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Looked up more Legion stuff. Someone at Bioware really likes the intelligent guy deadpans snappy comebacks trope, but they do pull it off well. Okay, time to finish off Mass Effect 2.

Okay Tier
Miranda (1/2): A strange personage, to be sure. Shes genetically engineered to be perfect but feels angsty about it, which has always been a weird trope. There are a few hints of her crafting her own schemes, but it never develops into anything (Mass Effect 3?) I like that her loyalty mission fleshes out her backstory, but its very disappointing that Niket still dies even if you talk him down.

Samara (2/2): Your first impression of her is watching her throw some poor sap through a window, brutally beat and murder them, and have her justify it as part of her code. Naturally, this creates the expectation that she will eventually face consequences for her actions and reflect on her morality. Then that never happens. Then you seduce her daughter so she can murder her. Pretty messed up, NGL. The reason shes still Okay instead of outright Bad is that she does occasionally express remorse for her actions, and her circumstances are conceptually interesting even if they are pretty messed up.

Its obvious to me that Biowares greatest strength is not their storytelling, worldbuilding, or certainly not their gameplay, but their character writing. No squadmate is truly bad, most are a cut above the average video game character, and a few are excellent. I wonder about a Bioware of an alternate dimension that devoted their writing talent not to video games, but television. They may have bitten off more than they could chew in trying to create an entire world that youre meant to explore and impact, but it seems like they could have excelled in an episodic structure in which they could focus on a few character or plot arcs at a time. Most of the loyalty missions already feel like episodes of Star Trek, with the team landing on a planet, encountering a moral dilemma that they each have differing views on, and talking out a resolution. For all I know, maybe some Bioware writers did work on television, or do now. Either way, I do understand the love people have for Mass Effect. I just think it exists in the wrong medium.

Now I know Im early but I feel like playing an entirely different space-based sequel from 2010.

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