Mass Effect’s Cruelest Moral Choice Remains Gaming's Most Haunting Mission 19 Years Later
Mass Effect’s Homecoming quest asks you to hand a widower his wife’s body or keep it for research. Neither ending feels clean, but one is better
In the world of Mass Effect, the game's most haunting mission remains a chilling moral dilemma 19 years later. Shepard’s patrol arrives at Eden Prime, a lush world on the edge of Alliance space, only to find a settlement standing intact, with no survivors. The night falls and Thresher maws rise, killing 50 marines. Shepard is the sole survivor.
Years later, an Alliance clerk informs Shepard that a fallen marine named Nirali Bhatia might save more lives in death than she did in life. Shepard must choose: give Nirali's body to her grieving husband for a proper funeral or keep it for research that may save more lives in the future. Shepard must decide if no one should ever pay for a death or if the dead must count for something.
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