What The Future Holds | Mass Effect: Andromeda and BioWare's Colonialist Legacy

A critique of/love letter to BioWare's most underrated game. ----- This video was produced on land that traditionally belongs to the East Cherokee and Yuchi tribes. For more information about land recognition and the historical heritage of the land you live on, visit: https://native-land.ca/ ___ 00:00 Intro 01:52 Opening 02:29 Prologue Recap 04:19 MEA Critical 13:55 Why the Kett are More Terrifying than the Reapers (spoiler: it's eugenics) 21:59 Mass Effect Trilogy 26:12 Dragon Age 32:47 Andromeda's Release 34:29 Kadara 38:07 The Roekarr 44:50 The Jaardan 45:57 What The Future Holds ----- (Feels weird to put this here, but) If you enjoyed this, and want to help me with producing more projects like this one, please consider supporting me on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A751BM3 ----- Game Workers Unite: https://www.gameworkersunite.org/get-... ----- I explored a lot of academic resources and articles while writing and producing this project. Obviously I couldn't go into too much detail without turning this into an utter monster of an essay. So, for further reading: -Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, by John Rieder -Playing Serial Imperialists: The Failed Promises of BioWare's Video Game Adventures https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... -Playing With, Not Against, Empires: Video Games and (Post)Colonialism https://usso.uk/playing-with-not-agai... ----- This video was produced without the use of generative AI at any stage of development. AI has never and will never be utilized in my creative process, and my work is not allowed to be used as training data.