8 Smart Video Games With Incredibly Dumb Twists

3. Mass Effect 3 - No Time To Explain

Is this low hanging fruit? Absolutely. Low hanging fruit is still delicious though, and after you’re done, you can throw the seeds at the chumps still climbing the tree. So, let me take a break from shoving these delicious, easily-obtained grapes in my mouth to say that Mass Effect 3’s hologram child was hot garbo juice.

“How should a series only tangentially about byzantine sci-fi explanations and mostly about friendship end?” someone asked. “With a byzantine sci-fi monologue!” someone stupid replied. And then someone even stupider agreed.

Very little of Mass Effect’s depth or appeal ever arose from the larger philosophical questions about the purpose of its universe. Nearly everything good about the series was about the personal struggles of its fantastic characters, and the political tension between its many species. This twist acknowledges precisely none of that.

Now, Citadel was a great DLC, and went a long way towards fixing things. Really though, this will never be OK until Shepard is joined by Luigi in Haunted Mansion get-up, ready to suck the catalyst into a hoover bag filled with dog hair.