Should You Play Mass Effect 2 in 2021?

mastic was so popular i got to stop one of these wouldn't even get one of these eventually one of these it's about to happen it isn't a game after all mass effect 2 was the happily received sequel to mass effect it just happened to know what it was doing while massage 1 was ambitious and new mass effect 2 was more narrow and direct mass effect 2 seemed to know what kind of game it wanted to be what kind of story it was to tell and most importantly they got rid of the make out thank you bioware it's all i've ever wanted mass effect 2 was released in 2010 the pc and xbox 60 and released in 2011 from ps3 for some reason it was met with universal praise from both critics and fans alike the game was called deeply personal especially since bioware gave the players the ability to bring over their save file from the first game making it truly feel like you were continuing your story right where you left off this is actually a big deal to a lot of people bringing your old ship to the new game just broadened the appeal not many games had the time they also helped sales of the original game for sure since you can now play the first game to get the shepherd you wanted in a second enough of that though let's start the game mass effect 2 starts off the bang i mean literally a bang as in the first five minutes is normally destroyed by the unknown ship spacing shepard and bringing up the title with a cool visual of the sun coming over planet in the background the next thing you know you're creating your character the character creation in that m2 has gotten a serious upgrade from the original no longer the shepherd looked like someone took an iron to her face now she can look like an actual human well mostly human which is all you can really ask for while the classes you can choose from remain the same they've revised them to make each of them feel more unique each class now has their own skill sets and weapons they can use our depths have more product powers to rely on but limited weapon usage to soldiers having access to all the weapons but abilities that just kind of improved their gunplay just like the original i chose the infiltrate cypress life just like edie revive me after creating your shepherd you wake up on a surgical table with an unknown female voice telling you what to do following the voices instructions you begin making your way through the facility on the way you run to jacob a next soldier hired by the organization who revived you after helping to fight some robots and saving an engineer whose name i don't remember jacob tells you who this organization is it's cerberus a pro-human first almost terrorist group which you encountered in the first game meeting up with the woman who helped you turns her gun on the engineer and kills him revealing herself as miranda a genetically created human body getting out of the facility meet up with the elusive man during this meeting he tells you he wants you to go to freedom's broadcast to investigate why human colonies are disappearing it's during this mission you really feel not just the improvements to the graphics but also the game no longer do you have that wonky aiming system it's been switched out for more traditional third person shooter system he also switched out the cool dynamo system instead going for limited damage shortly into this mission we run into the familiar face of best girl tally he was on a mission to recover quarian who was on a pilgrimage to this colony when the collectors attacked you agree to work together to save this korean though there is some reluctancy from some of the koreans towards the end of the mission the qurans are elected to help to submit italians and get themselves killed by a giant mech after defeating the mag you come from the quarian where we see in addition they've made to the paragon run against system throughout the game you'll get props that let you either take paragon or reading in action skip points for either of them here i trust the paragon prompt which shuts off the monitors talking to vitor the quarian we confirm that the collectors are the ones behind the abduction of human colonies in the terminus system letting tally take vitor we report back to the elusive man we already had a feeling that this is what was happening and we reluctantly team up with cerberus save the colonies during this talk with the elusive man we also learned what the bulk of the game's missions will be recruitment missions recruitment missions are a huge portion of the game this is what you'll be doing between missions against the collectors game gives you the freedom to do these recruitment missions in whatever order you want i'll go over my favorite two of the first set which conveniently both have me traveling to omega first has us trying to recruit a mysterious vigilante that has been terrorizing the three biggest smart groups and tournament system going undercover as a freelance mercenary that's showing in the mission to eliminate archangel we find archangel holding down the area and by the time we make it up to him we find out it's scarce who is archangel after shepard's death garrus tried to become a spectre but there was too much politics in it so he became a vigilante on omega instead because according to him you just need to point and shoot to shoot a bad guy on a mega he's like batman but he kills people so he's redhead he's like redhead helping gary's father mark you'd skip relatively unscathed except garrus who takes some bullets to the face from an aircraft the other recruitment mission has you going into a quarantine area to help a celerian scientist named morden getting to his clinic you get a cure for the plague then you fight through some fortune to disperse the vaccine through the vents and save the area man if only the plague going on right now can be as easily solved pretty much also unlocks another one of the major features in this game the lab which allows you to make upgrades to your various attributes by using materials which you'll have to get by scanning and probing plants you'll be doing this a lot as you'll need to gather a lot of materials if you want to survive this suicide mission the good thing is that almost every non-inhabited planet is probable what you were expecting your uranus joke no we're above such base humor on this channel uranus uranus what what there are two other crew missions one where you recruit jack a human biotic who was experimented extensively on by a cerberus and another where you recruit a krogan named grunt that was biologically created and tanked by warlord akira