The elimination of Paragon and Renegade conversation options has done wonders for the ability to have Ryder be written like a somewhat normal person. My Ryder, at least, who I find much, much more engaging than my old Commander Shepard. However, looking past entire races and toward specific characters, this is where Andromeda shines. But their story did not interest me nearly as much as the Asari, Salarians, Quarians, Krogans, etc. They live in a beach resort fortress you can visit and are very into things like poetry and sewing and uh, killing Kett. They’re a weak link in the game’s story as they never feel like that much of a threat, and similarly, the Angarans aren’t exactly the most compelling race Mass Effect has produced. Even when their true intentions are explained, they remain less than compelling foes. The Reapers are the more interesting villains however, and too often the Kett come off like a generic Star Trek crew of baddie aliens with ugly armor and designs to kidnap and murder everyone for its own sake. Yes, the Kett are a looming threat, and you do shoot a whole lot of people, but it’s a much different experience than the galaxy-eating danger of the Reapers. The main goal of the game is to find habitable planets, to reforge their atmospheres through ancient alien tech left behind by the mysterious “Remnant,” and make sure everyone has a nice life and prosperous future. The focus is on exploration and discovery, finding a new home for humanity and the other alien races. Mass Effect: Andromeda is one of the most hopeful, optimistic games I’ve ever played, and I quite like that about it. The tech is helpful, but possibly dangerous, and no one knows the true capabilities of the integrated AI, or the hidden purposes behind the Andromeda initiative itself. She’s connected to an AI called SAM which helps with her duties of trying to find a home for humanity. Ryder is a newly minted Pathfinder, a sort of starship captain/lead explorer that commands the hastily assembled crew of the Tempest. Fortunately, there’s also a somewhat friendly race of Andromeda aliens to meet, the Angara, who have been sparring with the Kett for a long time, and though wary of the newcomers, are mostly eager to help. If that wasn’t enough, the system is also infested with Kett, a warlike race that is up to something in the cluster and starts shooting as soon as new faces show up.
But now that the humans have come, they learn the truth about Andromeda, that a horrible dark matter space virus called “the Scourge” has threaded its way throughout the system, turning planets that were scouted “Golden Worlds,” with perfect climates suited for life, into barren monstrosities. The Nexus, the new Citadel-like central space station, is a ghost-town, with the advance crew assuming the ark ships had all been lost. It is a Mass Effect game, through and through, and it does not copy or emulate its competition, but rather tries to build on what's come before to varying degrees of success.Īrriving in Andromeda on a massive ark after centuries in stasis, Ryder and the other awoken humans are dismayed to see that they’re the first and only ship to show up, with the Turian, Asari and Salarian arks missing. The open-world format is somewhat freeing compared to past games, and Andromeda plays host to a likable lead in Pathfinder Ryder and a crew that grows on you over the course of your journey until they become another charming space family you won't want to leave behind. It has improved combat from past games in almost every way, which is a fantastic thing to behold, but its difficulty curve is odd at times.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is a sprawling epic, possibly too sprawling, with its size diminishing its story through an unfortunate number of unmemorable side quests.
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The idea of the Andromeda exploratory mission is to set up a new future for the Milky Way’s inhabitants free of whatever happens back home, but naturally nothing goes to plan. Enter Andromeda, where a collection of humans and aliens leave the Milky Way just as a little-known soldier named Shepard starts crying wolf about some sort of imminent galactic threat, making this seem like a prequel in many ways, but technically it's more of a far-flung sequel, or really, more of a reboot.
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