Bill Coberly has a long and interesting essay on “The Call of Leviathan: Mass Effect and Lovecraft” at The Ontological Geek. Warning: big plot spoilers for Mass Effect 3, and the Mass Effect 3 DLC “Leviathan”.

I bailed out of the Mass Effect trilogy at the end of the excellent first PC game, put off by press reports that the second game would do that “so 2009, dude…” thing of making the game experience dark and gloomy and depressing. I don’t remember the first game as being Lovecraftian, other than perhaps the cosmic levels of boredom induced by its bad DLC episodes. But with its sumptuous SF settings and excellent reviews, cosmic sweep and official God Mode, and the “Call of Cthulhu”-like DLC episode “Leviathan”, I might give Mass Effect 3 a try at some point this year.