Mass Effect Trilogy: 9 Crazy Facts You Never Knew
2. Mass Effect: Deception Gets Almost Everything Wrong
The above picture depicts Tali, a member of Mass Effect's Quarian
species. As you can see, Quarians wear special, hermetically sealed
suits to protect their weakened immune systems. They do not
wear "a motley collection of clothing, held together by a variety of
straps and metal fasteners".
The above description comes from Mass Effect: Deception, arguably the worst video game novel ever created (which takes some doing in a field that turned Doom's demonic hordes into a race of aliens called "Fred").
Prior to Deception, Mass Effect's literary adventures were worthy additions to the canon, offering enjoyable side-stories that expanded on the series' lore. Deception, however, was a complete mess that didn't just ignore the rules of the Mass Effect universe, but seemed to take a perverse joy in breaking them.
Notrious xenophobe Kai Leng is depicted ogling alien strippers in a night-club; Quarians and Volus alike wear outfits that would kill them instantly due to each species' unique biological demands; the paranoid, isolationist Batarians inexplicably have an embassy on the Citadel, Mass Effect's most famous interspecies hub...
Presumably the Deception the book's title refers to is the one its author perpetrated on Bioware when he pitched to write the novel. "Sure, I know all about your games!" [Thinks: “What the hell is a Massive Effect?"]