Aulis Vaara wrote...
Watching videos such as this and this, can anyone honestly say that Javik is not important to the story and game?
LinksOcarina wrote...
hes fully integated, but not vital to the storyline. Hell, anyone with a sense of history could have told you that, considering how the universe was mocked up, the Asari likely worshiped the Protheans without knowing they were Prothean.
Neither is Garrus, yet I'd like to see anyone argue he's not vital to the game, or even the story.
What did he add to the table other than more layers to the Prothean Lore?
See, one thing Mass Effect 3 did was lower the amount of historical investigation that occured. You can't just go up to people and ask them about their history or culture anymore, you can't get a sense of the geo-political situations with the races through random investigational talks. Instead, its mostly catching up, finding out info, asking about family and how they are being affected in this war.
Javik is a throwback in many ways to game one; you finally learn that the protheans were not the cultural renissance that you expected them to be. You learn about their imperialistic nature, their arrogance as a race; something that was more or less alluded to in game one and two but never outright said.
Javik adds dimensions to the lore, but has little to do with the story. There is a fundamental difference here on the two. Javiks interactions with Liara are great bits, but its mostly pertaining to what Liara knows as a scholar, and what Javik knows as a Prothean. The whole scene on Thessia is a great extra, but Liara comes to the same conclusion without Javik. It just sounds better with him there.
This is something that a lot of players need to understand; Javik is not integral to the plot of Mass Effect 3, but he is integral to the lore of Mass Effect 3. Both of them are somewhat intertwined, but considering everything Javik says and does, he is strictly lore-based information over plot-based information, as we saw when he had no answers regarding plot elements.
As for Garrus, he is vital to the story by virtue of the fact of being involved in the story. His arc; becoming a leader under the tutalege of Shepard, concludes in 3 after taking a turn in 2. Garrus comes full circle and finally has responsabilites and makes decisions on his own without second guessing them. He is also part of the story because he is involved in the main plot, albiet indirectly as one of the few Turians who was working to help his kind be prepared for the Reapers. So Garrus is the opposite of Javik, he brings little to the Turian lore, but he is important to the story because of the comraderie with Shepard and his arc as a character.
Modifié par LinksOcarina, 16 mars 2012 - 03:33 .
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but somewhat it is the TRUTH *cough* 
