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[Crabhands]

So I finished Mass Effect 3 last night, and I wasn’t sure
what to think. The ending shattered me, left me reeling, head spinning, and
I didn’t know whether to hate it or love it. Parts of it were manageable—Shepard
dying, for instance, I think was necessary to the narrative and necessary to
cement his or her place as a legend—while others were confusing, such as the
fate of the Normandy. However, no matter what I think of it, I have to say it
was a good ending; not because it was everything I wanted and set everything to
rights and I saved the galaxy hooray, but rather, because it’s stuck with me
the way it has. I actually couldn’t sleep properly last night because the
ending has affected me, personally, in such a huge way.

I actually think the one of the big problems with Mass Effect 3’s ending
and the one that hurts me the most, leaves me thinking “everything we have done
is for nothing!” is the destruction of the Mass Relays. With these gone, and
with an apparent and established inability to construct new Mass Relays, the
grand scope of the setting is effectively and forever neutered (this may, of
course, change if we ever discover what happened to the Normandy). We’ve
trapped all our friends and allies in the Sol System without a means to escape
over a world that was utterly ravaged by the Reapers, and while it’s possible
the Mars Archives may hold the secret to Mass Relay technology, I doubt it. And
it’s because of this that much of what we’ve done seems pointless; we put Wrex
on the throne and cured the Genophage, but with him trapped in Sol, will the
krogan end up changing? On Thessia, the possibility—the likelihood—that the
asari’s goddess is actually a Prothean came to light; will that hook ever be
resolved? With the majority of the quarian and geth fleet trapped with no way
home, did our actions on Rannoch matter? With the Salarian’s refusal to send
their fleet to help in the final battle, will they be welcome on the future
Council? (Of course, we didn’t all get these results, but you get the idea.)
Also, I took issue personally with the apparent selfishness involved in the
three endings: to save Earth, we have to doom billions of aliens, people, who
were our staunch allies in retaking it, to never see their own homes again. I’m
not sure if I think that saving one planet is worth that, and if I’d been given
the option, I would have gladly sacrificed Earth to destroy the Reapers but
leave the Relays intact.

The fate of the Normandy was hugely confusing; why was it
the only one running away from that... energy, I guess? Was the Catalyst or
maybe Shepard specifically targeting it? Why was it not with the rest of the
Alliance fleet? How the hell did it get
out of the Sol System? [/i]Is it a new form of faster-than-light travel that the
races of the galaxy will unlock by examining the Crucible? How did our ground
team get there? And what will happen to them all, now that they’re stranded?

As to the actual ending options... while I didn’t really
like any of them, I do think that they were each huge. Each had massive
ramifications; whatever you pick will change the galaxy forever, each in its
own way. While the scenes themselves may have been similar, there is a
difference between destroying all synthetic life and turning it into a 50/50
split with organic life; that’s something that will hugely impact the galaxy.
Still, I can see why a person would feel like they are the same no matter what
you choose; the Relays are gone and the Normandy is stranded and Shepard is
more than likely dead (though as mentioned above I think this is important to
the narrative).


Anyway, I guess that’s it. There’s a lot I didn’t like about
the ending, but it has affected me in a big way. I hope they change it—or at
least give us some closure on a lot of the questions we have—but I can only
expect that they have further plans for Mass Effect. Or hope, at least.