After the masterpiece trilogy, it’s hard to perceive Andromeda without my favorite characters, but I can’t say that I didn’t like Andromeda, you can go through it once.
P.S. thanks for krogan Drack he 10/10

This game was unfairly maligned at release. If it was not a Mass Effect game it would not have gotten the backlash it got. To me, this game feels like a really good fan game made by a bunch of amateurs, which it kind of is.
The story is dumb and the writing is terrible, but in a way that I find endearing. I'm laughing at it, not groaning or cringing. Especially the main character. The memes about female Ryder are true. Criticism of the story and writing is totally fair.
The combat and power system is my favorite in the series. Once you're leveled up you feel very powerful, and there's a LOT of freedom in how you build and play your character. The gun play and cover system also feel much better than the previous titles.
The worlds have good variation and even change throughout the game, to make them worth a revisit.
The missions are not too memorable, nor are most of the characters. Honestly the main character is so funny to me, though. They're very different from Shepard.
The voice acting is atrocious. But again, I find this funny.

This game was a surprise hit, for me, considering I was not that interested in Mass Effect.
(side note: my hours are inflated by me leaving it on while going to work. I think it would take a replay to hit that many hours)

game is dead. ea wont do anything to update it. Game is full of cheaters. new players wont play with pros and the pros will only play with their buddies so that means there are no games well except playing with cheaters or solo but who wants to play a co-op game solo. this is all about online play main game is fine

Its nowhere near a perfect game, and isn't a Mass Effect 4, but it's still worth the play-through. Get it for $8 on sale and you won't regret it. It's a solid 7/10 or 8/10, the reason it's so divisive is it's formula breaks away from the original trilogy, being more open world focused rather than small maps as the first three games were. Go into it knowing that and don't expect it to be a follow up to the previous games, and you'll have a good time.

In a similar fashion to many other reviews - while this is a fun space game, calling it a Mass Effect game is an insult.

why does a game set in the far future have so much coal in it?

A movie with extra steps.

That's the easiest way to describe this 'game'. You'll spend a lot of time in cutscenes that can't be skipped, dialogue that also can't be skipped, and dead gameplay where you can look around while waiting for several minutes at a time for something to happen.

I originally played this game on the Xbox One, and I recall now after booting it up on PC why I never picked it up again, even when playing the trilogy preceding it many times over. As mentioned above, there's a lot of dead time where the player is just waiting around, and the voice acting at large sounds like a bunch of people just reading lines. Many of the voices sound so similar to each other that you could be forgiven for mistaking who's talking, particularly if you are trying to appreciate what's on screen or if it's being said over the communicators.

Next is the dialogue itself. Even when having casual conversations with NPCs, Mass Effect 1-3 all make good use of the player's time to explain what's going on, flesh out the characters and give them a wide breadth of personality, a creating the illusion of life within the characters so strongly, that it's easy to get attached to the characters.

In this game, it's the opposite. I hate basically every NPC, especially the companions to the player, as well as the player character Ryder. Where Commander Shepard is a War Hero in his/her own right, and the NPCs get swept up in the journey to save the galaxy through various natural circumstances, Ryder is an insecure college maybe-graduate desperate to live in Daddy's shadow, while all of the NPCs REGULARLY remind Ryder that he/she is not an N7, didn't earn the Pathfinder role, and even though the entire weight of the Andromeda initiative is basically carried by Ryder alone, they constantly belittle the player's efforts (what few there are, since most of it feels like cutscenes and dead gameplay) as not good enough, even though Ryder is literally the entire reason anyone is alive at all. Another thing to be said about the difference is that, in the original trilogy, the characters don't tell you who they are through their words, most of the time. They show you through how they speak, how they look at the world around them, and what their goals and motivations are. In Andromeda, they all have the same sterile motivation of being a part of the Andromeda Initiative masked behind "Oh, I was a cop." or "Oh, I did some Alliance recon missions," blurting out facts about themselves like an awkward guy/girl on a date trying to blurt out all of their selling points for why you should love them. How and why they're telling the characters these things doesn't feel organic. It's blurted out to give the NPCs and Ryder the illusion of character, forced into the early chapters of the game and without asking, because the voice actors needed their voices to be heard, I guess? And, as mentioned, it's the NPCs and Ryder deciding to say it for no reason, essentially, only occasionally prompted by another character asking out of the blue for no reason. That is, when they aren't busy disparaging the player -sorry, Ryder- for inheriting the Pathfinder role because reasons.

