In the last two weeks I have spend a large amount of my time
trying to figure out the best way in which I could approach this topic and each
time I started, I found myself going into following topic that I want to talk
about. So to get the ball rolling I decided that I would link both these two topics
together and knowing that this blog would be too big for just one week I
decided to spread it over two weeks instead. I should also take this moment to mention
that this topic will also contain spoilers, so you have been warned.
This week marks the one year release of a game called Mass Effect
3, for those that are unaware this game is a third person role playing game that's
story is told over three game with the third game being the finally. If you
have done any reading online since its release you will discover that a large
majority of people dislike the way in which the game ended and wanted a new
ending.
So today and next week I am going to go though my thoughts
as to why I liked the ending of Mass Effect 3 while at the same time talking about
each point that others have raised about why they dislike the ending.
The main reason that
I like the ending to Mass Effect 3 was because it left this air of mystery that
got me thinking about what the ending meant to me and where I as a person or
fan could take the story. A good example of what I am trying to say is that I
could write my own fan fiction or writing up my own thoughts on a blog, which
is what I am going to do.
Now one of the best parts
that I really enjoyed was when I arrive at the Citadel main control room and
found myself talking to both Anderson (my commanding office) and The Illusive Man
(leader of a human criminal organisation called Cerberus), the reason that I
like this part is because you get to see how far The Illusive Man is willing to
go to meet his own goals while laying down the foundation of what is going to
come next.
Now the complaint
that I have heard about this part is how did The Illusive man arrive at the Citadel
when it was under the control of the Reapers, the answer to that questions
comes to you while you are on the Cerberus base talking to Prothran VI because
he tells you that The Illusive Man has left his base and gone to the Citadel to
tell the Reapers (the bad guys) what you have planned for them.
The next part that
really got me thinking was when I met the creator of the Reapers and his explanation
of their goals. The reason that this part really got me thinking was because
one the creator of the Reapers comes to you in the form of a child and second
is because of his reasons as to why the Reapers are wiping out the galaxy, which
in turn sounds like circular logic but if you take a moment or two to think
about it you will discover that his logic and appearance are what I believe to
away in which you can see and relate to him while at the same seeing his side
of the story.
When It comes to the
internet on this part they really hated the idea of the Reaper creator and his
logic and the fact that all they could do as a player is to listen to what he
has to say, for me to tackle this I will first talk about why I believe the
creator has appeared to you as a child and then why his logic isn’t circular.
The first thing that
I wanted to get out there is the fact that I don’t believed that this child
looks anything like any of the AI (Artificial Intelligence) or VI (Virtual
Intelligence) that I have come across thought out the series and my reasoning
being this, is that one we have never seen an AI or VI take the form of a child
and second that if you watch him you might notice that there is some form of energy
moving around him which has lead me to believe that this so called AI is actually
an original Reaper that has found some way to ascended. This explanation alone would
also explain why no one on the Citadel has seen him before and why he has taken
the form of a child to relate to your character.
Now when it comes to
truly understand why the Reapers have reached this circular logic, you must first
go back to when the Reapers ruled the galaxy, (this is what I would like to
call the Reaper era) at this point in time you would have to take into
consideration that the Reapers themselves where organic and not the Synthetics
that we now know them to be (like we have seen in both the Prothran and Human era’s.)
As I said in the
Reaper era, the Reapers themselves are organic and have now created their own
synthetics to help them but at some point these synthetics turned on the
Reapers and the two went to war. As the war raged on the Reapers came to the
conclusion that they could not win the war, so they came up with the idea of
making themselves part synthetics which in turn created the Reapers that we now
know. With this new technology the Reapers won the war and saw how costly it
was to them and other race, with this knowledge and from what they have seen
from other race that had gone thought the same thing, the Reapers decided to harvest
all the races that were at a certain technologic point and add them to
themselves. Once they had completed this task they left the galaxy to the
younger races knowing that in 50,000 years time the galaxy would end up in the
same state as it was before they became the synthetic Reapers and that when
they returned they would then harvest these races to save them from being
destroy by their own synthetics, thus creating the cycle.
The last two parts
that I want to look at this week is to do with what happens after you have made
your choice, I should make a point here that the choice part of this blog will
appear next week due to it being a very large section.
The two parts that I
am referring to is when you active the Crucible (A weapon you hope will destroy
the Reapers), at this point a beam of energy leaves the Crucible and Citadel
and heads out to the Mass Relay (this allows faster than light travel), upon
hitting the Mass Relay it collects up the energy that is stored within the
relay and then moves on to the next relay. As it does this the relay is destroy
and a wave of energy is realised that ever destroys the Reapers or
re-programmers them.
Now when I completed
the game I went with the destroy the Reapers ending first and then went though
and did the other two ending afterwards and the reason that I liked these ending
is because of two reason, one being whichever choice you made you already knew
that the Crucible had a large amount of energy stored within it and that it had
to go somewhere and second you also need some way to delivery your chosen
choice.
As I said if you
were like me and went with the destroy the Reaper ending you have to take into
consideration that you are not just destroying the Reapers but everything that
is Reaper and that includes your own technology which is based on Reaper technology
along with the Mass Relay which they created.
You might be asking
yourself how do I know this, well Sovereign tells you all this in Mass Effect 1
when he tell you that the Mass Replays were created by the Reapers so that all
race that came after them would follow the path they had laid out for them. Now
if you went with the two re-programming ending everything stay’s the same but
the only difference is that the Mass Relays are still destroyed because the
energy that is realised from them is so that they can deliver your chosen choice
but on the flip side you still have the Reapers around to help you rebuild the
galaxy quicker.
The Internet on the
other hand had the believe that by destroying the Mass Relays they ended up
killing everything within the galaxy and removing faster than light travel and
in turned dooming both the fleet’s around Earth and those on colonies though
out the galaxy to die.
First let’s look at
the destruction of a Mass Relay, in Mass Effect 2, Arrival DLC you watch as an asteroid
hits the relay which in turns destroys the relay and the white energy that is
stored within the relay becomes unstable and blows up the whole system without
you seeing anything from within the exploding. While in Mass Effect 3 the
energy that is within the relay is removed from each relay before they are
destroyed allowing you to see the relay itself being destroyed making the two
explosions completely different thus not destroying the whole galaxy.
When it comes to the
fleets and alien worlds you have to take a few things into consideration, one
being that after you win there isn’t going to be much of a fleet left around
earth and second yes all the different races colonies will be unable to get to
one another but they do still have their own people on those planets. So what
you could say is that those that are left on these planets can rebuild their
homes and within time get everything that they had once lost back.
That brings me to
the end of this week’s blog but come back next week to see my final thoughts on
the ending of Mass Effect 3
Until Next Time.
Link to the ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhf-GZpNCxU
Link to the Arrival
DLC Mass Relay exploding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGr9T1k8QOY
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