The Third Krogan

We could, if we wanted, go barreling right to Tuchanka and wrap this game section up, but I have a better idea. Wrex and Victus will both give us sidequests, so let's see what's going on there.

Wrex has lost a group of krogans called Arlak company while they were off investigating stuff. Let's go see if we can find them.

No fuckin' way, hi Grunt!

... if you haven't figured it out, we're going to get to do sidequests with the vast majority of the Mass Effect 2 cast. They never join our party, but they do pop up in cut scenes.

I am the only living person who actually prefers that they don't join my party. Most people disagree, and I get that. I've got Gabris and Leeara, I'm fine. Another character would mess up my flow. They wouldn't cut into my party's exp, would they?

I would have been cool with Grunt being character #4 in my party, though. I still wish we'd gotten four character parties. I say that about every three character party video game ever made, we should give up and move on.

Grunt's waiting for us to investigate some trailers. Trailers are Mass Effect shorthand for temporary housing, I think. It means they didn't have to model tents.

So there's our plot: we're down in the hole, Grunt is up on top, and we'll fight along side each other. I wish there was more cooperation between the two groups, but not everything can be Ico, so.

Hey, about that gun Shepard just lifted off a corpse:

It shoots fire!

It'll burn down the webbing around the level!

... why the fuck is there webbing in this level?

There's these little fucking pods all over that spit acid if you get close to them. They suck. Luckily:

... you do, however, have to stand and slowly pop each one, one by one. It suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. But getting hit by acid suuuuuuuuuuuucks more. You I know I ran out of ammo on this level one time? That suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckeddddddddd.

Say hello to the ravagers! They also suck!

They'll spit out these little bug things called scavangers at you.

And I mean, you can charge it --

But those pink bellies on the ravagers explode into acid.

And then, while the acid burns through Shepard's armor, the scavangers come up on her and explode on her. Happy Friday, everyone!