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Somehow after last week we managed to have more negative feelings about Dragon Age's anime movie than Mass Effect's. Dawn of the Seeker stars Cassandra Pentaghast in a story before we met her in Dragon Age II. And man, is she unrecognizable in this nothing ass film.

We also took some time to talk about Dragon Age 4 pivoting to single player only, as the news didn't seem to merit a whole BioBit.

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Bioware announced that it's officially ending development on its planned Anthem overhaul. So we got together to talk about how we got here and what this likely means for Bioware moving forward.

Also we talked about Henry Cavill and the prospect of him being involved in Mass Effect and why a movie about Shepard would be stupid as heck.

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This week we're returning to Mass Effect to discuss the series' anime movie following James Vega. Mass Effect: Paragon Lost feels like two movies in one: one that was bad, and another that had a semblance of a good idea. Neither of which feels properly connected to the games it's based on.

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Parting is such sweet sorrow. This week we wrap up our Jade Empire season with Khee Hoon Chan and Andrew King is here to help ups tie it off with a neat bow.

It's time to take down Master Li, although there are a few decisions to make along the way. We also talk about our romantic conclusions, the final decision, and whether or not Jade Empire succeeds at painting greys in its red and blue morality.

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It's time for the week of The Big Twist of Jade Empire. Jason Coles joins us to talk about rushed romances, spirit worlds, and whether staring at a baseball too long counts as a "flaw" in martial arts teachings.

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Sam Greer joins us as we head into the Imperial City to unmask Death Hand's plot....or is it his plot? Who can say?

This week we infiltrate the Lotus Assassins, go through the RPG equivalent of a Hitman level, and see the beginnings of Jade Empire's romance. This means we're also gonna unpack the extremely messy ways it handles its queer relationships, which is always fun.

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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is upon us, so it's time for another episode of BioBits. Ken and Eric talk about the remaster of the original trilogy, changes being made to Mass Effect, and our hopes for how conversations around the series might change a decade later.

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Tien's Landing is a dysfunctional town, so we're spending an unexpectedly long time here as we solve everyone's problems. As well as our own.

This week we set out to get a new flyer and wind map, but leave with a huge group of weirdos helping us find Master Li. But the main topic of the week is the weirdness of Jade Empire's morality system, which seems to get more rigid and binary as the game goes on.

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Welcome to the first episode of BioBits, a series of mini-Normandy FM episodes for when things happen in the Bioware world. This week, a report from The Gamer revealed Jack was originally meant to be pansexual in Mass Effect, but Bioware was worried about a second wave of controversy with Fox News. Gayming Magazine's Aimee Hart joins us to talk our way through our feelings about what it all means and if this explanation is better or worse than the homophobic garbage Bioware spouted out a decade ago.

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The Gamer's report: https://www.thegamer.com/mass-effect-2-jack-gay-pansexual-fox-news/

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We're back with a new season, a new series, and a new co-host. It's Jade Empire time here at Normandy FM.

Khee Hoon Chan joins us for the first episode of our Jade Empire retrospective, where we dive into how Bioware made a fantasy version of China that isn't actually China. There's a lot to unpack this season. We also talk about the limitations of its morality system, the hidden depth of its combat, and how the game handles exposition (by not handling it at all).

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