What are your too ***SPICY*** to handle hot takes of the trilogy?

The rachni were subverted multiple times. The Protheans used them as unwilling ground forces. According to the me1 queen, they were influenced to start the Rachni Wars by some outside force..Sovereign??? In ME3 the queen is either captured or cloned to create reaper enhanced Rachni. I would keep them far far away from the front lines. The choice in to save the Rachni queen a second time, is one of the worst tactical decisions. It is one of the paragon decisions that I feel should have negative repercussions. Heck it should at the very least piss Wrex off and throw a hurdle into the turian/krogan negotiations.

Yes the Rachni were focused entirely on stopping the Reapers without any concessions demanded and that's a big reason why they stand apart. In a galaxy of squabbling humanoid species, it was the "Big Scary Space Bugs" that actually saw the danger the Reapers possessed and acted accordingly from ME 1 onward.


The reason I single out the Krogan (and Wrex in particular) is twofold though in the chaotic nature of the Reaper invasion one point stands out much more prominently I will admit.

1) Tuchanka wasn't under threat when Shepard came to Wrex/Wreve for aid. Unlike the Turians, who were bogged down occupying the majority of the Reapers' forces; thereby allowing the whole Crucible project to act unmolested; the Krogan weren't being invaded enmass like Earth or Palavn were. Even the Quarians, as stupid as their bum rush attack on the Geth was, were legitimately bogged down and were physically unable to offer assistance of any kind. Wrex and the Krogan however are under no such dilemma. Wrex/Wreve are perfectly within their power to send help, to stop the genocidal robot squids coming to kill every last advanced form of life in the galaxy, and they do nothing. 

Now with Wreve this is to be expected, as he is a brutish warlord interested only in his own gains; as most stereotypical Krogan are. Wrex though, he was supposed to be different. The whole of game one painted a picture of how he was a Krogan who thought about the bigger picture. Game two expands further on this fact with how he is in charge of his own clan, and that he was leveraging the breeding rights of the few viable females to consolidate control over Tuchanka's warring clans. Then in game three, he is set as the defacto leader of all the Krogan in the galaxy, able to hold massive sway on what his species does. And above all this; especially if recruited as a squad-mate in game one and helped in game two; he calls Shepard a friend.

Yet, when this friend comes to him for help, not only in saving the Krogan but the rest of the galaxy in a desperate plan to stop the Reapers, he does all but flip him/her the bird. 

Rather than send help, at the very least a token of assistance in the form of a battalion or two, he instead says that the Krogan will do nothing, they will not help the combined races of the galaxy in the fight in any way, unless the Genophage is cured. Forgetting that this is a war for the very survival of the entire galaxy, that at any moment the defenses at Palavan could fall; thereby unleashing the flood of Reapers the Turians were holding at bay; as well as the fact that the Genophage being cured wouldn't even result in tactical gains in the immediate war; not even result in viable combatants for twenty years at least; he still stipulates the entirely of his aid on this one insane demand; effectively holding a gun to the galaxy's head.

What's more, even after agreeing to his demands, a process which; if one assumes the player completes every side quest in the Tuchanka arc; takes at least a few weeks to a month; time in which Palaven could easily have fallen; Wrex acts like a total ass to everyone around him. Even when the Turian Primarch offers aid in the form of fighter support, or the life of his very son in saving Krogan lives from a Cerberus plot, he still acts snide and practically laughs in Victus' face when the news of his only son dying reaches the command center on the Normandy. 

Then, even after his ransom of the galaxy is paid, Wrex still demands garden worlds in payment for what he sees as the Krogan's "services" in the war.  

And despite all this. Despite the way with how combative Wrex is, with how unreasonable his demands are in the face of total annihilation, the narrative still treats him as the good guy.


2) This is a minor point in comparison, but one I felt was rather ironic considering the way the narrative liked to fawn over the plight of the "Poor, abused Krogan people" in that the Rachni, and their arc over the course of the trilogy, was nearly identical and yet they get indifference; even gratitude; in their extinction by the narrative while the story will bend over backwards trying to paint how noble and misunderstood the Krogan are. 

Cosider how both species are: Seemingly wild and aggressive, yet have a strong sense of nobility about them. They were both the pawns of other races, using them for frontline & disposable tools of war. And they both want to be trusted and accepted by a galaxy that fears them for past atrocities committed.

Yet, out of the two of them, only the Krogan are really considered worthy of that honor seeing as how killing the Rachni queen in game three; if she was saved in the first game; is only derided with quips and references to the movie Aliens from Joker; which even the most Paragon of Shepards can join in on. While the game will make players look into the eyes of Wrex, effectively being called a monster by the writing, if they side with the Salarains and sabotage the cure. Even the most Renegade of Shepards looking sad for betraying their friend. 

stunningly good looking people?

Indoctrinated by the Reaper.

There’s good parts.

Rannoch and Tuchanka were alright. The Asari Monastery was pretty scary.

The Tuchanka arc starts low (Krogan Air Drop) but consistently picks up, to have its culmination line up with some of the top points of the entire series. Rannoch is only "good" compared to the rest of the game, it is otherwise mediocre and a sorry excuse. Especially the turret fight with the Reaper is just deplorable, straight out of a CoD  game. Everything else is entirely forgettable to downright ruinous and what good sections exist, are tied to ME2 characters, like the Asari Monastery, Grissom and Aralakh Company. The rest of the game is some of the worst lows in the entire trilogy, that makes the copy-pasted bunkers and caves of ME1 feel like a breath of fresh air. And I'd take 10 mutated giant robot skeletons, before I took a single Starkid. In fact, scratch that, I would take an infinite number of mutated giant robot skeletons, before I even considered the option for a Starkid. And you can like ME3 as much as you want, you can think it is the second coming of Jesus, for all I care, and you're welcome to your opinion, but at some point, deep down, you know it too that it is an unforgivable ending to the trilogy.

*ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL*

THEY PAY THEIR TRIBUTE... IN BLOOD!

The fact that the geth aren't interested in war is an interesting concept, but I remember an ME1 sidequest were the geth captured and huskified a crew and then put the ship where an organic could find it.

That needed to be addressed.

What happened to that ship was done by the Heretics not the Geth, since they used Reaper technology, and the Heretics were interested in war since that’s what their god wanted.