Would anyone really be complaining if the plot had excised all reference to the Crucible and instead the final battle had been Shepard defending the Citadel on the ground with the fleets battling overhead and a bunch of different final videos based on the choices/War Assets you'd built up over the series?īecause that's what I was expecting when I came into the game. With hindsight it's pretty clear that the smaller pieces of the plot that I actually cared about (Grissom Academy, Tuchanka, basically any time I ran into former squad members and none of the aforementioned horrors were present) were where the competent writers were working and that the overarching plot was the personal baby of a fifteen year old kid who'd just read his first Batman comic and watched 2001: A Space Odyssey and thought that these represented the pinnacle of human artistic genius and wrote his own lousy fanfic. The third was of course, Kai Fucking Leng. The second was the godawful dream sequences. For me at least it was the first warning sign that the whole thing was going to shit. Click to expand.A crappy plot device introduced in the third act of a trilogy with no foreshadowing is symptomatic of crap writing.
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