these retards in the characters, the useless attack journalist you can punch out, Uldina is basically Nancy pelosi circa 2008, etc. the entire point of shepherds story was that he was constantly undermined because he was the only one who initially found out about the reapers. His battle was to save the galaxy despite itself, it’s a heavily religious allegory that they backpedaled hard on while rushing forward to in three. The entire purpose of shepherd was to be the shepherd in the valley and save life despite itself. Allegorically we see these themes constantly in history, Jesus, Prometheus, hell half of Greek mythology is Demi humans achievements despite both gods and humans meddling.
You can tell they flatlined hard on three because it was the beginning of the end of gaming. There was a very clear allegorical storyline that was convoluted in two, and completely train wrecked in three. It wasn’t even a new story cycle for them, you can see heavy story elements from kotor in the first mass effect. The worst failings of three were clearly the “diversity” cast, the wokening of the storyline, and the lack of any real sense of dread by any character, it all dissolved into “I feel bad” “were facing complete genocide of intelligent life” “but my feelings!” .
I dunno, man. They literally end 3 with an old man telling his grandson “the story of the shepherd.” The quality of the writing wasn’t ideal but with the weird dream sequences and all it seemed heavy in 3
Which would have made sense from 1’s end, 2 was fluffer, great fluffer mind you, but fluffer none the less. 3 was diplomatic simulator and constantly trying to “white savior” everything with no real consequences to your actions, there was no life ending despair feel. Cerebus was a failure of writing and imagination in its entirety. Shepherd during the “Ascendancy” ending was so convoluted and hamfisted because they didn’t reiterate the themes from 1 throughout the series.
Lol, this is the Dirty Harry argument all over again. Evil cop person who doesn’t respect law or due process. Bureaucracy good, vigilante bad, there is no grey area. You can see these retards in the characters, the useless attack journalist you can punch out, Uldina is basically Nancy pelosi circa 2008, etc. the entire point of shepherds story was that he was constantly undermined because he was the only one who initially found out about the reapers. His battle was to save the galaxy despite itself, it’s a heavily religious allegory that they backpedaled hard on while rushing forward to in three. The entire purpose of shepherd was to be the shepherd in the valley and save life despite itself. Allegorically we see these themes constantly in history, Jesus, Prometheus, hell half of Greek mythology is Demi humans achievements despite both gods and humans meddling.
You can tell they flatlined hard on three because it was the beginning of the end of gaming. There was a very clear allegorical storyline that was convoluted in two, and completely train wrecked in three. It wasn’t even a new story cycle for them, you can see heavy story elements from kotor in the first mass effect. The worst failings of three were clearly the “diversity” cast, the wokening of the storyline, and the lack of any real sense of dread by any character, it all dissolved into “I feel bad” “were facing complete genocide of intelligent life” “but my feelings!” .
I dunno, man. They literally end 3 with an old man telling his grandson “the story of the shepherd.” The quality of the writing wasn’t ideal but with the weird dream sequences and all it seemed heavy in 3
Which would have made sense from 1’s end, 2 was fluffer, great fluffer mind you, but fluffer none the less. 3 was diplomatic simulator and constantly trying to “white savior” everything with no real consequences to your actions, there was no life ending despair feel. Cerebus was a failure of writing and imagination in its entirety. Shepherd during the “Ascendancy” ending was so convoluted and hamfisted because they didn’t reiterate the themes from 1 throughout the series.