Mass Effect - Andromeda

Thoughts

What a disappointment this game was. Talk about a fall from grace!

I feel that the setting is by far the strongest part of the game. The missing/stranded arks for each of the respective races are an intriguing plot device. However, despite the story being intriguing, literally everything else about Andromeda is worse than its predecessors:

• The crew/characters are just less interesting versions of ones from Mass Effect 1-3. It’s hard to come up a comparison between any of the crew members that favors Andromeda.¹
• The gameplay planet-side is largely a waste of the player’s time — they took the weakest part of Mass Effect and doubled down on it.
• It seemed like the Profiles that you can invest into would be a bigger deal based on the prologue mission, but I found them to be completely unneeded during the rest of the game.

Progress

Main Story: Incomplete

Despite my best efforts (i.e. two attempts over the years), I just can’t bring myself to finish this game.

Footnotes

1. Okay, fine, maybe Jacob would be in there somewhere. ↩