#the tl;dr of this is i love everyone and especially vetra and i'm excited to get to know them more

[bidickgrayson]

some initial mea thoughts after playing it for like, over twelve hours and feeling like i’ve barely begun:

I LOVE VETRA! I LOVE VETRA! i feel like the greatest thing bioware ever did was to let me romance vetra as female ryder. i’ve only flirted with her like three times, but i’m already super in love with her

that’s all, end of post. vetra’s the best and that’s all that matters

jk, this is me we’re talking about, i’ve never done a short post in my life

i like everyone a lot so far. everyone’s so likable and interesting to me, and there’s been some great moments for everyone, i actively look forward to getting to know them better. and they have great interactions with each other!! i love my squad talking to each other on the tempest and in the field

i like peebee a lot more than i thought i would. i feel like so far, she’s been a good mix of the kind of...quirky distant loner with someone i actually do want to know. i thought i might mostly find her annoying or childish or one dimensional, but i’m already looking forward to eventually romancing her, even though i’ve only had her on the squad for a short time

i really like drack. i love that he’s a grandfather to another super awesome krogan. speaking of which, KESH IS AMAZING i wanna be friends with her, i love love love female krogan (meaning two only two we’ve ever met lol)

gil’s amazing. i love gil so much, i’m really looking forward to eventually romancing him with male ryder. i wish he was a full squad mate! he’s so much fun so far

i love suvi too! if vetra didn’t exist, i would probably be romancing suvi first time around. idk, i just find her very charming? she’s cute, i’m excited to romance her.

i like the way the tempest crew all talk to each other/chime in for different planet scans/missions. it makes gil/suvi feel more consistently a part of the crew, more than sam/steve imo? i still feel like they’re inevitably going to get less than the squad romances haha thanks bioware!!!!!!!!!!

i’m at least glad that it’ll be easier for me to romance those two, unlike sam/steve who only came in the third game and had to compete with characters that shepard had know and grown to love for two games. 

i like cora more than i expected. i haven’t decided if i care enough to actually make a male ryder to romance her though.

liam’s interesting. he’s a lot more complicated than i thought he’d be, and idk if i get him? there was a quick side quest thingy with him and jaal taking their shirts off, and i honestly have no idea what happened or why it did (something about getting to know the angara i guess??), and it felt like ryder understood something i didn’t, and i was just sitting there like “.....huh??” he’s fun though. i’ve loved him from the moment ryder and him were separated from everyone else on habitat 7 and had great banter with each other throughout that mission. i’ll probably romance him eventually, but right now he’s below vetra/suvi/peebee for my future female ryder romances. still mad he’s straight lol

only just met jaal, and i like him/am intrigued by him so far. it’s really unfair to jaal the character, but i kind of have some resentment directed at him because bioware made him straight. IT’S NOT HIS FAULT that bioware made such a terrible decision, but i’m so bitter and mad. jaal deserves better than to be straight bioware! (more realistically, HOLY SHIT MLM DESERVE BETTER good lord! fuck you honestly bioware). i was really looking forward to romancing jaal with a male ryder, so idk when i’m actually going to romance him. i want to, but i’m so reluctant to do straight romances

speaking of angara/bioware anger, holy shit the female angara look bad. HOLY SHIT they look so bad. it’s not quite as bad as the tali photoshop picture thingy (because basically nothing could reach that level (plsdon’tproovemewrongbioware)), but i keep thinking about it in relation to the female angara design. the male angara look GOOD and fully developed, and the female angara are just so distractingly poorly designed?? like their lips and their noses (the noses are so different on male and female and it’s like HMMMM i fucking wonder why), and their cheeks/jawline texture and their tentacle thingies.....geez it’s bad. it’s so distracting to me when i talk to female angara :(

i like kallo. don’t have too many more thoughts on him than that. curious how his conflict with gil will resolve. i like him and suvi being bridge buddies

oh and lexi! i had literally zero expectations for her coming in, but she’s cute and i like her and i’m glad she’s on the tempest

back to my fave, vetra, i love how well connected she is?? she’s friends with so many people, it’s great, and i love how everyone seems to love/respect her. and she had such a great intro to her character. AND SHE’S PROTECTIVE OF HER SISTER!! so far she hasn’t left my party, and honestly, that’s not going to change for the rest of the game. it’s gonna be me and vetra and whoever else wants to come along. and speaking of, i love that the squadmates talk so much more than in previous mass effect games. yes to themselves, but also just commenting on the world and what ryder does

i saw something before the game came out that was like, this game seems like it’s going to be the citadel dlc: the game, and so far that’s pretty accurate honestly? it’s not the same, because there isn’t the same emotional investment/payoff, but i like the tone so far, i love the banter, i love ryder’s interactions with the crew...and i like that the crew reacts to each other. in both me1 and me2, crew interactions were minimal, and it was kind of like everyone was in their own world. i loved me2, but it was all so individualized into the loyalty missions that the crew didn’t really feel like a crew, like they barely knew there were other crew members on the team (unless they hated each other lol). i’m glad to get a chance to know a lot of what everyone on the tempest thinks about/how they interact with the others

i like ryder so far, and i’m glad they’ve gotten rid of the paragon/renegade system. i can actually imagine playing this game differently in my future playthroughs! don’t have to choose to be a raging asshole to get some different dialogue choices. and ryder’s much more interesting/engaging to me than the inquisitor ever was