{"id":18080,"date":"2012-12-16T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T13:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18080"},"modified":"2012-12-16T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T19:28:00","slug":"mass-effect-ep19-exposition-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18080","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect EP19: Exposition Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Dfbv7bf9yg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Dfbv7bf9yg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>At five minutes into the episode, Josh and I both deliberately keep quiet while an NPC talks? At length? Who are these people? These impostors aren&#8217;t the Spoiler Warning crew I know! <\/p>\n<p>This is my favorite part of the game. The meeting with Vigil is pretty much the heart of the Mass Effect 1 experience for me.  I think most people cite the meeting with Sovereign as the big turning point in the game, but this meeting with Vigil is the part where the game really hooked me.<\/p>\n<p>What would it be like for a newcomer to play the games in reverse order, I wonder? Both the first and last games have an encounter with an &#8220;oracle&#8221; of sorts, and both moments use the same musical cues. Here at the end of the reverse-playthrough we have a meeting with Vigil the shapeless construct, missing his Jamaican accent, who doesn&#8217;t seem to know anything about the catalyst, and is surrounded by statues of clearly non-Prothean beings. And where the hell is Cerberus? Nobody even mentions TIM at all! Why is Liara such a child all of a sudden? Why don&#8217;t my guns need bullets now? THIS GAME SUCKS!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, if the comments I see are any indication, the backwards player won&#8217;t ever reach this point: They&#8217;ll be driven off by the mushy combat mechanics before they ever assume direct control of the Normandy from Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, great moment. Loved the voice work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0789479\/\" title=\"David Shaughnessy on IMDB\">David Shaughnessy<\/a> as Vigil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) At five minutes into the episode, Josh and I both deliberately keep quiet while an NPC talks? At length? Who are these people? These impostors aren&#8217;t the Spoiler Warning crew I know! This is my favorite part of the game. The meeting with Vigil is pretty much the heart of the Mass Effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[71,208],"class_list":["post-18080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-mass-effect","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}