The Next Mass Effect
Shocking Reveals From The Game Awards 2020
While the idea that we would get another drip-feed of information for the next Mass Effect game wasn’t totally out there, what was shocking is how much they actually revealed. Spoiler warning: if you’re concerned about super late, years later spoilers about Mass Effect 3, don’t read on.
To the untrained eye, it might have just seemed like a barebones trailer, but there’s actually a lot of implications that can be drawn from that reveal.
First, we know, almost for certain now, that the game will be returning to the Milky Way. How do we know this? Well the Asari that appears at the very end, with her freckles, is almost certainly Liara unless BioWare just wants to be particularly cruel.
The smile on her face when she finds the N7 armor is just another hint towards that. Not to mention she is an archaeologist and she would be particularly good at excavating things.
If what I’m saying above is true, and I admit that’s a big if, then that would also seem to suggest that the Destroy ending from Mass Effect 3 is canon which would also be a major reveal.
The Destroy ending is the only one where we see Shepard’s N7 armor and them seemingly taking a breath, implying that Shepard might have survived the events.
In Control and Synthesize Shepard appears to definitely be fried.
