Impressions on the game so far

I haven't finished the game yet (edit: neither will I, because now the game crashes every time I go back to the Nexus). Actually, I think I'm quite on the beginning (I just found the angaran [?]), but I already found so many bad things on this game it makes me feel it is one of the worst games I've ever played. I'll put it in topics, I'll try to put everything I absolutely hate in this game, because I feel it is weak in EVERY aspect. 

1. The story so far has been meh. "Let's colonize a new galaxy and have hope for a new beginning". But it already has a lot of plotholes, not to mention it ignores everything from the previous Mass Effect, including the Reapers. It seems the Reapers are ok with letting some ships leaving the galaxy in the middle of their war, LOL. Plus, many of the technologies seem to have just disappeared. Medi-gel, where are you?!. Of course I haven't played not even near the whole story, but so far it's as cliche as hell. Oh, and sure, you find a new race and they have a translator that makes them speak english, even if you just met them. And somehow they understand you as well. And you can't understand the kett, but when you meet the main villain, he also speaks english. Stupid. It seems Mass Effect lore is there just for cameos (Liara's audio logs, Zaeed's son, Avina...) 

2. Most of the characters are weak. I really get the feeling that Bioware most of the time just copies characters from other games into a new game. Leliana from Dragon Age, for example, is almost a copy from Liara. Anders (at least in Awakening) was a copy of Alistair. This works sometimes, Leliana is actually a nice character (Liara not so much, but I always romance her). What I most liked in Mass Effect 2 were that the characters were really unique and well developed. In Mass Effect Andromeda so far... they aren't. Vetra is a female version of Garrus (interesting enough, but just a pale imitation of the real thing), Peebee is like Sera from Inquisition, but MUCH better (one of the only interesting characters so far), Drack is a copy from Wrex, but older (even the voice looks the same. Is it the same voice actor?), SAM just seems like a terrible replacement for EDI, who was just more interesting and the other characters so far are just waste of time (especially Cora and Liam. It seems Bioware really can't create good human companions at the beginning of the game on the Mass Effect series, except for Miranda). 

3. The gameplay. Combat got A LOT WORSE from the previous Mass Effects. First, they removed tactical freeze. Plus, you can't give orders to your companions, so tactic is pretty much gone. And like that wasn't enough, you can only use up to THREE POWERS. REALLY? THREE! You give us a huge amount of skills so we can only use 3?! That's absurdely pathetic. Combat is a little more action-oriented but tactic is gone, and the new autocover system sucks. I think the jetpack + dodge was the only good thing they added. Depending on randomly placed boxes to restore your health and ammo sucks too. The map also got a lot worse. Instead of putting your enemies as red dots on the minimap as the previous Mass Effects, which worked great, now they put the red dots on that "North-west-east-south" thing on the top, so it gets confusing as hell. And most of the time the map doesn't show important things. On one mission I had to disable an alarm, and although it was an optional mission objective, the map wouldn't show me where the damn alarm was. And it turns out it was near the console that I had to activate for the main objective. Ugh, just awful. And a minor rant: Why the hell do I have to wait a few seconds now every time and then to interact with anything? Ugh. 

4. Exploration. They brought back a substitute for the Mako (which I already hated in Mass Effect 1). But this one is TEN TIMES WORSE THAN THE MAKO. While the mako could climb any mountain, this one can barely go up a hill, and it doesn't have a gun. It seems technology only goes backwards on Mass Effect. Scanning is now even more boring than before, if that's even possible (they needed a patch just so you could skip those stupid animations going from world to world). And climbing with this stupid truck is just painful. Why can't we just use a fucking shuttle? 

5. The menus seem to be designed just to piss you off, especially the inventory and the quests. There are so many quests and subquests categories that it takes a lot of time for me to find a specific quest. And the inventory, well, I just can't really find anything, and I don't know what most my items are for. 

6. Performance is absolutely unacceptable. The game demands a lot of your PC to deliver graphics that are OK at best. The Witcher 3 has much better graphics and demands much less. Plus, The Witcher 3 has facial expressions. Most people complain about the (lack of) facial expressions of Mass Effect Andromeda, but seriously, this game sucks so much this is one of the things that didn't bother me at all. The game stutters and freezes all the time, especially during cutscenes. 

7. Glitches, glitches glitches. I rarely find any glitches even on games that have many of them, but in a few hours of ME:A I already have ran in a LOT of glitches. The mission I have felt more angry was when you invade a kett base and have to kill a guy killed Invictus or something like that. Right on the beginning of the mission, Vetra dies and I can't find her body to revive her, it just disappeared. Even leaving the battlefield didn't bring her back. I continued, and like I ranted before, I couldn't find the alarms on the menus, I kept jumping around, but objects and stuff starting appearing out of nowhere (render delay), and finally the floor where I was just disappeared and I fell of a cliff, got back to the base and got killed.

8. Small rant for features removed. Quick save? Gone. Manual save? Sometimes yes, other times not. Painful. Auto medi-gel? Gone, now you have to go to your companion to revive him/her. Side quests seem boring so far. Enemies so far have been much the same, kett and remnants (and their creatures). I hope it gets more varied soon. Plus, the game throws so many names at your face that you really can't get them all. I remember Vetra telling me she got on the Tempest because of Kesh and I was wondering who the hell is Kesh. Got to codex (which also has a thousand subdivisions): Oh, right, it's the krogan female. Can't remember me forgetting names on any of the previous Mass Effects, not sure why. 

But ok, I'll try to be a little nice and try to talk about good things on the game

1. The environment is nice. A nice variety of flora and fauna.

2. Like I said, the dodge and the jetpack was a nice addition, and it really helps when you're getting overwhelmed. 

3. The scanner is a cool addition, and obviously necessary to identify new flora, fauna, species, technology, minerals, etc. Craf

4. It has some nice bosses. The Invictus (?) was a nice boss fight, and the fiends are insane, a good substitute for the brutes of Mass Effect 3. 

5. Crafting your own weapons an armor is good. But it would be better if the game where to find the elements you need to craft. The menu is pretty confusing. 

Edit: Now I even can't finish the game because every time I go back to the Nexus, the game freezes during the cutscene. This game has more glitches and performance issues than AC: Unity on release, and I'm playing it PATCHED. 3/10 is a score too high for this worthless unplayable piece of shit. 

PS: Last but not least, english is not my first language, so forgive me for any grammar errors.