I've been that kid on the Simpsons shouting ꦚ"STOP, STOP! HE'S ALREADY DEAD!" for years. And Mass Effec𒉰t was my favorite franchise. But I trust modern Bioware to make an acceptable one like I trust a drink from Bill Cosby.

Yes, 💛we had first evil ending. And second evil ending. And ninth evil ending. But what about fouಞrteenth evil ending?

Meanwhile, Karlach still gets the failure ending because they cut a zone and didn't bother to ♛adjust her storyline.

There are no endings where Ciri dies. She doesn't come back and she's assumed dead, but when Geralt mentions her death to Gaunter O'Dimm, O'Dimm tells him that Ciri is very much alive. She just doesn't want to associate with Geralt anymore.🧔 O'Dimm may be literally the devil, but I can't think of a time where he straight up lies. Especially about this, where the lie doesn't benefit him. Which actually may be even more of a gutpunch, but it does mean those endings aren't totally ruled out because it's possible she eventually got over it and came back, or she's just in a very similar but alt🔯ernate universe since she can hop between them.

E෴xactly. That was when I lost the ability to take this article seriously. Adding a bunch of loading screens just so "it will make sense" in a game where people cast magic and fight ancient elve🌼n gods is a ludicrous idea and anyone implying it is just looking for things to complain about.

Really, I'm amazed how good the game was and how poorly it's being received. I thought it was easily th☂e best thing BW has done since ME2 nearly 15 years ago. Games that get completely scrapped and rebuild from scratch multiple times typically don't c♔ome out a little bland or rough around the edges, they come out complete trainwecks like Duke Nukem Forever. I think Veilguard was amazing, all things considered.

I'm not surprised about t𝔍he Serpent of Ronka thing. Japan usually has💧 much different taste in games and characters. The best example being Kefka, who is *massively* popular in the west but Japan doesn't really care for. I'm with Japan on that one, personally. I never got the appeal of a Joker ripoff.