But the second go-round you get extra XP and bonus powers, something that makes another adventure almost worth it.Īs for the last mission itself, I was happy to learn that yes, my gathering of an all-star crew was indeed important to the plot, as every character you’ve collected is in some way important in the finale. You can either keep playing with your current character, doing all those side-missions I didn’t want to risk putting off, or you can play through again, either with your current character, a different ME1 character, or an entirely new creation. So yes, Bioware listened to all the hate, and I think the way they set up the end of the game was perfect. I can’t really blame the game for this, but it is rather sneaky in slipping in important decisions disguised as trivial dialogue choices. In order to right this wrong and get my crew back, I need to reload a previous save and replay about five hours of side missions, a prospect that is too exhausting to consider at the moment. It wasn’t until my second playthrough with a different character that I learned that had I not waited, and headed directly to the Relay, I would have arrived in time to save my missing crew, something ironically I only did as my Renegade, as my Paragon now roams around on a mostly empty ship, the rest of the crew liquefied into a Reaper protein shake. It’s kind of hard to take these guys seriously when their guns and ships look like they’re all made of poop. Therefore, before I headed into the Omega relay, I took some time and explored every single system and did every single side-mission in preparation for the fact that I wouldn’t be able to do it later.
I was deathly afraid of another “hard” ending, and the promise of a “second playthrough” seemed to only reinforce my suspicions that this would be the case. In a way, Mass Effect 2’s success relied entirely on the end for me. If you have not been able to crank out a completion or two of the game in the past two weeks, I suggest you turn back now and revisit this post later. This article is going to contain some obvious spoilers, but I feel it’s pretty important to discuss the ending of the game. What have I found? Bioware listened to nearly everything I said, and only through my mistrust of their ability to right their own wrongs were certain aspects of gameplay screwed up for me. Well, my time with Mass Effect 2 has drawn to a close (at least until substantive DLC comes out) as I’ve now beaten the game twice over and sunk over forty hours into the thing in less than two weeks.
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