I'm mostly still playing with my Soldier Pure Paragorn maleshep, so my strategies are basically getting Liara and the DLC character (oh man, his Dark Channel kicks total ass!) on my team, using the combo of Singularity+Warp and/or Dark Channel and Statis and kicking everyone's ass out of the park (heck, the DC+Statis combo takes 4 bars of a Brute's health on Insanity!). For shielded enemies, my Valkyrie IV and Valiant IV with Disruptor Bullets can drop them faster than enemies can say "momma".

I've got to say, I love the AI combinations of the Cerberus soldiers. The Centaurions dropping comboing grenades into cover spots where there are already two enemy turrets blocking you and the Nemesis soldiers sniping constantly while Assault Troppers rush flank your cover positions... There have been some pretty crazy fights in the game so far

Great game, awful ending. After three games the characters that have been following Shepherd on his/her mission deserve better than not being mentioned, at all(with the exception of Joker).

I'll address your spoilers first. Also, you can read all my other spoilered points, they're from the ending you've seen. 

Yeh I admit I forgot to mention  the whole Shepard and Illusive man thing, so you're right about there being a precedent for a synthetic/organic merge. Except for the fact that that took years of intensive care if memory serves, or you had to hang on one of those husk thingies for god knows how long and in this ending the whole thing is done in one massive energy burst. So there is no link to any of the lore you described, as accurate as it may be. The same 'energy burst' takes out the relays as well, so it's not like it will be possible for the whole galaxy to be turned into one of these synthetic/organic hybrids with the Illusive Man's technology either, as there is no way of communicating. It is all just dumped into this idea that a 'massive green coloured explosion' solves everything. The grand explanation from the kid is...'Everything you are will be absorbed, and then sent out'. Great, that clarifies things. 

Your information about the reapers does not contradict what I said. They incorporate organic DNA into whatever their 'hybrid' life form is. Part of the composition fo eahc reaper nation is organic DNA. And yes, their completely alien and transcedant form of life and technique of merging the synthetic and organic only serves to prove my point that this massive 'energy explosion' must be reaper technology, or some screwy solve-all technology that has never been mentioned, as opposed to anything we've seen or had explained to us before.

I don't like endings that use a blatant solve-all deus ex machina that conveniently allows shepard to choose between three endings without a thought, it's just too broken from everything else that has happened in the series. Not ony is the whole explantion that this tech can do basically anything introduced in the very last 20 minutes of the game, they do not explain after your decision how any of it actually works, except for the aforementioned, ridiculously simple, sentence. They just explain what it does. The kid might as well give Shephard a magic wand. I don't think that fits into the universe, at all, or the development of the story.

The EDI thing, it doesn't matter in the long run, just remember that they put more man hours and creative thought into modelling a robot's tits and cameltoe than they did into unveiling the face of one of the universe's major characters, or in the final copy pasted 'winter space' scene of their blockbuster multi million selling sci fi trilogy. 

Well, in the case of TIM and Saren, TIM was only out for a couple of weeks and Saren recovered quite quickly (both had different exposures to that "energy beam" from the husk-ify machine, so that could account for it). In the case of Shepard, indeed it took quite a lot of years of intesive care between rebuilding him and giving him the tech, which could have proved invaluable for the distinctions between himself and Saren (haven't seen the effects on TIM completely yet, so I cannot comment on him).

If somehow the components and the merges that shepard underwent could be amplified and signalled to every organic species using the Mass Relay systems (which we already know that they have various unknown functions, that has been one of the mysteries surrounding them in the whole series) destroying them in the process, then that could explain a bit of that ending. Remember that every species in the galaxy is dependent on Reaper technology (as Sovereign put it "Your society develops along the paths we desire") in one way or another, so it's not as if a galactic wide signal couldn't be sent (something akin to the signals that the keepers receive but on a much more grandiose scale). 

I don't either agree or disagree with the views that you present, as I've yet to see the full scope of the endings myself. I have plenty of questions that I've posed inside my own mind for the reapers (who created them? is it possible that their own technology is based on a blueprint of something before? if so, aren't the reapers just a self-perfecting synthetic life form tasked with a monumental endevour contrary to our belief of total destruction? Was there some truth to the words of Saren, as to the reapers being our only salvation?). I'll develop my thoughts and views on them once I know a bit more.

I wouldn't say that they put more man hours into that aspect than on unveiling the face of said character, given that the base anatomical female model is basically the same for all characters, with a few minor changes here and there. A palette texture swap would have been an easy and rapid thing to do (and I still think that coining EDI as a sexbot is rather silly and rather telling of the current mentality (anything that has even the slightest sexualization must be because of perverted reasons), as that would be the same as calling Maria (metropolis) a sexbot as well). I would have prefered if that character remained a mystery, as no matter what they did, people would have been pissed off, given that they created an expectation that couldn't be matched. It would have either been too alien, too human-alike, they should have made something more unique (which is the case), they should have played it safe, etc, etc. 

But the thing with Shepard's revival is that it was mechanical: you see robotic arms rebuilding him with metal plates in place of bone. You cant' 'broadcast' that in a signal or energy beam, they're just two completely different things.  

And yes, a galactic wide signal or energy beam or who knows what is sent. It just works, because the kid tells you it works. Lore out the window.

Ah ok, I see you haven't got to the full plot yet, I wont spoil that for you. Let me just say though, the description of the reapers from that holographic encounter with sovereign in ME1 (possibly my favourite scene in the whole franchise) is thrown out the window.  

On the time spent, I can guarantee you categorically that they spent more time on those 3d models than on Tali's face. You can 'Talify' (as its become known) an image in photoshop in 5 minutes. I'll link you to a partciularly hilarious thread if you want. 3D modelling, ported or not (Nah, they upped the size of the female 'assets' in this game, it's not just a straight port, apart from probably Miranda) takes longer than 5 minutes. This may seem like a petty thing to argue about, but the priorities are clear to see. I could also argue about an IGN employee being there for little more than TnA, and the resources spent on that, but amybe some people like her character. 

Sorry, still not seeing the complaint. The effects you had on the galaxy will continue to be felt regardless of whether or not you had a text scroll epilogue.

Anyway I finished the game.

Overall: satisfactory. Need to go back and play more. I heard you get an additional ending in NG+ mode so that's something I'm going to try out when I get my canon Shepard back to the end.

We just have to disagree then, and you did not answer the first part of my post.

There is no NG+ ending.

On the DLC squadmate, some people have discovered that it is already on the disc, and the DLC is assumed to only be the mission. Here is a video as proof.

The first part of your post wasn't directed to me, and it wasn't a question.

I really need time to digest that ending. I admit it leaves me kind of... unsettled. Thematically problematic.