User blog comment:Battlemaster Grunt/What is the best Mass Effect? 1,2, or 3?/@comment-1786741-20120930195003/@comment-4950455-20121001004835

I actually thought Kai Leng worked better than a lot of people think - he would have made a terrible main villain, but as the flunky to a secondary antagonist, I actually thought his "punk kid" persona made him a thoroughly unlikeable recurring nemesis. The number of times I've read people's satisfaction at killing him with that Renegade interrupt is proof enough that Bioware succeeded at what they were aiming for with Leng.

However, the fact that the actual main villains were largely depicted as a faceless force didn't work out so well in my book. The Reapers weren't alien enough (by this point, anyway) to work as a personality-free enemy, but didn't have enough of a personality to work as more conventional villains.