User blog comment:Legionwrex/How Dead Space is now copying Mass Effect./@comment-1786741-20130208045319

Really.... just... REALLY?!?!? An alien Cthulhu-like monstrosity isn't exclusive to the Reapers, they are FAR from the first to do it and the best implemented. These Brethren Moons are COMPLETELY different in terms of reasoning, composition, and setting. From what I can tell they have no reasoning for harvesting organics other than to create more of themselves, it's just a basic compulsion. There is no cycle to their harvesting, they just do it whenever they have an opportunity. The Reapers on the other hand were created by a logically flawed AI so they could harvest organics to turn them into Reaper organic-synthetic hybrids so they won't be killed by synthetics. They only kill that cycles advanced species then rinse and repeat. The only similarities they have are purely superficial.