Playfully – Mass Effect: Deception (William Dietz)

Many people, not without reason, believe that all related products for major franchises are created solely to extract extra money from the pockets of fans and admirers. And this point of view is generally correct, however, the original sources of large media universes themselves are also created for the purpose of making profit. So it’s not worth blaming third-party creations for all sins in a row. In the end, you can find worthy things among the accompanying creations. True, my previous words do not concern this book. For Mass Effect: Deception – this is fierce.

In general, everything was https://eurogoldgamecasino.co.uk/withdrawal/ wrong with this novel from the very beginning. First of all with Mass Effect jumped off to create MMO Star Wars The Od Republic, head writer and regular book writer – Drew Karpyshyn. And if in the game Drew was replaced by his longtime colleague and author of comic book plots for the franchise Mark Walters, then in the field of literary delights he can cope on his own Bioware failed. And to create the last novel in the world of Mass Effect, which was supposed to patch up plot holes and resolve the fate of old characters, and also prepare the reader for the third game, a certain William Dietz, previously noted in several novelizations of Star Wars games of dubious quality and other similar “literature”. And he didn’t disappoint. The novel, released in January 2012, was filled with factual errors in the universe, inconsistency between the things and events described and the game code, inconsistency between the characters’ personalities and a whole bunch of blunders and errors. Which says one thing – the book was written very poorly, and there was really no editing. The scandal that arose even forced Bioware recall the already published edition, proofread the novel and completely edit it, followed by a second edition. As far as I can judge, the Russian translation was already made according to the revised edition. However, did this help the novel… spoiler – NO.

The plot of the novel continues Karpishin’s trilogy and brings back old familiar characters. Kali Sanders and Admiral Anderson are trying to convince the Citadel Council of the existence of the Reapers. Meanwhile, their pupil, an overaged fool and biotic Nick, joins the ranks of some murky gang of biotics who decided to seize power on Omega from the tenacious hands of Aria. And Gillian Grayson, who grew up in a couple of years from 12 to 18, and at the same time got rid of autism – no other beneficial influence of the quarians, decides to avenge the father of the man killed by Cerberus and deal with the Phantom. Will all the heroes achieve their goals or, getting entangled in the intricacies of the plot and getting lost along with the author of the creation on the pages of the book, will they fail everything they can, lose their characters, faces and will create garbage for the sake of garbage.

This is a very weak book, coming from the pen of a distinguished hack, it is bad not so much because of the mass of errors and distortions of existing characters. First of all, it is boring and tediously written and represents only a sequence of certain events, about which the characters reflect rather mechanically and pull emotions out of the bag. There is no impact on the main plot of the franchise or the disclosure of known events, places and characters, which is why the novel feels like a banal filler, created only to kill off inconvenient characters, but not change anything in the world itself. The final chapters look especially crazy, as they very quickly and clumsily round out all the branches of the plot, as if the author, in a hurry to submit the manuscript, simply cut the ending three times and cut the plot knots in the most clumsy and crude way. What can we say if the best characters in the novel turned out to be Kali Sanders and Anderson, although they did almost nothing at all in the entire book?.

In short, to summarize, we can note that only against the backdrop of such poor work can we appreciate more or less normal ones, on which we at least tried. So Karpishin’s trilogy rises against the backdrop of such a poor creation. I will not recommend this book to anyone, especially to an amateur Mass Effect – the book is a terrible hack and bad chewing gum, with cardboard characters and empty events. In general, a real herobora.