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Taking away the morality essence of Shepard's final choice made all of those moral choices feel pointless. While these options are certainly similar to the ones given in the Extended Cut ending, they would have felt more reliant on Shepard's morality choices, which played a significant role in other outcomes throughout the trilogy. The third and final option allowed the Reaper Queen to combine herself with Shepard in Synthesis, which was more or less the same result as choosing Synthesis in the choices later presented, with all organic and synthetic life becoming one.

Paragon Shepard could have chosen to become the Reaper Elite and take control of the other Reapers in an effort to guide them into becoming a positive force in the galaxy that evolved them from their original programming. Renegade Shepard had the chance to refuse the Reaper Queen's proposal and blow up the Citadel, destroying Earth and the Reapers, but saving the rest of the galaxy so organic life could continue to evolve. Related: Knights of the Old Republic Without BioWare Isn't Really KOTOR Locked away inside the Citadel by the other Reapers because they didn't like her thoughts on their evolution, she provided Shepard with three options to help them evolve based on their choices throughout the rest of the game. According to Wilkinson, Shepard would have plugged themselves into the Citadel and projected into dialogue with the Reaper Queen. In a recent YouTube interview with BioWare's former animation director, Dave Wilkinson, Wilkinson confessed that the ending fans got wasn't what the developers originally planned at all. The Extended Cut ending altered the choices enough to at least feel like it brought some closure to the game regardless of the option Shepard chose, but in many ways it still felt unsatisfying. The Catalyst, which took on the form of a dead child that haunted Shepard all throughout the third game, was an artificial intelligence designed to embody the memories and histories of the Reapers and the cycles they had thrust upon the galaxy for time immemorial.Īs the Catalyst awkwardly explained things to Shepard, it provided them with a choice between three options that didn't really feel like options at all considering everything Shepard went through.

After everything Command Shepard endured on their journey to expose the Reaper threat and defeat them before they could destroy all sentient life in the galaxy, it felt incredibly unfair to come face to face with a child at the end of all things.