I just started a new playthrough. What I'm doing is using only one power, using no weapon, each squadmate will use one power and I will be doing this on hardcore.
I am using a character I haven't used in over a year.
Her name is Linda Shepard, Earthborn, sole survivor, adept and playing mostly as a paragon. This is a new game plus. She is nowhere near as evil as my main Shepard, Elizabeth Nancy.
I will tell the story through the eyes of the characters in the game instead of femshep's, unless there is no other character around. I plan on doing the dlc's except Omega.
Anderson sees Shepard walking toward him. Good. He didn't feel like walking to her room. He feels bad that she was locked up for 6 months when she could be finding a way to stop the reapers. He see's Ashley and Shepard exchange a few words and then he and Sheard meet the committee. A few moments later, the reapers arrive and attack Vancouver. He hands Shepard a pistol and notices she has a cut under her left eye. She'll be fine. He tells Ashely they'll meet them at the Normandy. He notices Shepard moving alittle slow. Maybe the 6 months made her go soft. Doubtful. They make their way into a building and he doubles back to see Shepard looking in a vent for some reason.
Another reaper lands and blows up an Alliance ship. They help a couple of guys and go back fighting the ugly things. He makes his way to a radio and tells Shepard the Normandy will be here in a moment. When the ship arrives, he tells Shepard he will stay and gives her dogtags. He runs towards the shuttles as the Normandy leaves.
As I step out of the shuttle, I see a massive sandstorm headed my way. Ashely says its nothing. Yeah. Sure. Ok. I see a dead Alliance soldier and wonder what is going on. Shepard tells us to be on the lookout and to be ready for anything. The next moment we are fighting Cerberus. What the heck is going on? On top of that, Ashley and Shepard have a little hissy fit with each other. What's that all about? We run into an Asari who knows Sheaprd and Ashley and mentions plans that are in the archieves that might help stop the reapers. Shepard tells me to head back to the shuttle just in case.
Its been along while since I've seen Shepard and even a longer time since I've seen Ashley. Both look to be in good spirits despite the circumstances. We made our way through fighting a lot of Cerberus soldiers. Shepard looks like her old self and Ashley continues to wipeout the enemy like always. They make it to the archieves and end up talking with TIM who wants to control the reapers instead of destroying them. Shepard thinks he's crazy. I realize that the data is being downloaded from another part of the archieves. I see Dr,Eva running away with the data and the three of us give chase. As the operative jumps in the shuttle, another shuttle smashes into it sending it to the ground and injuring my left leg. That really hurts.
Dr.Eva is a mech. It runs out of the shuttle and grabs Ashley smashing her head against the shuttle. Shepard fires at the thing, then tells James to grab it while she recovers Ashley's body. Once on the Normandy, we head for the Citadel. Once there, we are greeted by Commander Bailey.
I have to say playing on hardcore and only using reave, the fighting on Mars was easrier than I thought it would be. I might move the difficulty up to insanity.