Look at the Galaxy Map and listen to the new music

Good and relaxing, I like that soundtrack for the galaxy map.

It's quite similar to the one on the OT. Also, that one got engraved into everyone's minds; it surely wasn't instantly memorable when new.

Physically moving to each planet looks really cool, but I kinda hope we can speed it up, it might get old after the first 30 times.

Getting Mass Effect 1 vibes from this.

Yep, just like in final fantasy, cinematics for each techniques are cool, but once you have seen them again and again, it becomes repetitive and you want to skip them.

I didn't even remember that the Galaxy Map has music in the trilogy and I replayed ME1 and ME2 less than 3 months ago (for like the 10th time)... the music probably wasn't as memorable as you think it was.

I miss the black hole from the Briefing trailer, way more beautiful.

The galaxy map looks nice. The music isn't bad, but it'll take some time getting use to.

This is actually something I thought of before too when we saw the first glimpses of it in the TGA footage.
All i know is, I'm glad we're no longer plaining miniature "fly the ship" minigame whenever we're inside a system because that got really lame and I always missed the ME1 version more.

Why does the new EDI have a scottish accent?. Its some interesting flavour added there instead of the more typically flat, cold robotic voice.

But regarding the galaxy map and new theme... I really like how the galaxy map looks this time. The added detail suits the space faring vibe much better than the more barebones, basic map in the original trilogy. So good job there. Sadly i cant say the same for the new theme. It sounds weak imo, like its trying hard to be like the orginal galaxy map theme but not quite. Also its too much in the background as well. Tbh they might as well just have copy and pasted the old galaxy map theme, i wouldve been much happier with that. After all why fix what wasnt broken to begin with?. The original theme still sounds awesome to this day. Its a classic piece of video game and science fiction music at this point(so much so that many space and general science documentaries often use it. I mean i was watching a BBC Horizon space doc that used the galaxy map theme, i heard it in there and it really fitted the whole vibe well). They shouldve just stuck with it in Andromeda. They're never going to top it really. So why bother with an inferior piece of music.

Whew, well I do like this, a lot so yeah.

At least one good discovery came of today.

That is true. Same goes with the rather dry script for the beginning and heavy expository writing. All things aside, the writing in the opening hours of ME1 never sounded natural to me either, but if it turns out Andromeda has a sick twist or an amazing final mission then your whole view of the game changes and you'll suddenly look on the jankier elements of it with a newfound appreciation becuase you know it's part of a better package.