

But there it was, and I couldn’t quite figure out why I was so heartbroken by it. She looked weaker than I expected, and I was taken aback by how annoyed I was at such a small and seemingly inconsequential detail. My Shepard, underneath her armor and her biotic barrier, didn’t look like what I wanted her to look like. As the third game came to a close, I had a romantic moment with Kaidan Alenko, and I came face to face with a harsh truth. For the most part, the developers made good decisions in how Shepard carried herself and I had no complaints through most of the series. You could get carried away and end up in the middle of bad situation, but that was all part of craziness of playing a Vanguard.īecause of the class I played, and the backstory I chose, I had certain ideas of how my Shepard looked, how she must think, what she must feel. You were always trying to remember to balance your abilities effectively, while also trying to resist the overwhelming urge to charge enemies, because the charge power is just so much fun to use. As a player, this class was a blast to play. You could charge in and follow by using Nova, but you would be without your shields and at the mercy of anyone that hadn’t been knocked down. The third game also introduced Nova, which added a much higher risk and reward style of play. In the second and third games, the Vanguard gained the ability to charge, which made the class almost like an angry bull, slamming head first into combat and blasting enemies away with shotgun blasts and well placed biotic shockwaves. In the first game, Vanguards were kind of a bridge class between the Soldier class and an Adept class, taking a bit of good gun play and a bit of good biotics and rolling it into one powerhouse. In all 3 games, I played the Vanguard class. One of things that I loved about the series was the feeling that my Shepard was the coolest, most hardened soldier in the galaxy.

Thank you for summing it up perfectly, Reddit All in all, it went pretty much as I had expected it would, and I was content. Characters that we had grown to love were given satisfying arcs and Commander Shepard saved the galaxy from the Reaper threat. We can all debate the merits of the ending, but when I played the final minutes, I thought it was a successful finale to a great series.