after you finish three of these the next story mission comes up the use of man wants you to head to horizon which believes to be the next colony that will be attacked we get a brief glimpse of the colony right before it gets attacked and who do we see on this planet our old friend toaster up i mean caden alenka sorry something that's easy to mistake to do arriving shortly after the assault has begun we make our way through the colony within the immunity to the collector's paralysis created by our genius scientist morden thanks buddy writing our way through the collectors we reactivate the aaa guns the alliance put there and manage to save half the colony which is a win in my book you also save toaster oven who gets mad at you for teaming up with cerberus despite the fact that they're the only ones trying to do anything to stop the collectors back aboard the normandy you get your second set of recruit missions as you wait for the listed man to contact you this is also where we start getting the most important side missions the loyalty missions these missions just as they say are missions given to you by your teammates that will get you their undying loyalty doing these missions is absolutely vital to the suicide mission as they can decide whether team member lives or dies during the mission they don't call the suicide mission for nothing after you've talked to your companions for a while between missions they'll ask for your help with something personal that will trigger their loyalty mission nation horizon also unlocks the second set of recruitment missions first of which i did is talis there's an old korean colony trying to do research on why the sun in the system is dying at the rate that is when the gut attacker you arrive and fight your way through the death just like old times and save her next mission is stay it's all assassin trained by the handler yes those are the jellyfish people yes it's the three years it sounds here you meet at the end of his assassination mission this mission is one of the few missions where i actually like to play the renegade in it you get to push a merc out a window the end of the mission he reveals that he has a terminal illness that will kill him in the year the final recruit mission has you finding information from sorry just card named tomorrow so that she doesn't have to kill the detective keeping her arrested as per code dictates you can do two of these missions before the elusive man contacts you for your next tory mission a tyrian ship managed to disable collectorship before it was destroyed and he needs you to go aboard to get information on the collectors arriving on the ship you make your way through with no resistance coming up on a terminal you learn that the collectors are massively genetically modified protheans you also get to choose whether you get another gun training or a better gun if you choose one of the more weapon oriented classes as an infiltrator i chose the widowmaker the best sniper in the game and just one of my favorite weapons in the franchise i mean look at this gun it's beautiful and incredibly strong you can take out most non-boss enemies in two shots including harbinger this is the only gun i'll need for the rest of the game making your way to the center of the ship you find a lot of empty pods and deduce that the collectors are planning on hitting earth edi also figures out this was a trap as the platform you are on starts to rise now you have to fight your way out of the collective ship through swarms of enemies escaping you confront the elusive man who knew about the trap and figured out the risk was worth it as you now know how the collectors go through the omega 4 relay it's with an advanced iff made by the reapers now to bide our time until we combined one this is when the second set of loyalty missions show up as well as my two favorites first step tally's mission going down to the engineering deck tally tells you that she has been summoned back to the migrant fleet stand trial for treason and possibly face exile going aboard one of the quarian ships you talk to a close friend of tally's dad who calls her boss normandy as they've stripped her over ship name and now you have to the defender as our new captain which i'm completely ready for as i've played every single attorney game now which piece of evidence do i present let's see ah yes my badge wait no during the beginning of the trial it's revealed that the ship her dad is on has been overrun by guests and we need to go aboard to try to possibly save her father as well as prove that she didn't send working death then they injured the fleet making your way over to the other ship you fight your way through some get that seem to have reactivated themselves right before the end of the section you find tally's father killed by guests you learn from his data pad that he was using the pieces that tally sent back to reconstruct the guth to try to create a weapon kill the guest so he could win and take back their home world for tally finishing off the rest of the geth you make your way back to the main ship you're given the option to present the evidence you found or if you have enough paragon renegade you can give one hell of a speech about how great tally is which gets her off the hook harris is loyal to missions on the more interesting ones as it's one of the only missions where me and my brother disagree on what choices you should make garrus's mission is about getting revenge on the man who betrayed him and got his entire team killed on omega this mission starts with hunting down harken drunk x marine from the first game as he has now become a criminal who helps people disappear and garrus's info says he helps the donuts disappear tracking them down you interrogate them to get the information out reading the info you head to the location set by harkin garris has you distract him while he sets up you're given two options here let garrus take the shot and avenge the death of his team or warren sedonas and stop his death my brother always stops it figuring that it's best to show gareth that revenge isn't the way to go about this me on the other hand i always let him take the shot because asagara says he isn't you know not isn't really your choice it's charis's if he thinks that killing students will give him the resolution that he wants that's his choice so i stepped aside and let him take the shot either way he gets loyalty and the option to start with romance which has time trump i did it's actually quite cute after doing a certain amount of missions you get the penultimate story mission which has you