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.
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.
@PandaTar wrote:
I get the voice like being of a young woman, not really a child anymore. But that's just my perception.
This was mine too. In fact, I was wondering if this was another trans situation of some kind when they stated their name. This mission just irritates me because this had such huge potential, but even in this thread, we can't even seem to all agree on some of what should have been simpler details.
This means, that for most, it was likely just too confusing and they simply forgot about it and this should/could have been one of, if not the, most memorable quests in a game.
