Citadel: Climax

Hi, there's a spoiler in this post. I didn't write around it.

Did you ever doubt that Shepard was a badass?

Naw, see, because she gets out of the car, stands on it, and then shoots at Kai Leng. I mean, he barriers her, but shit on my chest, she just climbs on the damn car.

But, brother Leng still manages to get away.

... don't worry about Shepard. If death didn't stop her, explosions aren't going to do shit.

Shep et all fight their way to the elevators.

Luckily, Liara and Garrus find a second elevator, and get in. They all climb on top of the elevator. Bailey helps us out:

Which is all well and good, but?

Vanguard don't shoot. I've spent three games not shooting at anything, I can't hit the broad side of a barn. I almost failed out of this section the first time I played. But hey! Want to know a cool trick?

Pull will also take out the elevators. Probably, there's other powers that work on them too?

To finish this section, Shepard and company jump on the elevator that holds Ashley and the Citadel council.

Want a hint? Udina's crooked, remember? He knows the elevator's full of Cerberus guys, and he knows they're all about to get killed.

We don't know all the deets yet, but you can start putting some stuff together: Udina is the human councilor, Cerberus is a pro-human group ...

Oh yeah, and if you're not quick on the paragon interrupt, another squadmate (Garrus in my game) will totally waste Ashley. I saved her. You can probably figure out why it's more advantageous to keep her alive.

The game goes through a check here: if you're nice to Ashley, you get one scene. If you weren't, you get another. Interestingly enough, I was nice to Ashley but not SUPER nice to Ashley (I visited her in the hospital and wasn't a dick to her on Mars, but we didn't fuck her in ME1 so that's a thing). Luckily, the game also factors in your reputation score, and I did a bunch of sidequests off-camera to pop that up way high. So, we'll be getting the nice scene, which is:

*cough*

Kay, so, Udina gets shot. You can't get around it if you save Ashley. There's a renegade interrupt here, if you take it, Shepard takes the shot, otherwise, Ashley will do it. I usually let Ashley take the shot, but this time I got spooked on my interrupts and Shepard took it.

I considered lying and showing Ashley taking the shot, but that's not the sort of hard hitting journalism you've come to expect from your serious art blog over the years.