User blog comment:Stealth Cl0wn/The deaths that hit you the hardest (Massive spoilers)/@comment-3325589-20120415232254

A lot of them really got to me in ME3. ME2 not so much; if you do things correctly, pretty much no major characters end up dying. Kaidan/Ashley's death in ME1 seemed pretty emotional, but I've only watched the cutscene without playing the game, so it doesn't have the same impact for me.

Seriously, I loved the way ME3 handled character death. Mordin, Thane, and Legion all really got to me. Especially Legion. It didn't help matters that Mordin and Legion were probably my favorite characters in ME2.

By far and away the saddest deaths, though, were the ones of characters Shepard betrayed. Watching Mordin crawl to the Shroud console, desperately trying to cure the genophage as he bled out, was just devastating. Legion and Tali's were even worse. Whether it was "Creator Tali'Zorah...does this unit...have...a soul?" or Tali jumping off a cliff after hearing the last transmission from the ship on which she was born, both made me feel like I'd just eviscerated an entire litter of puppies. Whatever you may think of ME3 overall, you have to admit that there aren't many games capable of evoking the sort of emotions necessary to make a player feel like a genuinely awful person.