Because if the state of the galaxy as it pertains to Shepard’s final decision isn’t at the crux of a new game’s story, those ramifications can act as set dressing rather than being foundational to its premise. That premise is, in and of itself, flawed. The insistence that Mass Effect should concede to a specific canon is often rooted in the belief that BioWare can’t possibly write a story in the Milky Way that could work in any of these three different galactic states. Both scenarios - and any of a similar vein, for that matter - effectively undo all the sacrifice Shepard, and the Milky Way galaxy at large, had to contend with for making this decision in the first place.įaced with vague descriptions, some sides of fandom will look for the simplest explanation to get more of a franchise they love - and if they must break its philosophy to do it, they will.
There are also interpretations that synthetics simply persisted through sheer willpower despite being shown to not have survived.
There are theories circulating that this game can take place after a canonized Destroy ending in which the player will look for a way to revive the Geth.
Picking the “Destroy” ending over “Control” and “Synthesis” implied the eradication of not only the Reapers, but also all synthetics.īut between navigating social media, checking forums like Reddit, the unofficial BioWare forums, and having conversations with friends and colleagues, I keep seeing attempts at reconciling a universe in which both this art and the “Destroy” ending are possible. At the end of the original trilogy, Commander Shepard had to choose between destroying the Reapers, controlling them, or synthesizing them with organic life. If the implication here is that the Geth will play a role in the next game and this will be set in the Milky Way, then it could nullify the consequences of one of Mass Effect 3 ’s possible endings. We know based on Liara’s appearance in the original teaser that the next game will, in some way, take place in the Milky Way - or at the very least feature characters we know primarily from that galaxy. It doesn’t really tell us anything beyond the Geth likely being involved in the next Mass Effect game - but that on its own raises many questions. There’s even what appears to be a Geth corpse partially buried between the ship and the crater. There’s also the crater at the top that forms a silhouette that looks distinctly like a Geth, a group of synthetics who were potentially a casualty of the Reaper War in the original trilogy. The ship we see is notably not the one we saw former party member Liara T’Soni with in the original teaser instead, it seems more in-line with the ships we saw as part of the Andromeda Initiative in Mass Effect: Andromeda. While the studio didn’t give much concrete info about the next installment, it did share this new art: But last year saw the reveal of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, so it’s fair to expect BioWare will start using the day for more substantial announcements in the future. Usually, the day is chalked up to promoting new merch. Similarly to what I asserted a year ago when the game’s first teaser trailer was unveiled, I don’t think we can actually glean anything of substance from the teaser image BioWare released this week as part of N7 Day, the annual fan day to celebrate the Mass Effect series. And those directions make me more uneasy about Mass Effect ’s future than ever before. It’s a frustrating position to be in to talk about these things, but from the looks of it, BioWare’s marketing of the next Mass Effect is thriving on being just hazy enough to say nothing definitive - but with just enough clues regarding what the future holds that theories are going in wild directions. Let me preface this by saying everything that follows is based on speculation circulating online.
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