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Rutskran sings in this episode. You are honor-bound to listen to it in its entirety. No cheating, no skipping ahead. No turning down the volume or leaving the room.

Really interesting conversations in this one, near the end. The change in quality and depth between this part of the game and the main storyline is simply shocking. The story is more coherent. The characterization is better, and there’s more of it. Even the fights are more interesting and better staged.

The main story is so quarantined from the rest of it, and so brief, and so much worse. I would love to know how this game was constructed.

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A positive, coherent, thoughtful look at several aspects of the game. Sorry. I don’t know what came over us.

Reminder: Keep those questions coming for the 100th episode. Also, don’t worry about repeating questions. Seeing a question appear more than once will help us to see that it’s a popular question.

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Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Spoiler Warning. Today, we’re going to wrap up the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC with a special two-part episode.

I know this is longer than most of you prefer, but if you can tough it out you will reap the following rewards:

1. Mumbles and Rutskarn will beatbox their way into your heart during one of the special instrumental “oops Josh is dead again” interludes.
2. I do my Doctor Claw voice.
3. Rutskarn and I say something about the game that might be construed as marginally positive.
4. We find out how much hard drive space Josh has.

Aside from the fact that he was a new, unique alien, I really had no idea what the Shadow Broker was like. I guessed that he looked like Bowser, as a joke. Later I guessed that he was Dr. Claw, as a joke. I guessed that he had a throne room, as a joke. I made these guesses for humorous effect, because of how stupid and absurd they sounded. Then at the end we found out he looked like Bowser, sounded like Dr. Claw, and sat around a throne room.

BioWare is like your high school sweetheart that you marry right after graduation, and then wake up one day years later and realize you simply don’t know this person anymore. Where did it all go wrong? It’s hard to say. Their attention seems to be elsewhere, and you suspect they might be wooing someone else behind your back. The only thing to do now is to start drinking and feeling sorry for yourself.

On the upside, the hook at the end was pretty cool and I can’t wait to see how the consequences of this play out in the next game!

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.