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CptMold · May 31, 2018, 8:24pm

A while back, I made a textwall about why Mass Effect Andromeda is a so-so mess of wasted potential.

The post I'm talking about

For a less controversial opinion, I’ll cast my vote on ME: Andromeda because I can’t think of anything else at the moment. I’ve been playing Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin for so long that I can’t even think about bad games anymore.

Is Mass Effect actually the worst game? No, but it’s a bland bundle of really cool concepts that’ll make you more frustrated [in the sense of “THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO COOL!”] than possibly enjoyed. The combat is good and the RPG mechanics are flawless, but the writing can only be described as amateur fanfic garbage. Every good idea it has going for it is underused, and there’s no point in playing a game with bland but serviceable sidecontent when every aspect of the main storyline, the thing that Mass Effect derives its fame from, has been thoroughly botched.

So, without further ado, the mark of shame goes to… this thing!

I feel that that entire textwall was irrelevant now, as someone summed it up way better than I ever could. A very honest, thoughtfully crafted, and complete video-essay about where the series all went wrong.

Quick warning: This spoils a LOT of Mass Effect in general. Not recommended unless you’ve played the original trilogy and either played Andromeda already or don’t care about the game.