Everything around the very concept of Shepard dying and being resurrected is just so half-baked. It's an interesting idea that they use for an opening spectacle... And then brush under the rug as quickly as possible.
Shepard DIED. Then they were violently brought back without even being asked. When Buffy Summers was resurrected, ripped out of heaven, she spent the whole of that season coming to terms with it, dealing with the impact of her having been done with her duty, at peace, only to be pulled back to life by the people she'd sacrificed herself to save.
Hell, Star Trek Discovery had Hugh Culber brought back to life and even three seasons afterwards, he was still grappling with the aftermath of it.
Meanwhile Shepard... is back on their feet and going about their business like there's been no change within less than a mission.
And it's all the more egregious when you consider how everyone that Shepard gathers have to deal with their psychological issues throughout the game, but SHEPARD never has to do the same, despite the inevitable issues that come from being resurrected, having their body stitched together from their own remains and a mishmash of tech, defying all laws of man and nature to do so.
There is a whole damn GAME'S worth of exploration to do with the very concept of Shepard having been resurrected, and instead, it's just a little bit of flavor text, and then A, singular, conversation in ME3 on the Cerberus base. That's all we really get about Shepard's resurrection and the Lazarus Project itself.
Makes me wish that they'd done ANYTHING else to kick of ME2, just because they do so much NOTHING with the concept.
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