Choices which are presented by a Virtual Intelligence that looks like the child that has been haunting their nightmares since they escaped from Earth at the beginning of the game. They have conquered foes great and small, undone genocide at a genetic level, brokered peace between mortal enemies, discovered the origins of millennia old threats to the galaxy, romanced their way through several species and then they are presented with two (or three!) choices. The ending of Mass Effect 3 finds your Commander Shephard beaten, bloodied and bruised, stranded on the Citadel, unsure whether their crew and friends are alive, cradling the body of their fallen mentor, looking out over the last remnants of the galaxy being destroyed by a huge Reaper force and still entirely unsure what the device they have spent an entire game constructing and maneuvering into its current positon above Earth actually does. I really, really liked the original ending to Mass Effect 3. Even now, four years later, the ending of the trilogy clouds people’s memories. In fact, the endings were so hated that Bioware released free DLC to extend and improve them.
The conclusion to Bioware’s epic space opera is widely accepted to be nothing more than a massive let down, a series of disjointed cut scenes that stumble to three far-too-similar endings, never really reflecting upon the decisions you’ve made and the story you’ve crafted for three whole games.
It is no secret that people disliked the ending of Mass Effect 3. As the four-year anniversary of Mass Effect 3’s release fades from view it’s time to discuss something important: the ending.
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