Mass Effect’s Cruelest Moral Choice Remains Gaming's Most Haunting Mission 19 Years Later

So when, years later, an Alliance clerk told Shepard that a fallen marine named Nirali Bhatia “may save more lives in death than she did in life,” Shepard was faced with the decision — the opportunity — to make Nirali’s death count for something. Before the question ended, she was already agreeing. Hand a grieving husband his wife’s body? Or keep her for research that might save more lives down the line? Someone was going to pay for whichever answer I chose. (I knew Shepard would say yes. I also knew, thumbs hovering over the controller, that every part of me wished she wouldn’t.)