Having Saved the Galaxy
Oct. 18th, 2015 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoI'm going to talk about the whole game so be warned.
First off, my general impression of the game is good. It's the weakest of the three chapters, but it's still good. I think a lot of my frustration with the game is that a lot of it felt like I was being ushered past a series of lovely diorama and admiring the artistry but not interacting with it. The endgame felt like a 45 minute cut scene, with occasional breaks where I got to limp down very long corridors designed to allow me to experience all the frustration of the painful mobility of the dream sequences but without the pesky agency of them. Which... are a couple of things I wanted to touch on. I'm guessing that the gigantic brain child on the citadel was the dream boy and it was... a metaphor about something, and was not just Shep remembering the kid she left on Earth. Because they seemed pointless and annoying at the time and I kept waiting for some kind of payoff. Instead all I got was discovering myself on fire and ruining a perfectly good date night. One of the other things that bothered me was the Illusion of Agency. It seemed like there were a lot of choices where they said "Here's a choice." and tried to pretend like it made a difference what happened. Which reinforced my feeling like I was being ushered along instead of playing a game. The kid was just condescending enough to be irritating but not get punched. And in the end, I limped down a long walkway until I got to a thing I vaguely remembered during the Cutscene of Incredible Length and discovered that I couldn't move away from it to look at other things. So I'm not sure what ending I got, but I didn't get to marry my yeoman so it was obviously the wrong one. My second pass, saving every time I escaped from the No Save Zone, I played Shep as the renegade iconoclast she'd been through the trilogy and was amused that I got the Rocks Fall Everyone Dies ending. I did not think they'd go there.
All in all, I don't think I get why people were so crazed about the ending. The format was exasperating, but I've gone over that already.
#MassEffect3WorldProblems #SamIsMyCoPilot
First off, my general impression of the game is good. It's the weakest of the three chapters, but it's still good. I think a lot of my frustration with the game is that a lot of it felt like I was being ushered past a series of lovely diorama and admiring the artistry but not interacting with it. The endgame felt like a 45 minute cut scene, with occasional breaks where I got to limp down very long corridors designed to allow me to experience all the frustration of the painful mobility of the dream sequences but without the pesky agency of them. Which... are a couple of things I wanted to touch on. I'm guessing that the gigantic brain child on the citadel was the dream boy and it was... a metaphor about something, and was not just Shep remembering the kid she left on Earth. Because they seemed pointless and annoying at the time and I kept waiting for some kind of payoff. Instead all I got was discovering myself on fire and ruining a perfectly good date night. One of the other things that bothered me was the Illusion of Agency. It seemed like there were a lot of choices where they said "Here's a choice." and tried to pretend like it made a difference what happened. Which reinforced my feeling like I was being ushered along instead of playing a game. The kid was just condescending enough to be irritating but not get punched. And in the end, I limped down a long walkway until I got to a thing I vaguely remembered during the Cutscene of Incredible Length and discovered that I couldn't move away from it to look at other things. So I'm not sure what ending I got, but I didn't get to marry my yeoman so it was obviously the wrong one. My second pass, saving every time I escaped from the No Save Zone, I played Shep as the renegade iconoclast she'd been through the trilogy and was amused that I got the Rocks Fall Everyone Dies ending. I did not think they'd go there.
All in all, I don't think I get why people were so crazed about the ending. The format was exasperating, but I've gone over that already.
#MassEffect3WorldProblems #SamIsMyCoPilot