Finding all this was interesting, I haven't been keeping track of Bioware releases aside from TOR since the DA2 PR issues. Nice to see Bioware is willing to offer an apology, but personally I won't be impressed until they either strike the book from canon completely or rewrite it with a new plot.
There is too much wrong with it to fix, fundamentally, and I can't enjoy a book that kills off children to make me hate a bad guy that I already hate. It didn't make me hate him more, it just killed off some interesting characters that don't have 'ME3 story-shields'. Gillian might have been an interesting protaganist, Nick too, for future books. If they stick with the same plot, not anymore I suppose. And if we are going the 'grimdark' path with the side-material to the games I may not follow it anyway. I like Mass Effect because its a semi-serious Sci-Fi with interesting characters, not for a 10% survival rating for that cast. The prevous book was a little disturbing with what Gillian's father went through, but it was within tolerable limits. There isn't even the reason of 'keeping them out of the way for ME3's plot' since there is no compelling reason for Shepard to even meet them, not even getting into the fact that there are countless other ways to keep them 'busy' aside from death.
Hm, I wonder how Jack would fare against Leng. She is experianced in... well, pretty much everything. I doubt she would fall for his tricks. I have a mental image of her breaking his arms and legs with Biotics at a distance, while smirking, and a sharped toothbrush-shank falls from his limp fingers... but that might just be my twisted mind. Never the less, Shepard will be having a few words with Leng in ME3. And by words, I mean bullets to the knees. And by knees, I mean crotch. And by bullets, I mean the omnitool-knife. And that will just be my Paragon Shepard.
Modifié par Alixen, 07 février 2012 - 08:05 .