User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-1900300-20120330052406/@comment-1900300-20120331010002

''I think Thane knew what he was doing in the fight. It was an unknown enemy that could cloak if given the chance, He had to stay close and engaged to prevent losing sight.''

That i don’t really buy. Thane has been in this situation enough from the other side to know whats the best tactic, and charging at an enemy with a sword when you have a gun is not the best tactic. Huddling together with Shepard and his squad, keeping an eye on all sides and looking for the blur of a cloak, with the target protected between them is possibly the best tactic. Shooting him when he has failing over like in that scene also works.

As for Tali's mask i assumed she only had it off for a few seconds to a few mins. The fact she took a photo with the whole suit off is, in Mordin's words, problematic. Through Bioware does seem to be playing loose with how sick she gets. After the romance cut scene she makes out her body has "adapted" to Shepard. Weird and does not take into account they have had sex twice, with a gap of several months.

''kai leng using a sword: rule of cool. and obviously that's some sort of visor with hud.''

Rule of Cool has a shaky relationship with Suspension of Disbelief. And in this case i just dont believe it. a sword in a world of guns, tech skills and space magic is just stupid to me. He is basically bringing a knife to a gunfight. And the poor animations for his fighting stances that don’t look all that badass don’t really help.

How does a visor help in melee combat? It should be useful in targeting guns. A visor like that only blocks peripheral vision and would be the bane of any sword fighter.

And yeah really may hopes for Kai Leng simply didnt match with what we got. I was hoping for an antagonist that toyed with Shepard constantly, all the while joking at each other skill. The kind of bad guys who is so fun and awesome you want him to win. But what we got was a villain-sue. Really. Characters go out of their way to say how much of a bastard he is despite him not really doing anything on-screen to justify it, and with little time to develop a character for us to hate. Didn’t they already have a character from the books? Anderson actually claims he is a bigger threat then the REAPERS. Im sorry but that is a huge claim to make. so devoid and personality or charisma is felt nothing for him. Ill throw Bioware a bone in that the scene with Leng destroying the speeder and the scene with him walking calmly down the collapsing temple. That was pretty cool.

New issue. Why in Mass Effect once the order has been made to evacuate the Council, they manage to do it in a few mins while under external and external attack, since Saren had already gotten onto the Citadel with his geth by that point. Now come ME3 and, presumably because of a lack of communication, sleeper agents or whatever, and the Council’s evacuation is not only too long, complex and just bad, it was facilitated not by C-Sec agents but just some Spectre who showed up to the Council long after Cerberus’ actions became clear.

And why is the escape shuttle in such a poor location? It is basically sitting on one of the many balconies inside the Presidium, with next to no security measures to avoid gunships or snipers. I will let this go if it was a desperate flee to the shuttle since proper escape channels were cut off, but here comes another.

Why did Kai Leng fail to take advantage of these flaws? If he knew where Udina was going and had the for sight to have his men already destroy the shuttle, why did he need to go into an elevator to get there? Just ask his speeder pilot to drop him off on the platform and hide in the keeper tunnels till the Council comes. Or have a few squads be ready to riddle the Council with bullets once they get off the elevator. Or have the engineers set up three turrets ready top kill them. Or set up forty snipers on the surrounding platforms to score a few headshots on the Council. Problem solved. I think im starting to see why Leng failed.