LDS Darth Revan wrote...
Sharkey1337 wrote...
LDS Darth Revan wrote...
I'm of the persuasion that the boy on Earth was real. Someone else stated that he could've received the boy's image from either a surveilance feed, like the Superintendent from Halo 3: ODST, or done what Leviathan did and pull the image from Shepard's mind.
Yeah, I think the child is real when we first see him playing with the ship, but after that it's in Shepard's head, such as seeing him run into the building with the locked door where he hides in the vent. That is a good point that Glyph would've seen Shepard looking at the kid from his cell, as I'm sure Liara would've wanted surveilance on Shepard during his 'incarceration'. And maybe it is possible that the Reapers could simply pull it from his head as well, as the indoctrination would've been slowly building at this point.
ok, but I mean he is real until the Reaper Destroyer destroys the transport he is on. The official artbook states that the boy is supposed to reprezsent those Shepard couldn't save and I don't think they'd go that far with IT to the point of lying in official items to cover a single clue. Also, to defend the Catalyst being overlord over Glyph, he could have done it instantaneously too, like Leviathan did.
The boy doesn't necessarily have to be real to represent those who could not be saved. I do not think the child is real. Even if one disregards the impossible distance he traveled for a lone human child amidst the ensuing chaos, his disappearing act in the vent is way too strange to ignore.
He disappears without a sound on cue with the sound of a reaper growl. In Mass Effect Retribution, it was noted that the growl signified a failed attempt by the reapers to take hold of someone's mind. Anderson's call for Shepard's attention snaps him back to reality and the boy disappears at that same moment with that familiar growling noise.
And so theres no room for doubt, the vent scene with Liara and Cerberus troops did a good job pointing out that crawling through vents is noisy as hell.
Modifié par GethPrimeMKII, 05 décembre 2012 - 11:42 .