I've played 3 so much Kai Leng just kinda slides right off my brain now, his presence no longer registers. But every once in a while a neuron gets fired again when he's on screen and I just sigh.
I hate it because I think he's not actually that far from being a decent character. The main issue I have with him is how he's treated as this hot shot rival to Shepard, but I just have such a hard time really buying a single guy as an equal to Shep on the battlefield. If instead he was the only one who saw himself as a rival to Shep but everyone else just saw him as this cockroach that's tough to kill, but fundamentally will always just be a nuisance.
And if we're min maxing getting Kai Leng to a shit character to a mildly interesting one, just change the one scene where TIM is suprised he wasn't able to beat Shep to TIM just not being suprised at all.
Idk, Kai Leng is just such an outlier in a series with otherwise really solid characters all around.
The easy thing to do would have been for Kai Leng to instead be whoever was left behind on Virmire, rebuilt from the ground up like Shepherd was after orbital re-entry. Gives a character, background, conflict, drama, the cybernetics are why they're an equal to Shep...
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u/LuNoZzy Inno3D RTX 4070 Super | i7-12700F | 32GB DDR4 3200mhz 7h ago
ME3 it's still one of the best games of all time. Even with its original infamous ending.