Saturday, January 2, 2010
Oh hoho, hello there. It's the second day of the new year, the second day which I unfortunately spent at home. Still, it wasn't too bad, because my cousins came over and we had a whole lot of fun.My sister had this prayer/ceremony thing this morning, so my relatives had to come. Me waking up at 8am on a Saturday morning is a very rare happening, but it happened today. My relatives started coming in as early as 9.45am.
As always, I was the photographer for the day. My dad was really excited about the whole thing, so he made me take a whole lot of photos. If I'm not wrong, I ended up with 300-400 photos of the ceremony alone.
Once the thing was finally over, I got my chance to do some crazy shit with my cousins. I would describe everything we did, but we all know a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll leave it all up to you imagination :D
The day ended well, with me completing Mass Effect after months and months of procrastination. See, I am working hard at fulfilling new year resolution number 5! Anyways, I finally completed, and now I can see why critics all over the world agree that it is the best game this generation.
The game has been over the top from the beginning, but the final level really blew my mind. It's one of those incredibly rare moments in video games when they go from being "awesome" to "WHAT.THE.FUCK.EPIC."
So I've been chasing this traitor called Saren throughout the galaxy, and when I finally manage to access his lab, I find out he's just a pawn in a much greater plan. It turns out that this extinct race of machines, known as the Reapers, were not as dead as everyone was hoping for them to be.
I encounter one in Saren's lab, and it reveals everything to me. A confrontation with Saren follows, and the bastard admits that he knew about everything, but he willingly let the Reaper modify and use his body. A shoot out breaks out, and he runs away after I destroy his shields.
I quickly head back to the Citadel, which is a central hub for the Alliance, which is a joint operation force consisting of hundreds of races from all over the galaxy. I report to the Councillors, which the three heads of the Citadel, but they deny the existence of the Reapers, and they lock down my ship, preventing me from leaving the Citadel.
But you know what, fuck it, I'm a badass human who doesn't take no for an answer, so with the help of my former captain, I get the ship back online and I travel with my crew to this planet called Ilos, which is where this artifact called the Conduit is supposed to be at, and I don't know what this thing is yet, but I can't let Saren get his alien paws on it or the galaxy is screwed.
So I get to the planet and I order my pilot to drop our all terrain vehicle, the Mako, right on top of Saren and his troops. They manage to avoid us, and they lock us out. After a minor detour, I bypass the security, and I venture into an underground ruin.
Halfway through, force fields appear, trapping me and my squad. An elevator activates to my right, so I get in. It takes me down to the lower levels of the ruins, and I encounter an ancient AI known as the Watcher. The Watcher explains to me that the Conduit is actually a back door to the Citadel, and Saren is planning to use it to allow the hidden Reaper fleet to ambush the Alliance.
That cannot do! So I get back into the Mako, with a counter code for the Alliance from the Watcher, in case Saren gets inputs his code first. I drove the Mako back to ground level, and then off a cliff in a desperate attempt to save time.
Crash landing into a man-made trench, I sped the Mako towards the Conduit, which starts to glow an intense blue in the distance. There is heavy resistance, but any one foolish enough to stand in my way gets to meet the front bumper of my vehicle. Finally, I reach the Conduit and I drive the Mako straight into it, transporting my squad to the Citadel.
Unfortunately, Saren gets there first.
At this point of time, I was greeted by this epic cutscene. Saren's ships appear through ripples in space, and soon an entire armada is heading for the Citadel. The Council is evacuated, but they come under heavy fire. Saren quickly seals of the Citadel, and his ship, Sovereign, which was the Reaper whom I encountered earlier, attaches itself to the central control room of the Citadel, ready to open transport channels for the Reaper fleet.
All hope seems lost, but then suddenly, my Mako gets through to the Citadel, splattering several enemies as it crashes through its portal. I hurry out with my squad, and we take a lift up to the central control room, but Saren shuts it down. There is no time to waste, so we put on our space gear, and smash out of the lift.
With zero gravity in the environment, the whole game goes vertical as we walk down the inner walls of the maintenance duct. Saren throws his most formidable guards at us as we make our way towards the central control room, but they quickly go down under the combined firepower of my squad.
Finally, we get into the control room, just in time as well. Saren leaps onto his glider and starts firing missiles at us. Using a combination of evasive maneuvers and special abilities, we bring him down, and I order the Alliance to strike the Reaper. The Council ship was in the way, but I ordered the Alliance fleet to ignore their distress signal. They were bastards anyway.
The Reaper retaliates, and he modifies Saren's corpse, turning it into a mechanical, spider-like creature. We kill him again, the Alliance destroys Sovereign and the Reaper, and all ends well. The Council is dead, and a new Council needs to be elected. Being a hero of the galaxy, I nominate my Captain to be the new head.
Now all I've got to do is wait two weeks for Mass Effect 2! I cannot wait! JANUARY 26.
posted @ 10:58 PM
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