I`ve just finished the patched game after 65 hours. It`s a good game but still lacks proper polishing to be better and are made some collosal errors at the beginign of the whol project which i`ve listed in top 10 good and bad.
Whats good top 10:
1. The best skill system in ME series which gives you the possibilty to mix all skills from every proficency
2. Superb enviroments of plantes (don`t count the animals ect. just the "rocks", climate ect.)
3. Very good presentation of new specie angara and kett (it`s not hollow)
4. Nice feel while doing battels, they are energic and keeping thrill
5. Good bosses fight but could be more diverse
6. Great feel of an explorationg, especialy at the begining when you visit the first vault, havral, kadara, aya and it`s doing better than the trilogy overall. ALtough the new aliens should be more diverese and more types.
7. better design of mission ship the tempest, which is much smaller than Normandy
8. better design of mining resources via rover, maybe it`s not fun but it`s also not so iritating like in ME2
9. Most of the best stories lack final ending giving a great possibilities to expand the world like (a little spoiler): who1s the benefuiciator, what with the moher, what with AI from voled, what will hapen to hapitat 7 and meridian, what with the kett and their council, what with the quarians, what with the creators of remnants, what about the past of angara ?
10. Loyalty missions are well written but unfrtunetley that all good that i can write about comanions (well Drack is good)
So what`s bad ? My top 10:
1. There are a lot cut sceenes when you land on planets ect. It looks good but it`s time consuming. Every animation is at leas 15 secounds. To fly from one planet to another you waste about 1 min EVERY time and you can`t skip it (or the "tram" on nexus). If I could do it i think that whole game would be shorter at least 5 hours.
2. Dull companions. The only one well written for me is the krogan Drack (and I didn`t like to have any krogan in the trilogy but there you could choose form many interesting characters).
3. The story of side and main missions is not mostly on high levels. There are story pearls in a lot of mud.
4. There are only 2 max 3 new species. I though it will be more like in ME 1 when you met about 10 new species. Unfortunatley you get mostly to know only one the angara and they are well written but don`t have any "creative" abilites.
5. The game treats you like you`d be retarded. On very step you get some response form your compans or SAM which is irritating. This way you get signals when that there will be fight, the fight will be over, you nid glyphs and so on... I feel this game was made for 12 year old.
6. the dailog options aren`t really an option it`s more of a generic response to an interactive movie. It mostly lacks rpg style of writing and reactions are very linear (every option gives you teh same outcome). The camera works awful when you start dailogs and it`s destroying the climate
7. The species from every planet are almost the same and it`s stupid.
8. No catching tunes, the music is lacking ME spirit , for music I`d give 3/10 (only voead had decent ambient music)
9. There are many illogical choices made that create the world like: why arks aren`t mixed witch different races, how can the protege main ship fast travel without mass relays, how could they see which planets are habitable form milky way when andromeda is 2,5 mil light years (so we can analyze the pictore from 2,5mil light years before), why the arks need nexus ect.
10. Leaving quarians out of the game for DLC that will never be designed