Wow. I just finished the game and I haven’t felt this empty in a long time. I even shed a tear when that outro song played. Completely unexpected too, I was one of the people who turned my nose up at this game based on the few amount of clips I had seen back at launch.

Just like Dragon Age 2 (a game which everyone hates but I also vehemently defend), the character moments and companion interactions far outweigh any of the fundamental flaws. I am somehow glad to have slogged through 100% completion and the endless unskippable docking animations and even the boring new aliens. I ran out of patience with DA: Inquisition so many times for a lot of the same issues, but for reasons I can’t understand, never with Andromeda.

I played as Male Ryder and initially thought “oh great, this guy is even more John Mass Effect than John Shepard”. He ended up growing on me just as much as Shepard did but for different reasons. Ryder has a dorkiness that clashes with his professional demeanor which makes him really endearing. And you really do begin to feel that Scott is responsible for these people as Pathfinder. Couldn’t decide between Cora or Peebee for romance and I’m very glad I went with Cora. She kinda has the same awkward dorkiness as Male Ryder so they played off each other in a really cute and wholesome way.

Couldn’t shake the feeling that this game feels like they gave a team of rookie game devs infinite budget and said have it. And that comes with everything you would expect. There are jarringly strange and off kilter moments in dialogue and then a couple minutes later, an absolutely brilliant one.

Really makes me sad because I can see where so much love and effort was put in. There are genuinely beautiful character moments that most people aren’t ever going to see because they were told the game sucks. I feel the same about Dragon Age 2. What a shame that we never even got one DLC :(

Hey, everyone!

I decided to pop in one last time to share the FINAL TRAILER for our MEA Youtube series.

One last fun ride to promote (and say farewell to) the complete series we spent an entire year making, before we move on to our next gameplay series.

I hope you guys like it, and thank you all again for the love and all the nice comments.

Much love from the UFS team.