Quote Originally Posted by Ayen View Post
Regardless, the Reapers fail as villains. There's no sense of urgency when you see them. The Collectors were more terrifying in Mass Effect 2.
That's why they needed to bring in Cerberus.

The Reapers work brilliantly as an ominous, background threat, but they lack enough personality to be the foreground villains.

The Illusive Man and Kai Leng took those roles, and I think they served their function admirably.