What’s name of the opening music?

The Leviathan’s plan to create the Reapers, whether it’s hubris or just narcissistic blindness, is just hilariously ironic when you boil it down. “All species eventually create technology that inevitably tries to destroy them. Anyway, we’re gonna make a technology to fix that, what could go wrong?”

If the keeper signal hadn’t been altered there would have been no need to use saren and the geth and the harvest would have gone on with probably few to no reaper casualties

That Human Reaper from the 2nd game and how they're made is the stuff of nightmares. 💀

The best part of Mass Effect, is when you learn about the harvests, every 50.000 years
It makes everything feel so big and yet so tiny at the same time... the battle is for the survival of the universe and it is also just 1 grain of sand in a desert.

Mass Effect lore is amazing !

Fairly terrifying to imagine a human reaper floating down to a planet, basically the grim reaper taken form.
Nothing being able to stop it.

Ah yes, "reapers".

Do the reapers put the little vests on the keepers or do they do that themselves

One thing I find interesting in Mass Effect that i wish Andromeda made clear alot more of is that due to the Reaper trap of the relay network they essentially stopped development of more effective energy weapons against synthetic life. In Andromeda due to the lack of relays weapons tech had to be lighter to be viable for transport so the races there focuses on plasma weapons more than ballistic. Just one change in travel and logistics shifted entire species thinking.

I really wish ME3 had explored the idea of every Reaper being created from organic life forms, and having some WILDLY different designs for them. Like, for cinematic shots where you needed to have a lot of them on screen, you can still recycle models without breaking lore. Just make a codex entry that suggests that the bulk of Reaper ships seem resemble a single unknown species, speculating that this species might've been the first, the largest, or just the strongest species that the Reapers ever harvested. But then you can have a variety of alien Reapers for boss fights. Like, imagine how crazy it could've been if the scene where Thessia is attacked, we see that the Reaper spearheading the attack is the one that was created from the Protheans. Or we see one on Earth that resembles those statues on Ilos, implying that it's the one that was created from the species that came before the Protheans. There's so much they could've done with it, and they could've leaned so hard into the Lovecraftian "incomprehensible horror" aspect of the Reapers designs.

That lovecraft quote in the beginning made me wonder what he’d think if he were dropped into the mass effect future.
His head would probably explode the moment someone introduced him to any of the aliens.

So the reapers have done 20,000 cycles for a Billion years sounds crazy to me

It hasn't been a month since I finished my first playthrough of the trilogy and stuff like this already makes me want to replay them.
Good video man, keep it up!

While this is very interesting, I think you are missing the point that was being made by the leviathans being evil. Its not supposed to be a vague suggestion that the reapers evil is merely a reflection of their creators and the world they built, but evidence of the desire to dominate inherent to organic life that led the reapers to believe there was no hope for reconciliation between organics and synthetics.

The leviathans created the AI to discover the cause of the conflict between organics and synthetics. The cause they discovered was that organics are, due to the process of evolution that forms their psyche, driven to desire the domination of others, be that other species or the machines they create. Synthetics probelm is that they lack the understanding of reality that organics have, leading them to easily make evil or genocidal choices.

The leviathans (along with the protheans) and the reapers are reflections of these two failings. The leviathans and protheans display the same dominating tendencies that lead to the creation of bad AI's and conflict with them, and the reapers lack the moral consciousness needed to understand that their solution to the problem gurantees a never ending nightmare factory.

The reapers want synthesis, but they have failed everytime they tried it. So they are using the galaxy as a giant experiment, allowing new organic civilisations to grow in the hopes that one will eventually provide a solution by not displaying these negative tendencies. The proof that the reapers aren't basing their conclusions about organic life solely on the galaxy as it was under their creators is that they have been waiting untold eons for an organic civilisation to arise that doesn't suffer from these failings, and have been disappointed every single time.

Up until our cycle that is, provided we managed to unite enough of the galaxy to prove that we focus more on cooperation and coexistence than domination. This is why you need a high galactic readiness in order to choose synthesis.

All those reminds me of a theory as to what reapers were doing their thing to prevent a major catastrophe involving the black matter or something like that. That theory was based upon Mass effect 2 Tali recruitment mission with the suddenly dying sun. Even Tali was worried about how a sun which was fine would suddenly die out of nowhere. Maybe this idea will be the base for mass effect 4?

I always thought reapers looked like bedbugs.

When sovereign talks to shep,you just know they command respect,and they are leviathans creation,imagine if the ai had not turned on their creators

Wow, I just found this vid after replaying ME 1 again and looking for some lore info. This was great, you did a fantastic job summarizing the important wiki info and made it into a very easily digestible video. The music, script, visuals and everything was on point. Seriously, good job and thanks for the video. 🤘

,,The Sound of the Machines is everywhere!,,

Anyone notice how the creation of the reapers mirrors the tale of Frankenstein and his monster? Yes there is Lovecraftian elements but it comes down to how hubris again is the center of the narrative.