Tag: mass effect

mrsalenko:

tbh tho

I really like the reapers as villains. they’re probably my number one villains. I felt their actual menace and sort of… benign evil. they’re awful and horrible and commit atrocities but they don’t do it to specially be evil they do it because that’s what they do. And that’s what makes them scary.

they’re like a hurricane or flood, you can get angry and rage against them and despair but they won’t notice or care or listen to arguments. there’s no reasoning, no stopping them except that deus ex machina (literally)

sovereign finally talking to you gives you chills because he’s so LOUD. so RED. so imperious and impervious and overwhelming. you believe what he says, because it’s not boasting, what he says is true. they are infinite. heck, you can only kill one reaper after extreme effort and an orbital strike against an already weakened one… and it’s like holy shit. how can you even fight millions of them. just being AROUND them indoctrinates you and damages your brain.

it gives shepard a real sense of exhaustion and slow overwhelming losses that I haven’t seen captured so well in a game before. you and shepard both think ‘I need to do this.’ but inside it’s like ‘how can I do this. they’re killing everyone and I can’t stop them.’

mass effect 3 especially is sometimes hard to play because the atmosphere of war and loss and feels so oppressive at times, like you slowly slide into shepard’s exhaustion and slipping grip on hope, the only bright spot your friends and LI and small snatched moments of peace