It’s obvious I’m a fan of long-form game analysis, particularly story-based. I love to write about games, read about games, watch reviews of games, and talk about games. In a way, the retrospective is just another stage of the experience. <\/p>\n
This is producing a strange side-effect where I’m starting to feel glad<\/em> that the Mass Effect 3 ending was so completely awful in every way, lacking in both coherence and closure, and completely discarding core themes in the last minutes of the game. Sure, a high-profile series ended in a train wreck and a great chunk of lore-rich world-building has been reduced to pretentious mush, but the resulting conversations and deconstructions have been more interesting to me than the game itself. I enjoyed assembling my own list of objections<\/a>, and I’m still collecting new objections to my running mental tally. <\/p>\n Here is yet another person stepping up to deconstruct the ending. Yes, they lead off with a nod to Red Letter Media<\/a>, but the review doesn’t go that way. This is actually the most highbrow one I’ve found so far, and the author plays things very straight.<\/p>\n