Too many similarities with the Trilogy

And this is bad... how?

Andromeda proved it wasn't throwing away the thematic underpinnings of the old trilogy, and is using them in new and (personally) more interesting ways. In fact, I'd even say they're doing them better.

Remnant, for example, is a lot better explored and developed as a game theme than Protheans were in the first game. In the first game, Protheans were an abstract context when you were otherwise fighting around in colonial prefabricated facilities. There was little information, and little role. Here, Remnant are a mysterious race that is gradually explored across the game- from their technology to their legacy and their downfall. I'd say the Remnant were better protheans than the protheans, and their tech is a much better end-game for the theme of the story (colonization) than ME1 (a race for a macguffin).



Similarly, the Kett are better antagonists than the Reapers because they're both more relatable and more practical. They have superficial similarities in being egotists with a penchant for genocide and genetic theft, but at least there's a rational for the Kett- they don't sit around in dark space waiting for species to develop for nonsensical reasons. Kett reasons are abhorent, but they make sense- this is an assimilation empire, and so it conquers to spread it's 'enlightenment.' It has a clear goal- dominance- vis-a-vis the Reapers 'we'll just keep killing things rather than keep threats from developing.'



Politics are refreshingly refreshed (and less banal), conflicts are more manageable and less absurd, and there's much better pacing and development of the chosen themes. We even get actual introspection on AI development and implications.


I don't view Andromeda as a cheap repeat of the ME trilogy's themes- I view them as picking the trilogy's themes and doing them right.

(Or at least better.)

It was intended to be that way.

I have noticed these things, yes. I must say, I find the Kett to be a poor substitute for the Reapers. I'll take Harbinger and his Collecters over these tits, any day. With the Reapers I got a real life sense of doom, but with the Kett? Nothing. I find them to be very disappointing enemies!

I thought the Krogan element was one of the best aspects of Andromeda, actually. It took a major point that the original trilogy workedto create- that Krogan survival was as much a matter of cultural reform as the genophage- and carried it to an endstate rather than have Wrex contradict himself.

For the first time since a businessman, we saw Krogan as something other than 'hypermasculine brutish tribals who do violence for fun.' Oh, they're still agressive- and fun- but now they try at civilization. They make alliances. They make compromises. They have interests, which do and do not affect their personal grudges, which themselves are a lot more relevant and contemporary than 'we got kicked down a long time ago back when we were the villains.'

The Krogan threat was moderated to less ridiculous extremes, and I love that about them. It makes them more equal allies/peers to feel uncomfortable about, rather than a potentially completely disproportionate threat.

They're not simply tribals anymore, and that's glorious.

The entire game is a rehash of all the best bits from the trilogy thrown into one game.

"Refined"

"With a twist"

PeeBee is Liara if she wasn't boring.

Vetra is Miranda only not a bitch.


Etc....

Butchered? I thought they immprove- they're finally escaping the hyper-masculine-tribal role of comedic sociopathy. Seriously- we have Krogan nerds now.

Krogan nerds.

I want a Krogan LARPer as my next squadmate. I want an awkward Krogan adolescent, rather than some super soldier/grizzle oldtimer. I want his reason for adventure to be the quest to be cool enough to get laid. I want his story to include the Krogan girl who bullies him because she likes him. I want to see an over-protective Jewish grandmother coming to his loyalty mission at the most embarassing moment. I want to see him get so excited that he headbutts half the crew, and we have the choice to try to headbutt him back. I want more Krogan rearing family stories, because they're fucking hilarious.

But most of all, I want more Krogan nerds.

This is something the original trilogy never had, and is way too good to pass up.