Building up a side character for two games seems strange, but you don’t bring her back for the third and final game. Emily Wong was one of those characters in Mass Effect who seemed idealistic and bright-eyed without some news reporters’ bias and arrogance. With the third game, we could have seen a serious shift in her personality. For some reason, all the plans for her character were dropped. They brought her back in a tie-in twitter promotional for the third game. That seems lame.
With the Big Dan Gaming person making a story on Wong, it got me thinking about the character. And, YouTube even suggested the VO actress’ video on the subject. EA set some time for the actress, but they didn’t bring her back.
What I find even more annoying is they brought in one of the most useless and dumbest characters in the series with a similar background. Despite the rushed development period, they brought in a new character, Diana Allers. Why? Was it just for the sex appeal? I am all for sex appeal and having sexy characters, but it just seems odd to drop a journo character for someone that hasn’t mattered in the rest of the trilogy. And, I can’t stand the VO actress for Allers. Aller's activities can reshape side stories with her reporting, which is something Wong was built up as and would have been a good character growth for her. It seems EA brought in Allers for "normies" promotional tie-ins. There is much discussion online about this switch.
Side note: Allers will die off-screen if you refuse to bring her aboard or kick her from your ship.
Side note II: Why not bring in the actress that played Wong to do new material and replace Allers for the remake edition?
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