Hello, all. I’m back. I took a bit
of a hiatus for many reasons. Sometimes life just gets in your way and makes
demands of you and while fulfilling those demands its easy to lose sight of
what you were doing and why. That idea kinda ties into what I want to talk
about today. You, see while I was on my hiatus I lost sight of why I was
writing so I began searching for some inspiration. I usually find creative inspiration
in movies and video games because I am a visual learner. So, I watched a lot of
movies and played through some video games. One of the video games that I
experienced was Mass Effect 3 from developer BioWare. The game not only
inspired me to write this post but one of the alien races in the game inspired
a short story that I am now writing.
For those uninitiated, Mass Effect
is a trilogy of games in the Space Opera sub-genre of Science Fiction. A simple
definition for Space Opera is “a
futuristic melodramatic fantasy involving space travelers and/or
extraterrestrial beings.” I.E.- Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Futurama
(parody/satire), and Space Odyssey. The Mass Effect series follows
the exploits of Commander Shepard. Consider him kind of a Jack Bauer in space
but instead of trying to save America he’s trying to save the galaxy. I played
Mass Effect 3 (here on out referred to as ME3) and beat it just a few days ago
and I’ve had some time to collect my thoughts on it. After its release ME3 saw some
controversy with its ending. I didn’t read anything about it until after I beat
the game because I didn’t want anything spoiled but now I've read up on it.
The only thing that I knew going into the game is that several thousands of
fans were unhappy with the ending. Today’s entry will be my take on the ending.
It was brilliant.
