

I can't seem to find entries for important locations or people I want to look up for references to. The Codex still has the same issue all the ME games had, and that is if you see an entry that is unmarked but need to scroll past it, all the others you have not read will now be marked as read. The summary for missions, up to the point you're at, could be better to prevent this.

It just seemed so out of place because I forgot the premise of the mission and my dialogue choice was essentially a flip of a coin. and at the end I got into a fairly big argument with Liam. The mission itself had some tongue in check type of humor so I enjoyed it even though I didn't know what I was doing there. I honestly do not recall how I got this mission or its purpose for it. Minor spoiler ahead, but because a lot of these quests have a "on hold" aspect, and a lot of flying back and fourth to different systems I tend to stay on a planet and finish up a few quests while I am there. Last mission I got around to finishing was Liam's loyalty mission. The ratio to shoot for should be 66% main to 33% side content. I've yet to finish it, but it needed a stronger main story and less side content. From what I have seen so far, it is no classic like the original trilogy though.

I have not finished the game yet, but it seems like a decent title in its own right. The problem is when you take on a few fetch quest missions in a row. But the good missions are fun enough to carry the game. The bad guys this time around are generic and dull, so the overall story is weak even compared to ME2. When you play a string of good missions the game can be fun though. I don't find the animations to be poor honestly, aside from the mouth bug every now and then. She looks younger and comes off as less experienced so it feels alright to me. The dialogue is indeed more childish than Shepard's, but I find it fits the look of my character fairly well. Aside from those two issues, the most annoying thing is the poor performance in the Tempest and stuttering cutscenes. I get occasional freezing when landing/taking off of a planet to. I sometimes gloss over the nice backgrounds, conversations and the like because I saw some remains or minerals to pick through in the distance. My biggest dislike in this game is the inventory management, which gets a bit better, but it is one of those games where you need to constantly look around and pick up loot. I don't find this game to be bad and most of the complaints I read are unnoticeable to me. That and in general uninteresting backgrounds dilute the overall look that ME2 achieved. Ironically most conversations in this game have that odd camera angle where you can only see the side profiles of the characters faces after panning to the side. Yeah, I disliked how off tangent the side quests in ME2 went but IMO they had higher cinematic quality than most of ME:A's.
