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And a large number of people consider almost every single video game tie-in novel to be pandering pulp fiction.

Because that wouldn't be "dark" or "gritty" enough. The ending was written by people who seem to think that there is some correlation between how dark a work of fiction is with how "good" it is, and this probably stems from the fact that a lot of critically acclaimed films, novels, and...

The biggest problem in the series is engineered entirely by the AI/spirit kid. There is no explanation given for why the Reapers feel destroying all technologically advanced organic life is better than simply protecting it from synthetics (not to mention that there is no threat to organics at...

The problem isn't that it's a downer ending. It's that the villains make no fucking sense, all three endings are essentially the same in terms of the consequences, and the choices you made during all three games really don't matter.

So do terrible endings that fail to explain anything.

The motivations of the Reapers make no sense whatsoever. They want to protect organics from getting destroyed by synthetics by destroying organics? This makes no fucking sense (also, the idea of being "preserved" by being liquefied and being pumped into a giant robot that looks like your...