#I think Vetra's out of the running I must have missed a flirt option somewhere

[rubyvroom]

things that I am enjoying about Mass Effect: Andromeda: 

- JUMP JETS. I love jump jets. I use them constantly to rain down hell on my enemies and do my usually-reserved-for-bethesda jumping up mountains thing

-the Nomad is super fun. I didn’t actually mind the Mako, but the Nomad is 200% better.

-research/crafting system works for me, and so does resource mining and all that. habitation/AVP points? Ok, enjoyable. I’m kind of a sucker for setting up places to live as a game mechanic, although see another bullet below for the downside

-tons of quests and they’re not all fetch quests. 

- I met the space weed dealers. their notes were great.

- the fact that Mr. X saw me loading up a team of Jaal and PeeBee and said, “uh-huh, that’s your alien orgy team right” and I was able to reply, “you know, that’s actually kind of plausible, canonically, and also yes”

things I am not enjoying: 

-the Kett are not-great baddies. blerg.

-the colonization thing... uh... you tried? to address the obvious issues? but not well? ehhh

-facial animations were greatly improved by the time I got ahold of the game, but the character creator still sucked. It seems like it was built for people who didn’t want to bother with character creation. 

-combat is okay? it’s not super intuitive and it took me forever to figure things out, yet at the same time it’s a little too easy. I’m lacking the feeling of mastery to satisfy me while also lacking a challenge. Maybe it’s my character build, IDK. 

-vault missions are way too easy

-feeling a lot of bro fistbump elements to this game that bug me. not as much as Witcher 3 but it’s there.

-related: everything about Cora

-I understand they made some fixes regarding the transgender character who deadnames herself, which is good? but I guess said conversation wasn’t replaced with anything because actually I’m not sure which character is supposed to be trans, and I’ve met everyone? :/

-WHERE ARE THE HANAR. WHERE ARE THE ELCOR. WHERE ARE THE DRELL. WHERE ARE THE QUARIANS. WHERE ARE THE VOLUS. Okay, it’s nice to hang out with Krogans again but did none of the other species come along besides humans, turians, asari and krogans? Did they not have time to animate the other aliens so they got left in the milky way? Does this new galaxy have only two species one of which is a cannon-fodder baddie? :(