Mass Effect and the Final Frontier

Mass Effect is one of the most memorable and unique trilogies in video games - specifically for letting players shape the outcome of a galactic war effort against existential annihilation, transferring individual choices across entries and influencing both characters and the plot, all within one console generation. Mass Effect is -so- much it's impossible to meaningfully pin all of it down, but what it's trying to say is fundamentally player-reflexive. Let's take a look back, from Mass Effect to Andromeda.

**this video contains full-series spoilers and discussion of actual adult topics + some heavy material. viewer discretion is advised

COME CHILL:
https://www.patreon.com/kbash
https://bsky.app/profile/kbash.bsky.social

Additional Sampled Footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb-gC-lO1s8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-P8TMNnZAc

Additional Reading:
(apparently I got trolled by Bioware, and Asari actually do have a canon appearance, despite the ME2 bachelor party convo)
https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/4yn1zf/hang_on_what_do_asari_actually_look_like/
https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/05/11/mass-effect-the-write-stuff-au-interview
https://tinyurl.com/hdp4xjpf
(chris l'etoille's forum posts)

Music: largely Mass Effect OSTs, including Andromeda for the club beats, the Custom Robo OST, and a handful of other tracks in Napple Tale, Fable, Borderlands 3, etc.

0:00 cultural context
5:15 Mass Effect
56:33 Mass Effect 2
1:46:57 Mass Effect 3
2:27:57 Andromeda