Comparing Andromeda to the OT as a whole is just silly...

It's harder early in the game, it gets better later in the game. But you have to be careful what reply you're choosing. Emotional often comes over as childish.

I realize this game is supposed to have more spoken lines than the OT combined, but I can't shake the feeling of the reply options being very limited. Especially when another character is responding. Their response in many cases is exactly the same, regardless of what you sid originally. Reminds me a bit of FO4 where you could outright insult another character and they just carried on delivering their generic response.

I'm fine with some sense of character development. From insecure to headstrong to leader. However I don't get that sense. The arc seems very simplistic all the way and if you don't already know what comes out of your Ryder's mouth when choosing certain replies, you might not get any sense of development.

All things considered, a young protagonist still learning the ropes could have been refreshing as opposed to the OT. Shepard already was a strong lead when you started to play. Everyone looked up to them, or feared them. In short the perfect cardboard, since there was virtually nothing left to develop. And yet it felt much more satisfying playing Shepard than it feels to play Ryder. My major gripe with this game, as I said numerous times, is the writing. I don't mean the overall story arc, which isn't better or worse than anything we've seen before. It's entirely how the characters are coming over. Crew as well as lead and their interactions. As compared even to a single game of the OT or against DAI for that matter, they fall flat on their faces.