User blog comment:TheUnknown285/My Mass Effect 2 Review/@comment-5274392-20120726041053/@comment-5274392-20120728084549

I don't see how you can review something without concerning the central theme, but okay. Anyway, the point behind having synthetics work against and with you was to make you rethink your choice about killing the Reapers at the end. Even though you see more of the Geth in ME2 through Legion, it is not the central plot of the game, the plot of the game was fighting the collectors and fixing random people's daddy issues, mostly the latter. While the other two follow the theme of synthetics vs organics, ME2 does not, it just had a few lines of dialogue hinting to the Rannoch arc in ME3. The characters you listed are not redeemable in my opinion, because I believe they do not follow some of the deeper rules of character creation. When you create a character, you need to have the audience feel not just sympathy in the case of all of the ME2 squadmates, but also empathy, because that's were the true understanding of the character comes into play. That's why so many people love Mordin as a character, because we empathize with him over his regret for his actions with the Genophage and his want to cure it. We sympathize with MIranda because her father used her as a genetic puppet, but I'm almost certain no one has had their father treat them in a similar way. I feel Samara and Thane are the same, but I can understand that if you are a failed father; you can empathize with Thane, but unless you gave birth to a vampire; you cannot ever feel how Samara feels. Kasumi is a DLC character, and she is very bland in my opinion. I can understand how some people might empathize with her but I do not.