User blog comment:Garhdo/Extended Cut - opinions?/@comment-114.79.13.152-20120701020303/@comment-2228120-20120701050349

Actually... where is the sacrifice in Control and Synthesis? Where is the tough choice, unless you count the possible moral issues of Synthesis and trust issues with the Catalyst? If he tells the truth, no-one needs to die; in Control, even Shepard will continue, in some form (at the point of decision making, Shepard doesn't know that he might survive Destroy). Then in the epilogue, we learn that it was all true: everyone lives happily ever after, there might even be rainbows and unicorns and fluffy pink bunnies dancing around somewhere...