This game hates you, the player. The customization options are a joke, and it'd take a casual player over an hour not to have a hideously ugly monstrosity of a character if they are trying to. Especially because, like many customization GUIs, the lighting doesn't match the game. Then, you're constantly being told that your efforts are garbage and that "it's okay not to be as great as your Dad, who is some nobody to the player, but we're pretending that he's as badass or better than Shepard every chance we get", and that "Oh... It's you again? Are you still playing at Pathfinder?" after you've restored power and stopped an alien attack while also securing food and water before everyone starves to death. And the trap of the N7 armor is a god-awful joke as well. If you put it on, basically EVERY NPC you meat will absolutely hate you for it, saying that you haven't earned it (after saving the Andromeda Initiative pretty much singlehandedly multiple times over. Have I mentioned that yet?). The best part is, who are these people to determine who is an N7? Not that Ryder is, but neither are any of them. It'd be like a wild karen seeing someone wearing a Navy Seal hat and being like, "Hey, I just met you, and I know literally nothing about you, but I know you're not a Navy Seal. How dare you wear that?" Most people wouldn't recognize the Navy Seal uniform as anything other than generic military uniform anyways, let alone call the wearer out on it.

But, this game is full of karens, and you have to run all over the galaxy to find the manager for them, wash their feet, give them a shoulder massage, save them from literally dying, and still get told that you're not doing good enough. BY the manager AND the karen.

Then, for the finale, it's one long cutscene broken briefly by small stints of wandering through a maze and shooting a couple of enemies before more cutscene that takes minutes per section.

As I said, I couldn't remember until now why I didn't ever play the game a second time, and so I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt once more. And, yeah, given that it barely crosses over the threshold of being a 'game' instead of a 'slightly interactive movie', with constant interruptions to yank the player out of any possible immersion to listen to monotone voices unenthusiastically explain how you're not good enough to be the Pathfinder, but your Daddy picked you, so you get to be one, characters that are all selfish and spiteful (for the most part), and enemies that are just plain boring to fight with their battles dragged out by the floating guy with the orb. Oh, and I almost forgot, the humiliation fetish someone snuck in with how the NPCs will regularly ignore Ryder during briefings and walk out without so much as acknowledging the plan or the turn of events, clearly showing how the game is going out of the way to humiliate Ryder (the player) every chance they get.

This game is a slightly more polished version of Mass Effect 3 in terms of gameplay mechanics, but the fights are far inferior, the characters are downright awful in comparison, and the maps are more open world to a degree, but still feel like maze tunnels, rather than an actual wide area to explore.

The Kett will never ever compare to the Reapers, which is probably why the next announced Mass Effect game wasn't going to be a direct sequel to Andromeda -shocker-, though the rate things are going, it'll probably never see the light of day anyways.

If you're a die-hard fan of ME 1-3 trilogy, you may struggle to really find immersion and enjoyment in this game, where it feels like the creators put their hatred of players, the original trilogy, and sci-fi in general into this 'game'.

I have always loved Mass effect and even played the last three on basically every difficulty with every ending but this has me with mixed feelings. While the game play is stellar everything else is not. I really wanted to like this game but, in the end even with mods to improve my experience it simply never got to an enjoyable stage for me. Mass effect in general is all about the story, what decisions you make, relationships you make on the way, interactions and how everything ties together at the end for the climax of each game. In Mass effect 2 especially where you can effectively kill almost every single one of your teammates if you make the wrong decisions and they will not appear in the third game, that's what made it great. Even though the combat was not focused too much on it was still fun because how everything was presented and handled.

Meanwhile for Andromeda they seem to have made worse versions of every race in the game that seemed lamer and worse looking. Also, you can only choose a human character despite being promised otherwise. Everything feels weightless from your decisions not having many actual tangible outcomes based on your decisions to the actual big bad not even being the least intimidating. Going from the previous three the "Bad guys" don't have any weight as actual bad guys. If anything it just feels like they are bad guys just because and their objectives and reasoning seems trivial at best. The game play loop is worse with the outpost stuff for each world being a bit repetitive with barley if any memorable locations or npcs to speak of. Heck a talking rock would have made things more interesting.

Sure there are a few memorable characters like Drax and Phoebe. But, most if not all of the story beats and interactions are forgettable aside from Drax as he was the only actual Krogen that seemed like a Krogen to me and Krogens in the prier three were always entertaining. Especially Wrex and Grunt provided they survived. While the game play was fun I was just left with a feeling of disappointment as it just felt like the game was stripped down to the appearance of a mass effect game with better shooting and and power gameplay but without much substance where it truly counts. I know the game was only half finished when released but it should have never been released in that state to begin with. lastly if it was just called something else and was just inspired by Mass Effect then I don't think it would have been as bad.

This game was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ let down from the first minute. Its a spit in the face of what mass effect was originally designed as. If you buy this, you'll probably be refunding in under 2 hours. Between horrible game design, and even worse albeit probably horrid writing for characters its not worth it.

Better than it's reputation, but still not a close to the original trilogy.
- extremely long animations on Galaxy map
- long cut scenes when landing/leaving planets

Mods probably make this better.