Quote Originally Posted by Mongoose View Post
I just got the N7 Slayer from the victory pack - loads of fun, crazy dodge and melee stuff. Don't know how effective any of it really is, but it sure is fun to run around ... slaying people with a sword. All this sword stuff is making me wonder, though, whether the game is getting too "tech-ninja" lately. In single player, we've got Kai Lang. Then, in both multiplayer and single player, one of the more powerful enemies is the sword-wielding phantom. Now multiplayer has two additional tech-ninjas slashing people with swords - the N7 slayer and the N7 shadow.

Yeah, I realize with the biotic powers and all, especially in the first game, this was never exactly supposed to be hard sci-fi. In my opinion, however, while the biotics stuff is silly, it fit the sci-fi feel of the game a lot better than the growing sword emphasis, which feels less futuristic and cool and more just weird and out of place.

And I'm saying this as someone who is on a college fencing team.
I don't really mind the sword thing so much. What does bother me is teleport-dodging. I'm not really sure what, if anything, is supposed to explain the ability to literally teleport. That feels way more out of place than some fancy sword play. I can sorta get the idea of swords working in Mass Effect in the sense of being an assassination method which wouldn't be affected by shields, which generally are supposed to guard against ballistics.