My Thoughts:
Everything is just dumped on you which removes any sense of mystery about the first race, even though we already knew that they looked like cuttlefish since it's already said that the Reapers take their form after their creators as a sort of exoskeleton. It still happens to quickly. It's like BioWare has the idea of how to get to a conclusion, but they don't know how to properly deliver a conclusion. The climax and resolution happen within the span of 15 minutes... that's TERRIBLE storytelling.
It contradicts itself a few major times. Like the whole, "Hey! I just found an ancient powerful species that created the most feared enemy in the galaxy. They have the power to control minds and consider themselves the apex of all species and even openly admitted to subjugating and enslaving other species, making them thralls to pay tribute and carry out their every whim. They even threatened turning me into one of their thralls the moment I found their little hidey hole. LET'S ASK FOR THEIR HELP AND LET THEM LOOSE ON THE GALAXY AND ACTIVELY SPREAD THEIR MIND CONTROL DEVICES!" Then also the fact that the cuttlefish can kill a Reaper and does so in game with the flick of a wrist, so exactly HOW were they extinguished given that they have such power? I mean it's stated that the Reapers had a form of mind control similar to the creators but it took cycles to perfect it into indoctrination, but the cuttlefish can apparently shatter that indoctrination like it's nothing. Then the fact that they're supposed to be this all powerful and all knowing race that watched their thralls develop AI's that rebelled against them, so in turn they themselves make an AI without the foresight to think, "Well shit, what happens if this thing rebels against us?"
Also if you're playing on PC there's a glitch with the ladder where you can't go down it during the second main mission when you have to get to a scientist. You have to constantly look up to go down.
@Aetheldod: Like 2 or 3 extra little bits of dialogue at the end. I haven't gone through all the endings for obvious reasons, being that I'm not a masochist, but it's more of a backstory on where the Reapers come from instead of anything else. But the writing feels insanely fucking rushed.
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