going aboard a derelict reaper to acquire its iff you get your final companion in this mission as well it's at the end of it when you are grabbing the ff you also pick up the body of a guest that helped you throughout the mission you also happen to have a piece of shepherd's old armor on it back on the ship you can go down to the airport to activate the gas he takes on the name legion with that we have all the companions and would you look at this lineup this game has one of the best cast of characters i've seen each having interesting personalities and character growth shown through the use of loyalty missions it's really not a bad companion in this game after acquiring the ipad you're kind of put on the clock soon as you do three missions and cutscene curves where you and all your commands go on some random mission and while you are away the collectors attack kidnapping all the crew except jokes who manages to save the ship with the help of edie marking the star of their relationship arc with the reaper iff installed we are ready to go take out the collector base you can of course the mission still but if you do more than three missions before going your crew will die if you go immediately some colonists die but you save your crew not really wanting my crew to die i went as soon as possible the suicide mission is when all the preparation stuff really matters as it will decide who lives here since i made once i made sure that i mined plenty of resources i managed to get all the ship upgrades meaning that none of my companions died on our treacherous flight through the omega 4 relay after a really cool aerial scene with normandy and fighting a floating sci-fi eye we land on the collector's base with everybody alive on the base is where loyalties will matter the most as throughout the mission you'll have to have someone either do a special task or lead to survive the suicide mission with everybody alive you'll need to have at least three specific loyalties for the first decision you'll need either tally or legion's loyalty as you need a tech expert to climb through the vents to open up the locked doors the second has you choosing a leader for the second firing squad go down the other corridor to draw attention away from the tech expert making your choices you make your way into the collector base where pretty quickly you hit a snag vents have heat valves that you need to turn in a certain amount of time where the heat will kill tally during the vowels we managed to get tally behind the doors who opens them for both us and team two turning around we find the pods that have our crew in them here we see a few colonists turn to human puree understandably freaked out shepard and crew scramble to open up the pods saving our crew our third choice is as important we just need to send someone to escort our crew back to the ship the next set of choices will have us choosing what but will lead us through this form field between either jack or samara and who will lead the diversion team samara leads me through the swarm where you have to stay in the battlefield or get killed by the swarm having to follow a slow moving field while fighting enemies why does that sound familiar yeah no idea getting to the end of the quarter we let the other land and seal the door giving one hell with an inspiring speech shepard takes a small squad and heads to the core of the ship while the rest of the crew stayed behind to hold off the collectors fighting our way through the collectors collector's before platform we finally reach the core where we find the half created reaper that appears to be in the shape of a human through the use of human bodies the final fight will be with the half creed reaper where we have to hit in the glowy weak ones hitting something in the glory reports why does that seem familiar no idea after defeating it we get a message from the loose man who wants us to save not destroy the reaper so we can study it deciding that it's too unethical i decided to blow it up with a bomb handed to me by tally which is kind of funny because what she says to you after you recruit her escaping the collector base by the skin of our teeth we managed to survive the suicide mission with zero casualties walking through the normandy nodding to all my teammates we get a glimpse of the reapers closing in on the galaxy and paint the black there's really no other way to say this mass effect 2 is a perfect sequel they took everything the first game did well the story the characters and the world building and made it better and on top of that by having the storm missions have triggers they're able to make the story feel a lot more fluent and connected game also gives you more opportunities to talk to your companions giving you more of an insight on what they're thinking and what their motivations are as well as the addition of the loyalty missions which gives each character a chance to have the spotlight on both their character development and their backs something they really talked about was the improvement to the romance system in the first game a story just happened but in two you actually have to talk to your companions and do the loyalty missions to start their romance i'd see that uh rehaul the first game's biggest problem the gameplay giving each class specific weapons to use and different powers give each class a feeling of uniqueness it made choosing what class to play a way bigger deal switching out whatever the hell those shoot mechanics were in the first game for a more traditional third person shooter style with the mass spec flare made the comet a hell of a lot more fun and finally the tweaks they made to the paragon radio system the addition of actions that reflect your choices rather than just dialogue options and the ability to do a little bit of the opposite side of your morality alignment without disastrous consequences lets the player have a lot more freedom with the choices overall it's easy to see why this game is the most popular entry in the franchise it's honestly one of the few games that deserve this title as a masterpiece hey everybody thanks for watching the video i know i look different that's because i forgot to record an outro when i recorded the initial plane because i'm an idiot well so if you like this video get a like comment subscribe and um thanks for watching we are now halfway through the mass effect franchise with only two more games to go so look forward to those see you next time

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Length: 16min 23sec (983 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 22 2021