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To be honest, I had already guessed at some kind of circular logic idea from the Reapers after ME2. My theory was a little bit different, but I believed in all honesty that the Reapers felt they were doing organic life a favor. Forgetting everything you learned in ME3, my belief was this was a sort...

I'm sure it was meant to pique the curiosity of the game's audience, but I'm not sure if they ever planned on giving an answer to it. Ah, but here I have to disagree. As Shamus wrote, ME1 is a genre mash-up of optimistic space opera sci-fi and Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The genre conventions of sc...

So... I wrote a thing: “ The Meaning of Mass Effect: A Cursory Look at the Themes of the Mass Effect Trilogy ”. In it, I argue why the ending of ME3 was actually good on a conceptual level -- i.e. the writers didn't come out of nowhere with it. It was a good idea that naturally capped the trilogy, ...

So... I wrote a thing: “ The Meaning of Mass Effect: A Cursory Look at the Themes of the Mass Effect Trilogy ”. In it, I argue why the ending of ME3 was actually good on a conceptual level -- i.e. the writers didn't come out of nowhere with it. It was a good idea that naturally capped the trilogy, a...