You think ME Andromeda will be more "childish" than the trilogy?

I will be fine with it as long as they give that Sloane person some wrinkles.

Well, the ''dark and gritty'' thing has mainly been bait to get the edgelords on board, I do not remember any studio taking a serious attempt at making their game(s) dark, mature and gritty. 

It depends what you mean by childish. Quirky character designs, more light hearted story, bit more slam bang action? Well, it worked bloody well for ME2, so I say let's go with it. The main thing is that it knows what it wants to be, commits to that and does it well.

I was trying to say precisely that I agree that there was no reason to believe that MEA was going to be childish... that's why I said that I agree with what most people was saying, that younger didn't mean childish nor lighter and that lighter didn't mean childish either...

As for who said that MEA is going to have a lighter tone, is something I read a few times from devs, though I'm not sure if they used these exact words

Star Trek and Star wars did use the end of the world thing some times..i think.
Actually when i put this question i wasn't thinking about that subject.
But now that you guys are talking about.. we have to remember one thing, Milky way its still there. Mass Effect writers sooner or later should have to deal with that subject again.
Maybe not now or in this upcoming games. But its still there

yes, and more gay, transgender, bisexual, politically correct, and more colorful,
(no offense of course)
more for newcomers
it will be better in many ways, i'm sure of it

the times they are a changing...

Based on the twins backgrounds they are far more mature than most real life 22 year olds, but I do hope Sara's hotheadedness shows her youth still fighting its way through her adult development

Yeah, they're defintely the 1%. Sprinkle biotic potential on top of that, and add Alliance and N7-daddy training to boot, and you have future Pathfinders.

I suspect that we can play our protagonist as a hot-head. 

They've not only said more "youthful" but also more "casual" and that murder-mystery part of the TGA footage and just my overall impression of the cast, I'm kinda expecting it to be Mass Effect going full-on fantasy and nerd-like with characters more akin to what a bunch of players would come up with in a game of DnD.

There's just something about it so far, I'm not sure what to expect.

Yeah, I've felt this a bit, like a gnawing thing in the back of my mind. I can't point to anything solid; it's just a feeling. I hope we're wrong.

Never really understood people who say mass effect is dark or mature.
Sure mass effect 3 has this war going on with populations supposedly bring destroyed by a bunch of machine gods, but player experience is generally one of unrelenting victory with very little loss.
It is perfectly possible to get to the end with the loss of only two squad mates and a fully supportive galaxy, including such heart-warming highlights as pinnochio legion and his cuddly toasters making friends with the 'character design not based on darth vader' space gypsies; or 'lore take a back seat uncle Wrex is here so it's fine for mordin to forget about korgan birth rates and clan structure' genophage arc.

Most of the horror occurred off screen and is fairly ignorable, in between the sexbot romance arc and listening in on people's conversations in a really creepy way to get them some tat in a shitty minigame - sorry, 'content' is what it is called now.

I'd say there are very few true 'mature/grim/horror' bits: a few that come to mind:

- The banshees in the monastery for horror
- The asari squad being killed over the radio
- The settlers being liquidated on the collector Base
- The classic conversation with sovereign
- the children being experimented on in pragia

Honourable mention to the husk in the synthesis ending who becomes self aware. Lovely.

If ME3 was truly about war and the threat of the reapers it would probably not be releasable.