Replaying Andromeda and I can’t believe I’ve left these two alone for so long 😭 my ocs Ellie and Voeld, a human archeologist and angaran an ex-Rokar turned resistance fighter.
Hc: the kett attempt a strike on Aya, hitting the museum hard in order to regain some remnant tech and artifacts. Ellie squared up with one of the kett attempting to take the museum director, but didn’t see the shot coming! She’ll recover, thanks to her initiative, omni-grade uniform, but Voeld doesn’t know that.
Cora: Doctor Carlyle, with everything going on, I'd think the ark needs you more than we do?
Dr Carlyle: Pathfinder wants a medic on hand.
Dr Carlyle: And if that is home down there, I'm happy to knock on the door.
Ryder: Yeah, we're just not sure what's on the other side of the door.
Dr Carlyle: No problem. If it has teeth, I brought the pliers. Yank 'em out myself.
quite a hot take i guess but i really do genuinely enjoy and like mass effect: andromeda. yeah sure the facial expressions are a bit clunky sometimes but it is not the first nor last game I'll play where the graphics are a bit clunky, and it delivers exactly what's on packet: exploration game in space. you explore. you help build settlements. there's mysteries of the galaxy and family drama and also some friction with alien species. ryder is not shepard; and i like it just like that, if i wanted shepard I'd play the original game, in which the idea and plot is very different and requires an action protagonist with rank and experience as military: since it is a war game, essentially. andromeda does not require a shepard and it wouldn't work with one. it has a niceable protagonist, young and inexperienced bc the plot demands it: ryder was never to be a pathfinder. they're just a kid with barely any military experience who accompanies their dad (whom they've got a complicated relationship with) at their work, and tragedy happens and suddenly they need to grow up fast unless people die at their failure. and if you're one of those who think ryder is bland and emotionless... that's your fault, because personally, to me, the personality and dialogue wheel in Andromeda is better than the original trilogy: you've got 4 dialogues choices most times, in which each and any combination of them will directly influenced Ryder's personality and how said dialogue will be said from then on vs three options, of which are goodie/neutral/asshole. there's also enough mysteries, and the plot was enough for a first game. i wish they'd continue with the andromeda story: there were a lot of things purposefully left open to be explored in next games and/or dlcs. quarian arks, the miasma, how the native aliens were made or came from, what the hell actually happened in the span of centuries that took for humanity to arrive there, what was it that wrecked the worlds that were fine and the noxious miasma in the galaxy made by alien constructs, of which the creators have vanished. The companions are people with actual flaws and virtues.
It is genuinely one of my liked and comfortable games to play. The only thing i can complain about is not being able to smooch Lexi, since I first bought it for Natalie Dormer.
I finished my first Mass Effect: Andromeda playthrough last night and I really loved it. 8/10 game for sure.
If ME:A really does come into the next mass effect game, and Bioware harms a single skin cell on our cinnamon roll Angara, I will be out with pitchforks and fire.