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Gaming journal: Mass effect 3 | 05. Garrus is that n***a

Gaming journal: Mass effect 3 | Garrus is that n***a

We all love Garrus. And if you don't love Garrus, you can go kill yourself. Garrus is amazing. Garrus is everything. Garrus is that n***a. Garrus needs his own spin off game on 3DS. Is there a fuckyeahgarrus tumblr yet? If not, I'mma make one.

I don't have many recollections of Garrus in Mass effect 1, despite having played through that game for the second time a couple of months ago. I can't even remember how he becomes a part of your party (I recall some shit about C-Sec...Citadel...suttin') But my love for Garrus went balls deep during his fly ass reveal in Mass effect 2. BALLS DEEP! In the space of that moment I was not only filled with the joy of seeing a member of my crew from Mass effect 1, but suddenly realized..."Garrus is a bad ass!" He always fucking dies when I make him part of my squad, but I love that n***a.

Garrus plays a pivotal role in Mass effect 3 which differs greatly from every other character in the game. He doesn't dive off some cliff, somersault into a Mako and then drive up a ramp to 1080° that shit in the air and suicide crash into a Reaper - killing it before slo-mo walking out of the wreckage (although Garrus could so do that). But he is Shepard's friend. Shepard's only friend who never asks of anything and is around because he wants to be there for him asa good friend, just as a good friend does. Garrus likes sniping sons of bitches and playing Galactic Starsky & Hutch with the Shep. But he values being Shepard's friend above all. The one Shepard can relax around. The one Shepard can talk a little smack to. The one Shepard can hit a club with to make it rain credits on asari strippers. (Although my Shepard would rather make it rain Benjamin's on Benjamin).

There is one really cool moment which occurs in the game when Garrus asks you if you'd got time to head somewhere. Of course you accept his offer - 'cos IT'S GARRUS BITCH!! You expect it to be a mission which involves chasing somebody from his ol' Mercenary days on Omega, or some rogue n***a from C-Sec. But it's just 15 minutes of Shepard and Garrus...bromancing. And that's it. No agenda. No plot twist. No lock in moment which leads to suicide mission sex with a disfigured turian.

Love dat Garrus.

Verdict: Garrus is a swaggadoscious pimp muthafucka.

ME ET: Garrus image by Eullogy-Enterprises @ deviantart

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