By the time of his death, he's succeeded. Thane's story revolves around his son, Kolyat, and his desire to rescue him from a life of crime. There's no grand sacrifice to Thane's ending. His final muttered bars of Gilbert & Sullivan might be a step too far into fan service, but so what? He's earned it. And yet he's sacrificing himself anyway, because it's his mistake to fix.

Unlike many of Shepard's companions, Mordin isn't a hardened badass. But there's a hint of sadness there-a small crack in his resolve.

He carries himself well as he steps into the elevator leading to the room that will simultaneously release the cure and kill him in a big explosion. Assuming your Shepard isn't a colossal dick, he gets to do that. His guilt over his involvement in the Krogan genophage is apparent in Mass Effect 2, as is his belief that it was necessary.īy ME3, it becomes clear that he's determined to fix what he's come to see as a mistake. He's a scientist, whose greatest achievement in the eyes of his people becomes his greatest source of regret. Mordin Solus is my favourite of these, precisely because he isn't a capital-H hero. Mordin, Legion and, ultimately, Shepard her/himself can all potentially offer themselves up for the greater good. Granted, ME3 leans a little heavily on sacrificial resolutions. That's quite an achievement for a big-budget RPG series about fun space adventures. Many are brilliant, the kinds of memorable farewells that have genuine emotional resonance.

From the start, the story is concluding and stripping away everything that had been built over the past two games. The 'pick-from-three-options' Deus Ex-a-like structure was pretty cheap, but it ultimately resolved a seemingly unresolvable plot thread. That's not entirely true-the ending I picked was perfectly in sync with Shepard's actions and decisions over three games. The standard complaint against those endings is that they don't reflect your decisions through the trilogy up to that point. Because I don't love Mass Effect 3's final endings. Today, Phil praises Mass Effect 3's endings. In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it's brilliant.

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