'I like or love the game' (General feedback)

I am 24 hours into the game and I really enjoy this game and am quite happy with it. Does this game have flaws, yes it does but to me and in my opinion the flaws are so minor to me that I just don't notice it. I honestly don't have a problem with the CC after going through it again after the Trial and messed around with it, of course I just stuck with the default Male Ryder because that's the one I like, then there is the animations and I have zero problems with the animations and don't see anything wrong with it at all.

Is there a few flaws, yes there is like I said but the flaws to me are so minor that I don't notice because my enjoyment of this game is way way more than the minor flaw. I seriously don't understand the criticism of this game when it isn't as bad as some say. I seriously hope that when or if there is a second and third game following Andromeda that you can import your character Ryder to the second and third game and continue to play as Ryder. One thing I was hoping for and thought could happen is to have your sibling join you as a squadmate and that would be interesting I have to say, does this game need more patches to fix things etc yes there does.

I am also sure that there will be more DLC, especially for the Quarian Ark that Director Tann mentions - course if its going to be a DLC that should have already been in the game regardless

Overall I like the game...it does have a feeling of being a spiritual successor of the original game. However it comes with a cost...I feel there's simply too much side content. The combat is great and all but when you're doing sidequests there can be massive breaks in action where nothing really happens other than following way points.

Also there's small.things....like every time I land on kadara, do I really have to load into town, then transport to the slums, then run to the first beacon and then finally call the nomad/travel to another point. The game could have done with a 2nd landing point for the Tempest that goes straight to the open explorable area, and one that goes to town.

Or...when squad mates have things to say in non cutscene quests...if they happen to be too far away when you talk to an NPC, if I didn't have subtitles on half the time I'd literally have no idea what my squad interjected to the conversation, or that they spoke at all. They should always speak at full volume..

Finished the game yesterday after some 70-odd hours of play and about 81% completion or so (100% viability on all planets, all companion quests done, etc. I skipped a lot of the more collectible type quests)

It's by no means perfect, but I loved it. The CC remains my biggest gripe, though I was at least able to make a Ryder I enjoy and close to what I imagined. Facial animations need a lot of refining, but I got used to them for the most part after a few hours. Ran into very few bugs - none of them game-stopping but a few were annoying, like notification badges not clearing on the menu near the end of the game. Combat was fun, though I personally didn't change profiles (kept Sentinel the whole game) and almost never swapped out powers, I liked that I could change those if I wanted fairly quickly.

Side note: As someone with chronic repetitive-stress related pain in my wrists and arms, I really, really appreciated the accessibility options in the settings. I don't know how I would've managed without turning running and aiming into a toggle rather than a press/hold button.

I'm probably just easy to please, but I didn't really have issue with the writing. It's nothing outstanding but it was fun and engaging and I for one love the more lighthearted approach. I enjoyed being a casual smartass. I think Andromeda is, for the most part, what we needed from a soft reboot and I'm looking forward to DLC.

Hell, I think I actually like Ryder more than Shepard already - that's definitely going to be a "your mileage may vary" area, but I liked the 4 trait system better than Paragon/Renegade and I felt Ryder was more fleshed out, personality wise. Mind this is from playing mostly casual/emotional; I can't speak for a dominantly professional or logical Ryder. But I'm really enjoying them as a protagonist and I wouldn't mind playing them again in a future installment if BioWare chooses to go that route.

EDIT:

Also, one thing about the Ryder twin:

Ssessh let them enjoy the game

Finished the game in just under 61 hours, with 96% completion.
Huge fan of the original trilogy, have to say I went into the trial with low expectation after seeing a few trailers and such, and even lower after playing the trial, due to technical difficulties - framerate drops, freezes during cutscenes that forced me out of the game -, which did not disappear during the rest of the game, but became somewhat tolerable and less recurring (playing on a pretty capable PC).

As a whole I'd say it was enjoyable despite very flawed.

Pros

- fun, dynamic combat, enhanced by both leveling and crafting systems
- big, diverse, beautiful open worlds
- also beautiful galaxy map and transitions between worlds
- overall great ship and crew, lots of banter and dialogue available
- nice throwbacks to original trilogy, be it small easter eggs or major like in Ryder's memories
- some great missions (especially loyalty ones, Liam's was hilarious)
- excellent final mission and epilogue, guess they learned their lesson

Cons

- technical issues: texture pop-ins during dialogue, framerate drops, freezes during cutscenes
- less than stellar facial animations, as everyone knows; later in the game it either got better or I just started ignoring it
     - also very weird how you initiate a conversation with someone and almost always they are turning to you seemingly about to bump into you, when it cuts to them being slightly farther in front of you
- mediocre story(telling), only became invested towards the very end
- tons of fetch and backtracking quests, combine this with unskippable interplanetary travel and landing animations and you waste a lot of time
- only being able to map 3 powers and not control squadmate abilities
- no quicksave on PC
- a few weird glitches like when I was forced into a dialogue on Eos and Kett were shooting at me during this; got killed and the auto-save wouldn't load
- enemy respawns, got the feeling it was based on distance from spawn point rather than time since being killed - this sometimes resulted in them respawning instantly after sniping them from long range

No thoughts on multiplayer as I haven't played it outside of early access yet.

All in all I find it inferior to the original trilogy, but still think I got my money's worth and will probably replay it at least once more, after, hopefully, some of the technical issues I mentioned are patched.

I love the game completely. Only issue I have is the facial expressions ... but the rest of the game is perfect for me.

Admittedly I wish there was a cash shop, though.  I feel like I would like more access to different clothing sets for my main character, and maybe even clothing sets for my crew.

It's Sudoku, to make it easier go symbol by symbol...check vertical and horizontal lines ...a symbol only happen once per line (horizontal or vertical).

Yes, that. The favorite presets are tied with the profiles, that's why I confused them.

Already started my second play through last night. Highly enjoyable combat and exploration. The story surprised me in the fact that after completing the main quest I still had questions that needed to be answered. Also, it gave me the sense of mystery that was missing from the others. I got the sense that this is only the beginning. So much potential for exploration in future DLC/sequels. The best thing I can say about it though is after finishing the last mission and traveling around a bit doing side quests I never wanted to leave Andromeda. The sense of adventure was very real to me.

Wrex...er, Drack. He fills that Wrex-shaped hole in my heart.

Combat, exploration, Draak's battlecries, banter, graphics. Loving every minute of it.

- My merry band of misfits. I adore each and every last one of them. :-P
- Ryder. She feels like a real character, and is my favorite BioWare protagonist thus far.
- My cozy Tempest.
- The Combat is damn good.