User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-4950455-20130417203249/@comment-4237253-20130417210447

Only, there is no path. You don't take Shepard down any path. They don't change. They just react. They're personalities don't change, and the narrative suffers as a result. This is still a story BioWare is trying to tell here, and Shepard is the most important character in that story.