I just finished it Sunday night. I'm the kind of guy who can get past the flaws in a favourite franchise, defending, rationalising or accepting them for what they are without it ruining the rest for me, or otherwise simply buying into it even if the writing or explanations aren't all that great.
Can't do it here. I'm just astonished. Surely it was deliberate? I don't know how anyone can screw up that bad by accident, let alone the writing team of Mass Effect.
At the very least I was expecting it to have something to do with Dark Energy messing up stars like that of Haestrom as we learned from Tali and Kal'Reegar in ME2, or an explanation for the Collectors building a Reaper without doing the whole invasion thing. But space magic, illogical bullshit and surrendering to the Reapers' own spoonfed solutions? It took Mass Effect's message, spirit, style, plot, lore and the fundamental rules of storytelling, tore it all down and pissed all over it. It's been three days and I still feel sick.
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