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[Phoenix1330]

After
finishing the game, I started to take a look at different endings and
what people thought of the ending, and all I can find are people
complaining about it.

Personally, a couple plot holes aside(how did my team get on the Normandy?), The ending wrapped up the story perfectly.

I
hear a number of complaints about the fact you can't save the mass
relays, or that it doesn't provide closure for all your squad, or the
other races. I think THAT IS THE POINT.

The fact you felt
connected to the squad so much, you need to know what happened to them,
is tantamount to perfect writing. The loss of the mass relays is
supposed to evoke frustration, you don't know what happened to the other
races, because the rest of humanity doesn't either.

I admit that
when I finished the game I walked away with a heavy as hell melancholy
feeling, angry, sad, and frustrated all at once. I felt I should have
been able to do better, I felt that my squad deserved better, that I
needed one last conversation to wrap things up, then walk into the
sunset with Ashley. But as I mull the ending over in my head, I realized
that the feelings I was experiencing were EXACTLY what Bioware was
trying to evoke. They were trying to show you that you CAN'T always save
everything, that even a battle won is a defeat in it's own right. The
fact that there is no complete closure with your squad, is because their
own personal lives and endeavours to build The Stargazer's
civilization are still ahead of them.

There is supposed to be a
sadness evoked in the lack of knowledge of your squad and the other
races. You have no idea as to if they are ok, if they survived, if you
managed to stop their extinction. It brings a bitter sweet taste to the
victory you just pulled off.

Personally, I think the fact that
Bioware was able to enrage you, to evoke so much strong emotion
regarding your squad, other races, the mass relays is EXACTLY why this
ending was perfect. It's not what we wanted. It's not what we expected.
It HURT. The fact that 7 hours after completion, I am still reeling with
emotion from it says it was a PERFECT ending, if not in events, then in
story.

*dons flame suit*
Discuss.

[Stanley Woo]

Please use the existing thread to discuss this topic. Thank you.

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