Eric the engineer recorded and uses his son's voice as motivation. So whenever you complete a task(think 5 or 6 in total) his son's recording will play. You will then find out later in the recordings that the boy was very ill and his father probably came to andromeda to start over, but died. The whole story was supposed to be sad, both father and son are dead, so ryder sniffled at the end.
Honestly this made me cringe. If you want a meaningful sob story, the blue rose of illum story was so much better, well written and perfectly executed.
Out of the 4 times I've done this quest now, the only time I felt any emotion was the second time - and realistically it was probably because I was overtired from playing for 12 hours straight lol.
I mean, in theory the story is sad - but it's not executed well enough, and yeah the Cora sniffles just ruins it - because Cora doesn't strike me as the type to sniffle at things, even though I dislike her, I don't think she'd crack like that, totally not Asari Commando material.
@lagruej wrote:
Out of the 4 times I've done this quest now, the only time I felt any emotion was the second time - and realistically it was probably because I was overtired from playing for 12 hours straight lol.
I mean, in theory the story is sad - but it's not executed well enough, and yeah the Cora sniffles just ruins it - because Cora doesn't strike me as the type to sniffle at things, even though I dislike her, I don't think she'd crack like that, totally not Asari Commando material.
Just because someone knows how to fight - doesn't mean they can't have a heart.
@Nykara360 wrote:
@lagruej wrote:
Out of the 4 times I've done this quest now, the only time I felt any emotion was the second time - and realistically it was probably because I was overtired from playing for 12 hours straight lol.
I mean, in theory the story is sad - but it's not executed well enough, and yeah the Cora sniffles just ruins it - because Cora doesn't strike me as the type to sniffle at things, even though I dislike her, I don't think she'd crack like that, totally not Asari Commando material.
Just because someone knows how to fight - doesn't mean they can't have a heart.
I liked it as just a sad little quest you get to feel a little better about finishing at the end. I'm not having to choose between bad or worse, it tells a little story, and I don't have to kill anyone. I wish there were more of these and less of the others actually.
You can still get wet eyes at funerals, national anthems, and olympic ceremonies and be hard as nails. You ever want to see a bunch of guys sniff at a movie like a bunch of teenage girls watching the Hallmark channel try 'Saving Private Ryan' at the "tell me I'm a good man" scene.
I played as Sara Ryder and the dying child was a girl not boy. Wonder if they change the child's sex to match your Ryder?
@chrissyce1123 wrote:
I played as Sara Ryder and the dying child was a girl not boy. Wonder if they change the child's sex to match your Ryder?
I played both male and fem ryders, it the same voice, the voice of a kid, high pitched, couldnt tell if its a boy or girl, I assumed it was a boy but doesnt matter. They could have done so much more with this and executed it poorly. This quest had enough time spent on it for creativity to flow and for it to be executed well. The Blue rose of illum story, if you add up all parts back to back probably lasted less than 3 mins, so much so that some random krogan named Charr that I saw in illum and an asari sales rep Ereba is haunting me for such a long time. Save to say the Erics wont be haunting me.
I get the voice like being of a young woman, not really a child anymore. But that's just my perception.
